icon contests...

[lyssie]

It always amuses me when the winners get posted. Actually, it kind of amuses me when I go to vote and find about two out of the ones there that I actually think are decent (counting my own, that brings the total between 3 and 5, depending on how much I massacred the icons that week), making voting useless and pointless, on my part.

Comments

[nique.livejournal.com]

One of these days, you should just say "I'm sorry. These are all too ugly for me to vote for." *G*

[ancarett]

Well, I go into icontests with the base premise that mine are all crap (so it's never a problem not to vote for my own!) but sometimes I look at the bunch and say "well, I can see what icons will likely win or do well but, meh, they're not the ones that I like" -- I vote anyway but it's somewhat depressing to see how fads rule over all!

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

*nods* And, thing is, I lean (mostly) towards the very simple look, and thus, all of the bells and whistles on most of the icons just bore me--and look the same, after a while.

[ancarett]

Yes -- I'm always out of touch (or interest) with the current fashions in icons. I try them out sometimes and they feel so darned affected that I just want to wash my hands of the whole thing and usually the icon idea I had in the first place, anyway.