Whats your style for icons?

I Любовь doing Иконки where I desaturate everything except the hair and eyes and then give those some cool effects by messing with the contrast или doing some stuff with the engrave tool.

Here is one of the ones I'm еще proud of.

It seems like everything I make или use is either

A. Feminine as fuck
B. Derpy and stupid
C. Dramatic

I guess my "style" или "method" is just that I apply my pre-existing art and photo-manipulation knowledge whether I mean to или not. Sometimes I learn knew things.
In general I try to evoke a certain feeling and what exactly I'm trying to do depends on the icon.

I'm particularly focused on composition, colour, and lighting, I think. Probably mostly composition. Since Иконки are a bit limited in how much Ты can control the picture- unless Ты want to do a full on photoshop job with it which is a lot of work for an icon- I think it's most effective to focus on how the image sits in the frame.

The first one I cropped/coloured actually literally only a few hours ago, the секунда one I literally just cropped because it was so ridiculous on it's own, and the last one I played around a lot with the values and light Источник that were already there. (it was originally a 100x100 size but I blew it up since the others were 200x200. The one in the corner is the actual size.)

Maybe dark romantic?? I don't know honestly LOL xD

Tits

Many would come to mind but the ones I can think of right now are:

1.Personality/mood defining Иконки
2.Vibrant Иконки (Like that lily vocaloid Иконка a while back)
3.Badass character (Like the one I have now
4. или insert Избранное character face as a Иконка (Regardless of what fandom it is)

Well, it really varies. I wouldn't say that I follow a specific pattern. There are various factors for choosing Иконки like my mood at the time, need to Показать Любовь towards a particular Character / subject или my relatability. While I Показать faces most of the time, I haven't been making them being that close even though lately, I am considering it еще XD I just like having a еще detailed displaying of the Character for others to see. Kinda hard to explain but pretty much, I am going to choose whatever appeals aesthetically to me. Ты know, like certain color combinations, cheerful smiles или the exact opposite XD Whatever can give me that much of a dynamic vibe at the time to the point of actually making it my Icon.

I guess, if I had to mention one preference of mine, that would be my displaying of Waifus XD I'm pretty sure most have realized that the majority of my Иконки is comprised by them. Certainly, I have just as many Male Characters that I consider my избранное but it just so happens that Females have taken the lead for now !!!!