shatterstripes

Maybe it's the hints of elemental theme, maybe I've just had this on the mind lately, but something about this tells me it wants to be tile art for a board game...

I think it's mostly you! The themes I was working from were emotional and color. As to board game are, well, that'll happen sometime, won't it?

Oh, I didn't figure for a moment gameness was your original intention or abirritates! But you can't deny there's a fire-water-earth suggestion there. Combined with the femme-power themes that would contrast so appealingly with the usual fantasy war-game ouchiness, to me all three imply a similar sort of decisive narrative thrust, a stage on a journey through some kind of fairy tale world.

The strong colors and the size and shape of the icons definitely help, yeah. But come on! You've got one woman either flying or pulling some energy down from the sky, one traveling by water, one walking through a wilderness with either a companion or a threat nearby... This is classic fantasy-quest stuff here, with some pretty strong hints of an elemental theme and a motion theme that both scream GAME MECHANIC to me!

Even if I'm completely nuts, hey, at least I did get a game inspiration out of it, so I'm a HAPPY loonie. :p

Those are pretty dang keen. What I like most about them is how un-icon they feel. Like they're not shorthand for anything, they're fully formed ideas and images. Love the feel of volume in the boat.

Yeah, they ended up being full-figure interpretations of what she asked for, rather than head close-ups like most icons are. I made damn sure to keep a second window open at 100% while I was making these, so I could be sure they worked that small, instead of getting lost in details...

Is that middle one a riff on Zelda: Wind Waker? It reads great.

It's what comes when you ask me to draw 'something femmy in blues on an even keel', that's all I know!

I keep meaning to go back and play that game. It looked so great.

Oh, awesome!