A quiet night, a stack of books, a tuna melt on rye

This month I decided to participate in, what I think is the fairly new, classic who 20 in 20. I felt the need to add the extra challenge, though really it may have been more of a focusing element, of using only one era of the show. So...

( Here be 20 in 20 )

The new season of challenges in the various land communities is just starting up, so I thought I would share the icons I made for the last round of challenges. 

( icons and wallpaper )

First off, boo on you LJ for deleting this whole thing the first time I wrote it out. That button at the bottom I hit, it's call 'Spell Check' not 'Delete', so thanks for that!

For the past couple of weeks I've been starting to teach myself how to make icons mostly by following tutorials over at gimp_tutorial. I finally feel like I have a good enough sample to ask some advise from those more acquainted with the art form than I am. Mostly I want to know how they look. What needs improving (I'm thinking text integration and probably some other things)? Am I doing the icon equivalent to writing a Mary Sue (you know, something that has more experienced people shaking their heads and saying "hopefully she'll grow out of it soon")?

( The Table (all icons have to do with Robin Hood. Just so you know in case that is going to be off-putting.) )