icons! some okay, some not so okay

[green]

Sooooo. I made some icons. I experimented a lot. Some of them came out really well okay and some of them ... didn't. I'm posting them all, so there! You have to sort through the bad ones to get to the good slightly better ones! Or maybe the bad ones will make the okay ones look even better. HA!

Under the cut we have many fandoms!

5 due south
4 labyrinth
7 brave
5 the goonies
4 stargate: atlantis
1 the princess bride
4 teen wolf
4 the avengers
4 doctor who
1 farscape
2 sherlock (bbc)
7 pitch perfect

examples:

bad: (just tell me to stay away from text altogether, okay?)

good: (at least, it seems okay to me. might be one of the bad ones!)

I focused overly on vibrant color on a couple of these, and went crazy with composition and blocking on others. Heh. (I meant to make a batch for theiconquest, but nothing I do is questy-enough. the first challenge is 'adventure' and you can tell I tried to do some adventure-themed icons here, but ugh. not ready. maybe the next batch.)

I don't save .PSDs, I hardly ever use scripts, and there's nothing in particular I do to every cap to prep it. I deal with every icon on an individual basis! however, if you would like me to explain approximately how I did something in a particular icon, I can try to do that. :D?


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11-15


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21-25


26-30


31-35


36-40


41-45


46-48


ALSO! I have some icon-sized textures I've been making. Is anyone interested in ones like this:



???

OR I could just write up a tutorial on how to make them, since they're super easy to make on your own and that way everyone isn't using the same textures, you know? Let me know what you think.

Comments

[king_touchy]

Ha, gotta love anything that features John Sheppard's hair.

I like the teal texture. I'd always dig a tutorial.

[green]

Thanks! I will write one up tomorrow or the next day, then. :)

[actiaslunaris]

These are all lovely! Really. Colors that pop like that make anything super pretty. I don't have any room for the icons, but I'm snagging your textures and will credit when I use them. (They are easy to make, but I'm lazy.) Thank you!

[green]

thank you! :D

[scheherezhad]

Ehehehe. I like #25 because, for some reason, it makes me think it should be an image for a magician!AU, and Teyla is conversing with John's severed head during an illusion. :D

[green]

lolol I would read that. (sometimes the cropping works, sometimes it leads to severed heads)

[teaotter]

I even like the one you thought was bad, so. I liked them!

I love your composition on #33; it's complicated, but it works. Also on #12.

I keep looking at iconquest, but I can't seem to make the commitment. I do think you could get 20 "call to adventure" icons out of this set pretty easily.

[green]

Thanks!

I think I'll start fresh with the iconquest icons, though. I don't like many out of this batch. :\