Icons #9—a batch of 25

[flowsoffire]

As promised, here's the icon batch! Part 2 of 3 of my battle with the lovely universaldogma ;) 24 of series 7, plus one Clara icon from the s8 trailer because too pretty—and I love the darker, more adult look of Clara on some parts. Claraaaaa.

I feel the need to apologize for #15 because I tried to make a complex icon, and I guess one must start somewhere. XD Besides, yeah. Enjoy! Comments are loved and treasured—do tell me your favourites, that's always interesting to know :D Credit if you take, blah blah blah. Thank you!


1-5


6-10


11-15


16-20


21-25


And one alternate:





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Comments

[flowsoffire.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, that makes me feel better about my own lazy-for-correcting (though I have less excuses because I have considerably more improving room XD). It happens a lot that I select a character/background, either to move them, try a blending thing, or just put a texture in the background, and the selection is very slightly messy and I try my best to fix it and in the end I'm like "let's hope nobody notices that" XD I only just recently figured out you can add and suppress parts to a selection after it's done, and also save it in a channel when you have to switch to another selection, and then get back to it *FACEPALM FOR SLOWNESS* People say brushes help, too, but I'm not too good with brushes :/

Oh, while I've got you knowledgeable person—I sort of wondered if it's necessary to merge every layer before you save and post your icon? Like, does it look better, or do people just do it so it feels finished? Because until the icon is posted I'm liable to tweak it until the last minute, and even afterwards I like to think I could go back to improve and adapt it, so I hardly ever merge… but would that improve quality, or not at all?

[luorescence.livejournal.com]

I shouldn't have any excuses either: I'm doing them for challenges so I should provide only quality icons (most of the time, there's only 1 to 3 I'm really satisfied with on a batch). Anyway, depending on the kind of icon you're working on, it'll be easy to hide the small mistakes/laziness. Me neither, to be honest, I've only used brushes for a couple months. Before that, it was mostly, coloring, a few textures and that was all XD But you really can do some wonders only with that, even more complexe compositions.

Nope, you don't have to merge anything before you save. When it export the icons to png, it merges the layers automatically. Doesn't improve quality. Personally, even though I don't keep the psd/xcf, I never merge mine before saving.

[flowsoffire.livejournal.com]

True, true ;P But it's not like it makes your icons low quality, just not perfect…

Coloring and textures are most of what I do, too :)

Okay, thank you! :D

[luorescence.livejournal.com]

You're kidding, some are just plain plain ugly and so ugh XD

[flowsoffire.livejournal.com]

XDDD I don't think so…? I'm no super expert, but yeah ;)