I had fun, though I was having a bit of an obsession with making icons at the time, hence why it was finished so early.
(I'm making icons for a Sailor Moon fan community challenge at this moment actually.)
It was challenging, but educational. It was the Artist's Choice icons that I first started to make, then the category and then the themes. You can tell the progression of improvement if you know that.
I learned a lot about the program I was using, how to use layers, manipulating text and I utilized several tutorials I found for the program I use, GIMP. And yeah, I had to be creative with several of the icons such as Engineer, Final Frontier, and Spock. Spock was a lovely surprise in the end. :) A lot of it was just playing around and seeing what worked best and using the undo history a lot.
Oh and I'm sorta a beginner and sorta not. In the program I used to use (which I no longer have access to, plus it didn't have the capacity to do layers), I pretty much learned how to do effective cropping and adding one pixel borders to my icons. I did have to learn a new way of adding the one pixel borders for GIMP, but that I figured out while making this set. The icon I used for this comment is one of my early icons made out of a stock image. I didn't really do anything fancy with it. Just cropping and putting the one pixel border on it.
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Date: 2010-07-11 11:14 pm (UTC)(I'm making icons for a Sailor Moon fan community challenge at this moment actually.)
It was challenging, but educational. It was the Artist's Choice icons that I first started to make, then the category and then the themes. You can tell the progression of improvement if you know that.
I learned a lot about the program I was using, how to use layers, manipulating text and I utilized several tutorials I found for the program I use, GIMP. And yeah, I had to be creative with several of the icons such as Engineer, Final Frontier, and Spock. Spock was a lovely surprise in the end. :) A lot of it was just playing around and seeing what worked best and using the undo history a lot.
Oh and I'm sorta a beginner and sorta not. In the program I used to use (which I no longer have access to, plus it didn't have the capacity to do layers), I pretty much learned how to do effective cropping and adding one pixel borders to my icons. I did have to learn a new way of adding the one pixel borders for GIMP, but that I figured out while making this set. The icon I used for this comment is one of my early icons made out of a stock image. I didn't really do anything fancy with it. Just cropping and putting the one pixel border on it.