Icons for fandom20in20: Round Four

[night_ink]

[20] Magic Knight Rayearth (Ferio)
[1] Alternate (Ferio)

Teasers:



THEMES

NC-1701	Engineers	Starfleet	The Captain	Final Frontier
Punch it!	McCoy	Spock	Kobayashi Maru	Communications

CATEGORY - The Enterprise

Category #1	Category #2	Category #3	Category #4	Category #5

ARTIST'S CHOICE

Artist's Choice #1	Artist's Choice #2	Artist's Choice #3	Artist's Choice #4	Artist's Choice #5

Alternates

Alternate Artist's Choice #1

- Icons were made for round four at fandom20in20.
- Comments are welcome, as well as concrit. I am a beginner at making icons and this is my first big set.
- If taking any, please comment and definitely credit.
- Credit goes to either birgitriddle or night_ink (on LJ, credit birgitriddle)
- Textless icons aren't bases.
- Don't hotlink.
- Resource post can be found here.

Comments

[pureevil230]

I don't know the anime or the character but he looks pretty cool thanx to your icons. they look awesome for a beginner. hope you had fun on the 20in20 challenge, i know i did. did you find it challenging at times? like it tested your creativity but in a good way? pushing at your creative limits to play around with things.

[birgitriddle]

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.