Ask the maker 4.0!

[aida_rose]

It's time to kick off our 4th round of Ask the Maker! here at icon_talk

Here you'll get the chance to ask icon makers who sign up questions about their icons and other graphics. You can ask for tutorials, guides/"How to", or ask any other questions regarding their work so the makers can compile a Q&A post with the answers to all the questions they get. As

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[wickdshy]

Username + where you post your work? wickdshy (formerly wickedgrdn) and I post at bel_perdente
What can we request from you (tutorials, Q&A, guides etc. .PSDs are not allowed: tutorials, q&a's, guides, etc.
--->(If you know of anything that you're not able to answer/do, please mention it)<---
Can we hotlink your icons?: Yep. :)

[wickdshy]

I can do the first icon, but not the second one (I don't have a clue how I did that second one, lol!) Is that ok? :)

[wickdshy]

Tutorial for the Castiel icon is posted ------> HERE

:)

[kayable]

I'd love to see a colouring guide from you, especially for more muted colours C:

[wickdshy]

I can do that! :)

[dixon]

I'd love to request a tutorial for these icons:

[wickdshy]

I have the psd for the second icon but not the first icon, is that ok? :)

[wickdshy]

Tutorial is posted for the Dean icon ----> HERE. :)

[kirtash_girl]

So many gorgeous Icons!!
Can you make a tutorial of these?

[wickdshy]

Thanks for your questions! I don't have psd's saved for any of these icons, but I can probably recreate the first one. Hope that's ok. :)

[kirtash_girl]

That sounds good to me (: I'm mainly interested in how you achieve such lovely Colorings (:

[wellhalesbells]

A TEXT guide would be AMAZING!!! I'd love to know your favorite fonts and how you get your text to not look too sharp/too blurry. WHAT IS YOUR TEXT RITUAL, DAMMIT???!! Ooo, and I'd especially like to know how you do that little line you do sometimes (I know that sounds retarded but it never looks right when I do it) ... I know you use it in this:

[wickdshy]

A text guide is do-able, no problem! :)

As for the line underneath some of my text: I use Photoshop's Line tool and then pick a color from the icon itself. Then while holding down the Shift key, I create the line, rasterize it and then blur it slightly. I don't use a brush at all. Rasterizing and blurring really helps to take away that bumpy yucky look, I find. :)

I can do a tut for the last icon, I actually have the psd saved for that one. I did the same silhouette effect for both icon 1 and 3 so I can even go into how I did that, if that helps. The second icon was a real fluke, I don't even remember now how I pulled that one off. :S

[wellhalesbells]

HOORAY!!! \o/ *dancey dance times*

Oh my buh-god. I can stop pulling out all my hair then. THANK you!!!! I cannot wait to try again.

Yes! I'm so happy you have the .psd and going into how you did the silhouette would be FANTASTIC - I have no idea how to do it so I'm super looking forward to devouring it!!!! LOL. It happens. Thank you so much for EVERYTHING ELSE though!!!