Ask the maker 2.0

[aida_rose]

Happy New Year, icon_talk!

As promised, it's time for our second round of Ask the Maker!Here you'll get the chance to ask icon makers who sign up, questions about their icons/graphics. You can ask for tutorials, guides/walk through, or simply ask a question regarding their work so the makers can compile a Q&A post, with the answers to all the questions

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[erzsebet]

Username and where I post my work: erzsebet, post at songburst.
What can we request from you? Feel free to ask for anything - but I may not remember how I made certain icons. I'll definitely try though! :D
Can we hotlink your icons?: Sure ♥
Anything else?:

[ex_absolute]

...can I ask for a texture tutorial of sorts? I'd love to know how you work because you have rapidly become one of my favorite texture makers. <3

[erzsebet]

Sure thing~♥ Posted it here. If there are any questions or anything lmk. I've never written a tutorial before. ;A;

[mm3butterfly]

OMG, I'l stan anything you make! But could you please tell us how do you make your icons so bright and glowy and soft? It's gorgeous! And also, how you make your textures? ♥

[erzsebet]

For bright/glowy/soft:
I use a combination of Gaussian Blur and Paint Daubs (which I think it was you even who I saw first mention it? It's been awhile now though so I may be wrong with that). Basically, the last steps I do is to copy+merge everything and paste two layers on soft light. I set the bottom to Paint Daubs and the top to Gaussian Blur (usually at around 9.5).

[likealight]

oh god, liz ... let me love you down.

if you're up for tutorials then any of these, srsly just pick one

[likealight]

also talk about how you make your icons ~shiny~

ie the last emma icon, the community one and the pll ones

[erzsebet]

OK I DID A TUTORIAL FOR THE FIRST ICON. ALSO SORT OF COMBINED THE CUT-OUT THINGS WITH THE SHINY IN A TUTORIAL (honestly I don't think I know enough~ about it to bs my way through a guideline ;D). SO HERE ♥ SORRY IF IT SUCKS LOL

[spg_spn_girls]

Tips or tuts? :D

[erzsebet]

I was able to make tutorials of the first two ( here) but the third was so long ago that I've forgotten how I went about it. I've tried recreating it a couple times but they've ended horribly. XD Is there something specific about the third you want to know more about? :)

[spg_spn_girls]

Thank you so much! On the 3rd one, for the light, did you mainly used textures or white/black spots?

[xxmannequin]

Hello:)
1. Could you make tutorials for these two icons?

[xxmannequin]

Hello:)
1. Could you make tutorials for these two icons?