Ask the maker 2.0
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 ( Read more... )
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 ( Read more... )
What can we request from you (tutorials, Q&A, walk through, other (specify))?: anything you want, and I'll at least try
Can we hotlink your icons?: yes indeed
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1) Do you go straight from [original cap] >> [icon size] >> [color]
or do you color at the original size first then resize? I ask because yk I've stanned your icons in general for a while, but one thing I've always admired is your contrast omg and I find if I color first then resize, even with curves or whatever after thefact, still looks off.
OMG CAN YOU DO A WALK THROUGH FOR DISNEY CAPS???? DO YOU HANDLE THEM DIFFERENTLY THEN RL PEOPLE CAPS? IGNORE MY FIRST QUESTION. TELL ME EVERYTHING ABOUT DISNEY CAPS!!! I'll take a tutorial for any psd you have (if any) or just a general walkthrough. FAVORITE DISNEY ICON MAKER EVERRRR :D
teehee glad i have the opportunity to ask this! ♥
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Ok I think it really depends for me. I think I would say I USUALLY (at least used to) crop, resize to 100x100 before doing anything else. THe main exception to this would be when I wanted to cut something out with the pen tool. I'd cut it out big, and then know that the resizing would hide pretty much any not enormous mistakes since it'd be getting to small. But otherwise I think I usually went right to 100x100 and worked on everything else from that starting point.
Now I'm not so sure and I think I actually like my stuff better when I start bigger and go smaller. Lemme see if I can find examples, but I'm not sure I can remember how everything started out originallllllllyyyyyyy.
100x100 first
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I have a couple of follow up questions if you don't mind/have time :3
- In cases of the very last two in the second set, or really any ones in that set where you're blending/blocking - what size canvas do you work on?
- You said obvs sharpening is a must - any tips on that? Are you a spot sharpener/softener where you go in and sharpen/blur specific parts of the icons, or just sharpen everything and then fade it.
Thank you for rambling being so thorough, really appreciate it! ♥
CAN'T WAIT FOR DISNEY INFO :B
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I'm a sharpen the whole thing and then fade kind of person. I duplicate the thing after I'm done and sharpen that layer and then fade it til I'm ok with it. I mostly do this because then I still have that layer there to change my mind if i want more/less sharpening later in the process. I'm usually content with that but some things do need spot sharpening more than blanket. LIke my film of 2011 spam had spot bc I thought too much might be too much so did it in certain places where it needed it like the hair on Tangled poster.
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I duplicate the thing after I'm done and sharpen that layer and then fade it til I'm ok with it. I mostly do this because then I still have that layer there to change my mind if i want more/less sharpening later in the process.
Samesie :3
Thank you so much for answering all of my quesitons! :)
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Can you recreate any of these icons for me? :3
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