beware, all ye who enter, the pitfalls of falling in love with text

[sgmajorshipper]

Comments

[val_valerie]

i really love your text though, and if you're doing ripper!stefan then the coloring has to be dark be dark so, doesn't mean you can't make it more contrasted, try light textures too and maybe try to make the text a slight bit smaller because it covers all of his face. actually at first i though the icon was just fine like that. *shrug*

[sgmajorshipper]

I'm gonna try to fiddle with it more. It just always frustrates me when I spend ages perfecting the text and then step outside of that and realize the icon isn't all it was supposed to be. You know how it is. :/

[val_valerie]

yes i know this feel
trust me we've all been there before i just think your text is really good unless if that's not what you wanted

[sgmajorshipper]

The text is actually one thing I'm okay with. No way I'm sacrificing it. Which is one reason why it feels so weird.

[absolutelybatty]

MAKE IT BLACK AND WHITE! \0/

I think the text looks really cool, and I think the fact that it obscures pretty much everything except his eyes is okay. There's been some backlash over the technique, but...eh. I think the text looks cool enough to be the center of the icon's focus, and his eyes are an important focus point anyway. And if you make it black and white, you don't have to worry about the coloring issue! And I put it into photoshop, added a gradient map to make it black and white, and brightened it up a bit so I already know it would look awesome. You should do it. *pokes*

[sgmajorshipper]

Ooo, making it black and white gives it a monster movie feel...that's pretty interesting....*runs off to play*

I did an entire 20in20 of nothing but B+W and I still almost never think about it. *facepalm*