I'm not even sure how to feel about my first 10in30 batch. I can usually tell the difference between muted and vibrant coloring, but after working for hours on lots of this stuff, I honestly could no longer distinguish if anything I made counts as vibrant. Pretty problematic considering it's the focal point of this month's challenge. I guess I'll just be ( Read more... )

Up until this past January, it had been over 1.5 years since I opened Photoshop. I tried to enter the inaugural round at 20muses, but I just got so frustrated making icons that I had to stop. Plus, grad school really began kicking my ass, which didn't help matters at all. But now, I'm halfway through my winter quarter and miserable as fuck, so iconmaking ( Read more... )

After two months on hiatus, I got back to banging around on PS last week, and good fucking grief, it was an uphill battle bringing this batch to fruition! This is mainly due to the fact that I was dumb enough to challenge myself to use all the words and textures provided in the inspiration post (focused on the four elements: air, earth, fire, and ( Read more... )

It feels like quite some time since I posted anything, but I had a grueling 1D battle this past month, so I finally have new things to put out there. Half of the images I submitted were godawful to work with, and I did have difficulty getting myself started on the battle itself, but ultimately, it proved to be an excellent challenge, and I'm really ( Read more... )

I can't adequately express just how much fun I had making this batch for the Pass-It-On round at 20inspirations! Basically, every icon has to connect somehow to the one preceding it and then also involve an additional element to be incorporated into the next piece. For example, my first icon is pink, so my second icon is pink and involves the theme of ( Read more... )

For the latest round at 20inspirations, the mods decided to throw a strange curve...by having all participants complete a traditional 20in20 batch! We were provided with 10 interpretative themes as well as a category theme for a set of 5 icons (in this case, obscure crops) and then given free reign over the last 5 pieces, known as artist's choice icons. You ( Read more... )

It's been two whole months since I posted any icons so I'm quite overdue. I honestly hadn't even thought I'd make anything in April, but the latest round at inspired20in20 just captivated my mind and so did a peek at my old Megan Fox image folder! This month's theme was "Masquerade," and the idea was to obscure the subject in every icon through heavy texture use ( Read more... )

WARNING: IF YOU SEE RANDOM LINKS IN THIS POST, PLEASE DON'T CLICK ON THEM. I HAVE NO IDEA WHY, BUT ONE KEPT POPPING UP WHENEVER I TESTED THIS PAGE IN MY JOURNAL EVEN AFTER COMBING THROUGH THE HTML FOR ERRORS.I can't believe I'm barely getting around to making my first icon post of the year, but I'm trying to take it easier instead of constantly ( Read more... )

Because I couldn't bear to fail on living up to my "post once a month" resolution, I hesitantly signed myself up for the first activity at bestof-icons, wherein people could choose icons of mine that they wanted to see me remake somehow. I'm really glad I decided to join in cuz I actually ended up getting excited to open PS again, and it afforded me the means ( Read more... )

My muse is slowly but surely dropping dead. I can barely get myself to open Photoshop anymore, guys. Maybe I'm just burned out this year cuz I had such an astonishingly prolific months-long run when I got obsessed with Leverage back in February. Anyway, this post is composed mainly of entries I submitted to rumblr, capchallenge, and jjverse over the past 2 months. I meant ( Read more... )