[Icons] A thing I do.

[theninquisition]

From back before I apped. Since I was doing odd borders for Link's icons, I just used this table to check if it looked okay against the default blues on the comment pages.

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[rubyd]

Hotness.

[theninquisition]

That bird...

[rubyd]

It's thinking of you, baking cookies.

[vulchu]

Don't you want to make out with him against your better judgement?

[vulchu]

♥

[pridefall]

Hi, I just kind of stumbled onto this account by chance and pretty much fell in love with the icons. Do you have a tutorial or anything for how to color like you've colored them, or any tips? I kind of want to try it for a different character.

[theninquisition]

Ah, unfortunately I've never done a tutorial myself... This set is based on this method by a different iconner, which I modified to suit my tastes.

As far as tips go, the biggest one I always tell people is to use a "color" layer to add a hue to the lineart, because coloring over gray pixels tends to dull the colors you use (there are a variety of ways to do this but that's the method I use). In this case I used a brown/orange "color" layer and a blue/green "screen" layer over that, coloring between them on "multiply" layers (that's his hair and the color of his clothes). I try to limit my palette to only a few colors in the same family, so in this case it turned out to be salmon-y colors, brown, blue, and green...

[pridefall]

Mm, I tried experimenting and I'm liking what I've gotten so far. They don't come close to how crisp/defined I've seem some other icons, but I think I've finally found a place where I'm not tearing my hair out trying to figure out who did what xD