I've seen you acknowledge praise quite gracefully, so no worries.
Just another part of my policy of honesty, I suppose! I'm forthright about my opinion of my own work--and other people's.
What's funny is, half the time I don't even plan to colorize those occasional icons that look like they were in color to begin with. I'll just be doing different things with color layers, realize it's taken on a natural sort of hue, and decide to help it along. Ironically these always turn out better than my intentional colorizing.
The time it takes me to make an icon varies greatly, depending on what I do to it. They can take a few minutes or an hour. Choosing just the right font actually takes some time (I have about two thousand of them)--but it's a very important step for me, because it says so much about the "mood" I mentioned.
I've gotten curious about how much time other people put into it, because so many icons these days look like the creator cropped it with their eyes closed and just slapped a light texture or some text on it. I wonder now how much more effort they put into adjusting the coloring (not that I find their icons any more attractive). Of course, if I found out these people *were* making five-minute icons and winning all the icontests with them, I would be... fairly disgusted. :Þ
It was getting to be a challenge finding different things to do with the Cagney 100. I have basically three elements to work with: color, light/texturing, and font/decoration. I felt sometimes like I was hitting a limit on the variations I could achieve with those three aspects.
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Date: 2007-04-10 12:54 am (UTC)I've seen you acknowledge praise quite gracefully, so no worries.
Just another part of my policy of honesty, I suppose! I'm forthright about my opinion of my own work--and other people's.
What's funny is, half the time I don't even plan to colorize those occasional icons that look like they were in color to begin with. I'll just be doing different things with color layers, realize it's taken on a natural sort of hue, and decide to help it along. Ironically these always turn out better than my intentional colorizing.
The time it takes me to make an icon varies greatly, depending on what I do to it. They can take a few minutes or an hour. Choosing just the right font actually takes some time (I have about two thousand of them)--but it's a very important step for me, because it says so much about the "mood" I mentioned.
I've gotten curious about how much time other people put into it, because so many icons these days look like the creator cropped it with their eyes closed and just slapped a light texture or some text on it. I wonder now how much more effort they put into adjusting the coloring (not that I find their icons any more attractive). Of course, if I found out these people *were* making five-minute icons and winning all the icontests with them, I would be... fairly disgusted. :Þ
It was getting to be a challenge finding different things to do with the Cagney 100. I have basically three elements to work with: color, light/texturing, and font/decoration. I felt sometimes like I was hitting a limit on the variations I could achieve with those three aspects.