I must apologize for what's been rather a lack of icons on this icon journal of late. I have been concentrating more on writing recently--and it also doesn't help that the icontests I took part in, which were my main creative motivation, all seem to have dried up! (But on the upside, I have a ton of pictures from Halloween Horror Nights 2009 just waiting to be chopped into textures. Among other things, there will definitely be more Ghost Lights textures coming. *g*)
Current Music:"Heartbreak Beat" - The Psychedelic Furs
Two new icon texture sets for October: a small but appropriately spooky set of a dozen light spots, and the latest fifty-texture installment in the ScratchGrunge series.
Current Music:my cat making noises in her sleep...
It took a little longer than I intended to get around to posting a new texture set, so here's two of them: 14 spooky light textures, and a new 50-texture installment in the ScratchGrunge series. :)
Current Music:"These Days Are Gone" - Matchbox Twenty
While tinkering with a forthcoming ScratchGrunge III icon texture set (*g*), I made the amazing discovery that I can create halfway decent tiling patterns. This set contains eighteen of them, in varying sizes.
Presenting a sequel to my original and hugely successful ScratchGrunge textures. In this set there are sixty-six icon-sized textures in shades of gray grunge and filmscratch, with a few grungy border elements as well.
Current Music:"Modern Marvels: '90s Tech" on the History Channel
Well, here goes my first attempt at a tutorial...
My ScratchGrunge Icon Textures were a great success a few days ago--thank you for the great response to them! A few people were interested in a tutorial on how they were made, so here you go. :)
I sat down to make Greer Garson icons for this week's classicicontest challenge, but I ended up getting ideas from the grainy, shadowy backgrounds of the photos. *g* As a result, here are forty-four icon-sized textures of film scratches and gray grunge, spiced up with a few lights and patterns here and there.