I'll have to consider borders. With such a small canvas, I usually like to let the image cover as much as possible, but I'll definitely try it out.
Actually, all of these are colorizations. The batch previous to this was all colorizations, too. (I really like color. Currently I am wearing at least too shades bright enough to be called neon.) And I'll admit, oversaturation is a bad habit of mine. The first batch of icons I posted makes me wince now at how much I overused the brightness/contrast without any clue of how to use it properly.
Oh, and totally: #4 is not my strongest work, though part of the problem is I chose a bad image to begin with:
It doesn't have a lot of detail or shading, so the colors I applies look slapdash. Occasionally I can be stubborn, and I was determined to get an icon from that picture.
And yes, this totally helps! I really have been flying blind, and am happy to have someone give me their opinion. So far I've just been learning by doing, and sometimes reading people's icon tutorials when I see them. It is nice to actually talk about icon making.
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Actually, all of these are colorizations. The batch previous to this was all colorizations, too. (I really like color. Currently I am wearing at least too shades bright enough to be called neon.) And I'll admit, oversaturation is a bad habit of mine. The first batch of icons I posted makes me wince now at how much I overused the brightness/contrast without any clue of how to use it properly.
Oh, and totally: #4 is not my strongest work, though part of the problem is I chose a bad image to begin with:
It doesn't have a lot of detail or shading, so the colors I applies look slapdash. Occasionally I can be stubborn, and I was determined to get an icon from that picture.
And yes, this totally helps! I really have been flying blind, and am happy to have someone give me their opinion. So far I've just been learning by doing, and sometimes reading people's icon tutorials when I see them. It is nice to actually talk about icon making.