Estelle's icons are colored lineart on a multiply layer OVER the colors I used, with a single color burn/dodge color for all the shadows (lazy? Oh yes; easier/faster? Also yes.) with a finishing gradient fill on a screen layer over them, to soften the colors and do that thing to the background.
I can open ps up and show you what my layers look like, really quick, this evening if you'd like?
Though you've already got AJ and Blackstar to help you, and they make lovely icons, so :3
As far as the actual shading on stuff goes -- I've just been taking cues from what exists. Like, all of Yeager's icons I was looking at what style of shading they put on his face in those few icons I've got from the opening, and imitating that; I did likewise for estelle.
The icon you used to reply to hitode, for example, would give you a sort of idea on how to shade the face/hair, depending on the light source
Yeah, I keep going back and forth on my shading. I like things better with shading but when I put it in it ends up looking sloppy. But half of my icons already have screentone shading and half of them don't, so they need something on the other ones. Like, #2 icon up there has a little bit of shading I put in myself, because otherwise it looked awful.
Yeah, it can be tricky (I'm still... not entirely happy with all of Estelle's icons, because some of them do look sloppy; the gold ones are better, just because I'd had a bunch of practice by that point), but. I will show you what I did with them, anyway; color lineart and having a single color for your shadows really helps with a unified looking color scheme.
Rita's have no shading at all that I did myself; they look pretty only because the Vesperia manga is pretty and even has, like, highlights in the screentones in her hair. >_>;
But yes I am very onboard with plan single-color shadows.
I can open ps up and show you what my layers look like, really quick, this evening if you'd like?
Though you've already got AJ and Blackstar to help you, and they make lovely icons, so :3
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The icon you used to reply to hitode, for example, would give you a sort of idea on how to shade the face/hair, depending on the light source
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But yes I am very onboard with plan single-color shadows.
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