ASK THE MAKER - 2015!

[aida_rose]

Happy July everyone, it's time for round 7 of Ask the Maker here at icon_talkHere you'll get the chance to ask icon makers who sign up questions about their icons and other graphics. You can ask for tutorials, guides/"How to", or ask any other questions related their work so these makers can create a Q&A post with the answers to all the questions they get

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[absolutelybatty]

Username + where you post your work: absolutelybatty @ reflexive_verb
What can we request from you (tutorials, Q&A, guides etc. .PSDs are not allowed:
Q&A/guides are more likely to be done, but you can request anything you'd like.
Can we hotlink your icons?: Knock yourselves out, tbh.

[esgeee]

Hi, can I request a guide on what your favorite textures are to use (maybe 10-15 ones you use most often) and how you'd reccomend I use them, especially the decorative ones like in these icons:

[absolutelybatty]

Hello! Thank you for requesting!

I've filled both of your requests in this post! I hope this answers your questions! if it doesn't and/or you have additional questions/requests, feel free to let me know! :D

[kirtash_girl]

I'd like to see a tutorial for this awesome icon:

[absolutelybatty]

Hello! Thank you for requesting!

I've written up the tutorial for that icon in this post! If you have any questions and/or additional requests, please let me know! :D

[adriftingsea]

[absolutelybatty]

Hello! Thank you for requesting!

I did a mini tutorial for the second icon in the bottom half of this post! The other two icons will be covered later.
eta; I forgot you also requested the favorite textures thing. XD That's in the post too!

If you have any questions and/or additional requests, please let me know! :D

[lover_of_narnia]

Could you make a coloring guide for icons like

[absolutelybatty]

Hello! Sorry for getting back to you so late!

The first icon you mentioned is actually covered by this guide I wrote last AtM so you can get all the info you need about that coloring process there. There's even a very similar icon near the bottom that I talk about as well.

Regarding the second icon, I do actually have a full tutorial for that, and I'll get it put up as soon as I can. I'm sorry about the wait!

[roseemrys]

Love your icons; they are always so pretty! I was wondering if you could talk about this icon:

[absolutelybatty]

Hi! Sorry for getting back to your question/request so late!

This icon is quite old so I no longer have the .psd file for it, but I did my best guess work for you:

- The light in the upper right hand corner is very likely the Diffuse Glow filter in Photoshop. I have a really, really old tutorial where I discuss it in a bit more depth here, but it also crops up in nearly every one of my tutorials because it is one of my favorite filters. If it wasn't that, then I would have used one of Photoshop's default/pre-loaded brushes to brush in a bit of light (and probably set it to screen or soft light depending

[lumsx]

YAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY!!! I have so many questions for you!

1. How do you text? How do you text and complex at the same time? How do you text and complex and vibrant? I know you've written plenty about it but I was wondering if you have been using any different method lately. A font rec list would very much appreciated too. You use the most wonderful fonts, I've saved every single one you included in your tutorials but I'm greedy and I'd love to know if there are more because I suck at finding new ones and believe me I try real hard.

2. There's a lot of font combination and composition+text and textures+text and vibrant+text in your icons. I'm a flailing machine when it comes to your text, okay? I just like everything, you make icon candy, and I'd love to know more about your process because the results are fascinating.

Here are some examples for 1 and 2, just in case you were wondering what's going through my mind when I say icon candy and all that:

[damsiedam]

I totally second all of this!

[absolutelybatty]

Hello! Sorry about the long wait for this, but the text guide your seconded is up here! I hope it's helpful! ♥

[absolutelybatty]

Hi, lovely! Sorry about the long wait! I'm going to try to get to all your requests this week if I can. I'll let you know when they're up!

[absolutelybatty]

Hi, bb! Again, sorry about the long wait, but I've done all your text requests here! Thank you so much for asking questions, and I hope this guide answers them all satisfactorily. ♥