sixteen // 73 icons

[burntheflaws]

More 2010 and 2011 icons (with a few touch-ups). This one's a predominantly Disney post, and most of them were made for disneyverse. Only one more pre-2012 icon dump after this one, and then I'll post my new stuff, I promise!

18 The Little Mermaid
8 Mulan
8 Tarzan
6 Beauty and the Beast
5 Aladdin
12 The Secret Circle, Up, The Lion King
6 Natalie Portman,

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[burntheflaws]

Thank you so much! I do love my colorful icons.

Funny you mention those, because they were the ones I touched up (along with 4 and 36) before posting these icons. I don't remember the order I did these in, but:

1. In a new layer, use a small brush with a darker color and add shadows and highlights to make the image look more 3-D. Set to Soft Light or Overlay and lower the opacity until it's slightly noticeable but not overly so.
2. Gradient, usually using the colors in the image but sometimes just black and white, and set to Soft Light. Then mask out the areas making the eyes look more faded, or any other part I don't like.
3. Sometimes if the image is still too bright, I copy and paste it, then put it on Multiply and lower the opacity or mask out parts that look too dark. At other times if there aren't enough distinctive contrasts, I'll mask out the main parts of the face and use that Multiply layer to add even more shading before lowering the opacity.
4. Use base image, Gaussian Blur, and set on Soft Light. Lower opacity to the amount I like. Mask out the eyes and a little bit on the hair.

I'll usually jumble up the order of these, or sometimes I'll use these steps more than once to get it to where I like. If it ends up being too dark/glowy/shaded, I take the base image and paste it as a new layer on top, then lower the opacity so it looks more natural.

Hope that all made sense.