Well, I made a couple of icons yesterday. They look a step or two behind the image in my head, but it's a start. I'm hoping I won't need much more practice to not feel like such a n00b.
As promised, I did attempt a Hot Fudge Planet icon (clickable). The text ended up harder to read than I expected at 100x100, but I won't have time to fiddle with it this week, what with the plotbunnies running around over at
no_takebacks. It says, "Oceans of hot fudge await... Earth 3.0".
And I fiddled with some free online sites and made myself an animated gif. The site had a font called Battlestar, and I felt compelled to use it. :)