Icon crit meme

[gravity_xx]

Icon Crit Meme❦

Rules
❦Post with 6-10 icons and people will comment with ways you can improve your icons.
❦Crit sandwiches are yummy with ketchup (positive, negative, positive)
❦Comments without constructive criticism will be deleted

Comments

[gravity_xx]

gravity_xx @ asmoedeus

[sasoriza]

Some of them are too sharp, like the Saya one here. Also, some of the pokemon ones seem a bit bland ^^;

[gravity_xx]

I hate how I never noticed things are sharpened too much until someone points it out. Such a huge problem! I'll make sure to pay attention to that from now on.

Can you tell me what you mean by bland? I'll be honest and say that's really not a good word to describe an icon by. Do you mean it should be saturated more?

[gonsai]

This just keeps reminding me that I need to get better at coloring. I WANT MANGA ICONS TOOOOO

Ah well. I like how you managed to really bring out the color in these examples.

[astrokittie]

The coloring in 7 looks a bit funny to me, but otherwise your icons are quite nice.

Also, I fucking love that Saya no Uta icon.

[gravity_xx]

I think that came before I figured out how to color over the grey toned stuff so that might be why. I just did a linear burn layer over everything and colored that way.

But thanks a lot.

[astrokittie]

Oh yeah, linear burn will screw stuff up sometimes. )=

[skycatcher]

Oh wow those are gorgeous! I really love that Shiki icon's texture use and the colors. Your anime icons also have a nice pastel look that brings out the color.

A few things, though, would be to try and redraw/clean out text bubbles in icons-- it makes them look so much nicer, even if it's a pain sometimes. Another is to soften the blushes? Especially in 7 when it's darker, but in 3 it's really plain-- I'd rec using a size 9 or bigger brush with a 0% hardness and just touching over it-- it gives it a nice soft look more befitting of blushes. And to clean out the lines underneath them. \o/