This is not what I should be doing right now.
Exciting cleaning product.
I'm sick of the thing already. Good thing I'm going to be spending at least half the semester trying to come up with ads for it.
Lately I've been wanting to try making icons again. I don't know why, as I pretty much suck at it. You'd think since I'm a design major, that sort of thing would be easy for me, but apparently not. I want pretty icons, dammit, but I always end up with stupid shit like this.
Seriously, wtf. I really love having a ton of icons, and I'm not the sort of person to go steal icons other people have made. If I use icons others have made, they were pretty much made for me, and I think I only have two of those. I like being special, I guess. There's only two or three icons I have that I really am proud of. Strangely enough, I think this Deesha one might be the best as far as design goes...and it's just flat color, really. I want to be able to make more interesting ones, but I can't seem to figure it out.
One problem I have is figuring out what sort of things to do to the picture, like filters and stuff. I use photoshop to color with, anything else just stumps me. Generally my icons are just picture+text. If they started out as manga panels, I'll usually color them. There's often a 1px black border around them because I'm lame like that.
Another issue is deciding what sort of text to put on them. Like the actual words. Lyrics seem to usually be the way to go, but I've never been that sensitive to them, so I can't just pull something appropriate up easily. I don't get into music as much as I maybe should, I guess, and most of what I listen to is classical and instrumental soundtracks. Not too helpful for words. It's not that I don't like other music at all, I just can't relate to it, I guess. I hear the songs, but not so much the lyrics, I think.
So, yeah. Pretty much uninspired for icons. I'm trying to work on a Tiki icon right now, because omg, color picture from 80 = teh sex. I'm completely stuck, though, and it's upsetting. Maybe I should start over or something. :\
In any case...I think it would be smart if I stopped rambling about little squares with pictures and went off to clean the bathroom. WHEE.
I'm sick of the thing already. Good thing I'm going to be spending at least half the semester trying to come up with ads for it.
Lately I've been wanting to try making icons again. I don't know why, as I pretty much suck at it. You'd think since I'm a design major, that sort of thing would be easy for me, but apparently not. I want pretty icons, dammit, but I always end up with stupid shit like this.
Seriously, wtf. I really love having a ton of icons, and I'm not the sort of person to go steal icons other people have made. If I use icons others have made, they were pretty much made for me, and I think I only have two of those. I like being special, I guess. There's only two or three icons I have that I really am proud of. Strangely enough, I think this Deesha one might be the best as far as design goes...and it's just flat color, really. I want to be able to make more interesting ones, but I can't seem to figure it out.
One problem I have is figuring out what sort of things to do to the picture, like filters and stuff. I use photoshop to color with, anything else just stumps me. Generally my icons are just picture+text. If they started out as manga panels, I'll usually color them. There's often a 1px black border around them because I'm lame like that.
Another issue is deciding what sort of text to put on them. Like the actual words. Lyrics seem to usually be the way to go, but I've never been that sensitive to them, so I can't just pull something appropriate up easily. I don't get into music as much as I maybe should, I guess, and most of what I listen to is classical and instrumental soundtracks. Not too helpful for words. It's not that I don't like other music at all, I just can't relate to it, I guess. I hear the songs, but not so much the lyrics, I think.
So, yeah. Pretty much uninspired for icons. I'm trying to work on a Tiki icon right now, because omg, color picture from 80 = teh sex. I'm completely stuck, though, and it's upsetting. Maybe I should start over or something. :\
In any case...I think it would be smart if I stopped rambling about little squares with pictures and went off to clean the bathroom. WHEE.