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Ask the maker 5.0

Jul 15, 2013 18:00

It's July 15th and it's time for round 5 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 regarding their work so the makers can compile a Q&A post with the answers to all the questions they get ( Read more... )

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nyaza July 25 2013, 03:42:13 UTC

Username + where you post your work: nyaza @ charmingways
What can we request from you (tutorials, Q&A, guides etc. .PSDs are not allowed: I'll start with everything. i guess?. I'm not very sure about my times, so I can't promsie it won't take forever. i also won't do way too long tutos because they would never get done. and i really don't know. just ask, if I feel comfortable around the subject I'll do it. :D
Can we hotlink your icons?: Go ahead~

erzsebet July 25 2013, 04:26:31 UTC

I'd love to know how you decide on text. Like, do you make icons with the intent of adding certain text or do you find caps first and add text later? And any other tips you could provide for text. Basically how you do text. XD

nyaza July 27 2013, 02:24:52 UTC

Ok. Let's start with I wanted to answer this before but I needed to put my head straight because TEEEEEXT, which doesn't mean I'll be able to be more coherent about it, because mostly, I don't know what I'm doing most times.

So, let's begin.

If we are being real, I should probs say that all my icons start with the idea that they'll have text. When people have asked me to do them icons of things I do not watch, I panicked, because I knew there was an 70% chance that I'll want to stick text to it (actually, most of the icons I have done for capchallenge that are of fandoms I don't know... have text). So, basically, I just think everything needs text unless it proves it doesn't not. If anything, I actually pay more attention to which caps I'm using when I KNOW I'm NOT using text, because I know I want to focus on something else (whcih doesn't always mean I won't end up putting text to it either lol ( ... )

nyaza July 27 2013, 02:25:58 UTC

So with that said, here comes the part where you wonder if I'm drunk, but I hope my personal view on this helps a little? It's nt exactly tips, or precises tips at least, but more of a ~~text feels declaration.

Text has personality. It asks as much as it gives. It becomes a very important piece of the icon most times.
like this & this. They are two completely different icons imo. the whole focus of it changes. Imo, and maybe this doesn't show with what I was thinking or the results, but but whatever, imo, the textless versions focus on the emotion, the raw emotion and nothing else, while the icon with text focus on the story. it's big and there, it sorta even washes the emotion out of her face (which was the reason I decided to keep the textless one). So it's very important imo to take into consideration where and what I want from text, because it can become too overpowering, or it can just look like a last thought addition ( ... )

jsfunction July 25 2013, 14:00:25 UTC

I would love to know how you made this perfect icon! Especially the unusual coloring and the texture use.

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nyaza July 27 2013, 00:43:30 UTC

Oh, I have it and it's not extremelly long, so I'll see what I can do with it. it probs will take a few cause I'm v. slow . But I'll do it.

Just a question though, would you rather have a full tutorial or just a focus on the colouring and texture use aspects? (Not like I'm not gonna do that on the full one, but yeah, it's two ways to go... so yeah, I hope you get what I mean lol).

jsfunction July 27 2013, 10:07:40 UTC

I would definitely love a full tutorial, but if that's too much work I would be very very happy with a smaller guide just for the coloring & texturing :D so, either works for me!

(lol, I'm seriously the slowest tutorial writer ever, so really take your time, I don't mind at all!)

nyaza August 5 2013, 01:56:38 UTC

here it is :D

i hope it's clear. I tried to focus on those aspects while still setting it all up. If you have any questions about it, or things I left out, just ask :DDD

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nyaza July 27 2013, 00:39:23 UTC

Hey, just letting you know that you replied to the wrong thread asI didn't make those.

ladymercury_10 July 27 2013, 00:44:16 UTC

Oops! You're right, I did, so sorry!

nyaza July 27 2013, 00:57:02 UTC

Don't worry~~ :D

holdasmile July 27 2013, 15:29:55 UTC

Would you mind telling me how to achieve such coloring? Thanks :)

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vapor August 3 2013, 22:18:42 UTC

I'd love tutorials for these icons, if it's possible!

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tor_na_do October 3 2013, 18:28:25 UTC

¡Hola!

Would you share your favourite textures? (:

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