Ask the maker 3.0!

[aida_rose]

It's time for our third round of Ask the Maker!

Here 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. As always, .PSD

Comments

[adrastea]

Username and where I post my work: twinstrike at twinstrikeish
What can we request from you (tutorials, Q&A, guides etc. .PSDs are not allowed: You can request pretty much anything and I'll try to answer. :)
Can we hotlink your icons?: Yes!

[rocketgirl2]

I'd love to hear something about how you make your textures! It doesn't have to be anything long; just a general overview would be great. :)

[adrastea]

If you want I can make a basic tutorial and a Q/A on textures for you! :)

[rocketgirl2]

That would be so wonderful! Thanks. ♥

[adrastea]

Here. I made a Q/A and two tutorials for you. Hope it's clear and you can enjoy the overall process of it. And hope it's that what you wanted from me! (:

[aeriiths]

EVERYTHING. Okay I'll rein myself in. I would love to know what processes you used for these icons:

[adrastea]

I can make a tutorial for these icons if you want. I don't have the .psds but I can get a close result to the original I think XD

[aeriiths]

That would be great. :D I do love your colouring, especially in that EDI icon.

[adrastea]

I'll work on it! :)

[adrastea]

I had to remake the icons but here the close results for it / the requested tutorials.. Hope you enjoy it.

[aeriiths]

Thanks so much! :)

[deternot]

I'd love to know how you achieve that not quite monochrome but brown, natural coloring like in this icon:

[adrastea]

Basically to achieve this coloring I use brown/light brown textures on Soft Light and low opacities since I use two or more. The original coloring of the image helped in this case but usually I paste a lot of textures to change the coloring.

I'll make a new tutorial on blocking for you since I changed a lot my method. :)

[adrastea]

Here a tutorial for a brownish coloring (recreation of the icon you asked) and a general blocking guide. Hope you like it! :)

[margerydaw_s2]

A guide for complex icons, maybe? IDK, I love everything you do.

[adrastea]

What kind of complex icon? XD