Ask the maker 2.0

[aida_rose]

Happy New Year, icon_talk!

As promised, it's time for our second round of Ask the Maker!Here you'll get the chance to ask icon makers who sign up, questions about their icons/graphics. You can ask for tutorials, guides/walk through, or simply ask a question regarding their work so the makers can compile a Q&A post, with the answers to all the questions

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[longerthanwedo]

Username and where I post my work: longerthanwedo at thevividimagery
What can we request from you (tutorials, Q&A, walk through, other (specify))?: Anything! I will do my best with tutorials though I can't promise exact replicas xD
Can we hotlink your icons?: Ja.

[deternot]

THIS MIGHT SEEM WEIRD but could you do a guide for how you work with the color red?

[longerthanwedo]

Done! I liked this question, it's one I haven't gotten before xD

[rowofstars]

I'd kill to know your thoughts on composition, how you approach complexity (because so many of your icons seem to have either marvelous blending, blocking, etc) and how you come about such stunning pieces as

[justonebeat]

Username and where I post my work: justonebeat chunkofcheese
What can we request from you (tutorials, Q&A, walk through, other (specify))?: anything really just ask and I shall see!
Can we hotlink your icons?: Yes.
Anything else?: If your wanting tuts of certain icons I don't really save psd's but I can try and recreate it and see what happens :)

[lover_of_narnia]

Oh, may I have a tutorial on this icon:

[justonebeat]

sorry if this took so long, I was busy with my exams, thank you for wanting a tut and I hope it helps you, here you go:

http://chunkofcheese.livejournal.com/3955.html

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[geckoholic]

No idea if there'll be interest, but, uuuhm:

Username and where I post my work: geckoholic @ bl00dredskies
What can we request from you?: I'll try everything, to the best of my ability. *coughs*
Can we hotlink your icons?: Yep.

[mystic_rose7]

I would love to know how you made this icon:

[kibethsbark]

Username and where I post my work: kibethsbark @ wandringsteps
What can we request from you (tutorials, Q&A, walk through, other (specify))?: Anything goes. :)
Can we hotlink your icons?: Sure.
Anything else?: I don't know if there'll be any interest, but I thought I'd post anyway. :) I'm away from my photoshopping computer until the end of the week, but I'll be able to post whatever starting next weekend.

[tor_na_do]

A tutorial for any of these, please!

[tor_na_do]

Or these ~ LOL. They're gorgeous.

[kibethsbark]

Here you go! :D I split the tutorials into two posts, with the GOT tutorials being in the first post and the other two in the second. If you've got any questions, let me know. :)

Post 1, post 2.

[takethewords]

Username and where I post my work: takethewords @ iwantchips
What can we request from you (tutorials, Q&A, walk through, other (specify))?: Q&A, walk through, mostly whatever besides full tutorials because I'm lazy and usually have a hard time remember exactly what I've done to an icon. lol
Can we hotlink your icons?: Sure!
Anything else?: ASK ME THINGS, YAY!

[mm3butterfly]

:O :O :O WHERE DO I BEGIN. Firstly, everything you do is so pretty. SO PRETTY. But I'd love to know how the edges (not of the box, of the colors/things in general, I don't know how to explain!) on your icons are so soft/smooth/not sharp but still sharp, is it a PSP thing? And the colors! How are they so... rich and deep? (so basically a how-do-you-color guide in general, for anything you want). And the lighting! The light (textures?) on your icons is so lovely and soft. If you could talk about compositions too, what goes well with what, how do you work with textures and multiple images (I love everything in this post, composition-wise.). I know I asked lots, so of course don't need to answer all of them, just putting it out there to give you ideas on things to talk about. Tanks! ♥

[rowofstars]

Same question to you as I asked longerthanwedo, and that is how do you approach composition and complexity in your icons (and really graphics in general), such as in these marvelous examples: