Icon Recommendations

[hsapiens]

I'm starting a series of recommendations of makers whose work I admire. I've collected icons from >50 makers, thus the series. Let me know how frequently you want to see them, please? I don't know know how often I'll do them but I'd like a feel for how often would be too often.

I recently nominated a bunch of icon makers over at magicawards so I'm kicking

Comments

[sith_romantic]

I love the idea of such posts! &hearts And the icons that you have posted are pretty awesome.

[hsapiens]

\o/ Definitely stay tuned as you're on the list of makers. ♥

[sith_romantic]

Meeeee?!!! Ouch! :DDD Thank you so much!!! &hearts

[hsapiens]

But of course! I even have the icons chosen already. <3

[anie_chan]

Oooh! New icons!
Thank you for this rec. *__*

[hsapiens]

My pleasure! I view this as similar to a fic rec post, only for pretty icons. :D

[pwalkeri]

OooOo! Nice!

I vote for like once a month? Maybe once every two weeks? That gives people (aka me) time to browse through their icons.

[hsapiens]

Oh good! Once a month is the most frequently I would post. I'm an infrequent poster at LJ.

[pwalkeri]

Okay, I wasn't sure what you were looking for. I mean... really the less you post the more meaningful the recs will be. Cuz there's the assumptiont that you really take time with your recs and just don't rec anyone. :)

[txduck]

Thank You! I am VERY flattered to be included among such talented artists. There are some really beautiful icons here.

Although I am definitely more comfortable working in my own style, I have been making attempts lately at upping the color/boldness of some of my icons... which I've got to say makes me appreciate even more the artists that can do it ... and do it well (you are included in there BTW ;) cause its not an easy thing to do. But I love post like this... I find them very inspiring :)

[hsapiens]

I dithered about including some of your more recent colorful icons because I DID notice that you're experimenting with brighter colors. But I really liked these icons as examples of your cropping that makes me so envious of your skill or they were puns that I love. Besides both the THORoughly Awesome and the Sheldon icons have brighter, more saturated colors.

I'm glad that you enjoy these type of posts. I've been intending to do them for MONTHS and would get sucked into the latest episode or the help_japan fund raiser or something else super-exciting. Happily compiling icons for nominating coincided with needing to lay off PS for a while due to tendon issues and thus I finally took the opportunity to do it!

♥

[txduck]

" I DID notice that you're experimenting with brighter colors"

haven't got there yet, but I'm working on it ;) Speaking of experimenting, hubby got me a drawing tablet for an anniversary gift last week (yay)and was bundled with a version of PS. I've never really had a chance to learn PS, so now I just need to figure where everything is and the best way to use it. Do you know of (or have made) any good icon tutorials to get me headed in the right direction?

[hsapiens]

Happy Belated Anniversary! *throws confetti*

There's a tablet that comes bundled with PS? Must be a pricey tablet! I have a smaller tablet but I've never used it as it requires using the wireless mouse that came with it and the mouse itself is too small for my hand; it feels weird.

I used the tutorials at awmpdotnet to learn how to use PS's tools. She wrote them years ago for PS7 so they wouldn't cover the newer tools but it helped me conquer the confusing welter of tools and settings.

Once you're comfortable with the interface, I cannot recommend highly enough ohfreckle's tutorials (ownthesunshine/coffeeforcloser). She goes into the why of choosing her tools and settings rather than just listing settings. If you ever have any questions, please feel free to ask me. I might not know but if I do I'm more than happy to help you transition into PS

[hsapiens]

Now there's an idea! I'd separated my flist into filters and check the filters as time allows but I miss a lot that way.