Hello everyone! Today's my posting day. Yay! Thanks to the mods for keeping the tea party going at Summer of Giles! And thanks for everyone for making this such a blast
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There are skills and tricks involved! This time around I mostly worked with hi-res photos, thinking I could resize as the last step, but lo and behold a lot of the details in a 600-pixel-wide image just doesn't translate onto a 100x100 pixel canvas. Some of the more subtle effects (a 20%-transparent layer of the same image with watercolor effect applied, screened on top of the main layer, for a soft glow) is entirely lost after down-sampling. Well, lessons learned. O_o
I've added some lighter variants at your suggestion. 12 somehow looks especially "flat" when comparing with the high-res photo.
Thank you so much! I'm fond of #10 myself. Of course, Giles and Jenny look great together, which made myself easier. I wish we didn't lose Jenny so soon. Oh well.
Great job! My personal favourite is #3 -- Giles and his true love :-) I also really like #7 and 10-variant. And the image you picked for #8 -- love Ethan's expression!
I'm not really one for subtle shades myself, but in a few of your icons I feel the colouring and contrasts are a bit on the harsh side (in particular for #1, 4, 9). But I guess that's largely a matter of personal taste. In #8 I think it actually fits very well.
Thank you! I love musical Giles, and pairing him with Ethan. :)
Rookie mistake: I spent the majority of my time on the icon set working in high-res. Some of the images had way too much "content" to effectively down-sample to 100x100 pixels, and everything looked too sharp and too crowded in the end. I do love the high-contrast, saturated look (like Fujichrome Velvia slide film), but you're right -- some of them are a bit much.
I've since added a few variants, but idk -- my whole focus on the news ones was on "a lighter, gentler touch" that I think any "vision" I had got lost in the process, if that makes any sense. Clearly there's much to learn! :)
I actually really like your 'soft' variant of #1. But it's definitely true that it's the vision that has to come first. If you get out of touch with that, then you're not likely to be happy with the result, no matter how technically perfect it might be.
I think another thing I neglected was that with writing, I always needed multiple drafts and revisions. With these icons, I was tweaking up until I posted them, where everything was too new, too immediate for a more cool-headed self-evaluation. Looking at the above icons today, I think I should've done a number of them differently. :)
Very cool set of icons! I am particularly fond of #s 1 & 7. And, of course, being a B/G shipper, #12. I also like the aesthetics of the icons cut from the larger piece.
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I've added some lighter variants at your suggestion. 12 somehow looks especially "flat" when comparing with the high-res photo.
Thank you so much for your comment!
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I'm not really one for subtle shades myself, but in a few of your icons I feel the colouring and contrasts are a bit on the harsh side (in particular for #1, 4, 9). But I guess that's largely a matter of personal taste. In #8 I think it actually fits very well.
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Rookie mistake: I spent the majority of my time on the icon set working in high-res. Some of the images had way too much "content" to effectively down-sample to 100x100 pixels, and everything looked too sharp and too crowded in the end. I do love the high-contrast, saturated look (like Fujichrome Velvia slide film), but you're right -- some of them are a bit much.
I've since added a few variants, but idk -- my whole focus on the news ones was on "a lighter, gentler touch" that I think any "vision" I had got lost in the process, if that makes any sense. Clearly there's much to learn! :)
Thanks again for your comment! :)
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BTW, I've since added a lighter variant of #12 at the suggestion of chasingdemons. Should look a little less gloomy. :)
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