5 Mar 2019

extrapenguin: Badass professor holds his postgrad close and protects her from flying detritus. (protect the daughter)
I participated in the icon battle (1 icon per episode) hosted by [personal profile] tinny; 4 rounds, all of which are still ongoing. Originally, I was going to sit on this post until round 1 of the battle was due, but since [personal profile] teaotter posted theirs already, I decided I might as well – additional promotion of the icon battle! Here's my offering for Round 1 (one icon per episode, episodes 1-10), in compilation image format:

I gave in to my urge to tl;dr about what I did; if you just want the pretty pictures, click here.

icons introduced individually, plus prattle on the creative process )

In my journey, in addition to the luminosity mask tutorial, the rest of gimp.org's photo editing tutorials should be worh a second look (esp. the B&W conversion one). Other interesting tutorials for those who wish to start into icon-making are this tutorial on making black-and-white icons, and this tutorial introduced me to doing some dodging and burning on a separate midtone gray layer set to overlay (nondestructive dodge/burning)!

other icons )

I just wanted the pretty icons dammit )

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