17:31, 1st Feb 2010
Pyramidhe@d: Not enough freehand

Please look at the pack (my signature).

its all the 1 shade of blue. give it a fair bit more variance, it's just blue. BLUE.

please look at the pack. then reconsider your post

i did, but my point is THE SHADES of blue. the icon is all the one shade of blue. surely you could change that to the advantage of the aesthetic appeal of it, as it looks quite undefined and blurry as a small image. making the glow around the hammer bigger could help too, and stronger lines on the timber too.

I don't like the black strips in your icon that make icon looks not so good in BTN. The whole hammer should be bigger.
3.5/5 for now

The wood seems far too realistic to be actually hand-drawn. I highly doubt the method you used to create this icon - I'm leaning towards thinking that you copied and pasted.

there are textures in photoshop that you can use, the wood is one of them.

tee.dubs said:

i did, but my point is THE SHADES of blue. the icon is all the one shade of blue. surely you could change that to the advantage of the aesthetic appeal of it, as it looks quite undefined and blurry as a small image. making the glow around the hammer bigger could help too, and stronger lines on the timber too.

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Thanks for the input, ill change around the colors to add variety.

debode said:

The wood seems far too realistic to be actually hand-drawn. I highly doubt the method you used to create this icon - I'm leaning towards thinking that you copied and pasted.

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I will take a picture of my own back deck and use it as wood. Maybe use my own hammer also. Update will be posted either tomorrow afternoon or monday.

NoMoreChallenge said:

I don't like the black strips in your icon that make icon looks not so good in BTN. The whole hammer should be bigger.
3.5/5 for now

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Hammer will be enlarged. Thanks for the positive feedback!

Well, bAsToIsE, the point is to draw the wood and hammer, not copy them from somewhere.

draw? does it HAVE to be drawn? or is it FROWNED UPON to do otherwise?

Yes, 75% freehand is, if I recall, in the rules. And freehand means you have to draw.

Sorry.

debode said:

Yes, 75% freehand is, if I recall, in the rules. And freehand means you have to draw.

Sorry.

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Can i use real life photos? does that count? by the way thank you for the input, it only helps me!

Freehand manes you have to draw. Real life photos is as bad as copy\pasting, as far as I know. I recommend you to look at the 2D art tutorial section - those tutorials are very often recommended:

http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/2d-art-tutorials-281/anti-noobism-texturing-92402/
http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/2d-art-tutorials-281/mr-goblins-tutorial-110127/

thanks! ill take a look.

thats a hammer? i thought it was a street sign @_@
and ya needs freehand. its simple shapes should be hard to draw. especially the hammer since its so far away.