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BTNSKLeoric

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Icon made for Icon Contest #13 - Icons for Director's Cut Models.

Corresponding icon for HappyTauren's Diablo III: King Leoric.

Unit icon.

Keywords:
Undead, Leoric, Happy Tauren, Wraith, King, Skeleton
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BTNSKLeoric (Icon)

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09:33, 25th Sep 2015 Sin'dorei300: Fits the model well.
I don't usually use filters in my icons(only 10%, mostly for background but it's not the case here).
I just sharpened it in Photoshop after re-sizing it to 64x64 to retain some clarity.

As for the blp conversion, well I use ButtonManager as every icon maker does around I suppose.

I only use BlpLab to convert my skins from tga to blp.

You should never sharpen icons, use a harder brush if needed. Drawing in soft brush and then sharpening gives these bad results of noise. Furthermore Button Manager has quality settings, you can edit them to best suit your icon.

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You see those red, green and blue discoloration points all over the icon? Some parts are also more blurry than others.


More about compression artifacts.
 
I use hard brushes to draw and use soft ones for effects, glow, some minor highlights, background color and so on.

I appreciate your concern regarding the compression but I don't think it's such a grave matter here. It's just a bit pixelated anyway.

Well if you don't care about quality of this icon then there's not much I can do. It's not a grave matter but it could be better, I see you are not a perfectionist.
 
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