Blizzard feel?

[Devine]

Hi guys.
As you all know, I make icons and i'm not bad (imo).
But what I find the hardest thing to do is giving the icon the "blizzard feel".
Making your icon warcraftish and such. So i've started on an icon and i'd like your oppinion and how you'd make it more warcraftish .
thanks
PS: this is a WIP.

 

[mato2]

phat lines and a cartoonish glow around the main portion of the icon help

 

[Bloody_Turds]

cartoonify tool XD, that, raise contrast. and maybe lines like he said, to much background in ur pic

 

[D a w n]

strong and light colors. Your icon is too dark for the blizzard feeling right now.
You have to give the whole thing a cartoon look.
And if I´m correct then you should also try to avoid small details like this light lines in your icon but concentrate more on adding bigger details. You should also avoid to be monotonous at using colors because your icons is just golden right now

this 3 icons by blizzard show what I mean:
BTNINV_Axe_09 - The Hive Workshop - A Warcraft III Modding Site
BTNAbility_Warrior_SavageBlow - The Hive Workshop - A Warcraft III Modding Site
BTNAbility_Warrior_ShieldWall - The Hive Workshop - A Warcraft III Modding Site

 

[~Void~]

Needs a more dramatic shape, less flatness, and a glow. Also needs more dramatic shading. Do that and it will look like CR's style, not really like Blizzard, though.

 

[ike_ike]

Colour variation. If you look at Blizzard icon's, you'll see that they don't just use one hue and shift shades, they change the hue as well, with warm highlights and blue-ish shadows et cetera. Also, avoid leaving black spaces everywhere, like in this icon. I do it all the time as well, but it's BAD. D:

 

[Kimbo]

Just take a look at Samwises style, since he is the art director (apparently) over warcraft games like 3+, his style has been implemented as the main style for the game pretty much.

go here:
Sons of the Storm
and follow the links to his Gallery.
Observe his work, both sketches, pre drawings and final drawings. Look at his older ones since they have the wc3 style while his newer ones have his Wow (blendy whooshy) style.

 

[Devine]

strong and light colors. Your icon is too dark for the blizzard feeling right now.
You have to give the whole thing a cartoon look.
And if I´m correct then you should also try to avoid small details like this light lines in your icon but concentrate more on adding bigger details. You should also avoid to be monotonous at using colors because your icons is just golden right now

this 3 icons by blizzard show what I mean:
BTNINV_Axe_09 - The Hive Workshop - A Warcraft III Modding Site
BTNAbility_Warrior_SavageBlow - The Hive Workshop - A Warcraft III Modding Site
BTNAbility_Warrior_ShieldWall - The Hive Workshop - A Warcraft III Modding Site

Just take a look at Samwises style, since he is the art director (apparently) over warcraft games like 3+, his style has been implemented as the main style for the game pretty much.

go here:
Sons of the Storm
and follow the links to his Gallery.
Observe his work, both sketches, pre drawings and final drawings. Look at his older ones since they have the wc3 style while his newer ones have his Wow (blendy whooshy) style.

Thanks, these were very helpfull.
+rep

 

[Ulfus]

is that a padded leather robe decorated with wax or something?
its too flat indeed

 

[Devine]

Made new avatar trting to recreate the blizzard style.
Please comment.

 

[viiva]

Blizzard uses way more smooth lines and not much smudging. In stead just create a second layer with a darker colour to create depth. And strong black lines are also very prominent

 

[Devine]

I didn't use smudge D:

 

[LiOneSS]

highlights plx.

 

[Devine]

Yeah ... I figured already that
update (avatar is the same)

 

[Elenai]

the eye looks flat...and sorta floating over the face.

 

[D a w n]

updated version looks much better

 

[Devine]

update
more shadins on the eye and more details.

 

[Elenai]

Much better...now for eyebrows.

 

[Devine]

Me tried but it sucked.
How should I create brows?

 

[Pyritie]

Eye Drawing tutorial - How to draw Realistic Eyes

google is your friend

 

[Kimbo]

i have no idea what that giant blob/fold of skin is above the eye. Seriously, use references or you will get no where.

 

[Devine]

py, seen that one but guess what, mine is colored

 

[Pyritie]

py, seen that one but guess what, mine is colored

anatomy is still the same

 

[Devine]

Blizz anatomy is very unrealistic Imo >.>

 

[Bloody_Turds]

if he means the eyelid hees right its wierd, but the 2 fold above the eyelid looks great, i dont really see much of an eyebrow need, old guys dont have bushy brows

 

[Kimbo]

Blizz anatomy is very unrealistic Imo >.>

No, its emphasized, not abnormal.

 

[Devine]

No, its emphasized, not abnormal.

Everyone from the first second they saw this could tell this is a face.
So don't call stuff I make abnormal because quite frankly, it doesn't help me.

 

[viiva]

Hmm I think he said it about Blizzard's art, not yours. But maybe it's because there is no expression in his face? I mean, icons in general are very expressive. What exactly is the icon for?

 

[Devine]

It's no icon ...
I mean I can turn it into one but ... more like my avatar

 

[LiOneSS]

add shiny little highlights now plx.

 

[Pyritie]

We could tell it's part of a face, yes, but that doesn't mean it's anatomically correct.

 

[Kimbo]

Everyone from the first second they saw this could tell this is a face.
So don't call stuff I make abnormal because quite frankly, it doesn't help me.

I can call it abnormal because thats a flaming flaw you should fix by doing what i said before, look at references.

 

[Bloody_Turds]

also the eye needs some dimension, and maybe a bit of blur/shine since eyes are liquidy they tend to glimmer

 

[THE_END]

Yea you do need more highlights on the eye, and the skin around it, and it would be da SEX!

 

[Devine]

Kay .. so ... now I made this voodoo mask icon =/
Gimme sum comments on the warcrafty look.

this is no necropost =D

[16-20-43]

Elenai: it is technically a gallery

[16-20-47]

Elenai: so you can revive

edited: added the glowy ones

 

[Kimbo]

What are they made out of? Paper?
They have no depth. Look at a square or rectangle object, a plane yes. And rotate it on a slight angle, you will see it extrudes and has a side surface visible.

 

[xtremeflat]

I suggest doing it in vectors and give it a sort of simple look, also a thing black line around most of the object would help.