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BTNPhantomBlade

Made icon of Phantom Blade model created by kangyun

I really liked this model and thought I'd play around making icon for it. I'm learning a lot from these and it's been fun making them. I should be asleep right now but it took some struggle to finish this model and I don't like to stop until I'm finished.

Process image:
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BTNPhantomBlade (Icon)

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Look perfect to me... is better the 1 i make... u re very talented... are u an artist in real life?

Thanks! I don't do traditional artwork, mostly all I do is pixel art. I posted some digital sketches here before, you can find them here: Some sketches..
I'm only good at using Paint so I mostly stick with pixeling.. I sketch stuff digitally only when I feel like I need to.
 
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Im just wandering how did you add those blue auras from the edges of the icon,did you make it manually or some tools from hive that you use for it?

I already answered this on another icon so I'll just copy paste :p

A friend of mine made the layer for me, since I'm totally photoshop(insert all the other more advanced programs here) dumb.. I was having difficulty creating the border and she made it in like 2mins haha
Here's the layer if you wanna use it:
uynMbrx.png

One issue about it is that it applies the blue to the inner outline of the grey border of the icon, so I have to touch it up afterwards a bit (if you apply it to 64x64 icon).. I also add the 2 inner shades around the edge by changing darkness of the picture by -50 then taking 1 row of shadow and then reducing the already darkened picture by -50 more to get the first row of shadow.
Like so:
R1jwVZN.png
 
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I already answered this on another icon so I'll just copy paste :p

A friend of mine made the layer for me, since I'm totally photoshop(insert all the other more advanced programs here) dumb.. I was having difficulty creating the border and she made it in like 2mins haha
Here's the layer if you wanna use it:
uynMbrx.png

One issue about it is that it applies the blue to the inner outline of the grey border of the icon, so I have to touch it up afterwards a bit (if you apply it to 64x64 icon).. I also add the 2 inner shades around the edge by changing darkness of the picture by -50 then taking 1 row of shadow and then reducing the already darkened picture by -50 more to get the first row of shadow.
Like so:
R1jwVZN.png
well thanks :)
 
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