Crystaline Icons.

[Kwah]

Using M C!'s tutorials, and GIMP. I've ran up a few crystaline rocks, and stone. I can make each of these icons quite quickly, and am looking for some feedback. Also, opinions on whether it would be worth submitting a complete pack. Presently, un-borderized.

Looking for a mod to re-name thread -- "hawk's Gallerheah", or something similar. Whatever you think is fitting.

 

[Elfsilver Lord]

They have little or no contrast betwen the glow and the acutal gem. Also, gems are faceted, which means really dark shadows and really strong highlights.

 

[Kwah]

All valid, points which I'll try to fix up for my next batch. In the mean time, I made up a few more. I added in a few, of my other icons.

 

[Elfsilver Lord]

Waaay too blury. Lemme come up with a proper way to do this.

Light refracts off angles, making the faucets look brilliant. When light refracts, it breaks up into the spectrum; Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet, like this:

Now, for a colored surface, light refracts in shades (darker) and tints (lighter) with the same pattern as a white surface. The darker surfaces are created where the light refracts above it, so the light cannot reach it, like a faucet right on top of a lower faucet near the bottom of the gem.

Also, the other side of the crystal is skewed by the angle of the refraction, which is the reflux angle of the faucet, like visable here.

 

[Hawkwing]

There is no cow level. Ignore this message.

 

[Kwah]

Meh, I do understand facets, and whatnot. I just found that with this bunch, they looked better more blurred. Thanks still.

 

[Ezikielth]

Although this may sound as deep as the guy from karate kid...

Do not learn to use smudge until you have learned to not use smudge.

--That being said, OMG ezikielths back... nope not really

 

[Kwah]

Well, I've all ready got lots of comments about smudge from other people in other locations, but thanks. It supports my opinion.

OMG YOUR BACK!!! -- not really.

 

[~Void~]

A sharpen filter or two should do the trick.

 

[Kwah]

Axe

Agreed. The exception is for a few of the crystals, which are too blurred to be cured.

Anyway, here is another early version. This is my first attempt that took any real realism/drawing so it is rather different. The back ground is super bland, and I am considering adding some kind of glow/effect. Comments and suggestions are encouraged.

 

[PurgeandFire]

I think you should show mostly the blade and make it like high-resish. Try to make it more cartoony because that makes it look blizzlike at times. =P

 

[Kwah]

Hmm, It does look rather out of place. I'll probably add some glow, and a better back ground today.

 

[Kuhneghetz]

Just a hint, you could try drawing in a higher resolution, then shrink it to 64x64 and add a sharpen filter. This will make sure that your icons will not get so blurry, and it sometimes gives it a more blizzard-cartoonish feeling in it.

And I would NOT overuse the smudge tool if I were you, because the glow effects you made looks more like melted plastic, which looks very nasty.

 

[Kwah]

Thanks for the advice, and I'll take that into advisement.

~Started making icons @ 512*512 I'll post more later today.

 

[3rgytr54]

remember Roy G. Biv when making crystals and stuff,

Red
orange
yellow

green
.

Blue
indigo
violet

IN THAT ORDER!! otherwise it would be incorrect. (you could add gamma waves to radio waves if you want to0....)