Phoenix Trial #5 - Hero Ability Icon Replacements

[reza sword2]

Sadly enough Unholy Frenzy isn't a hero ability.

I'll try to colour it to look like Tornado lol.

 

[The_Silent]

Everyone's icons is sooo good. Damn mines suck. What could this be?

Charm...

 

[Revolve]

Hey
I am not 100% if I am going to enter the competition or not, seeing how great things you guys do :S
Anyway, this is what I got so far;

It's the Hex spell from the Shadow Hunter, my second Icon ever done ^^
Attached the original one and the one with bordes, BTN and DISBTN.

 

[Devine]

how's this?

your post did'nt come with an icon =/

 

[terradont]

Okay, i decided to try to learn icon-making, and i'm seeing this contest as good training.

It's my second icon, so please tell me what to fix.

For those of you that cannot guess what it is, it's Shadow Strike

EDIT: Shadow strike moved forward in thread

 

[Devine]

4th version. 3rd wip.

changed hair, added arrow, added contrast.

 

[Palaslayer]

what is it supposed to be?

you should practice more at painting people. or if you can, first try on paper and then scan it.

 

[Revolve]

Dodge =D

Anyway, anyone critsism my icon? =D

 

[Devine]

Dodge =D

Anyway, anyone critsism my icon? =D

it's pretty goood for a second icon ...
only the highlights on the arm are too strong and the cloud is very undefined.

@palaslayer, you talking bout my icon?

 

[Palaslayer]

indeed.

 

[Devine]

kay ... it's evasion ... demonhunter dodging an arrow.

 

[HyperActive]

DevineArmy, it looks much better. Still, there is a lot of unused space. You should try and fill it up with something (swords, axes, more arrows, some glow maybe).

 

[Devine]

DevineArmy, it looks much better. Still, there is a lot of unused space. You should try and fill it up with something (swords, axes, more arrows, some glow maybe).

I'll add some blurry dodgelines in the end ... that'll fill some stuff up.

 

[Avator]

Agreed. You should fill up the black background. And try making the DH look like he's actually dodging the arrow instead of the arrow simply miss him because of the archer.

I don't know how I could best explain this, but you could try some stripes from the place he was (where the arrow is now) to where he stands now. It should give the idea that he's actually in motion.
You could also make 2 or 3 images of him between where he was (again where the arrow is now) and where he is now. These images should be transparent to indicate the latest position of the DH is the one on the left with full opacity as it is now.
A last possibility would be to draw motion into clothes, like a waving scarf or cloth he's wearing.

 

[Caeyra]

Everyone's icons is sooo good. Damn mines suck. What could this be?

I agree with The_Silent, that could make a good charm.

Hey
I am not 100% if I am going to enter the competition or not, seeing how great things you guys do :S
Anyway, this is what I got so far;

It's the Hex spell from the Shadow Hunter, my second Icon ever done ^^
Attached the original one and the one with bordes, BTN and DISBTN.

I like the colours, and the cartoony style is kinda reminiscent of blizzard's. I would say the it is kind of hard to make out what is going on though, and the hand could use a little work.

Okay, i decided to try to learn icon-making, and i'm seeing this contest as good training.

It's my second icon, so please tell me what to fix.

For those of you that cannot guess what it is, it's Shadow Strike

I'm really sorry, but I'm having a hard time working out what it's supposed to be. =/ Oh, is it supposed to be an evil shadow guy? Don't mind me, I'm just slow. >_< If that is what it's supposed to be and I'm not making a huge idiot out of myself, I think maybe the glow needs to be a bit more consistent, and the features of the face especially the mouth made more pointy.

4th version. 3rd wip.

changed hair, added arrow, added contrast.

Lots of improvements from earlier versions. Maybe now you've taken the sword out of the icon, you should move the guy so he's more central, it's looking a little unbalanced now. Also, you need to remember that the arrow would cast a shadow onto his skin. Maybe you could think about adding a glow? Lots of blizzard icons are glow-y. xD Or kind of a trail-y glow, which shows he's moving.

 

[Squidle]

Okay... I'll jump in the Icon World too...

First one I'm making is: Chain Lightning

 

[Dentothor]

opps my bad it didnt come up

 

[Devine]

Lots of improvements from earlier versions. Maybe now you've taken the sword out of the icon, you should move the guy so he's more central, it's looking a little unbalanced now. Also, you need to remember that the arrow would cast a shadow onto his skin. Maybe you could think about adding a glow? Lots of blizzard icons are glow-y. xD Or kind of a trail-y glow, which shows he's moving.

There's a shadow ... perhaps not a very clear one ... I'll make it stronger.

opps my bad it didnt come up

What you're doing wrong is making a very crowded background ...
I usually only paint glow's/ movement lines in there.

 

[terradont]

@Caeyra.

It's the Shadow Strike buff.

I'll see if i can make the mouth more pointy.

 

[Caeyra]

Is shadow strike a warden spell, or am I thinking of something else? >_<

And I meant more what is it trying to show, than what ability, if you know what I mean.

 

[Revolve]

Yeah its the Warden spell =D

Anyway, here's a little update. Think i'll be joinig the contest afterall, remaking the Shadow Hunter spell icons.

 

[Caeyra]

Good luck.

 

[terradont]

Is shadow strike a warden spell, or am I thinking of something else? >_<

And I meant more what is it trying to show, than what ability, if you know what I mean.

As i said, it is the shadow thingie that appears above the target.

 

[D a w n]

Yeah its the Warden spell =D

Anyway, here's a little update. Think i'll be joinig the contest afterall, remaking the Shadow Hunter spell icons.

you should make the smoke smaller and the frog bigger because right now it looks like a green blob inside of grey smoke

opps my bad it didnt come up

I see 1 problem with your spell: you have too much background.
It would be muchh better without that red ground and just having the infernal and the 2 other still falling ones in the background

 

[Devine]

added contrast on the hair, made a movement effect.

 

[Dentothor]

Hows this?

 

[Kwah]

Background is better, the meteors look awful.

 

[Dentothor]

how...? dont gove pointless critisism if you arent going to tell me how it looks awful

 

[D a w n]

added contrast on the hair, made a movement effect.

I think the arrow´s movement effect should have another color, because it would look even better then

how...? dont gove pointless critisism if you arent going to tell me how it looks awful

looks more like a lazer beam right now

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oh and here is another wip from me. I have finished the lower lip and made the teeth, which result does not really satisfy me :/

 

[Squidle]

Hows this?

Nice
But could you insert a bigger picture, maybe then I or someone else can give you some tips.

I've made my first icon: Chain Lightning
Could someone give me tips ?

 

[oh_snap]

I don't see how it relates to chain lightning.

~Snap

 

[Devine]

Nice
But could you insert a bigger picture, maybe then I or someone else can give you some tips.

I've made my first icon: Chain Lightning
Could someone give me tips ?

that's very accurate ... looks just like the model.
although I also agree with oh_snap.
showing his fingers shooting a lightning bolt would do the the trick.

 

[SuperCow]

can anyone tell me about a good tutorial to learn how to draw icons like this beautiful ones. I've tried to draw but it only looks pretty ugly. I use Gimp. Would be great if anyone could link a tutorial cause i rly wanna learn it

 

[Devine]

can anyone tell me about a good tutorial to learn how to draw icons like this beautiful ones. I've tried to draw but it only looks pretty ugly. I use Gimp. Would be great if anyone could link a tutorial cause i rly wanna learn it

google some gimp tutorials.
recoloured the arrow with the hue and saturation tool.
changed the arrow movement blur from black to darkbrown

 

[D a w n]

Nice
But could you insert a bigger picture, maybe then I or someone else can give you some tips.

I've made my first icon: Chain Lightning
Could someone give me tips ?

does not rly look like chain lightning but more light far sight.

 

[Dentothor]

k i fixed it up

 

[Revolve]

Been doing my best to make the frog stick out more, but all I got so far is a pair of hands comming out of the clouds.

Anyway, I started on the second ability, which is Healing Wave (Chain Heal). It has more shading and effects than you can see, will improve later.

PS. Damn, the layers are complicated, but wow how useful they are =D

 

[Dentothor]

Been doing my best to make the frog stick out more, but all I got so far is a pair of hands comming out of the clouds.

Anyway, I started on the second ability, which is Healing Wave (Chain Heal). It has more shading and effects than you can see, will improve later.

PS. Damn, the layers are complicated, but wow how useful they are =D

K if you dont want to use the photoshop layers, use the button manager... so much more easyer. and they look a bit too simple. the glow on the healing wave is a bit too sudden around the units. try to fix that up. the hex isnt too bad but im not really sure what im looking at untill you give me the name.

 

[Avator]

Sorry to say Revolve, but that Healing Wave icon is only black and yellow. I suggest you bring more color in it by doing something with the units healed. Make them look like actual people instead of just their outlines.

 

[Revolve]

@Dentothor; I just meant that layers are complicated to use, but it helps very much on the icon =D And I am using Button Manager already I will do my best to make the glow better.

@Avator; I knowit does looks plain yellow, I did my best to mix in red and white + shading. Hmm yeah I trust you on that point also, will create actual units, and not just silouettes. =D

 

[Paladon]

I'm back, starting with my criticsm.

@Revolve
I like the concept of the Chain Healing, but you could try to give the beam of light not a straight, lined appearance but the original, flexuous, appearance.
Additionally, you can add some particles of light which are released upon "impact" with a target.

About the other icon, the fingers should be longer, the "fog" could need some transparency to accent the "frog". It's still hard to define.

 

[Dentothor]

Should i have it on its side? one rather than the other?

 

[Paladon]

It's rather hard to define. The side doesn't actually matter, but you should work on your shadings and details.
The Inferno on th earth is a nice idea, but you should use a larger spectrum of colours, and work on the problems mentioned in the sentence above.

 

[Avator]

Please don't feel offended by this, but I think I know what the key part is that has to be fixed about your icon, Dentothor.

Your Inferno

This is your inferno, made green, and pasted on the foreground of a meteor shower image.

 

[Dentothor]

yeah i feel offended by that. and im trying to pull out the infernal from the blast and make it look like a real one. i honestly dont see any good icons from you so...

anyways... heres an update. i shaded out the blast and sorta made the infernal pop out.

 

[Revolve]

Lol Avator that's just so cruel =P
But yeah Dentothor, it needs work... I think the Infernal need a lot more contrast and shading, looks really handpaintied with a computer background.

 

[Dentothor]

arrrg i can do the damn backround but not the infernal!!!

 

[graystuff111]

google some gimp tutorials.
recoloured the arrow with the hue and saturation tool.
changed the arrow movement blur from black to darkbrown

Speed lines show him running into the path of the arrow XD

 

[Avator]

@Dentothor: No mean to disrespect you, I just thought of a stickfigure, because the inferno there was also left out in a corner without detail. So I google'd a picture of a stickman and luckily, I found one that looked really a lot like your inferno ^^
So there's seriously no offense it that, just a statement with images.

That icon with the inferno in the center is a lot better.


I know I don't have any good icons, because I haven't made any icons at all! I might try to make some myself with this theme. If they're good enough, I might join this contest. However, the chance that mine will beat Mr. Goblin's Death Coil will be close to zero



PS: I can imagine the Inferno to be hard to edit, like you said. So maybe it's a good idea to make a detailed larger drawing of an inferno and paste that in your icon. It might be a lot easier then to draw on a miniature image.

 

[terradont]

I haz made another one, but i like this one alot better than the previous one. I will probably skip using Shadow Strike in the contest. x.x

These are the ones i currently have. Far Sight & Shadow Strike.