Why is iconning so much harder than vidding?

[frayadjacent]

Maybe I have no internal sense of composition. I know I rarely brighten my icons enough. Also, with vidding I'm much more excited to learn the technical skills needed to do a decent job. When I icon I just want to hurry up and have something good without having to look at photoshop tutorials or whatnot.

Anyway, I've forever wanted an Anya "I'm so pleased" icon because that phrase, with her voice saying it, is always in my head. So I made a couple today and they are meh. It's hard to see her face -- 100x100 is so tiny! But if I cropped more you wouldn't see the money and her funny hand gestures.

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I'm not fishing for complements! If anything, I'm fishing for patient explanations as to what I'm doing wrong. Maybe it's my cap choice.

(BTW, that first one uses a texture that someone else made -- goodbyebird, was that you? I'm sorry I didn't take note to properly give credit! Not that I'm doing much with these.)

ETA: I worked a bit more on the second one -- brightening it up around her face, fiddling with the background, tilting the text, and I do like this better. Huh.

Comments

[goodbyebird]

Yay! :D

And if you ever want a cheat sheet of pointers and now have to read through lengthy tutorials, there's always the top posts on smallbatchicons' tips & tricks tag.

SO PLEASED!!

[frayadjacent]

Yeah, I really need to remember this next time I feel like I can't icon and go whining to DW about it. :D Thank you!