Guide: A few suggestions on using patterns in iconmaking.
This is not a beginner's guide. You'll need to know about gradients, gradient maps, and the brightness/contrast tool in Photoshop [I use CS2] to understand it. Because of the gradient maps, it's not easily translatable to other programs.
Find out how to make this:
or this:
... here at my graphics journal.
Find out how to make this:
or this:
... here at my graphics journal.