shiiin doodle

[patterns, textures, brushes] copic, grunge, texture misc lot

iroka — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 07:12:12 GMT

This time I've provided the abr or pattern inside the zip along with the imagepack. So one download should do the trick. Made with PS7.

RANDOM DOTTY GRUNGE

download

COPIC SPLAT

they're layer-able and slightly see through. made with a cheap napkin + bleeding Copics
download

XEROXED BUTTERFLIES

5 small and 5 large darklined butterfly brushes
download

BASIC BROWNS AND PINKS TEXTURES

yummy basic textures, great for layering with other textures
download

PARIS TEXTURES

a bold, graphic set using Paris architecture mixed in
download [zip fixed~ TY for the heads up!]

MANGA PATTERNS

Simple manga patterns, great to add to manga icons/backgrounds/headers full view in download
download

PIXEL PATTERNS 2

Pixel patterns used for everything... backgrounds for live journal layouts or webpages, layer as a texture for icons, i use one as my laptop background since 'professional' people see my compie
download

misc examples:
Pixel Background of iroka

Credit is ♥, but comments are even better ^^

_{view other brush sets: here
view other pattern sets: here
view other texture sets: here

usage policy:
Don't steal as your own. Credit is unnessary, but welcome ^^ iroka
Please do not hotlink or distro anywhere else without permission ^^
Feel free to friend this journal for icons, brushes and tutorials.}

iroka — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 06:13:57 GMT

Damn that 100 icon availability now. I purchased and started making icons like mad.
Comment + Credit if you take and I adore comments ^_^♥

_{in the mix
Bleach - 11
Rafael Nadal - 10
Other Tennis Players - 5
Prince of Tennis - 9
Sexy Male Models - 3
Misc Randomness - 4
Dogs (the manga) - 7
Loveless - 6
Boys Love icons (mostly Masara Minase) - 7}

samples:

Rafael Nadal

01	02	03	04	05

06	07	08	09	10

Other Tennis Players

11	12	13	14	15

Prince of Tennis

16	17	18	19	20

21	22	23	24

Bleach

25	26	27	28	29

30	31	32	33	34

Dogs

36	37	38	39	40

41	42

Male Models

43	44	45

Boys Love Icons

46	47	48	49	50

51	52

Misc Randomness

53	54	55	56

Loveless

57	58	59	60	50

_{If two icons really look the same, I promise they're not. I gave the option of borders ^_^v
Bleach - 27 base found on y!japan it's a doujinshi
Prince of Tennis - All non anime works done by Sakura Sakuya and her Jet Monster circle
Male Models - scans provided by starsfell
other icon credits can be found here ^^}

[textures, text brushes, brushes, japanese] tribal, japanese, brushes, text

iroka — Sun, 28 Aug 2005 19:42:25 GMT

6 things to download this time (woot~!)

henna small boxes

Small yummy boxes to fit your iconing needs.
_{made with henna bits + photoshop}

abr: here
img pack: here

tribal texture set

A more graphic and less artsy set.
_{painter, photoshop, tribal clipart}

abr: here
img pack: here

handdrawn swirls

Most are meant to fit to lj icon size requirements, but I left some bigger to play around with webpages etc...
_{made with copic multiliner + ink}

abr: here
img pack: here

texture doodles

Little doodle bits that are great to play with and overlay the screentoned doodles with the regular doodles.
_{made with painter and screentones}

abr: plain doodles here | textured doodles here
img pack: plain doodles here | textured doodles here

japanese misc text

Made in giant size (for webpages, backgrounds etc...) and smaller size (for icons). This big ole image is in the imagepack as a reminder of what means what. Half of my major is in Japanese, so I promise it's accurate.
_{made with various manga i scanned}

abr: bigger text here | smaller text here
img pack: both small and big here

if you like the set and want sometime requested, please comment about it~! ^_^

japanese calligraphy

7 kanji in large and smaller icon-making size (so 14 brushes or imgs in total).
_{nicked from a teach yourself kanji site}

abr: here
img pack: here

examples done with many of the items:

_{1) Yuya Yagira from Dare mo Shiranai
2) Beat Takeshi from Ichi the Killer ♥ ♥

Credit is ♥, but comments are even better ^^

_{view other brush sets: here

view other texture sets: here

usage policy:
Don't steal as your own. Credit is unnessary, but welcome ^^ iroka
Please do not hotlink or distro anywhere else without permission ^^
Feel free to friend this journal for icons, brushes and tutorials.}}

[brushes, textures] small boxes, floral 100, big texture set

iroka — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 00:35:09 GMT

floral boxes:
abr: here
img pack: here

small boxes:
abr: here
img pack: here

_{Meant for lj headers, friends only banners, small backgrounds etc...
friends only banner example: here}

img pack: here

Credit is ♥, but comments are even better ^^

_{view other brush sets: here

view other texture sets: here

usage policy:
Don't steal as your own. Credit is unnessary, but welcome ^^ iroka
Please do not hotlink or distro anywhere else without permission ^^
Feel free to friend this journal for icons, brushes and tutorials.}

[textures, brushes] amphibian textures and artist brushes

iroka — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 19:11:41 GMT

brush set: here
image pack: here

_{about this set: photoshop, painter, pictures of frogs}

brush set: here
image pack: here

Comments are greatly appreciated and highly loved ♥

_{about this set: This brush set is meant to go in combination with the default brushes of Photoshop (the bottom box is how they look...easy to draw with!). They're meant to be drawn with or used in making other brushes (for example: left amphibian texture in the preview uses 3 of the brushes). All hand drawn.

Previous texture sets:
surreal | woodblock | nebulous | goldfishes

usage policy:
Don't steal as your own. Credit is unnessary, but welcome ^^ iroka
Please do not hotlink or distro anywhere else without permission ^^
Feel free to friend this journal for icons, brushes and tutorials.}

[textures] big ole ones

iroka — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 04:05:31 GMT

dl imagepack: here

This is my first time making a bigger set and my goal was more to create something that could be cut for a header of an lj or webpage rather than used as a background base, but I made one anyways ^^; I guess my next goal in textures will be larger ones that are background base specific. ^^;

example of a background done with said texture here
_{warning I consider backgrounds my very very weak point}

made in: 100% painter
done primarily for texturize, pimps~!

[textures, brushes] surreal set

iroka — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 20:56:37 GMT

download:
abr - here
image pack - here

Previous texture set:
woodblock | nebulous | goldfishes

Comments are appreciated, loved and adored ♥
Poll on what to do is still running So please vote!

_{set is: made from photoshop, painter and various pictures of wool.
next up: pixel, black and white textures, artist brushes

usage policy:
Don't steal as your own. Credit is unnessary, but welcome ^^ iroka
Please do not hotlink or distro anywhere else without permission ^^
Feel free to friend this journal for icons, brushes and tutorials.}

[icons] bleach, tenipuri, loveless, etc...

iroka — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 01:37:48 GMT

_{in the mix

D. Grayman [3]
Yakitate [3]
Bleach [10]
Loveless [15]
Prince of Tennis Rikkai d1 [6]
Gantz [1]

movies:
Memoirs of a Geisha movie [2]

boys love:
Masara Minase works [4]
misc boys love works [4]

misc:
crack [2]}

Bleach

1. 2. 3. 4.
5. 6. 7. 8.
9. 10.

D. Grayman

1. 2. 3.

Gantz

1.

Loveles

1. 2. 3. 4.
5. 6. 7. 8.
9. 10. 11. 12. 13.

Prince of Tennis

1. 2. 3. 4.
5. 6.

Yakitate Japan!

1. 2. 3.

Memoirs of a Geisha movie

1. 2.

_{both say Geisha in kanji}

Masara Minase works

1. 2. 3. 4.

Misc boys love

1. 2. 3.

Misc Crack

1. 2.

_{credits:
misc boys love info:
2. Koi Cha no Osahou by Sakuragi Yaya (read it)
1. In God's Arms by Yamada D. Yonezou

The Rukia icon is from a doujinshi from the Black Rain circle.

DGrayman
1. from the doujinshi "Hyousube"
2. from the doujinshi "Tsuki no Kimi"

Prince of Tennis icons:
All from Sakura Sakuya (circle: Jet Monster) from her Winter Comiket postcard calendar.

comments are ♥ so is credit ^^ iroka}

edit: updated the loveless section

[textures / brushes] Woodblock Textures

iroka — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 00:28:02 GMT

download:
abr - here
image pack - here

Previous texture set:
nebulous | goldfishes

Thanks for the comments, they always make me work faster and harder ^^

Also, if you enjoyed or even if you didn't ^^;; please take the poll here and help me answer what I should work on next.

_{made from photoshop, painter, personal pictures and ones of japanese woodblock paintings

usage policy:
Don't steal as your own. Credit is unnessary, but welcome ^^ iroka
Please do not hotlink or distro anywhere else without permission ^^
Feel free to friend this journal for icons, brushes and tutorials.}

[ghetto poll] - What would you like to see?

iroka — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 00:22:10 GMT

In brushes:
1 - borders
2 - manga pieces
3 - texture work
4 - texture borders
5 - pixel work

In tutorials:
1 - How to make your own textures.
2 - How to make a manga icon and make it look clean.
3 - Simple pixel art tutorial
4 - How to make your own textures
...or an how to make a certain icon tutorial.

Please vote (comment on) the top thing you would like to see in both categories. I'd love to make what makes you guys happy!

[textures] nebulous

iroka — Sat, 18 Jun 2005 19:41:33 GMT

download:
abr - here
image pack - here

Previous texture set:
goldfishes

Comments are always great ^^

_{usage policy:
Don't steal as your own. Credit is unnessary, but welcome ^^ iroka.
Please do not hotlink or distro anywhere else without permission ^^
Feel free to friend this journal for icons, brushes and tutorials.}

[brushes, patterns] pixel borders and patterns 01

iroka — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 20:40:00 GMT

img pack: here
brushset: here

img pack patterns: here
pattern set: here

comments always help ^_^

_{I've sucked myself into pixel work, so it might dominate the posting for a bit.
Up to come in pixels: animals and animal borders for lj, webdings, more patterns.
Requests in pixels or anything is welcome ^_^

usage policy
Don't steal as your own. Credit is unnessary, but welcome ^^ iroka.
Please do not hotlink or distro anywhere else without permission ^^
Feel free to friend this journal for icons, brushes and tutorials.}

[brushes, baseset, and patterns] goldfish themed

iroka — Fri, 03 Jun 2005 03:11:15 GMT

Download:
imageback (pieces on top) here
brushes (pieces on the bottom) here

Download:
Pattern set here

_{I encourage you to visit my quick tutorial and uses of patterns. Since well if no one reads it, why do one ^^; Please feel free to ask questions so I may make the tutorial better.}

Two 10 minute a piece icons done using the imgback/base set

_{bases used on lettering, block behind letting and general overlay}

_{bases used on hair, 2 overlayed on background}

_{source
stock photos of goldfish and koi as well as my own

usage policy
Don't steal as your own. Credit is unnessary, but welcome ^^.
Please do not hotlink or distro anywhere else without permission ^^
Feel free to friend this journal for icons, brushes and tutorials.}

[tutorial] Quick tips on using patterns

iroka — Fri, 03 Jun 2005 02:05:31 GMT

Why I love patterns. I think patterns aren't employed enough in design. They're expandable, suited great for text and other effects, and are really quick to use.

QUICK WAYS TO USE PATTERNS

A good way to illustrate the many ways you can use them is through a recent redesign of my website.

Way 1:

Patterns were used as a repeating background. Many of the patterns have a default white backgrounded, but don't let that stop you. In a peaceful design such as this they can be OVERLAYED over a strong color.

Fill a new layer with a desired color then,
Layer -> Layer Style -> Pattern Overlay -> Opacity

Way 2:

The same thing can be done with a free standing item. Such as this origami kimono. Which has a screen tone brush over a light flower pattern (the grey flowers)

Do the same thing as Way 1 except at the beginning choose the MAGIC WAND, FILL in a NEW LAYER then erase around the items you don't want overlayed (such a the green piece inside the kimono.

Way 3:

Patterns can be used if you'd like to put a border around and item.
Choose your LAYER or TEXT then

Layer -> Layer Style -> Stroke -> Drop down box Fill type: choose PATTERN -> pick pattern -> OK -> Stroke size -> Okay

Way 4:

Patterns are a great way to make text interesting. You can overlay or stroke the item. Either follow example 1 (for overlay) or 3 (for stroking) to do exactly how the example shown.

HELPFUL TIPS

♥ Do not use Photoshop's default patterns. Why? Anyone who owns a copy of Photoshop knows what they look like so they automatically can make your design seem unoriginal. (See links how to get more patterns)

♥ Employ patterns for text. They're one of the easiest ways to make text look interesting (example 2). Expierement with only using one letter or a line below items (example 3). Example 2 was from a manga screentone set. Screentone sets outside of comics can work really well for many designs, so download them ^^.

example 2
example 3

_{excuse the quick and ugly of example 3, but hopefully it helps illustrate a few things}

♥ Expierement with using patterns in LJ icons such as hair overlay (example 5) or backgrounds (example 4).

example 4:
example 5:

GREAT LINKS WHERE TO FIND PATTERNS

Screentones
Screentone Depot

[icons] Bleach and Loveless

iroka — Mon, 30 May 2005 07:01:31 GMT

_{originally posted on ishoku}

Loveless

1. 2. 3.
4. 5. 6.
7. 8. 9.
10.

Bleach

1. 2. 3.
4. 5. 6.
7. 8. 9.

credit if use or bite :D

_{bits o credit
Loveless and Bleach screencaps from various sources.
Bleach 1-3 from various djs
(Doujinshi credit 1 is from "Nagaki ni Tsubureru" circle E-Thunder by djska Hourou Nine, 3 came as a postcard with 2 in the dj "Tsuki no..." scan blocked out. I am thinking it is Fallen Moon, by Jekyll from the djska Akira Honjou. Will update this bit when I see more info about the Tsuki no dj ^^ )
Bleach 7-9 manga images from manga-rain scans, colored by me.}

[credit]

iroka — Mon, 30 May 2005 06:51:42 GMT

credits for icons

Many of the brushes used are found in this community 100x100_brushes. Any screentones used are of my making usually from various manga.
I'll be trying to compile a list of users who's brushes I've employed.

brushes from:
meleada
_joni
dearest
quebelly
colourofclouds

dafont.com is a nice place to browse for fonts

pictures from doujinshi

Most doujinshi pictures are found from y! japan auctions. I'll try to provide the djska's name, circle and romanized title of the doujinshi within each post.

quick link to doujinshi section of y! japan
buying guide for doujinshi

[brushes and patterns] Star bits

iroka — Sat, 28 May 2005 19:15:13 GMT

download: pattern set

download: brush set

_{Meant for use everywhere. The only limiting one is the bordered one.}

_{source
various manga scanned by me and sans

usage policy
Don't steal as your own. Credit is unnessary, but welcome ^^.
Please do not hotlink or distro anywhere else without permission ^^
Feel free to friend this journal for icons, brushes and tutorials.}