fuck 'em.

ASK THE MAKER: I won't make it, so...

12feethigh — Sun, 01 Sep 2013 21:48:38 GMT

I got quite a lot of requests at the Ask The Maker activity again this year, but I just don't really have the time to write all of those tutorials so I thought, I would make a PSD masterpost in case you are interested in that?

If there are any icons of which you'd like to have the PSD just comment with it and if I still have it, I will post it in a few days :) I hope that's fine by you..

NUMBER ONE-HUNDRED-NINE a very awesome activity

12feethigh — Fri, 16 Aug 2013 22:03:45 GMT

satinelight had the idea to start an activity in which we make icons about things we think of when we think of the other makers. So that is what we did! Sadly satinelight vanished and couldn't enter any icons, but this activity was still a lot of fun and the outcome is just amazing! I enjoyed making these a lot and I hope you did too! :)

FOUROUX

JOHN_SCORPY

NAGINIS

NOTTIEM

PHAUST_

RAIINDUST

REBEL

SATINELIGHT

THEOTHERAYN

VAMPIRE_SESSAH

WAAYWARDSON

12FEETHIGH

raiindust for phaust_ and for rebel

jsfunction for naginis

fouroux for waaywardson

naginis for fouroux, jsfunction, phaust_ and 12feethigh

Banner by waaywardson

NUMBER ONE-HUNDRED-EIGHT soa battle

12feethigh — Wed, 14 Aug 2013 13:06:39 GMT

The awesome Jana aka fouroux wanted to do a Sons of Anarchy battle and I just decided to force myself to make some icons again and join her, so here we are, busy worker bees in photoshop getting all excited for s6, which will start in September!

CAPS

One	Two	Three	Four	Five
					fouroux
					bobby

THEMES

NOPE MOMENT	TEXTURE USE	FAN SERVICE	BLACK AND WHITE	OPPOSITES
					fouroux
					bobby

12feethigh — Sat, 27 Jul 2013 07:03:15 GMT

Tutorial °14: Hemlock Grove
requested by naginis
from to

When I made this, I thought it was a lot of work, but looking back, it's not that difficult to be honest. The first few steps aren't exactly the same, but in the end it would probably not matter at all.

STEP 1
→ → →
• I always start with a gradient map set to soft light. On this cap, I used this gradient:
• Then, I added a vibrancy layer with the vibrancy set to 100 and the opacity to around 75%. That done, I added a new gradient map, again on soft light, but this time a darker one to make the dark parts darker and the light parts lighter:
• To get rid of some colours, I used selective colour, made the yellows paler, grays blacks light and the blacks deeper.

STEP 2
Now let's get to the actual icon. As you can see, I flipped the cap horizonially and made it a nice and simple centre crop.

→
• I added this texture on screen
• To add some depth, I added a colour layer in #0e0e0e, which is a very dark grey and I set it to difference
• With a soft brush I drew something like this mess on Bill

STEP 3
→
•
• And as you can see, I drew on the background in orange and yellow, both set to multiply (which isn't an information of import here because the background is white already)

STEP 4
→
• Added this texture, set to soft light, but please don't ask who made it, because I have absolutely no idea and I am convinced I did a lot of editing on this one before I used it
• And I also added a simple vibrancy layer: vibrancy 100.

STEP 5
→
•

STEP 6
→
•

STEP 7
→
• +
First: Multiply, Opacity: 75%; Second: Hard Light, Opacity: 100%
• I also vibranc-ied it up a bit (+55 & +4)

STEP 8
→
•

STEP 9
→
• The font I used is called Rex and the text says "I saw the Dragon"
• After that I only added some sharpening and some little light blobs on the left and right in yellow and red, set to hard light and multiply, but they are hardly visible.

I hope that was helpful. I am very tired and I don't want to ramble, so I tried to keep it all a bit shorter this time ;D

NUMBER ONE-HUNDRED-SEVEN

12feethigh — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 18:15:23 GMT

Yeah, I thought it was about time I posted again. These are newer and older icons, things I made for challenges, or simply cropped down from my tumblr graphics. I hope you like them :)

TV | Zach Stone is Gonna Be Famous, Supernatural, Teen Wolf, Game of Thrones, Vikings, Hemlock Grove, Orphan Black

Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous
Y'all should go and watch this show, it's awesome!
1-5
5-10
11-12

Supernatural
13-17
18-22

Teen Wolf
23-27
28-29

Game of Thrones, Vikings, Hemlock Grove, Orphan Black
30-34
35-39

PROMO (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

12feethigh — Mon, 01 Jul 2013 13:52:12 GMT

IT'S THAT TIME AGAIN! magicawards IS UP AND GOING!
GO NOMINATE YOUR FAVOURITE MAKERS!

Here's also a tiny little promo of my upcoming iconpost:

NUMBER ONE-HUNDRED-SIX 20inspirations

12feethigh — Mon, 20 May 2013 03:29:12 GMT

It's 5 o'clock in the morning and I am finally done with this set! No blah blah this time I am so fucking done and tired! I hope you enjoy these, though!

TV | supernatural {s6}

1-5
blocking, stock, pastel, down the rabbit hole, minimalism
6-10
vibrant, border, faceless, retro, chiaroscuro
11-15
obscure crops
16-20
artist's choice

NUMBER ONEHUNDRED-FIVE icons

12feethigh — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 18:35:57 GMT

This post is a complete MESS! Over the last few weeks I tried out different styles of iconning and now, thrown together all in one place, they just look so chaotic! Anyway, I hope you like them. I also included a texture set that I made based on the requests. I am not sure how useful they are, tbh. I use some of them a lot and others not at all, but we're all different and maybe you're able to do something with them.

TV | Teen Wolf, Game of Thrones, Supernatural, The Walking Dead, American Horror Story, Queer as Folk, Sons of Anarchy, My Mad Fat Diary

Teen Wolf
1-5
6-10
11-15
16-20
21

Game of Thrones
22-26
27-29

Supernatural & The Walking Dead & American Horror Story
30-34
35-37
38-40

Miscellanious:
Queer as Folk, Sons of Anarchy, My Mad Fat Diary
40-45

Or Download from DeviantArt

NUMBER ONEHUNDRED-FOUR chibs battle

12feethigh — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:27:13 GMT

Phoebe aka rebel and I decided there weren't enough icons of Chibs of Sons of Anarchy, so here's a small battle we did! I had loads of fun making them and yeahh.. just look for yourself :)

rebel's caps

One	Two	Three	Four	Five
					rebel
					bobby

12feethigh's caps

Six	Seven	Eight	Nine	Ten
					rebel
					bobby

Chibs is the best and this was awesome!

NUMBER ONEHUNDRED-THREE icons

12feethigh — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 21:28:40 GMT

After almost a month without posting icons here, I am happy I have enough together to post again! I won't babble as much here as a usually do now, but I am just really happy I got into magicmachine and hope I can make good enough icons in the future that deserve to be posted there! In this post are also some icons I made in back in december for a battle we didn't post. Most of mine weren't that good either so, it's just 2 or something. Ok, I'll shut my mouth now. Enjoy!(?)

TV | Teen Wolf, Supernatural, Sons of Anarchy, Game of Thrones, Doctor Who
AniMan | Adventure Time, ATLA, Legend of Korra, Ranma 1/2
+ Various Musicians

Teen Wolf
01-05
06-10
11

Supernatural & Sons of Anarchy
12-16
17-21
22-24
25-27

Game of Thrones & Doctor Who
28-31
32-33

Animation & Musicians
34-37
38-42
Lily Allen x2, Arctic Monkeys, The Midnight Beast, Lana Del Rey
43-45
Rizzle Kicks, Bo Burnham, Mando Diao

NUMBER ONEHUNDRED-TWO whaaaat?

12feethigh — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 17:58:27 GMT

WHAT? WOW! THANK YOU!
I just found out I passed the 200 watchers this week and I'd really like to thank everyone who watches this comm! And you know what this post means? IT'S REQUEST TIME!

Because I think just icons are a bit boring and since I got a week off school at the moment, I thought of doing this:

~TEXTURES~
Leave whatever kind of textures you prefer in a comment and I will make texture sets divided into categories like "grunge" and "light" etc for you. Each will include 20 textures :)

~INTEREST ICONS~
I know I haven't been the most reliable making request icons in the past mostly because I took requests from all fandoms. So, this time I will make icons for you of your favourite people but they have to be in one of my fandoms. I just know that if I take other fandoms aswell, I will never get them done. There is no limitation I will just try and make at least one or two icons for everyone who requestes something :D
Here's a list of my fandoms.

Again, a huge thank you! Here have a gif of me being all excited!

NUMBER ONEHUNDRED-ONE tutorial

12feethigh — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 19:56:02 GMT

Tutorial °13: Joffrey Baratheon
requested by calrissian18
from to

This icon took me quite long to make due to all the drawing as shown in the gif. I hope you can follow though, and maybe it "inspires" you to try out some drawing too, because seriously: it's so much fun!

I started out with the intention to make this a tumblr graphic. I scrapped that idea very soon though, and decided to make it an icon and nothing more. For full size of the image right-click etc. as always :)

COLOURING
Step 1

→ →
I dublicated the layer and used Variations, which is a very useful tool (but I am sure you all know that by now). I can't exactly tell you what I did but I made it a bit brighter, a lot yellow and red, obviously. I set that layer to ~soft light, merged what I had, dublicated it and set that to ~soft light again.

Step 2 ~~consisting of 12 layers~~
I decided this was much too much to write down so here's a gif with the steps and information, I guess that's much more helpful than my endless babbling ;D

So, this is what we have now:

As you might or might not have noticed, this was made in my pamkips-is-the-most-amazing-icon-maker-i-want-to-be-as-good-as-her phase and so I used a layer mask to mask out the background and put Joff on an orange new background (#eda212 ████ to be exact).

BACKGROUND ETC.
Step 3

+ =
1. I used that brush in a slightly darker orange and put it at the bottom of my canvas +
2. That's a texture I probably got off tumblr. I set it to softlight =
3. This is our finished background. Now let's add Joffrey to it!

Step 4
→
Okay, so I liked the background (around his head) and all, but since this was supposed to be for tumblr and I didn't want to change the size, I simply added some squares to it (I also added some stripes to it, but yeah, you can see that and don't really need me telling you how to do that).

Step 5
→
Let's zoom in a bit. I decided this needed more highlights/shadows, took a default brush (opacity to around 60%) and drew over parts I wanted to be brighter with a light gray and for shadows I used a darker gray and set it to ~soft light. Just make sure when you do this that you don't use the exact middle between black and white because that doesn't change anything when it's set to ~softlight.

To make Joffrey look a bit more evil, I drew over his eyebrows with white a bit. I just kind of like that effect :)

Step 6
→
Back to the original size, I added this texture to the image and set it to ~screen. After that I just cropped it down to 100x100 and that's it, I guess. Maybe I added a bit more contrast to the icon, but no more than that :)

I hope this wasn't too confusing ;D

You can find my AskTheMaker Thread here, in case you want to request something.

NUMBER ONEHUNDRED! tutorial

12feethigh — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 17:01:29 GMT

Tutorial °12: Jackson Whittemore
requested by reebeecaa
from to

I had never seen that cap iconned before so I decided to give it a try, no matter how dark it is, and I am suprised this turned out quite good. There are many steps, but I hope they are worth it! (Have some w(h)it(te) and read it all!)

Step 1
→ →
Rightclick etc. to see full size.
First we need to brighten that son of a b* cap up A LOT.
I dublicated the base, set it to ~screen with a fill of 30.
After that I added a curves layer (look below).

Now, this icon was made for rainbow elite, meaning I had to go with a certain colour, in this case green.

I picked a nice round brush and my colour #dadd97 ████, set the layer to ~multiply and drew over everything around Jackson. I thought his hair needed some colour too, and did the same with a brown colour.

This is what you should have now:

Now we can start editing on a 100x100 canvas.

Step 2
→
This was the most suitable crop in my opinion. I decided to add some light blobs on the left and right side of the icon, one in green, the other blue and blurred them. I left the mode on ~normal.

After that (and how could I not?) I added my new favourite texture made by myself. I set it to ~softlight and the fill to 55%. I didn't want the dots to be all over Jackson's face, which means it's LAYER MASK PARTY TIME:

Step 3
→
As it is, this icon lacks contrast and also colour, so I used the vibrancy layer set to +40; 0 and the mode to ~colour. (You should always use it on colour tbh, it keeps the quality of the image!)

Step 4
→
Now, we musn't forget that this icon needs to be a certain colour, that's why I added a new colour fill layer (#dadd97 again), set it to ~multiply and used another layer mask to get the yellow off his pretty face:

To get the shiny parts on the left and right side back, I used selective colour and changed the greens and whites.
Green: +20; 0; +60; -60
White: 0; 0; 0; -70

Step 5
→
While making this I had this graphic I made a few weeks ago in mind and thought I'd be nice to use some brushes in the background. But first, I drew a white and a dark brown line on either side of the icon, blurred them and set them to ~overlay, looking like this:

(Oh god, how embarrassing! I did the dots of the %-symbol the wrong way 'round ;Q;)

Step 6
→
As you may know, I am a huge fan of the curves tool. It's just brilliant. Here is what I did (and don't ask questions, I always make those weird curves..):

Step 7
→
Now, I don't know if you think what I think, but Jackson looks as if he just saw the Devil himself (or herself? Who knows!) all pale and sick. Let's make him more healthy using selective colour (available in your local pharmacy)!
Grey: -7; +2; +5; -5
That's better!

That done, I decided to add this gradient to it. Set to ~softlight.

Step 8
→
Next, I went looking for a nice texture and stumbled over this beauty by smyra0. The original was different colours, but this is what we need rn. I set it to ~multiply, then dublicated the texture, changed it up a bit and set that one to ~screen.

(I always only change the fill not the opacity! + % done right!)

Step 9
→
Actually, I could have been done at this point, but I thought he looked pale again and there wasn't enough contrast. I used selective colour (man I am so sick of writing that out).
Green: +15; +5; +3; -2
Grey: 0; +3; +5; -2
Black: 0; 0; 0; +3

Aaand a new colour fill layer: colour #fff8b6 ████ set to ~multiply (how'd have thought?)

Step 10
→
Thank R'hollor, this is our last step! It seems I didn't care about him looking pale anymore, for some reason, and just made his face all white!
Selective colour: (this is the last time, i swear!)
White: 0; 0; 0; +5
Grey: 0; 0; 0; -10

The blacks were TOO black, so I added this texture (again by smyra0) and set it to ~screen, fill 20%.

After that, I only did my little sharpening ritual. Done! :)

Phew! I hope this is useful to you reebeecaa (and everyone else too, of course!)

You can find my AskTheMaker Thread here, in case you want to request something.

NUMBER NINETY-NINE tutorial

12feethigh — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 16:08:59 GMT

Tutorial °11: Sansa Stark
requested by lancelotfan
from to

A note ahead: This isn't the exact same as the icon I entered at the7days. This is an earlier version of it, more vibrant and without that one texture.

I just quickly redid these first steps, but they are pretty similar to what I originally did.

Step 1
→
Rightclick etc. to see full size.

To brighten the image and get more contrast I used the curves layer, with a curve like this:

After that I lowered the vibrancy to -100; 0.

Step 2
→

Now, I knew I wanted to cut Sansa out, so I thought by having more contrast that would be easier, so I added a selective colour layer with this setting:
White: 0; 0; 0; -100

After that I used the curves again~~, because they are my bitch~~:

Step 3
→

Now to be finally done with the huge images that make your computer very slow, add one last selective colour layer:
Greys: 0; 0; 0; -20
Blacks: 0; 0; 0; +20

Now onto the actual icon: I didn't really know what I was going for, I only knew I wanted to have a far crop and pale colours. Well the latter didn't really turn out the way I wanted.

Step 4

After I cut Sansa out ~~very poorly but who cares you can't see it anyway~~, I dublicated Sansa, used the colour fill option you get when you double-click the layer and chose a colour that's slightly darker than the background colour. After that I spent very depressed and aggressive 10 minutes trying to transform it into something that looked like a shadow.

That done, I decided to add a black/white gradient on ~soft light. ~~You don't say!~~

Step 5
→

So this is where I dropped the thought of making it pale and went all vibrant and red. I guess I had Joffrey's brutal way of treating her in mind when I made this. Blood and all. Idk.

I added selective colour again:
Red: 0; +25; +35; -15
Grey: -5; -5; +5; 0
Black: 0; 0; 0; +5

After that I used vibrancy:
+75; 0

Step 6
→

I felt like it needed moooore red:
Selective colour:
Red: -10; +5; +25; +10

Colour Balance:
Shadows: +5; +15; -25
Midtones: +10; 0; -25

Step 7
→

Yeah you don't get an icon be my without using a few textures. First I drew over the right-hand top, and left-hand bottom corner with an orangey-brown looking like this and set it to ~softlight. I did that twice.

After that I slapped this texture by I don't know who (sorry) on it and set it to ~softlight aswell.

Step 8
→

Inspired (yeah, I am a total copycat) by this icon by pamkips I wanted to have some kind of border too and added this texture to it and set it to ~screen.

Step 9
→

To get rid of the weird grey on her dress that was black before, I used vibrancy on +100; 0 again and then another selective colour layer to make the red more dominant and more importantly to get the black back.
Red: -5; +10; +10; 0
(Grey: +1; +1; +3; 0)
Black: 0; 0; 0; +25

Step 9
→

It isn't really blood red anymore so I basically redid the last step with slightly different settings. Vibrance stays the same, selective colour something like this:
Red: 0; +5; +25; +10

That's it. I hope this was useful and my random babbling isn't too annoying ;D

You can find my AskTheMaker Thread here, in case you want to request something.

NUMBER NINETY-EIGHT theon tutorial

12feethigh — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 17:25:38 GMT

Tutorial °10: Theon Greyjoy
requested by setentpet

from to

Okay, so before we can start with this, I need to mention that I have absolutely no idea what I did with the cap, editing it in the original size. I don't remember what in the hell I was thinking I did, but I know I used a lot of vibrance and colours on multiply - hauntes-style. In the end I think it doesn't make that much of a difference, only the painted parts of his hair and the lightning/contrast aka. the amazing curves tool, are very important to get the end result.

Step 1
→
So after all the colour layer here, painty-stlye there, I cropped the image to a nice centre close crop. Thanks to the Drowned God, I realised the background looked horrible and painted over it with a nice shade of ~~grey~~ teal (#0a766e ████.

Step 2
→
To pratice my "how-to-copy-pamkips-oh-wait-i-suck-at-this" skills or short to add an interesting element, I chose a paint- brush..brush. One in white, one in black, set to ~soft light.

Step 3
→
Now our awesome friend colour balance is in the game again, set to:
Shadows: 0; 0; 10
Midtones: -5; 10; +35
Highlights: +10; 0; 0

Step 4
→
I can't really tell you the settings of this, but maybe you don't even want to know because you hate Topaz.
Anyway, it's a very light topaz effect and I also erased parts I didn't like.
If you use Topaz make sure that it doesn't take too many of the colours away. If it does, here's a nice and easy trick: Copy and merge all the layers below the topaz'd one, blur it a tiny bit. Then drag it on top of the topaz layer and set it to ~colour.

Step 5
→
Because it's all a big pixelated mess of the same colour, I decided to add a green light blob in the left-hand top corner, (on a new layer) a white one next to it and a black one somewhere near Theon's neck. All are set to ~screen (fill of b/w are somewhat around 30%).

Step 6
→
Most imporant thing: text. I used Ostrich Sans (bold) and added a drop shadow to it.

Step 7
→
To finish the icon, I added this texture (Sorry, I don't remember who made it. It was a bigger sized one from Tumblr), set it to ~screen.
The last thing I did was sharpen the whole thing a bit, et voilà, that's it.

If you want a tutorial, or have some questions my Ask the Maker thread is here

Sooo..

12feethigh — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 17:13:07 GMT

I jumped onto the bandwagon and decided to take part in this years' Ask the Maker :)
If you have any questions or requests, I'd be glad to answer them, because sharing is fun :D

Ask The Maker 4.0 || My Thread

NUMBER NINETY-SEVEN Supernatural Batlle with Kat

12feethigh — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 16:21:06 GMT

I started watching Supernatural the other day and because I love it a lot already, I asked Kat to do a battle with me. It was a lot of fun and I really like the results of both of us :)

vampire_sessah's caps

One	Two	Three	Four	Five
					kat
					bobby

12feethigh's caps

Six	Seven	Eight	Nine	Ten
					kat
					bobby

NUMBER NINETY-SIX multifandom + textures

12feethigh — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 00:48:51 GMT

Wow, it's been so long since I last posted! But here I am again with all the icons I made in the past weeks. This post also includes icons I originally made for a battle with nottiem but she just vanished. I have no idea what happened to her :( Hope she's fine!
Anyways, I thought I'd be good to post them before the new year starts to start anew with brand new icons. I also included a little texture set for you. I hope it's useful! Have a nice celebration tomorrow! :)

TV | Sons of Anarchy, Game of Thrones, Teen Wolf , Queer as Folk
Film | Harry Potter, The Fall
AniMan | Ranma 1/2
Other | Youtubers

SONS OF ANARCHY
01-05
06-10
11-13

GAME OF THRONES
Most of these were made for rebel as secret santa :)
14-18
19-23
24-25

TEEN WOLF / QUEER AS FOLK
26-30

HARQRY POTTER
Made for rebel as secret santa, too.
31-35
36-37

ANIMATION
Ranma 1/2
38-41

VARIOUS
Youtube: Nerimon, ChaoticMonki, Sarazar / The Fall
42-45

I am sorry there is no .rar! MF didn't work for me. I will add it asap!

NUMBER NINETY-FIVE multifandom

12feethigh — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 18:04:01 GMT

Wow, it's been so long since I last had a multifandom post together. Most of these were made for challenges such as the7days and various elite comms. Actually, I planned to include a texture set, but I don't have enough for a whole set. Next post, I promise!

TV | Game of Thrones, Teen Wolf, Sons of Anarchy Queer as Folk UK/US, Misfits
Film | Atonement

GAME OF THRONES
1-5
6-10
11-12

TEEN WOLF
13-17
18-22
23

SONS OF ANARCHY

24-28
29-33
34-38
39-40

VARIOUS
Queer as Folk UK, Misfits, Queer as Folk US, Atonement
41-45

promo

12feethigh — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 12:39:41 GMT

QAF_ELITE
qaf_elite | APPLY HERE | qaf_elite

NUMBER NINETY-FOUR teen wolf

12feethigh — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 19:50:02 GMT

It's been a while since I last posted, but here I am now with brand new icons of Teen Wolf. I made them for the 1st Herculan Challenge of this months round at a_mused.
Making these was such a challenge and I am proud that I managed to finish all those complex icons, because I never make any. I'll shut up now and hope you like them too :)

A-MUSED
Herculan Challenge #1
1-5
6-10
11-12

Alternates
13-17

NUMBER NINETY-THREE icons + tutorial

12feethigh — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 07:14:20 GMT

This is a rather small post, but I felt like posting again. It's been a while..
I mostly made random icons of caps I wanted to try out and then the set for the7days.
Spittingfish asked me how I made one of my icons, so I also included a short tutorial in a spoiler cut :)

TV | Game of Thrones, Sons of Anarchy, Queer as Folk, Doctor Who
Film | Harry Potter, Kick Ass
AniMan | Sailor Moon, Ranma 1/2, Avatar: TLA
Music | The Midnight Beast

Television & Film
Game of Thrones, Queer as Folk, Sons of Anarchy, Doctor Who, Harry Potter & KickAss
1-5
6-10
11-14

AniMan & Music
Sailor Moon, Ranma 1/2, Avatar: TLA & The Midnight Beast
15-19
20-21

→
requested by spittingfish

Step 1
->
First step had to be: get that yellow skin away. FAST. I used Selective Colour with these settings(absolue):
Yellows: +40; +30; -20; -55
I also changed the Magentas up a bit.

Step 2
->
Hit Girl is all about purple, so let's get her purple'd up.
Colour Balance:
Shadows: -
Midtones: +50; -50; +60
Highlights: +30; -5; -45

Step 3
->
I chose a nice light blue, added some text to it ~~it's motherfucker tbh~~ and then I drew over it in white a bit.
I erased it all using masks. (I got was to inspired by kawaii_chicken making the background. Sorry, Pam)

Step 4
->
I drew over her hair with a default brush, added two blobs set to ~screen and this texture by kawaii_chicken (also on ~screen) to it.

Step 5
->
Since it looked very flat to me, and I didn't like her hair, I added another Selective Colour layer to it:
Reds: +15; +10; +10; -40
Yellows: -90; -55; -100; -65
Cyan: +10; +10; +10; -

After that I also added a Vibrance Layer:
+60; -

That's it, already. I did some sharpening after that :)

NUMBER NINETY-TWO the icon quest

12feethigh — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 21:58:44 GMT

I haven't made many icons these past days because of the problems I am having with my laptop ~~and mainly because i had to help cleaning the house and packing stuff for our vacation~~. I wanted to finish one more challenge though and decided to do the inspired-by-this-and-that-maker task. There were quite many icon makers that inspired me but it turned out to be a "inspired by phaust_ and endearest" post. I might make more when I cam back at home :) As you can tell, I am also in a "everything needs text"-phase ;A;

TV | Game of Thrones, Skins, Sons of Anarchy
Film | Chatroom
Music | The Midnight Beast

Inspired by phaust_: natural colourings, sharpening, text, dropshadows, light blobs, animations
the midnight beast x3, game of thrones
1-5
~~bard, hero, bard, bard, rogue~~

Inspired by endearest: colourful, purple, light blue, light textures, removed background, profile, close crop
the midnight beast, kick ass, game of thrones x3
6-10
~~rogue, wizard, hero, bard, rogue~~

Challenges & Random stuff
the midnight beast x2, sons of anarchy, game of thrones x2
11-15

new girl, breaking bad, single father, skins, chatroom
16-20

micky mouse, spongebob squarepants
21-22

Number NINETY-ONE icons and textures

12feethigh — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 16:27:52 GMT

These are some icons for the 2nd sidequest of chapter one at theiconquest. I also included some of the icons of the request post: I did not forget about it! Part two will be up soon!
I hope the textures are useful to some of you :)

TV | Game of Thrones, Queer as Folk
Film | Kick-Ass, The Fall, Harry Potter, Chatroom, The Amazing Spiderman

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The Icon Quest:Ch 1 Sq 2
1-5
hero x3; wizardx2
knight, knight, fairy, wolf, knight

6-10
bard x2; rogue x3
royal, unicorn, unicorn, dragon, royal

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The Fall, Chatroom
11-15

Chatroom, Game of Thrones, The Amazing Spiderman
16-18

Requests
margerydaw_s2 x2; fouroux x3
19-23

freaky_nea x2; vampire_sessah x2
24-27

Textures

~RAR.~
from mediafire

NUMBER NINETY tutorial

12feethigh — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 16:44:12 GMT

Tutorial °8: Sansa & Sandor
requested by stormofwolves
from to

In this tutorial, some steps might be different to how I originally made this because I used the colour-variation tool, which can only be used to change a layer and not create a new one.

I knew I wanted to blend this with a picture or put text on it, so I did a without-forehead-crop. I also felt weird having her neckline in it too much so I made sure it was where I wanted to put the text later: now we can begin!

Step 1
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To brighten the image, I added this texture and set it to ~screen.
Then I selected my base and the texture layer and merged them into a new third layer. I set that one to ~softlight to get some contrast in there.

Step 2
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Let me introduce to you my best friend: colour balance!
I used it to make everything more yellow, red and bright.

Shadows: +15; -5; +5
Midtones: +20; -10; +10
Highlights: +5; +35; -35

Step 3
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I obviously did not like the colours and changed them quite a lot using selective colour(absolute). I tried to make everything red blue-ish and darker:

Greys: +30; -15; -20; +15

Step 4
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Next, I merged all layers into a new one and used selective colour(still absolute) again.
This is what I did:

Reds: +20; 0; 0; -10
Yellows: +15; -10; 0; -50

After that, add a curves layer and do a curve like this, so make a deeper contrast.

Step 5
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Even though I really like the colours in it rn -and I really don't know what I did- but I added a colour fill layer (# ffe5c4 ████) and set it to ~multiply.

And after that I made the whole thing red again (whyyyy?). Selective colour:
Reds: +20; 0; +20; +5

Step 6
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Then I created a new layer and drew in a brownish-dark-red on the lower half of the icon, focused on the left side. I set the layer to ~softlight and the fill to 50%.

Step 7
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Next step is vibrancy:
Vibrancy: +55
the other: 0

I also randomly put this texture by innocent_lexys on it. The mode is ~pin lights; fill: 40%.

Step 8
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Next, brightness/contrast:
Brightness: 65
Contrast: 33

Step 9
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Then I merged all layers into a new one and used variations (Image> Adjustments> Variations) and did something like this, I think: (in this order)

Midtones: Yellow
Shadows: Green, Darker, Green, Yellow
Highlights: Yellow, Brighter
Midtones: Blue

It's not exact, but it really is something you do randomly until you like the result :)

That done, I used another selective colour layer:

Yellows: -10; +10; +15; +5
Greens: +100; +100; -100; +50
Greys: +10; 0; 0; 0

Great! So, we're done with Sansa. Now let's add Sandor to it :)

Step 10
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I chose a cap of him shortly after he saved her (because Sansa's cap is just seconds before that horrible scene down in the alley).
I did some editing, but sadly I don't know what anymore. Obviously I used gradient overlay in red/orange/pinkish-colours. I don't even know. I also drew over a part I didn't like (right side).

I set the cap on ~linear dodge. I also added a layer mask to it and with a large soft brush I drew over the left edge a tiny bit to make it look like it's fading.

Step 11
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Last step is the text on it. It says "the most exotic flower" which is from a song by Lana del Rey.
I chose a font called Jellyka Western Princess, the colour is a dark orange.
Then I dublicated the text layer, moved it up and left a pixle and changed the colour to yellow

After that I only merged it all and sharpened it, like always ;)