>8< Spider Power

Excuse me, Mister Ship... Why are you doing this?

2014-10-08T21:04:15Z

These are all super old icons that I made for various things and never posted.

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Picture Spam Request

2014-09-03T13:14:31Z

I am trying to get back into icons, but I need help.

Plz spam this post with lots and lots of art/caps/galleries. Preferably animanga or video games, but honestly, I don't really care.

It's what's inside that counts

2013-07-30T21:22:28Z

One of these days I will actually post icons regularly, honest.
[10] Miscellaneous Anime
[2] Awesome Science Nerds
[1] Ender's Game
[4] Fire Emblem
[11] Mass Effect
[2] Orphan Black

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Comments and credit are appreciated
Concrit is welcome as long as you're not a jerk about it.

Battle Organization Post

2013-07-20T04:24:37Z

BENCHWARMER BATTLE

• thousandblades • terraform • bee & puppycat • cerulean • team daifuku-trees • blue rhapsody •
• spiral of doom • lime cake • team mabuhay • delicious bacon team • cackles • jareth's pants • 4 four • bungee gum •

Some people mentioned this idea in chat one day, and I am going to attempt to run this because it sounded like a cool idea. Everyone who is participating in the current round of animan can join in, but only once you've been eliminated. When you're ~~eliminated~~ benched, you can submit your cap and start making battle icons. You only have to use the images provided after you are cut; the earlier you get eliminated, the more icons you will have to make. All icons will be due 1 week or so after the finals at animan. Oh, and all of the images must be anime or manga, because I said so, that's why.

Week 1
Animan Inspiration
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*I can't get this one to upload at the original image size, so hopefully minitokyo works.

Week 2
Animan Inspiration
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I did! I sawed it all!

2013-01-03T00:14:11Z

Summary of 2012, BECAUSE I CAN

J A N U A R Y

F E B R U A R Y

M A R C H

A P R I L

M A Y

J U N E

J U L Y

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A U G U S T

S E P T E M B E R

O C T O B E R
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N O V E M B E R

D E C E M B E R

I don't believe that....

2012-09-11T02:06:55Z

Here are a few of the requests icons that I've managed to get done! I will get the rest of them done, honest. Also 5 icons for iconbattling that I managed to get done before I missed the deadline.

Requests for liesmiths, deternot, and grimoire!

[4] Edward Norton / The Hulk
[1] Pokemon
[6] Odin Sphere
[1] DOGS
[1] Gundam 00
[2] Katekyo Hitman Reborn!
[3] Nabari no Ou
[1] Magicka Madoka
[1] Spirited Away
[1] Lilo & Stitch
[1] Adventure Time
[1] Bleach

liesmiths

deternot

grimoire

Other random icons:

How could it be anything else?!

2012-08-02T00:25:17Z

[10] Secret World of Arrietty

These were made for The Icon Quest's mentors challenge. They were all super inspired by deternot and her amazing tutorials.

Requests

2012-07-31T22:21:45Z

To celebrate the fact that this comm has 20 watchers, and because certain people said it would be a good idea, I'm going to take requests!

For now I'll say you can request max of 5 images, just to keep myself from getting too behind. Links/images are preferable because I'm a lazy bum.

I'll leave this post open for at least 24 hours.

Tutorials - Part II

2012-07-31T01:49:57Z

Here are the last 3 icon tutorials that adrastea requested. Don't worry, I'm still working on everyone's, I promise! I'm just slow.

Also, I apologize to anyone whose textures/caps aren't credited. My folders are an unorganized disaster and one day I will clean it up.

Feel free to ask questions if something doesn't make sense or is confusing.

I have no idea what movie/show this is from, but I started out with this image.

I couldn't deal with how blurry the guy looked, so I pretty much cropped him out and focused on the girl. Since I didn't want him in the image at all, I used layer masks to cut her out from the image completely.

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Her dress had a few spots that seemed a little pixelated, so I busted out the smudge tool and used it a very very tiny amount.

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From there I used curves to try to touch up the colors just a little. I wanted to brighten her face up a bit, so I focused on how her skin and face looked and ignored the other parts of the icon while I chose my curves. The curves ended up looking a bit like this (although not exactly like the original).

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Now, I knew that I wanted to keep her dress green, because that was the color in the original image. So I duplicated the layer I just created (the one with the curves) and used curves on it again to bring out the bright greens in the dress. Yes she looks like a monster, but go back in to your layer mask and paint out everything except the dress.

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So when you put them together, with the dress layer on top of the layer before it, you end up with her colored the way I liked it.

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Make a new layer from visible, or merge or whatever, because that's what I'll be using for my image.

To make the background, I started with a few textures. I used three by unknown, unknown, and this one by panda virus. I wanted to stick with the green and outdoors theme, since those were both present in the original image. The green is set to "Normal" at 100% and the next two are simply set to Overlay 100%.

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Now I added my image of the girl back in. I also decided that I needed some motion blur in there... cause I could. I'm not sure. XD So I copied the layer with her on it and did a bit of motion blur. I also moved it to the left a bit so it would just barely stick out from behind her.

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Now I wanted to keep with the outdoors thing, and I wanted a little depth, so I used this image from planets-bend-between-us over at tumblr. I moved it to the very very bottom of the image and set it on Multiply 100% , so it would just look like bits of grass sticking up in front of her.

I also added two more textures by unknown and spooky_window. The first is set on Overlay 100% and the second was set to Screen at just 15%. And TA DA!

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For this one, I started out with this image of Karthus from League of Legends (shut up I love this game).

I stuck with my beloved center crop because I wanted to play with the split coloring the image has. But that means I need to fill in the rest of the image. So, I bust out my trusty clone stamp tool and start filling in the extra space.

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It looks horrible, but once you take the smudge tool to it, it will look so much better. Luckily the image already had a smudgey looking background, so we can make it work. I tend to go to town, and smudge out over the image itself. I try not to worry about little details because I can always add a copy of the original image back over the smudged one. Then, all you have to do is use layer masks to bring back out the parts you might have smudged over (like the tips of his crown in this image.)

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Then, of course, I had to use curves to get the basic coloring I wanted. My curves ended up looking something like this. I also went in and smudge a little bit more under his arm.

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From here on out it's mostly using textures to create the colors and details I wanted!

I started off with this texture which might be something I deformed from this one by drankmywar. I kept it only on the right half and smudged and erased so it would only affect the red half of the image. It's on Overlay 46%.

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From there I added a texture by cielogris(?) on screen 65%. On top of that I used a texture by unknown twice. First on Burn 22% and then on Overlay 100%

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Then I deformed another texture by innocent_lexys and I added it on Overlay 100% so it would just cover the right half/the blue side.

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To finish, I just added a texture by gallicka set to Overlay 68% and another by spooky_window set to Overlay 62%.

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So I started out with this image of the Japanese(?) poster for Brave.

Again, I am a sucker for center crops and negative space, and I thought it worked, so I rolled with it. I used curves (looks almost like this) to bring out the bright colors.

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Now, I wasn't a huge fan of how the background looked, so I duplicated my image and blurred it a bit. I dragged it beneath the regular version, and then used a layer mask to cut Merida out so only the background and edges around her would be blurry.

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Then come the textures. I used 4 different ones to get the colors and softness I wanted on Merida. I started with one by spooky_window set to Overlay 100%. Then one by unknown set to Overlay 100%. After that, there is one by vol4itca(?) set on Screen 17%. Also, one more layer by unknown set to Screen at 8%

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After that I wanted to get rid of the purples in the background and have it more uniformly blue, so I used this texture by prettybutt with a layer mask so it didn't cover Merida. It was set to Overlay 59%. I also used the smudge tool on the very bottom of the final image to get rid of the bit of her hand that was sticking into the bottom of the image.

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Also: kind of a jerk.

2012-07-30T02:12:41Z

[1] Game of Thrones
[2] Historical Disney Princesses
[7] Soul Eater
[5] Pandora Hearts

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The Historical Disney Princesses art work is by shoomlah over at deviantart

Comments and Credit are appreciated
Concrit is welcome as long as you aren't a jerk about it.

Tutorials

2012-07-18T03:38:13Z

Here's the first few tutorials I've got for people based on requests from ask the maker!

I should mention that I use GIMP, and there isn't a difference between Soft Light and Overlay, at least that I can tell. So be sure you check to see which one looks better in your program, because I will always say "Overlay" but it could be either for you.

Also, I'm almost always working from bottom to top. So I will list the lowest layer first, topmost layer is last.

Fair warning, the crops change on this because sometimes I had the in between layers saved, and sometimes I didn't, so pretend it's all the same

So, I started out with this image of Irelia in her super cute aviator outfit. That image sort of limited me on the way I could crop it, so I messed with it for quite a while. I find it way easier to reconstruct backgrounds than parts of a weapon, and a close crop wouldn't show off how cool she looked with her blades, so I ended up with a base about like this

After that, I did was do some basic coloring. I use curves all the time. Honestly, I don't have a set method, I watch to see if it does something I like while I move the sliders around. Here's a basic idea of what the curves looked like though.

So the curves gives us
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Now comes the fun part. SMUDGING. To reconstruct the background I clone stamped main sky background colors over the area that I was adding back in. From there, I really did just smudge everything. Lame, I know.

This became my new base. I added this texture (by spooky_window) set on Overlay/Soft light at 100% opacity. I noticed that she looked better without the overlay, so I erased the area covering her body, and blurred the edges where I erased the texture, so I could get the texture on the background but not her.

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I wanted a lot more blue in the background, so I took this texture by bijouu(?) and set it on Multiply 100%

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It looks like crap, but bear with me! Go back to the "new" base layer we made. Take that layer, and use a layer mask, or just erase everything around Irelia. To give you an idea, this is what my layer mask looked like. HORRIBLE I KNOW. But it doesn't have to be perfect. You can see some parts I liked darker, like her tights, but mostly I just cut her out and left her set to Normal 100% on top of the dark blue layers below.

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Now, I wanted to work with what I've made so far, so copy merge, or make a new layer from the visible layers, or flatten, etc. We'll call this layer A for clarity. Duplicate A and set it to Overlay/Soft Light 100%. Duplicate A again and set that to Burn at 23% Opacity. This gives a little more depth to the colors.

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Ok, make a new layer from the visible/copy merge. I am finally satisfied with the background, so I just have to touch up Irelia. I used the blur tool very VERY faintly just to get rid of some of the jagged edges and make it a little smoother. I just click sporadically all over the area when I do this, I never drag the mouse.

Now to get Irelia back to the colors I liked, I went back to layer A and made two new copies of it. I used a layer mask on both layers to make it so Irelia was the only part showing through. The first layer was set to Normal 100% and the second layer is set to Screen at 62%

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It needed a little something extra, for me at least, so I added a texture by lookslikerain. I *desaturated it and set it to Overlay/Soft Light at 100%.
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You are going to hate me once you see how simple this icon is. XD It starts with this image of Maria Torres from Trauma Team. Some amazing person was smart enough to create the images with transparent backgrounds, so I didn't even have to cut her out.

My background is a humungous pile of textures:
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twinstrikeish > twinstrikeish > spooky_window > erzsebet > lemonpunch
Normal 100% Overlay 100% Screen 100% Screen 100% Screen 100%

From there, I added Maria on top, set to normal. I used curves (close to these) to alter her coloring a bit.

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I used this texture set at Overlay 100% by spooky_window to tie it all together.
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This one is slightly more straight forward. It's mostly me going "Throw more textures on it!" until I was satisfied.

I started with this base, and decided I wanted to focus on just Sailor Neptune. I used the eyedropper tool to pick the color of her hair and used that as the background for the image. I added a texture by someone... (please let me know if you recognize it!) set on Screen 100% to try to replicate some of the sparkly/glowy/light blobs that are all over Sailer Moon art. From there I just used a layer mask on the base, and I only left Neptune's face showing.

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I knew I would need it to be darker and have some more contrast, so I used this texture (by another unknown) set on Overlay 100%

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I copy merged/made a new layer from the visible layers. I also used curves to bring out the green and make it darker/more vibrant.

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Now we get more textures! From cittacostiera(?), unknown, and midnightroad. They are set to Overlay 100%, Screen 100%, and Overlay 38.4%

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Now, for the finishing touches, I took that merged layer that I used curves on from before, and set it to Overlay at 48%. I also added two more textures, one by unknown set to Screen 8% and one more by drankmywar set to Overlay 40%.

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Please let me know if something doesn't make sense or if you have questions!

His stories are as boring and stupid as he is!

2012-07-18T01:00:15Z

Ask The Maker || My Thread

You will tell me stories!

2012-07-15T06:13:52Z

All of these were created for theiconquest because it is awesome.

[10] Game of Thrones

Comments and credit are appreciated
Concrit is welcome as long as you're not a jerk about it.

phylumism @ 2012-07-08T01:28:00

2012-07-08T05:28:35Z

Mega Multifandom post

[3] Legend of Korra (Asami)
[3] Game of Thrones
[1] Soul Eater
[1] Sailor Moon
[1] Once Upon A Time
[22] Various fandoms
[1] Thor
[2] League of Legends
[1] Sequence

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Generated by Malionette's Icon Table Generator

Comments and credit are appreciated
Concrit is welcome as long as you aren't a jerk about it.

phylumism @ 2012-06-02T23:33:00

2012-06-03T03:33:50Z

[20] Disney icons (each from a different movie) for disneydolce

20 Disney movies

Themes

enchantment	wickedness	power	legend	courage

destiny	song	passion	goodness	friendship

Black & White

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Artist's choice

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phylumism @ 2012-05-29T23:07:00

2012-05-30T03:07:58Z

Multifandom post
6 Video Game icons (League of Legends, Magna Carta, Trauma Team, End of Eternity)
1 Once Upon a Time
3 Legend of Korra
2 Harry Potter
1 Firefly/Serenity
1 Disney
1 Pandora Hearts
4 Gunnerkrigg Court
1 Super Girl
1 Beauty Pop
1 D.Gray-man
1 Fables

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Comments and credit are greatly appreciated.
Crit is welcome as long as you're not a jerk about it.

phylumism @ 2012-04-22T16:20:00

2012-04-22T20:20:09Z

A bunch of icons for contests or failed attempts or stuff I've just forgotten to post. I am only happy with about 3 of them, so don't be too mean. -_-;
Various video games (including Bastion, League of Legends, and Eternal Sonata), manga and comics, and some from my unfinished claim of Hugo for inspired20in20

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phylumism @ 2012-04-22T16:19:00

2012-04-22T20:19:25Z

[22] Hunger Games icons

My Hunger Games claim for inspired20in20

Alts

phylumism @ 2012-04-22T16:17:00

2012-04-22T20:18:00Z

[22] Disney Icons (9 historical disney princesses)

So we had a challenge at disney_hush using the gorgeous fan art from shoomlah and I got a bit carried away. Some of the others are older and never got posted because they were for contests or just go lost in my folders.

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Comments and credit are appreciated.

And if you take any of the historical princess icons, be sure you link back to shoomlah's deviant art page so everyone can find the art.

phylumism @ 2012-04-22T16:17:00

2012-04-22T20:17:25Z

Mixed bag of random stuff, so deal with it. :|
[9] Harry Potter icons
[8] Disney
[1] Downton Abbey
[1] Puella Magi Madoka Magica
[3] Matt Smith
[3] Young Justice
[1] Natalie Dormer

Also, 1 Harry Potter photo set, 2 HP Banners, and 1 HP/Zelda Deathly Hallows tiny wallpaper

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And then more random icons made for contests/communities. I have quite a few disney ones I made and want to post but I don't know if the contest is still going or if it's just been closed due to lack of participation...

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Random larger graphics

Comments and credit are appreciated

phylumism @ 2012-04-22T16:16:00

2012-04-22T20:16:20Z

[25] Adventure Time icons (Episode 2 Trouble in Lumpy Space)
[4] Pokemon
[4] Karen Gillan
[8] Avatar the Last Airbender
[1] How to Train Your Dragon
[7] Misc Disney
[5] Misc Video Games

ALSO 1 Fionna & Cake Friends Only Banner and an Appa vs Momo header

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Also, made some pokemon icons for therainbowtree

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Lots of older, miscellaneous icons that got lost in folders/never posted for whatever reasons

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Comments & credit are greatly appreciated

phylumism @ 2012-04-22T16:15:00

2012-04-22T20:15:25Z

[20] Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann icons for inspired20in20

This was way harder than I thought it was gonna be, but I love Gurren Lagann so I really tried. Used lots of textures and coloring techniques I'm not used to, so I'm not happy with all of them, but whatever, I'm out of time. :|

Comments and credit are appreciated

phylumism @ 2012-04-22T16:14:00

2012-04-22T20:14:35Z

[20] Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker icons for vg20in20

THEMES

AFRAID	DOUBLE IMAGE	GOODBYE	HALF-CROP	HAUNTED


LARGE TEXT	NIGHT & DAY	SIMPLE	SKY	TEXTURE

SET: COLORS OF THE WIND~

Set #1	Set #2	Set #3	Set #4	Set #5

ARTIST'S CHOICE

Artist's Choice #1	Artist's Choice #2	Artist's Choice #3	Artist's Choice #4	Artist's Choice #5

phylumism @ 2012-04-22T16:13:00

2012-04-22T20:13:42Z

[20] 999: 9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors icons for vg20in20

I tried to minimize the spoilers, but considering there are so many endings I ended up with a few.

THEMES

BADASS	CHANGED ANGLE	COLD	DIRTY	EMPTY


FULL BODY	INSIDE	LEGS	SMALL	TOUCH

SET: THE SPACE BETWEEN US

Snake	Lotus	Santa	Clover	June

ARTIST'S CHOICE

better run	outrun my gun	better run	faster than my bullet	outrun my gun

Comments and credit are appreciated

Is it obvious who my favorites are? I apologize in advance for my AC choice, that song came on the radio and it was all I could think ok.

I got all of my images from 999 tumblr, spriter's resource, and game faqs forum. Also used these snow brushes.

phylumism @ 2012-04-22T16:12:00

2012-04-22T20:12:48Z

These were all made for iconsecrets battle. You can see the other icons (AND YOU REALLY SHOULD GO LOOK) here

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I have a few alts as well, and some pokemons.

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