Playing With Guns

Batch #3 of Dir en Grey!

playingwithguns — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 01:45:56 GMT

Subject: Dir en Grey [Band]
Batch #3: 21/100
Themes: 1. water, 2. Peas in a Pod, 3. Crisp, 4. joy, 5. times gone by, 6. Tears, 7. White Space, 8. Loneliness, 9. Boxed, 10. the dark side, 11. Heartbreak, 12. Rush, 13. Green, 14. Cowboy, 15. Falling into you, 17. dry, 18. posession
Additional Notes: I'm very lost on how many weeks in I am. So I need to figure that out, and I may or may not need an extension. And I tried a new posting format, tell me if you all like it.

Please comment and credit if taking. No hotlinking, editing, etc. Thanks much!

Preview:
16. 21.

Dir en Grey batch #3
Started 7-6-05
Incomplete

01. 02. 03.

04. 05. 06.

07. 08. 09.

10. 11. 12.

13. 14. 15.

16. 17. 18.

19. 20. 21.

I have an affiliate!

playingwithguns — Fri, 05 Aug 2005 04:33:54 GMT

*cheers* Hooray! I have a sister icon journal now!

_habemuspapam_

Please go look at the community, you'll be sure to find awesome icons. ^_^

And three new icons, comment, credit, and enjoy. (no hotlinking, claiming as you own, etc, you know the drill)

1. 2. 3.

My first tutorial! lyk omgz i r0xxorz.

playingwithguns — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 09:27:54 GMT

Go from to...read the tutorial to find out. ;) Made with GIMP, but hopefully can be translated to other programs. I'd love to see what you can make! Comments, questions, etc are welcome. ^_^

1. Get to know your base. Fix it up how you want. I, of course, did nothing! >:D

seeeeee?

2. Choose the Incandescent gradient and apply it. Ta-da! You now have...a gradient that's covering up your image. OMGWTFBBQ? We don't want that, now do we?

3. So we set it to Screen at 100%. Ah! Much better! Doesn't that look normal? But its lacking still lacking in colour...which means: MORE GRADIENTS! Yay! <3 So choose the Metallic Something gradient and stick it on your image, again setting the layer to screen at 100%. ^_^ Make sure it goes in this order: Metallic something, Incandescent, and then the background layer.

5. Wai! Doesn't our icon look splendiferous? *-* Sorry I don't have a pic of what it should look like now... >.< But now that its colored, we need to add detail! So I'll just choose this swirly fun brush I found and resized (brush by crumblingwalls)...

...and stamp it right in the corner in a new layer, making sure its under our gradients.

6. Still not quite right...So let's add...TEXT. I tend to make my text into brushes so that I can use them for later icons, but for now just add your text in two seperate layers. First type "when I saw you" in size 10, Lucida Bright. Than add "c r y i n g" in size 15, still Lucida Bright. Merge these to seperate new layers so that you can arrange them to your liking. Merge the layers together when they're placed in the right place.

7. Now, stamp something small and swirly in the other direction, the brush I used is also by crumblingwalls. Merge this with your text layer. Duplicate this layer twice, setting the original layer to grain merge at 100%. Set the other two layers to Soft light, with one at 100%, the other at 60%

the merged brush and text should look something like this:

8. Now it may look a little funky, so organize the layers as such (top to bottom):

-Soft light text at 60%
-Soft light text at 100%
-Metallic something at screen 100%
-Grain merge text at 100%
-Incandescend at screen at 100%
-Swirly brush at normal 100%
-Background at 100%...obviously. *gigglesnort*

Here's a cap of the layers, each neatly labeled for you <3

and finally, the finished icon! wheee! *_* It's so beautimous...

x-posted to icon_tutorial and gimp_users

14/100 Dir en Grey icons!

playingwithguns — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 21:36:14 GMT

Subject: Dir en Grey
Batch #2: (1-5) Second Edition! No changes! (6-14) NEW!
Themes: water, green, peas in a pod, boxed, joy, crisp, tears, cowboy, white space, heartbreak, rush, times gone by, loneliness, the dark side. All icons are labeled with their themes.
Additional Notes:
Rules: Comment, Credit, don't hotlink, don't take as your own, don't edit, enjoy! <3

Preview:

1. Water 2. Peas in a pod 3. Crisp

4. Joy 5. Times gone by 6. Tears

7. White Space 8. Loneliness 9. Boxed

10. The Dark Side 11. Heartbreak 12. Rush

13. Green 14. Cowboy

Icons post!

playingwithguns — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 02:01:01 GMT

Ok, here's ALL of the icons I've made, remember the rules:

-Comment
-Credit
-Do not hotlink, edit, or claim as your own!

What you get:

17 Dir En Grey (including a 5 piece icon "set")
5 movie (Phantom of the Opera, Napoleon Dynamite, Anchorman)
4 Video Games (3 Final Fantasy, 1 Skies of Arcadia Legends)
2 Gackt
2 Completely random
2 Dominic Monaghan
4 manga (two requested, Paradise Kiss, Angel Sanctuary)

Preview:

Dir En Grey Random
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.

Other
12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30.

Dir En Grey Cage Set
31. 32. 33. 34. 35.

Stay tuned for my first batch of 100 Dir En Grey icons!