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icons!

dizzyknee — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 22:03:37 GMT

I made icons again! How long has it been? This update consists of Homeland, The Newsroom, OUAT, and Parks & Rec.

+no hotlinking
+textless icons are not bases
+credit is a must
+comments are appreciated
+if you like what you see, join/watch quadrupled :)
+enjoy!

Homeland
01-05

The Newsroom
06-10
11-15
16-17

Once Upon a Time
18-22
23-27
28-32
33-34

Parks and Recreation
35-38

i've moved my graphics :)

naushika — Mon, 09 Dec 2013 19:14:29 GMT

I should have made this post ages ago but I never got around to it (so sorry!). I basically don't use livejournal anymore and have switched almost completely to Dreamwidth. I now post my icons at thisisagraphicscomm.dreamwidth.org which is a shared graphics comm with just me and one other person atm. I have the same username over there; naushika.

Here are examples of some of the icons I've been making lately:

*lures you in to the dreamwidth dark side*

I just wanted to make this post cause it totally seems like I gave up on icons but I didn't. Icons are near and dear to my heart. :D But I just don't post on livejournal anymore. So if you wish to follow along, here I am. Thank you. <3

20 Icons: The Hour

beyondthepen — Sun, 15 Sep 2013 21:59:05 GMT

for the 20in20 challenge at universe_the

15 THEMES

full body	complex	neg. space	segmented	frame

profile	vibrancy	close crop	2 images	text

fake background	complementary	stripes	center	light

5 ARTIST'S CHOICE

#1	#2	#3	#4	#5

credit if taking and all that good stuff.

full body

complex

neg. space

segmented

frame

profile

vibrancy

close crop

2 images

text

fake bg

complementary

stripes

center

light

ac1

ac2

ac3

ac4

ac5

ac full set

being human s3 screencaps

naushika — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 08:02:41 GMT

GALLERIES HERE

Yeah so I was on top with my screencapping and then I wasn't.. but here are caps for all the episodes so far, up to and including 3x10. :3 Enjoyyyy.

24 comics icons

naushika — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 21:32:02 GMT

20 (+4 alts) comics-related icons. :D From Avengers Assemble, Captain Marvel, Young Avengers, and Saga.

Avengers Assemble

[01-04]

Captain Marvel

[05-06]

Young Avengers

[07-10]
[11-12]

Saga

[13-16]
[17-20]

alts

[21-24]

being human US 3x02 screencaps

naushika — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 09:37:30 GMT

GALLERY HERE

Picspam: The Hour (Bel Rowley)

beyondthepen — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 20:14:27 GMT

For tvrealm's ICONic music challenge.

For the main part of the challenge, I used the Classical music prompt. I saw simplistic structure, muted colors, clean caps, and simple beauty.

As part of the badge challenge, we were to use caps we already used and revision them to fit another music prompt. For this, I used the Pop prompt and a little secret. I actually spend a good deal of time coloring my black and white caps, because I color them under a B&W gradient map, so when I make the black and white gradient invisible, I end up with a lot of interesting colorings. I picked some of my favorites, tweaked them a bit, and used them for this part of the challenge.

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+comments are ♥
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+made for tvrealm. TEAM DRAMEDY.

being human US 3x01 screencaps

naushika — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:02:35 GMT

GALLERY HERE

year-end icon progression meme

naushika — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 22:09:25 GMT

I had a hard drive crash & I lost all my files. :( Hopefully only temporarily. I will be attempting to retrieve everything on the destroyed hard drive. But in the meantime, I don't even have an editing program installed on my computer, let alone have any of my precious, precious textures ~~sob~~. So what do I do when I can't icon? I do an icon meme, of course. XD

Year-End Icon Progression Meme, from 2004 to present

This is my third year in a row doing this year-end meme. As previously, I just copied the old stuff I wrote and tacked on the new stuff for the latest year at the end. Just to explain why the last three years are all written present tense. I always put this in my private LJ before, but this seems like a better place to put this!

2004 and earlier (aka so old I don't even know the proper date for these!)

These aren't AWFUL, but that's only because I hadn't really figured out how to do anything yet. A cropped image + some text will never be terrible. Also, I had a bit of an advantage artistically, as I had been doing digital art for a while off livejournal before getting into icons, so I already understood things like aspect ratio and levels and stuff. I dabbled a bit in textures, but we'll see in a moment that 2005 is really when I let textures take over my life. But wow @ my captions, lol. And the borders. SO MANY 1 PIXEL BORDERS.

2005

2005 was clearly THE YEAR OF MASSIVE IMPROVEMENT. And also THE YEAR OF INCREDIBLE TEXTURE ABUSE. Text on icons from this era were generally song quotes, and I had a severe obsession with uneven borders. The 'artistic cropping' was one of a batch of mockery icons that I made to light heartedly poke fun at the trends at the time. Since those trends are now old as hell it's funny to look back on them, because it seemed like ALL the iconmakers were abusing them at the time.

But back to the icons: seriously girl, those textures. What were you thinking.

2006

This was the year of Stargate, I guess, because going back through my archive, I discovered that I only made TWO non-Stargate icons in all of 2006. Woowww. BUT ANYWAY. We're getting into somewhat subtler techniques here. Also, starting to move away from text, and embracing black and white pretty hard. I have to say though the one of Weir at the door window is probably one of my favorite icons I've ever made. :)

2007

This is about the time I discovered LIMS, so it got me to try some new styles and techniques. I also got into some more interesting fonts, and did my first big batch of text-only icons. And yay, different fandoms. :)

2008

This was a bad year for iconning. I only made two icon posts, and they weren't all that inspired. I reverted back to some severe texture abuse. The other icons are pretty blah, basically just crops of comics from xkcd.com. THE YEAR OF NO CREATIVITY! YAY! This is also about the time I lost all ability to put any sort of good text on my icons, and I have yet to regain it.

2009

Starting to get back into it again, although my style was still floundering here. Although I finally figured out that when I cut out a person, I didn't have to put them on a SOLID GREY BACKGROUND! I COULD PUT OTHER STUFF BEHIND THEM! WOW! This was also another extremely unproductive year. :/

2010

Back to massive, massive productivity! I have landcomms and LIMS communities to thank for this. <3 Also Fringe, obviously, because my first set of icons after about 800 years of not doing any were Fringe ones. Woo for new tv obsessions to inspire me. These days I'm into simpler things. Profiles, isolated characters, colors, movement, clean lines.

2011

I made so many icons this year. So many. But I've enjoyed it. :3 I think I've carried through my new love of colors. I've also enjoyed experimenting, pushing myself to try new things. Some experiments didn't work so well, but some did. And I totally rediscovered textures. I used them a LOT this year. My go-to crops were generally one of three: far-away center crop, super close-up crop, or stuck-in-a-corner crop. Lol. The super-close up is my favorite. It can't be done with every cap obviously, but when it can be done, it looks so good to get right up in someone's face. But I really love my work this year (although I do every year because I'm always improving!), and hopefully 2012 will be as productive and educational. :D

2012

Hey look, I kinda figured out how to text again! :D I pretty much picked out my best text icons to include here, but there were certainly lots of text missteps. But I was determined to get good at it again, and practice makes perfect of course, so I kept at it. And I think I did improve on my text quite a bit.

Apart from text, I got pretty creative this year, if I may say so. I experimented a LOT, probably even more than last year. I tried my hand at all kinds of techniques. (The biggest fail was probably the whole painting thing; I tried it on a few icons to mixed results, but I think overall it's just not my style.) I think I got a lot better with textures, and also, COMPOSITION! Looking back, I haven't really been this adventurous in my iconning since 2005, and I really had so much fun with it. Putting two or more elements together in one little box? Omg. I love the challenge. :D

I think the biggest thing that has carried through from previous years is my love of profiles and silhouettes. I basically never get tired of a good profile image.

One downside: apart from that one Star Trek pop art set, I basically forgot how to do bright/vibrant colors. Buuuut I really like the muted and sedate colors I generally have going on anyway. Still, I want to try more bright colors next year!

I've rambled quite a lot so I'll shut up in a second. But I just wanted to point out that I put more icons in the meme for this year because 2012 has been my most prolific iconning year ever. If you're a nerd like me and like numbers, here are some for you:

Total icons posted in 2012: 1162
Total icons posted since 2004: 3331
Percentage of icons made in 2012: 35%

So even though I've been iconning for 8+ years, I have made over 1/3 of all of my icons in the past year. Wow.

I would say "how the hell did that happen??" except I do distinctly recall many caffeine-fueled sessions where I made icons until the sun rose. Uh.. I have a life. I swear.

Here's to 2013! :D

148 icons holy cow

naushika — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 10:04:50 GMT

This post is half a Once Upon a Time batch, and half assorted icons from various challenges and battles and things. :D

64 Once Upon a Time
20 Teen Wolf
7 Fringe
6 X-Files
4 Doctor Who
4 The Shawshank Redemption
4 extended Marvel Universe
3 Star Trek The Next Generation
3 Star Trek Voyager
3 Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
3 Revolution
2 Boardwalk Empire
2 Stargate SG-1
2 Parks and Recreation
2 Torchwood
2 Donnie Darko
2 Haven
2 Angel
2 Galaxy Quest
1 Contact
1 Office Space
1 Sunshine
1 The 5th Element
1 28 Days Later
1 Lost
1 Miranda
1 Breaking Bad
1 Battlestar Galactica
1 Dexter
1 Elementary

These were gonna be a set for 20inspirations's reopening for the Down the Rabbit Hole challenge ("Unusual crops, trippy colorings, seeing double, surreal coloring. Weird and crazy stuff."). But then after finishing the set, I realized I completely fail at reading comprehension, and was only supposed to do a single season from a show. And these are a mix of two seasons. I can't even pick out what episodes all these are from to be sure which seasons the icons come from, and I'm too lazy to do this again so I'm just going to post them here. OH WELLLLlll.

Once Upon a Time

[01-05]
[06-10]
[11-15]
[16-20]

extras that didn't fit the theme & alts & and also a handful of ouat icons for the7days' crop challenge

[21-25]
[26-30]
[31-35]
[36-40]
[41-50]
[51-55]
[56-60]
[61-64]

miscellaneous great icon dump of 2012

I usually like to do periodic icon dumps of all my challenge/battle/whathaveyou icons but I've been really lazy lately so here is like 3 months worth of old stuff all at once. YAY.

teen wolf x5
[65-69]
teen wolf x5
[70-74]
teen wolf x5
[75-79]
teen wolf x5
[80-84]
fringe x5
[85-89]
fringe x2, x-files x3
[90-94]
x-files x3, doctor who x2
[95-99]
doctor who x2, the shawshank redemption x3
[100-104]
the shawshank redemption, extended marvel universe x4
[105-109]
star trek the next generation x3, star trek voyager x2
[110-114]
star trek voyager, terminator: the sarah connor chronicles x3, revolution
[115-119]
revolution x2, boardwalk empire x2, stargate sg-1
[120-124]
stargate sg-1, parks and recreation x2, torchwood x2
[125-129]
donnie darko x2, haven x2, angel
[130-134]
angel, galaxy quest x2, contact, office space
[135-139]
sunshine, the 5th element, 28 days later, lost, miranda
[140-144]
breaking bad, battlestar galactica, dexter, elementary
[145-148]

btw I am still taking cap requests over here! :D i'm going to be working on them this week.

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- thanks for looking! :)

noelle's merry christmas cap request post

naushika — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 23:03:48 GMT

Hit me up with some screencaps and I'll do my best to make you some pretty icons! :D

What can the caps be from? Anythingggggg! The higher-res the cap, the better the chances are I can work with it. The more caps you throw at me the better! I can't guarantee an icon from everything but I'll do my best.

Feel free to spread this link around. :3

This is also a good time to say thank you so much to everyone who's ever commented on one of my posts, or uses one of my icons (still something that amazes me to this day), to people who nominated (!) and voted (!!) for me at the recent wonderous_stuff awards. I was so touched! 2012's been a really fun year of iconning for me. Hopefully 2013 will be as awesome!

Enough blathering! To get you in the holiday mood:

beauty and the beast icons

naushika — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 12:32:26 GMT

20 Beauty and the Beast (+10 alts)

for inspired20in20 with the theme simplicity

[01-05]
[06-10]
[11-15]
[16-20]

alts
[21-25]
[26-30]

92 various icons

naushika — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 23:51:45 GMT

Icon dump :D

19 Haven (+11 alts)
15 Homeland (9 alts)
8 Elementary (+2 alts)
9 Teen Wolf
4 Revolution
3 Hunger Games (+3 alts)
2 Breaking Bad
2 Jericho
1 Dead Like Me (+1 alt)
1 Luther
1 Harry Potter
1 Deadwood

Spoilers for Haven and Homeland in here. :3

haven

[01-05]
[06-10]
[11-15]
[16-19]

alts:
[20-24]
[25-29]
[30]

UGH so indecisive about that one icon.. I wasn't sure if I pulled off the painty thing or not, then I couldn't decide if I liked the negative space or not.. OH WELL, UPLOAD THEM ALL.

homeland

[31-35]
[36-40]
[41-45]

alts:
[46-50]
[51-54]

elementary

[55-59]
[60-62]

alts:
[63-64]

teen wolf

[65-69]
[70-73]

revolution

[74-77]

the hunger games

[78-80]

alts:
[81-83]

misc

[84-88]
[89-92]

dead like me x2, luther, harry potter, deadwood
breaking bad x2, jericho x2

75 icon sized grungy textures

naushika — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 08:19:20 GMT

download all the textures in a zip file

84 icons from 15 movies

naushika — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 04:46:04 GMT

This year I made it a goal to watch 50 (new-to-me) movies, which is more movies than I've watched in any other year. (And I hit 51! With still two months to go in the year, woo!) I'm not generally a huge movie person, but this year I expanded my horizons a bit and watched a lot of movies I never would have normally bothered with. As a result, I've ended up watching a lot of really amazing movies. As I was nearing the end of my goal a couple months ago, I got inspired to start iconning some of them, and so decided I would do a handful of icons from each of my top 15 favorite movies I watched this year. This has been a very long project but I am pleased with myself to finally be posting it.

5 127 Hours (+1 alt)
5 The Adjustment Bureau
5 Black Swan (+2 alts)
5 Drive (+1 alt)
5 I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK
5 The Innkeepers (+1 alt)
5 The Kids are All Right (+1 alt)
5 Marvel Cinematic Universe (+1 alt)
5 O Brother, Where Art Thou? (+2 alts)
5 Paprika
5 Prometheus
5 Requiem for a Dream
5 Source Code
5 True Grit
5 We Need to Talk About Kevin

teasers:

15. I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK

sweet, quirky, emotional.

[1-5]

14. The Kids are All Right

mark ruffalo was kinda douchey in this. but. JULIANNE MOORE!

[6-10]

alt:
[11]

13. Requiem for a Dream

emotional. depressing. i couldn't tear my eyes away from the screen.

[12-16]

12. The Innkeepers

funny, sweet, sad. and a bit scary, it is a ghost story after all!

[17-21]

alt:
[22]

11. We Need to Talk About Kevin

tilda swinton for all the awards!

[23-27]

10. Paprika

~~inception the anime~~ mindfuck in the best possible way

[28-32]

09. Black Swan

ok, the buzz wasn't unfounded. natalie portman is amazing. creepy and mind-twisty.

[33-37]

alts:
[38]

08. 127 Hours

incredibly gripping for a story of a guy stuck in a hole for the majority of it.

[39-43]

alt:
[44]

07. Marvel Cinematic Universe
iron man 2, captain america, thor, x-men first class, the avengers

before 2012 i had only ever seen iron man, but over the course of this year i watched them all and became a huge fan. i'm lumping the movies together but i love them all. <3

[45-49]

alt:
[50]

06. The Adjustment Bureau

~~observers the movie~~ engaging scifi movie. totally my jam. also: ANTHONY MACKIE!

[51-55]

05. Prometheus

i know this film has its haters but i am not one. :) i've been a huge fan of the aliens films since i was a kid and i've been waiting for this film for a very long time. i thought it was wonderful. creepy and exciting.

[56-60]

04. Drive

the main character says about 5 lines the whole movie yet it works.

[61-65]

alt:
[66]

03. O Brother, Where Art Thou?

beautiful movie. it stuck with me for days.

[67-71]

alts:
[72-73]

02. Source Code

duncan jones needs to make all the movies. mind-twisty scifi. yes good.

[74-78]

01. True Grit

both an homage to the western and legit a western itself, while retaining the trademark coen brothers quirkiness. a+

[79-83]

alt:
[84]

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I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK screencaps

naushika — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 04:37:10 GMT

720p screencaps from the movie I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK in a gallery here.

jericho s1 screencaps

naushika — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 22:53:05 GMT

Screencaps from season 1, all 720p, of Jericho in galleries here.

Season 2 coming soon! :D

elementary & teen wolf icons & some others

naushika — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 01:01:48 GMT

12 Elementary icons (from the pilot episode) (+4 alts)
12 Teen Wolf icons (+5 alts)
2 Avengers icons
2 Warehouse 13 icons

some of these icons were made for teenwolf_elite and the7days

elementary

[01-05]
[06-10]
[11-12]

alts

[13-16]

teen wolf

[17-21]
[22-26]
[27-28]

alts
[29-33]

Avengers

[34-35]

Warehouse 13

[36-37]

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- thanks for looking! :)

tutorial: muted coloring

naushika — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 21:05:27 GMT

I was asked to do a tutorial for some of the muted colorings I get in my icons. It's been a while since I've done a tutorial, so I hope this is okay, and also clear. I have 2 basic techniques that I do when I want a muted color, so this is a tut for those 2.

This tutorial assumes you know how to do things like curves, etc. Also, I don't use Photoshop, but the steps are fairly general.

It also got very, very wordy. Sorry about that. At the bottom is a big list of texture resources as I <3 textures and have thousands. But I shared some of my faves. :D

Muted Technique #1

This is my favorite, so I'll talk about this one first.

For this tut I'm working with this cap.

(Note: I usually work with my icons a bit bigger than icon size at first, for initial coloring and sometimes initial texture work. You of course can do this at icon sized, the technique itself doesn't require that the image be bigger.)

Step 1:

Get the cap of your subject! I resized and cropped the original cap a bit, mostly to make this tut a bit tidier, but I usually just work with the full cap, resized to ~30% to start with. If I want to have a blended image, I do the blending now, before the coloring.

Step 2:

Copy the base image and sepia tone it.

I use Paintshop Pro X4 and there is a very cool tool called "time machine" (Effects > Photo Effects > Time Machine). Here's how I use it:

Select the box second from left. Adjusting the intensity brings on different colors (yellower and lighter the farther left you bring the slider; all the way right bring the rich browns). Uncheck photo edges cause that adds cheesy "old photo" edging to your image.

I'm sure Photoshop has its own sepia toning tool, though I haven't used PS in a couple years so I don't remember how it works, sorry. :( The goal is just to make the image those peachy-browns.

Step 3:

Copy the base layer (not the sepia toned one) and set it on top, to screen. You'll want to adjust the opacity level of course, but for a cap that already started very dark, I kept it at 100% here. By setting the base layer on top to screen, we're bringing in hints of the colors from the original image. The red in his shirt and lips, bringing definition to his face, and so on.

Step 4:

Copy the base layer again and set to soft light. Usually my soft light layers are very low opacity (and this one is at 12%) because I just want a bit more definition/deepening of tones. But if you go too far, you'll lose the flatness/muteness look you're going for. But again this value should be adjusted depending on the image you're working with.

Step 5:

Adding a curves level, just generally to brighten and add a bit of contrast. Sometimes I wait until the end to do a curves level.. and sometimes I do one here but lower the opacity and then do another at the end. Really this part is just personal taste and is optional, depending how much constrast you want.

Step 6:

Add the textures! For this image, I put this texture on top, set to screen, at 32%. (See the end of the tut for a general collection of some of my favorite textures, also.) I love this texture for spotty graininess. And as you can tell it's a large texture and has darker areas and brighter areas, so there's a lot of variation to be had in this one texture. I often like to put on the textures when the image is larger, because then when I shrink to icon size, the texture gets smaller too, so the details more refined. I have used this texture before on 100x100 images and that gives a very large grain to the final image. It just depends on what look you're going for!

Step 7:

Resize, crop, sharpen. VOILA, ICON! Or of course if you made your base image 100x100 to start with, this step would just be your usual finishing touches. ;)

Variation 1:

One thing I do sometimes is lower the opacity of the sepia tone layer, like so:

(This is with the same screen and soft light layers, but no curves/texture.)

Then put a texture on top (just to spice it up, this is a different texture; this one):

Then again, resize, crop, sharpen:

By lowering the opacity of the sepia tone layer, and letting through some of the base image, you retain mre of the original colors. This image in particular lets through more blues.

Variation 2:

Another thing I do here is to adjust the hue & saturation of the sepia tone layer. Here I've decided that we should go green with this:

I usually keep the saturation turned down while adjusting the hue, otherwise the color can be overpowering.

This is with the screen and soft light layers, but no curves/texture:

Then, again, a texture. This time it is this texture which is lighter than the others, so I also added a curves layer on top to bring some contrast back:

I think you can see here a good reason why I like to add textures large and then resize. This particular texture makes the image look kinda low quality, but I think shrunk down it looks good:

In Summary:

One sepia tone layer will instantly add some flatness and muteness to your image! You can also try the sepia tone layer as b&w but I find that usually just makes the image kinda blah; the color of the sepia tone is what makes it muted rather than desaturated.

Muted Technique #2

I find this technique generally works better with lighter base caps. This tut will be using this cap.

Step 1:

Prep your image. I've resized the cap by 30% and also edited out the pesky logo in the corner.

Step 2:

Underneath the image, put a new layer flood-filled with a color of your choice. I'm going with a light sort of sea-foamy green, since the original cap has some of those tones already.

Step 3:

Set the image layer to multiply. Here's one of those steps where you just have to fiddle with the opacity, as the image will dictate what opacity looks good. Here I've set it to 75%.

Step 4:

Copy the merged layers (Edit > Copy Special > Copy Merged) and paste that as a new layer.

Again, sorry, I don't know what the PS equivalent is. But you can always just merge all the layers, copy that, and paste that as a new layer.

Then I set this to soft light. I lowered the opacity here to 46%, but you know the drill.. fiddling here is also good to get the look you desire. :D

Step 5:

What's the next step? SLAP A TEXTURE SET TO SCREEN ON THERE, OF COURSE. :D I pretty much am unable to make an icon without a texture on it.. so sorry.

For a brighter icon I like a busier texture. This one is this texture. It's set to 100%.

Step 6:

Resize, crop, sharpen, etc. :)

Variation 1:

To really emphasize the color of the flood fill base layer, I will sometimes set the multiply layer to black and white:

Before doing this, be sure to copy the layer or something, so you have a layer with the original colors. Becaaaause the next step is to set the original color layer on top on soft light:

This is with opacity set to 50%.

What's next? Oh you called it.. a texture. :D This one.

(I put the texture in a weird place since I knew how I was going to crop it, and I wanted the brightness from the edge of the texture in the icon.)

Just adding a curves layer to add some contrast.

Resize, crop, sharpen!

In Summary:

Pick a color, flood fill a layer, then set your image to multiply on top of that layer. You can change the colors around of the multiply layer, make it b&w, sepia tone, etc. This technique works best for lighter caps, or for caps with a strong contrast between darks and lights. If you have a very dark cap it will just end up muddled.

Some general thoughts:

- A sepia tone layer is basically the bee's knees when it comes to a muted coloring. I've done all sorts of things with a sepia tone layer. Try it on top on screen! Soft light! Low opacity normal layer! Adjust the hue of the sepia! Just try everything.

- I really like putting the textures on slightly big and then shrinking both the texture and image to icon size. This will reduce imperfections in the texture itself, smoothing out the texture somewhat, and also make details finer. Here's a side by side:

Left side: texture put on while the image was larger. Right side: same texture put on top of 100x100 icon. Both set to same opacity and about the same part of the texture is over the icon.

The right side can be good too if that's the look you want. I've done it sometimes, but generally for a subtle grain texture, I prefer the former method.

Noelle's super big list of favorite textures

Textures from the tuts:

1
2
3
4
5

Others:

6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40

I'm terribly sorry that I don't know who made any of these larger textures. They're all just random numbers or letters in my folder. I should really organize my textures better. :( But my resources post generally has my texture sources.

Icon size:

? / blimey_icons / ? / ? / pandavirus

unpresented / unpresented / unpresented / fuuurs / innocent_lexys

that's it! some acknowledgments:

- thepicturepool for the pics I used in this tut
- the song Allies by MuteMath, which was my soundtrack to this tut
- diet pepsi, may your caffiene forever be in me

multifandom post

naushika — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 07:52:25 GMT

6 Breaking Bad (+2 alts)
12 Continuum (+1 alt)
12 Teen Wolf (+4 alts)

Icons from various icon battles I've done lately, plus a couple randoms & from teenwolf_elite.

Breaking Bad

[1-5]
[6-8]

These were part of an icon battle at icon_talk with Team Breaking Bad. Check out the whole battle here!

Continuum

[9-13]
[14-18]
[19-21]

These were part of an icon battle with vampire_sessah & everythingshiny. Check out the whole batle here!

Teen Wolf

[22-26]
[27-31]
[32-36]
[37]

Some of these icons were part of a rainbow icon battle at iconhub. Check out the whole battle here!

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20 ATLA icons

sabersailor — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 17:25:47 GMT

[17 + 3 alts] Avatar: The Last Airbender icons inspired by deternot for theiconquest's Chapter Two.
Spoilers for all ATLA, I think.

[01-04]
[05-08]
[09-12]
[13-16]
[17]

Hero: 1, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 14, 17
Bard: 16
Rogue: 2, 3, 4
Wizard: 5, 9, 13, 15

alts:

This is my first time ever doing animated icons, so they're very experimentaly.

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26 Battlestar Galactica icons

naushika — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 23:16:54 GMT

20 Battlestar Galactica icons (+6 alts)

These are for theiconquest, chapter 2 of the main quest. The challenge was to make icons inspired by another maker. I have long admired calikalie's coloring & texture work, so I picked her. :3 I wouldn't say I came anywhere near her level of mastery, but hopefully I didn't embarrass myself too much.

[1-5]
[6-10]
[11-15]
[16-20]

class for all: wizard

alts:
[21-25]
[26]

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Bloc Party - Octopus screencaps

naushika — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 12:45:25 GMT

232 caps from Bloc Party's new video for Octopus. Gallery here.

right click > open image in new tab

I believe only a handful of people know that I actually have a screencap site located right over here. There's not a ton there yet. The most relevant things I have are all of Being Human (US) so far, and a fledgling collection of old school Doctor Who caps.

With that in mind, I am open to suggestions for things to cap! I am looking to get into capping some movies, and I'm willing to cap pretty much any music video. Television gets a bit tricksy because since tv shows go on forever I don't have a huge interest in capping something I don't watch. Regardless. If you want caps of something, hit me up here. :D I can't guarantee speed but I will try to get it done for you! Otherwise, I am just going to randomly cap things I'm interested in. :D

31 Avengers-verse icons

naushika — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 01:58:15 GMT

20 Avengers-verse icons (Thor, Captain America, Iron Man 1 & 2, Avengers) (+11 alts/extras)

For inspired20in20, the theme of which was this year's iconning trends.

[1-5]
[6-10]
[11-15]
[16-20]

1. blocking 2. dramatic lighting 3. grunge 4. monocrhome/muted 5. monochrome/muted
6. linear text use 7. blocking (subtly, lol) 8. dramatic lighting 9. creative blending 10. creative blending
11. creative blending 12. creative blending/muted 13. monochrome/muted 14. blocking 15. creative blending/vibrant
16. creative blending/muted/dramatic lighting 17. grunge 18. muted 19. monochrome/dramatic lighting 20. creative blending

alts/extras/unused
[21-25]
[26-30]
[31]

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13 LOTR and Firefly Icons

sabersailor — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 18:12:19 GMT

11 Lord of the Rings and
2 Firefly Icons for theiconquest Chapter 1 Adventure!

Hero: 3, 4, 6, 9
Wizard: 1, 2, 8, 10, 11, 13
Rogue: 5, 7, 12

As these are all very experimental-y, I would appreciate good con-crit! Thanks :)

Alts/extras:

resources
please don't hotlink, redistribute, repost or edit.
textless icons are not bases.
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