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29 Icons: Multi-fandom

lookslikerain — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 10:17:59 GMT

Strap yourselves in kids, because we are setting the gradient maps to 11 and blasting out of the stratosphere! 20 multi-fandom icons plus 9 alternates/rejects made for Round 37: In the Monochrome at monthlyinspo. This challenge was just made for me to faff about with gradients, which is pretty much my default setting lately. Includes: The Witcher, Halo (TV series), Moon Knight and one lonely Star Trek: Picard icon. I've tried to keep it as non-spoilery as possible (?) but these are mostly very new shows. So you know, be warned?

Alts

40 icons: The Legend of Vox Machina

lookslikerain — Sat, 19 Mar 2022 09:00:13 GMT

20 icons of The Legend of Vox Machina made for Round 36: Space Oddity at monthlyinspo, plus 20 alternates. Wow, I really like to make things difficult for myself, and went for a subject that really has nothing to do with space. But I've really been loving this show and the heart wants (to icon) what the heart wants. I hope I did it justice - they kind of mostly just ended up purple. Ah well.

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Alternates

38 Icons: Book of Boba Fett and Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

lookslikerain — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 02:56:44 GMT

What's this? I'm back??? Well, maybe. No promises, I'll be honest; I can't really can't commit to that! But I will say that lately I've really missed some of my old hobbies and wanted to see if the old girl could still crank out... well, something. So here I am with some icons!

There are 38 icons under the cut, including a set of 20 Book of Boba Fett icons made for monthlyinspo's Round 35: Spice Up Your Life challenge. The other 18 icons are Book of Boba Fett alternates and the remains of a Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency rejected set. I started making DGHDA icons and then veered into Boba territory and got side-tracked, aah-whoops! The Boba icons felt like they better met the challenge, but I still kind of like some of rejected set, so here we are.

01-05 - Black Pepper, Black Pepper, Chilli, Chilli, Cinnamon
06-10 - Nutmeg, Nutmeg, Nutmeg, Tumeric, Lemon and Lime
11-15 - Sage, Sage, Sage, Sage, Mint
16-20 - Rose Water, Rose Water/Saffron (yum), Saffron, Black Pepper/Sea Salt/hint of chilli, Sea Salt

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Announcement: soaked is now on indefinite hiatus

lookslikerain — Tue, 05 May 2020 01:22:24 GMT

I am sure you can see this coming (and not just because I mentioned this in my last post!) I will be putting this community onto indefinite hiatus. You remember that personal news I mentioned in my last texture post? Well, I will be having a bub in September, which means I won't be able to devote any time to this place for a good while. And lets be real, I haven't really been active on here for some time, even though I still lurk a bit. Those of you that know my story might remember I went through some pretty horrid stuff a while back, so be able to put the community on hiatus for something a bit more positive like this is a lovely change.

Rest assured, I won't be taking anything down and all my textures shall remain for as long as the imgur/DA servers are running. That said, you may want to download what you want, while you still can! The Internet is a fickle beast.

I know I have said this before but thank you - thank you for being so kind to my corner of the internet and for supporting this community all these years. And it has been YEARS. I started this community back in 2005 (!!! - holy frick I am officially old!) and it's been quite a ride seeing the icon community change and grow. Looking back through some of my older posts, I have certainly changed and grown as a we've travelled along. Geez, some of my early stuff was truly horrid, but I've kept it in place. It's good to be able to reflect on where you've come from, even if those places weren't great!

I crunched some numbers, and since the inception of soaked I have posted:

- 10757 textures (of varying sizes)
- 6871 icons (not including rejects that never made it to posting)
- 3 mood themes (remember those???)
- a small number of other random things, including wallpapers and fanmixes (before Spotify was a thing!)

So yeah, that's a lot of textures. Maybe not as many as some? But it seems like a lot for me! I've always considered my community more a texture comm than a graphics one, and I guess those numbers confirm that.

I cannot express how grateful I am for everything and I hope in some small way I have been able to help on your icon making journeys :')

Keep creating and be kind to yourself.

Take care,
Sarah
lookslikerain // soaked

Edit 15/02/2022: Just a small update to say I had a healthy baby girl, who has now turned into healthy toddler in what seems like the blink of an eye. Thank you for all the well wishes! :)

3 Icon Texture Packs and an Announcement

lookslikerain — Tue, 05 May 2020 00:59:09 GMT

Okay, okay - I know I have been slack as hell. Life has sort of snuck up on me. I blinked in July 2019 and I found myself in the run up to Christmas. And then I got some personal news just after New Years, which is both exciting and frightening, and I blinked again it's already May 2020! I haven't been completely inactive during my away time - in fact, some of you may have seen these textures posted directly to my DA page. Well, here they finally are in all their individual glory - there's 3 icon packs in total (that's 345 individual textures under the cut)

So onto that announcement hey? Well, I may as well rip off the bandaid - I will be putting this community onto indefinite hiatus after this post. I'll put some more detail into the sticky post shortly.

Anyway, onto the textures.

download @ da

download @ da

download @ da

15 icons for Round 25 at monthlyinspo - Flaming June

lookslikerain — Sun, 02 Jun 2019 10:14:57 GMT

Been a little while, but here are my entries for Round 25: Flaming June at monthlyinspo. Multi-fandom for this round - Star Trek: Discovery, GoT, Star Wars, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and Avengers.

Alts

1 icon texture pack

lookslikerain — Sat, 23 Mar 2019 03:15:17 GMT

1 icon texture pack. Look, I debated whether or not to post these - I have a personal rule about posting textures that I find pretty, but not really useful. I feel these probably fall into this category, but dang it if I didn't have some fun making them. So, anyway - here are some textures you that you and I both probably will never use. Who knows - maybe it will spark something?

download @ da (1.6MB)

2 texture packs

lookslikerain — Mon, 18 Mar 2019 06:56:12 GMT

2 texture packs for you - let's get stuck into, shall we?

download at dA (2.1 MB)

download at dA (2.3 MB)

100 icon textures

lookslikerain — Sun, 27 Jan 2019 22:09:07 GMT

Hello gentle friends. I had a lazy long weekend, so some icon textures for you below the cut. You know the drill by now :)

download pack @ dA (2.0 MB)

3 Icon Texture Packs (310 individual textures in total)

lookslikerain — Sun, 13 Jan 2019 02:40:52 GMT

Hello all, happy belated New Year! I've been gone a spell, snowed under with work and study and life. I've been saving up all my textures that I've made in fits and starts - I just didn't really have a chance to post them until now. In this post you'll find all 310 individual textures and download links to the three texture packs they belong to. I uploaded one of these back at the end of July last year (crumbs, really? 2018 sure got away from me!) so apologies if you've seen it twice already.

I'd sure like to say 2019 will be different, but it's already shaping up to be another bonkers year. We'll just have to take it as it comes at us, won't we? :)

download at deviantart (2.6 MB)

download at deviantart (1.4 MB)

download at deviantart (1.7 MB)

100 icon textures

lookslikerain — Sat, 30 Jun 2018 02:22:30 GMT

Oh, hey! Here's a pack full of weird and probably not at all useful textures. Sorry I've been gone so long - the year has just been zooming by.

download zip at dA (2.1 MB)

190 icon texture pack

lookslikerain — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 00:18:38 GMT

190 (!) strong texture pack - I know, I know. I need to get better at not leaving them all to post at once. It just really sucks (read: I am just ridiculously lazy) having to upload them all :P

They are in a little bit of a mess - try as I might, imgur just kept uploading them in a weird order, and their reorganise option sucks bananas. And come'on - there's 190 of them! That would take forever, and I might never get to actually posting them. If you download the zip, I swear they look prettier ;)

zip download at DA (3.0 MB)

Warning: There are 190 individual icon textures under the cut. Do not click under there if that bothers you.

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26 GoT Icons

lookslikerain — Wed, 24 Jan 2018 22:01:51 GMT

20 Game of Thrones icons and 6 alts made for Round 11: Story Book at monthlyinspo.

Game of Thrones would arguably be one of the most successful book adaptations of recent years. I suppose it could be considered a bit of a cop out choosing it as my subject, so in an effort to stretch more into the storybook theme I've dabbled in a bit of a crossover with the text. Excluding the icon of the Hound, the text all comes from the The Nevernight Chronicle series and they are seriously great books, if you are into adult epic fantasy:

In a land where three suns almost never set, a fledgling killer joins a school of assassins, seeking vengeance against the powers who destroyed her family.

Daughter of an executed traitor, Mia Corvere is barely able to escape her father’s failed rebellion with her life. Alone and friendless, she hides in a city built from the bones of a dead god, hunted by the Senate and her father’s former comrades. But her gift for speaking with the shadows leads her to the door of a retired killer, and a future she never imagined.

I tweaked the words slightly (using "lion", instead of "wolf" for example) and protracted some of the quotes to fit, but it's pretty faithful to the source material. The books definitely have adult themes, so it fits quite well with GoT.

Also, I had to include an icon of Sam in the Citadel library - seemed fitting. Too many books, too few centuries... ;)

Alts

2017 Icon Retrospective

lookslikerain — Sun, 24 Dec 2017 08:36:45 GMT

So, 2017 huh? What a year, what a year. For me personally, I took a few knocks (which kind of shows in my posts) but the end is in sight, and I'm feeling much more positive about the future. As crappy as some parts of the year have been, I guess now is a good time to have at look back at what I managed to put out on the creative front. You can definitely see my moods change with my colour choices. I wouldn't really call this a progression post (I'm not sure the quality has improved at all) but it's more of a 2017 icon retrospective.

I was curious, I did some quick and dirty maths to figure out how much stuff there was - 320 icons (not including all alts and rejects) and 1020 (!!!) textures. Let's take a slide down memory lane... please note these are based off the month I made them, not the month I actually posted them.

January

I started off with so much gusto - I really wanted to work on things I typically avoided. Text and texture work were my two big ticket items. I also started really mucking about with gradient maps.

February

Still working on dem textures and text.

March

March 2017 was the shittiest month of my life. The icons you see above (excluding the last icon) just managed to scrape in before everything turned to custard for a bit. Up until that point, I was feeling pretty stoked about what was happening in my life, and it's reflected in the colouring.

The last icon was my default icon for a bit. I made it not long after I got out of hospital when I was spending most of my time in front of a computer, since I couldn't do anything else. It pretty much sums it all up.

April

Dark/sad days equals dull/sad icons. I managed to get a few textures in there, but not many and no text. I'll be real - I started to see a psych towards the end of April/beginning of May and it helped pull me back from the black hole I was circling around.

May

I swear I must of used that USED UP texture on at least 10 icons. Not all of them made it to posting, thank goodness. Continuing with going and talking to someone helped a bit, and things started to improve slightly. I didn't feel like I was drowning so much anymore, I was just clinging to a raft in the middle of the ocean. But at least I had the raft now.

June and July

I've combined these two months as June and July were hard for me creatively. Nothing felt right, I couldn't really think of any ideas and pretty much everything I made I felt terrible about. I actually wrote more these two months than I iconed. Most of it was a self indulgent mess (much like this post, lololol), but it helped so I am glad I did it at the time.

August

August also fucking sucked for personal reasons, so not much happened on the creative front for a bit. A lot of what I made I deleted straight away, I just didn't like anything I did. It was very frustrating, because usually I can channel bad-juju into something.

September

I think those two Firefly icons got me out of a bit of a funk I was in. I know they are really nothing special, but it was the first time in a while that I had made something I actually liked. It made me brave enough to play around with text again. I think I actually submitted that icon without text when it came down to it, but at least I made it! :P

October

Some forays with giffing and supersaturation. And then I made some scary Halloween inspired icons for monthlyinspo - I never actually finished the set, but hey it was something.

November

November felt like it was were I was able to turn a corner.

December

Oh, December, December, December. Not even finished with me yet, but you've been a roller coaster, that's for damn sure. There's some other ~~stuff~~ happening in the background right now that is making me feel elated and terrified and kind of ill just thinking about it, which means it's time for weird stuff to be cranked out. Don't worry - most of it stays in my reject folder, haha ;)

End of Year Notes
Look, I know that they are ~~just icons~~ and I really don't take it all so seriously, but this year, it really brought home to me that I need to take care of my mental self, in order to be able to create things (not just icons) and be happy. When I focused on some self care, things tend to fall into place elsewhere in my life.

I'm not sure what 2018 will have in for me (I guess no one does right, that would take all the fun out) but I am actually hopeful. Thinking back on some of the low points of this year, I'm incredibly thankful I'm able to say that, and to have the opportunity to move forward. There's a new year full stretching out ahead of us, full of possibilities.

And, I'm thankful to you, dear and gentle reader, for reading my rambles, and being so supportive, especially when I was having those low moments. All the comments and kind words truly have been helpful. So, thank you.

I probably won't have a chance to post anything before 2018 hits, so I hope you all have a fabulous holiday period, and a happy new year! :)

100 icon textures

lookslikerain — Mon, 18 Dec 2017 10:09:16 GMT

So, whoopsie-daisy, I kind of forgot to post these here. Mea culpa, a thousand humble apologies! BUT, there's 100 icon sized textures in this pack, so maybe it kind of makes up a little? Guess the pack is aptly name, lololol.

zip download at DA (1.7 MB)

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84 Miscellaneous Icons

lookslikerain — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 04:01:52 GMT

Hey! Here's a thing! Full of ~~things~~... otherwise know as 84 random icons. Mostly made for icon contests and the like. Some were never entered, 'cause I am just terrible at actually submitting them on time.

Subjects include: Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead, Star Wars, Firefly, Westworld, various videogames, Lord of The Rings, vintage photos, pulp fiction covers, and other random bits of art.

20 Misc Icons

lookslikerain — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 09:02:15 GMT

20 hodge-podge assortment of icons made for Round 9: Pretty in Pink at monthlyinspo. I kind of wanted to icon things that didn't necessarily scream pink. I was... somewhat successful at sticking with that, but a few obvious choices snuck in. Also, I may have gone smidge overboard with the gradient maps. ~~I'm not even sorry.~~

Subjects include: Star Wars, vintage photos, art, stock, World of Warcraft and Dragon Age. Basically, all the random stuff I enjoy.

50 icon textures

lookslikerain — Mon, 16 Oct 2017 00:28:51 GMT

50 (kinda) spooky 100x100 icon textures, just in time for Halloween. WOoooOOoooooOOOOoooooo! 👻 /waggles fingers in a spooky manner

zip download at DA (980 KB - aka teeny-tiny)

2 icon texture packs

lookslikerain — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 11:05:06 GMT

2 icon texture packs - 100 textures in total. You know the drill.

zip download at DA (1.1 MB)

zip download at DA (1.0 MB)

300+ previously posted World of Warcraft icons

lookslikerain — Tue, 29 Aug 2017 07:15:33 GMT

What is says on the can - 300+ old World of Warcraft icons ~~since Photobucket is now a steaming pile of poop.~~ And by old, I mean really old. I swear some of these are older than organised religion. So, you know, they have lost a few pixels during their lifetime. Be kind to them in their old age, I no longer have the originals.

Also, there are probably duplicated icons in here. Sorry about that. Imgur had a heart attack when I tried to upload them all at once, so I had to do it batches.

120 icon textures

lookslikerain — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 09:20:59 GMT

Oh hai. So yeah, this happened - 120 strong icon texture pack for you all.

zip download at DA (2.4 MB)

80 icon textures

lookslikerain — Fri, 21 Jul 2017 13:11:12 GMT

Hi hi. You know what time it is :) 80 icon textures for your grabby hands. One day I'll post bigger textures again, but today is not that day.

zip download at DA (1.8 MB)

2 icon texture packs

lookslikerain — Tue, 20 Jun 2017 03:44:28 GMT

2 texture packs. Some of the individual textures are sporadically not loading for me. Sorry if it's doing it for you too. You can right click and open the image in a new tab, and it loads fine (for me anyway), so I don't know why it's got it's knickers in such a twist. Oh, well. It's free image hosting, I can't complain too much.

zip download at DA (1.7 MB)

zip download at DA (509 KB)

60 Random Icons

lookslikerain — Tue, 09 May 2017 23:14:39 GMT

So hey, it's time for one of these - a random assortment of 60 icons. Subjects include: Lord of the Rings, historical photos, stock (nature, people, art), Zootopia, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Firefly and a couple of videogames icons (Dragon Age: Inquisition and Mass Effect) thrown in for a bit of flavour. Oh and hey, one of them is even animated! I know, I know; I am as confused as you are. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Some, if not most were made for icontests, but I don't think I actually got around to actually entering most of them for one reason or another.

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3 icon texture packs - 285 textures

lookslikerain — Tue, 18 Apr 2017 00:46:57 GMT

Hello everyone. Thank you for all your kind words in my last post. I'm sorry I couldn't reply to you all individually, I was in no fit state to do much of anything. But apparently being sad makes me also pour stuff into creativeness as well - when life gives you lemons, you... make icon textures? Or something. Hrm.

I had a lot of time in the beginning not being able to move much while I healed, so I spent many an hour on the computer, making stuff. Not all of which is fit to see the light of day, but hey, some of it was alright! I'm still not 100% okay, but I guess it's something you are never okay with - but I have been able to take some stumbling steps and put distance between me and what happened. I guess that is progress.

Anyway, enough of all that - I have 3 texture packs for the taking - that's 285 icon textures total under the cut. So RIP to your data - sorry!

zip download at DA (2.7 MB)

zip download at DA (842 KB)

zip download at DA (2.0 MB)

They are all mixed in together, since visually, I liked it better that way and it's easier to find what colours you're after.