I'll come and find you

withaghost — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 03:32:17 GMT

22 new icon textures. Please credit if used!

22 icon textures in a zip

withaghost — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 03:30:34 GMT

So now I have 35 Btvs/Ats and SMG icons. And...they're WAY too full of lighting effects. I think I went kind of overboard, but I guess that's just how I roll.

Btvs/Ats
12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031

SMG
32333435

Remember: comment, take, credit, nom, whatevah. If they're shitty go ahead and let it out, and if they're not...praise is good too!

withaghost — Wed, 23 Mar 2005 01:29:17 GMT

Hey, everybody, just an announcement: my Photobucket bandwidth has been exceeded for this month so for the remainder of March no images will be viewable in this journal. Which I know, it sucks, but it really can't be helped. So starting April 1st, people can look at stuff again unless too many look and it gets exceeded again :)

withaghost — Mon, 21 Mar 2005 21:00:31 GMT

Hey everybody! I have 12 new light stock images right here! Go check them out and tell me what you think. They're rather primitive since this is my first try with that kind of effect, but...I thought I'd try it out anyway. If you take any, please credit me. Bye!

withaghost — Sat, 12 Mar 2005 04:01:55 GMT

Warning: an assolad of icons ahead! Possibly the biggest batch I've ever made! And yes, I just said 'assload'. It includes:
-Lost
-The OC
-Various videogames
-Buffy

And yes, I only made one OC icon.

Teasers:

Lost
1.2.3.4.
5.6.7.8.
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.
41.42.43.44.
45.46.47.48.
49.50.51.52.
53.54.55.

Videogames
56.57.58.59.
60.61.62.63.
64.65.66.67.
68.69.70.71.
72.73.74.

Buffy
75.76.77.78.
79.80.81.82.
83.84.

The OC
85.

The usual rules apply. Please feel free to take, credit, comment, nom...etc. I'm really not feeling these icons as a good quantity of them just plain suck but I thought I'd put them out there cause they were kind of building up on my hard drive.

withaghost — Fri, 18 Feb 2005 20:06:24 GMT

I made 5 new textures! Sorry I never post them in mass quantities, I just never have time :( Anyway - please feel free to take, credit, and comment. I'd love to hear what you think or see something made with them!

Oh yeah - I didn't put them in a zip file because all these zip files are just taking up wayyyyy too much bandwidth and it's craziness.

Cloudy Birthday Cake

Candy Vegas

Dusty Ghosts

Spiderweb Carnival

Clover Bridge

I hope that you enjoy and take and credit and make nice things!

withaghost — Sun, 13 Feb 2005 06:14:58 GMT

Wow! I finally finished the request icons! They are here! And it only took me over two weeks...well, I've been incredibly busy. They're behind the cut along with some Charlie/Claire icons from "Homecoming".

preview!

Okay, so a few notes. I didn't do everything that some people requested *exactly* just because I might have overlooked things such as tiny text, etc. But I tried to fit your icon as best as I could. Oh and to sugarnspike613 - sorry I didn't do your animation. I'm horrible at them and just couldn't accomplish it. But I tried as best I could with a still :P Other than that, just the regular stuff:

Please comment if you're taking, feel free to nominate, and credit with withaghost if you use any of them.

Another note about the requests - I didn't do every single icon for everyone. I started to, but almost everyone requested two icons or more and the workload just became impossible with my school and work. But anyway - I did what I could. Hopefully you're not all bummed if I didn't do all your icons.

Oh yeah - these are for everyone to take. So they're free to anyone, though they were made for a certain person :)

Requests

1234
5678
9101112
13141516
17181920
21222324
25262728

Lost

29303132
3334

1-2. for covert_light
3-4. for dothestarswyou
5-6. for eirian
7-8. for greeneyes44
9. for hakerrosenberg
10. for bentfire
11-12. for kajungirl81
13. for dhisana
14. for misstress_tink
15-16. espionage
17. for goingtralala
18. for pixiewildfire
19-20. for poisonapple73
21-22. for sugarnspike613
23-24. for the_true_slayer
25. for withteeth
26-28. for psychme

withaghost — Sat, 12 Feb 2005 21:03:07 GMT

I'm almost done with the request icons, and they will be finished in a few days. Sorry it's taking so long but...I'm freakin busy. First - I have brushes. 15 of them. I know, it's small, but they took me a long time. I made them myself! At first I was very proud but the more I look at them the more I see the flaws and a little bit of plain-ness. But anyway...they're here for the taking.

Brush set for PS7
Zipped Image Pack

I would love to hear your thoughts, feedback, praise, constructive criticism. If you take, please credit me somewhere with withaghost. Thanks so much!

withaghost — Sat, 05 Feb 2005 02:49:26 GMT

Okay these technically are not new textures, but I thought that I'd move them to my graphics journal. They are the very first two sets I ever made, and I have added the dates along with them. Just in case people who hadn't seen them before wanted to use them :)

11/24/04

download zip file

12/3/04
TEXTURE THE FIRST
TEXTURE THE SECOND

Okay then! I guess that's it! (this post was really not that exciting).

Oh yes, and if you use them *please* credit me in username. It would make me happeeee!

withaghost — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 03:54:23 GMT

OMG I wrote another tutorial *gasp*. I'm really on a roll with posting in this journal, but since school is rearing its ugly head, I'm online 24/7...which officially makes me a school geek. So I had time for a quick tutorial.

I suck at these, you should know. I always make them fast and not very complicated, usually because of time. And I incorporated the glowing-eye thing that people seemed to want to know about, so hopefully this helps. But anyway - here you go...

A tutorial for this icon:

is right

We're going to head from this base:

to this icon:

Step One
I chose this screencap because I love the emotional poignancy, and Claire is just awesome. Anyway - the screencap is from crumblingwalls and the episode is 'Raised By Another'. I resized and cropped it to this:

Step Two
This is pretty simple. I duplicated the layer and set the second layer on 'Screen'. I then flattened the image.

Step Three
I duplicated the image again, and used the options 'sharpen' and 'sharpen edges', both on the filter menu. I flattened the image again.

Step Four
This part gets a little complicated. I didn't like the overly-gritty look to her face so I decided to do something about it. I duplicated the layer again and smoothed out her skin with the 'blur' tool at 50%. However, I chose not to smooth out her hair, lips, eyes, or the tear on her cheek. I left those alone because I wanted them to stand out. I (again) flattened the image when I was finished.

Step Five
I duplicated the layer again and started to work on making her facial features stand out a little more. I created a new layer and took a 3px paintbrush and painted over her eyes with the color #89E5C6, a light green color. Then I applied the filter 'blur' to this layer and set it on Overlay, opacity 75%. This made her eyes stand out a little more, gave them some vibrance. I created another new layer and this time used the paintbrush to paint over her lips with the color #F1778B (a rose-pink). I set this layer to 'Soft Light', opacity 25%. I didn't want her lips *too* accentuated. Lastly, I created a new layer on top of the others and used a 1px brush to outline her eyes in the color black (#000000). This gives her an eyeliner look and also brings out her eyes. I blurred the eye layer and set it to 'Soft Light', opacity 50%. I flattened the image. This is the end result:

Step Six
I took a stock that I found from Stock X-change and used a section of it over the icon. The stock:

I set the stock's layer to 'Screen' at 100% opacity. Then I flattened the image. End result:

Step 7
I started and a new layer and put a gradient of the color #68B69C (a soft green) in the lower left corner, going diagonally upwards. I set this gradient on 'Screen' at 60% opacity. I flattened the image.

Step 8
A small step; I duplicated the layer and adjusted the Brightness/Contrast. I set the Contrast to 5 and the Brightness to -5

Step 9
I put a small gradient from the left outward in a light yellow color, #F1E3AB. I then flattened the image. I created a new layer and put a brush in the lower left corner from classic.tere-art.com. It is in the same color, #F1EA3B. I set this brush-layer on 'Screen' and duplicated it three times, making it a pale yellow color.

Step 10
I added text in a new layer, in the font Book Antiqua at 6px. It says 'Beautiful Girl' and I chose to hide it in the brush in the lower left corner.

This ends my tutorial! I hope you enjoyed it and it helped you out in some way. It also outed my secret about the eye thing, which totally wasn't complicated at all :)

withaghost — Sat, 29 Jan 2005 16:08:34 GMT

Taking requests for icons! Why? I don't know - I guess I need the inspiration from somewhere and plus they're just fun! It's like being commissioned, except you aren't getting paid.

1. Please provide a screecap, or more than one if you request more than one.
2. Please provide text (lyrics, poetry, etc.) because I might put something quite shitty on there and then you'd hate it!
4. You can request anything you'd like, any fandom you'd like, I'm pretty much up for anything. Except for maybe some ships that are out there that make me cringe. Sorry! I'll tell you privately if you have indeed set of my cringe factor.
5. Hopefully these don't take so long so please request!

I'm not sure how many requests I'll actually get, and it'll probably really be minimal. But it's cool, even if it's two, I will make yours the BEST TWO EVAAHHH! Alright, now I'm done.

withaghost — Fri, 28 Jan 2005 05:27:37 GMT

Yeah so another post again, and so soon. But anyway - I've been messing around with stock images to create the ideal brush textures. So I put my idea out and here it is. Keep in mind these are my first brushes, so try not to be mean or anything. There are two sets - 5 regular brushes and 16 icon brushes. If you want to take them, please right click and choose 'Save As', as they are not zip files but abr files.

Crime Scene .abr file for PS7

16 Icon .abr file for PS7

These are only for PS7 and I have no image packs, I'm sorry :\ I was simply just too lazy. However, if you would like to take them, please be sure to credit me in username somewhere. Thanks!

[edit] I've added the image packs because people were requesting and I felt guilty - especially this being my first brush set. Anyway - here they are. They are in zip format.

Image Pack for Icon Brushes
Image Pack for Crime Scene

withaghost — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 02:38:56 GMT

preview:

BTVS
1.2.3.4.
5.6.7.8.
9.10.11.12.
13.14.15.16.
17.18.19.20.

LOST
1.2.3.4.
5.6.7.8.
9.10.11.12.
13.14.15.16.
17.18.19.20.

Please tell me whatcha think! I'd love to hear it. Also - credit would be just dandy. If you don't credit, I would probably be all sad and mopey for a while. Then I'd get over it and get ghetto on your ass! Okay, that was a joke. Anyway - yeah, there are the icons.

ETA: if you want to nominate me for anything, you don't have to ask. I promise I won't object to any nominations. Unless it's for something like Suckiest Icon Ever, then I might object.

withaghost — Sat, 22 Jan 2005 01:22:58 GMT

I need money very badly. And my job search is going poorly, so I put up a got a paypal account and I decided to put up "prices". I have no freaking clue how this works. Anyway - prices? You can request what you want. I don't think they're too bad.

Layouts - $3.50
Textures (like large and involved ones that take me effin' HOURS to complete) - $2.00
Headers - $2.00
Banners/Friends Only Stuff/Other Smallish Crap - $1.75
Any other special graphics can be negotiated.

withaghost — Fri, 14 Jan 2005 03:38:04 GMT

5 New Textures! Please tell me what you think, or if you use them. As always, please also credit me with my username somewhere. These files are in zip format.

withaghost — Sun, 09 Jan 2005 03:25:40 GMT

Icons! Hurrah!
Preview:

LOST
1.2.3.
4.5.6.
7.8.9.
10.11.12.
13.14.15.
16.17.18.
19.20.21.
22.

Buffy
23.24.25.
26.27.28.
29.30.31
32.33.24.

Musicians (Bjork, Coldplay, Radiohead, Esthero)
36.37.38.
39.4041.
42.43.

I would love to hear any feedback, comments, etc. I would also love credit with withaghost!

withaghost — Tue, 28 Dec 2004 08:53:58 GMT

Hey! I have 12 new stock images along with a bunch of old ones at my stock image journal. They're kinda sucky but I'm a beginner so please excuse my amateur-ness. Anyway - if you take please credit me somewhere and I would love to hear what you think/feel/believe. I would also love to see any results that come from these, because it makes me smile!

My stock image album!

kthxbye.

withaghost — Mon, 20 Dec 2004 19:17:43 GMT

Okay I'm moving my resource post to this journal, and updating some stuff. I need to credit and let other people know how I do my art - so yeah!

Brushes
insomniac
VBrush
1Greeneye
Touchstone's Art
Annika Von Holdt
Stock Still
Amalgam
classic.tere-art.com
misprinted type
inxsomniax
pekeana
inexorablyhere
crumblingwalls
teh_indy
100x100_brushes

Screencaps/Scans
Romance on btvs
a buffy screencap site
Buffy Screenshots
Bjork.com
images.google.com
The Cheese Stands Alone
Lost Media
LOST screencaps by crumblingwalls

Stock Images/Textures
Gettyimages
Stock Xchange
1greeneye
TRE-XTURES
Stock Still
morguefile
Amalgam
Labirynth
B-stock
Resurgere
Temabinastock
Infinitfan
Phyzer
Zombiestock
Thppt-Stock
classic.tere-art.com
misprinted type
Hello Goodbye
Falling Night
teh_indy
The Magic Box

Fonts
misprinted type
dafont.com

withaghost — Sun, 19 Dec 2004 07:15:09 GMT

Okay this is my first update (yay!) and I'm kind of keeping it small scale for now. I only have two textures. Feel free to comment and tell me what you think, and credit with either amorousfear or withaghost. Whatever your preference.

Texture #1
Texture #2

Okay, thanks!