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[switch842]

I think I've figured out my iconing issue...

I never have any preconceived idea of what I want an icon to look like when I start making it. Therefore, I have no ideas of what I need to do to get it to look a certain way. Which is why I end up doing the same thing all the time. Cos it looked good once, I can get it look good again. :-)

Not sure what to do about that....

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[hsapiens.livejournal.com]

Does anyone know what she's going to end up with when she starts? If so, then I'd like to borrow her brain so I know how it's done.

That's probably why my icons are very representational. I want to be able to make icons like the ones being nominated over here (http://community.livejournal.com/lapislazu_icons/11163.html), but I never come close.

ETA: Oy, my grammar is slipping tonight.

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm...just go with it, sweetie - you seem to have a talent for off the cuff - keep it that way for a bit.

*hugs*

[switch842.livejournal.com]

Sometimes when I'm reading tutorials, it seems like they do. A lot of them start out "I wanted to make THIS, so here's what I did...." Occasionally I'll have a certain texture/frame/text in mind that I want to use and sort of edit around that. But, more often than not I'm just doing random stuff and seeing what happens...

[switch842.livejournal.com]

I guess I'll have to... LOL :-)

[hsapiens.livejournal.com]

I'll let you in on a secret (mine, if nobody else's): When writing a tutorial, I have NO IDEA what I was thinking when I was doing most steps so I analyze what that layer does to the image and decide that's what I wanted it to do and write it as if that was the goal. More than likely, I fiddled with layers, backtracking to change settings after I saw how subsequent layers affected the image. I've removed all of the layers that I tried and turned off because they didn't work with the other layers. There's nothing linear about my process. I am the Center of the Universe so I sort of assumed that's how everyone does things.

Every once in a while I have some sort of idea of where I want to end up but the icons that give me the most satisfaction are the ones that surprised the hell out of me, accidentally becoming good despite my cluelessness. :D

[switch842.livejournal.com]

Hehe. OK, glad to hear I'm not the only clueless person! :-)