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What's the best icon tutorial you've seen? One you keep coming back to and look at and try to get better at? asked by [personal profile] tinny 

I do make most of my icons using a trial and error method but when I first started trying to make animated icons, I used YT and LJ tutorials for reference a lot. For blending too, I tried following some good ones but I couldn't really follow along because my brain melts when I see layer masks and other cool features being used,lol.

THIS tutorial by [personal profile] aurora_amethyst has been on my list to try and I did but like I said,I'm not good at using a lot of features,so I couldn't use the tutorial a 100%, though I did like 90% of it. Also the choice of screencap probably made it different too. But I learned how to use gradient maps so that's pretty awesome!
Here's what I got. I wanted to adjust the face colouring using selective colour but I kind of wanted to keep the original result here. I'll give it a go another time and see where I get to!:D



For a few others that I like:

THIS falling petals tutorial on LJ is absolutely one of my favourites.

THIS very pretty colouring tutorial where I mainly started learning to use selective colour from (but still can't get the pretty effect mei_ling7 did) is another favourite of mine.

For blocking and blending I do check in on THIS tutorial a lot because I cannot get these effects a 100% and the example icons are just so beautiful!

The December posting meme is open for questions HERE, I'd love to answer questions, fandom and non-fandom related questions.


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