December posting meme-18th

[abyss_valkyrie]

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 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 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.

Comments

[aurora_amethyst]

D'awwww! I'm so glad you liked my tutorial! I'm always glad if anyone finds any part of them to be helpful! ^^

[abyss_valkyrie]

I just loved the icon & the tutorial when you posted it and tried it out then but couldn't really make an icon. When I tried it later on I could do it a lot more!Thank you for making it!

[tinny]

Wooo, good! Thank you for answering!

I can't really follow tutorials 100% either. I love writing them, but following them...? Too hard! :D

I'll check out the ones you recced here, always good to have more tutorials!

[abyss_valkyrie]

Oh wow!I don't know why I thought it's probably easy for most people to follow tutorials,lol! Good to see a partner.

[goodbyebird]

Yay tutorial recs, thanks so much :D

[abyss_valkyrie]

You're welcome!:D

[libitina]

Oooo these do look like great resources

[abyss_valkyrie]

Thank you.
*stares at your icon*
Lol,I've never seen that picture of XZ before!XD

[libitina]

I made it myself! From this amazing advertisement https://youtu.be/4LPs0k-_ihs

[breyzyyin]

Awesome tutorials! ♥

[sunshine304]

Ohhh these tutorials look great! I’ll have to save this post because I really enjoy icon making but I’m not overly creative with it and never worked from tutorials. I also don’t have any clue what kind of functions PS actually has because it’s all just trial and error for me. XD I’m sure I’m missing out on so many cool ideas because of that, so this will be a great reference to try some new things!

[abyss_valkyrie]

I can understand missing out on the cool things because same!Trial and error is just the way I do things and then later wish I could remember the exact steps after I make a very good icon accidentally!