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Mmmmph grrrr, I have been trying to icon this particular image:
... for the past hour and it is not working :/ I've been having horrible, horrible luck with icons since some time last year (um, October, omg)--larger projects have been going okay, but they're starting to seem kind of rote to me, like I'm doing the same thing over and over again. For inspiration I've been looking through tutorials and icons done by people much more talented than I am, but nothing seems to be working. It's incredibly frustrating to open up Photoshop and think, "oh, I finally have an idea for something" and then be utterly unable to do something as simple as color-correcting and think "Fucking hell, I'm regressing." Soon I'll be over-sharpening and abusing the Soft Light function. Fellow graphics people, what do you do in a situation like this? Give up and do something else? CRIES.
On the bright side, my new icon by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tardis80 cheers me up :">
Also on the bright side, check out![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
pollanesque. It is a cool place. It's about good food and lots of other things.
... for the past hour and it is not working :/ I've been having horrible, horrible luck with icons since some time last year (um, October, omg)--larger projects have been going okay, but they're starting to seem kind of rote to me, like I'm doing the same thing over and over again. For inspiration I've been looking through tutorials and icons done by people much more talented than I am, but nothing seems to be working. It's incredibly frustrating to open up Photoshop and think, "oh, I finally have an idea for something" and then be utterly unable to do something as simple as color-correcting and think "Fucking hell, I'm regressing." Soon I'll be over-sharpening and abusing the Soft Light function. Fellow graphics people, what do you do in a situation like this? Give up and do something else? CRIES.
On the bright side, my new icon by
tardis80 cheers me up :">Also on the bright side, check out
pollanesque. It is a cool place. It's about good food and lots of other things.
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the only icons I end up saving instead of chucking are in black and white, because I can't get the colouring to work.
Hm. Maybe I should try working in black and white for a while... The coloring has been so obnoxiously difficult for me lately--seriously, if the color isn't good to start with, I'm hopeless :/ And it really sucks, because I've always thought of coloring as one of the few things I'm good at.
the icon you're posting with is both adorable and very pretty.
Hee, yes, the warmed cockles of my heart, let me show you them.