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[aesc]

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 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.

Comments

[beeej.livejournal.com]

Iconing is just so weird. I feel like I suck most of the time. I'm so inconsistent, it's ridiculous. If I sit down and make 10 icons, I might feel that inspiration struck me on the head once, but the other 9 are crap. And wow, do styles ever vary from fandom to fandom. I just got booted in the first round of a new lims, in the same week that I'm in the finals of another. Granted, I had to make a set of 5 icons for a show I'd never even heard of before, but damn. It makes me think that I don't even know what's good and what's bad anymore.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

I photoshop by trial and error, hitting buttons until it comes out as something I like...if I'm lucky.

OMG yes!! That is so true for me too. Or sometimes I'll make a handful of icons and think they're okay, but then come back the next day and realize they are of the suck.

And wow, do styles ever vary from fandom to fandom.

That is very strange... I've kind of noticed idly how different, like, j-rock icons are from SGA. Even SPN feels a bit different from SGA whenever I can, you know, actually icon things *eyeroll*