Not giving up my day job
May. 30th, 2004 01:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwynI wanted an icon of Spike from Not Fade Away and didn't want to ask anyone to make it for me, since it's only rarely I can con someone into it, anyway, and I had an idea in mind. This is the first icon I've ever made myself, with the copy of Photoshop Elements ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
talking_sock so kindly gave me for Christmas last year. Even though it's the Joe Schmo lite version of p-shop, I still have a lot of trouble grasping how to use it. P-shop queen of the experts black_bird_777 gave me some tips which I've promptly forgotten (here's warning you, hon, that I need more lessons), and while I managed to figure out how to do what I wanted for a couple of these, some of them turned out way different than they looked when I closed them out, especially the Lindsey one. I'd managed to get some cool lighting effects and now it just looks washed out... may have to try this one again later. The problem is, of course, that I have no idea what I'm doing, and I'm no artist. I have a good eye for beautiful things, but I can't translate that into creating it (the same reason I'm such a pedestrian vidder).
Anyways, just in case someone's looking for a really amateurish, boring, and lame icon, you're free to take if you find it mildly amusing -- these are definitely the baby steps of a non-artist, so feel free to laugh mockingly, I expect it. I'm having a lot of trouble with the whole brush concept, and keeping the type clean -- stuff that's probably totally easy for most folks to understand leaves me scratching my head. But anyways... All of them are made with captures from the lovelywisteria_'s screen caps site.
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And now I need to go back outside again and quit wasting time with this stuff. Every time the sun comes out, I go outside to work on stripping the chipping paint off the deck, and it rains, so I come inside, work on these stupid things, then the sun comes back out. Grrrr.
talking_sock so kindly gave me for Christmas last year. Even though it's the Joe Schmo lite version of p-shop, I still have a lot of trouble grasping how to use it. P-shop queen of the experts black_bird_777 gave me some tips which I've promptly forgotten (here's warning you, hon, that I need more lessons), and while I managed to figure out how to do what I wanted for a couple of these, some of them turned out way different than they looked when I closed them out, especially the Lindsey one. I'd managed to get some cool lighting effects and now it just looks washed out... may have to try this one again later. The problem is, of course, that I have no idea what I'm doing, and I'm no artist. I have a good eye for beautiful things, but I can't translate that into creating it (the same reason I'm such a pedestrian vidder).Anyways, just in case someone's looking for a really amateurish, boring, and lame icon, you're free to take if you find it mildly amusing -- these are definitely the baby steps of a non-artist, so feel free to laugh mockingly, I expect it. I'm having a lot of trouble with the whole brush concept, and keeping the type clean -- stuff that's probably totally easy for most folks to understand leaves me scratching my head. But anyways... All of them are made with captures from the lovely
wisteria_'s screen caps site.1.
2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. And now I need to go back outside again and quit wasting time with this stuff. Every time the sun comes out, I go outside to work on stripping the chipping paint off the deck, and it rains, so I come inside, work on these stupid things, then the sun comes back out. Grrrr.
