...I was asleep...

ugh. Is it just me or is it like incredibly rude to call someone at 5:28 AM and then NOT leave a message. Because of course, by the time I had dragged myself out of bed, the individual in question had hung up the phone. Can't sleep now. Good morning, my dear flist...

So, since I can't sleep. A while back, I had to answer the question "What does the Gospel mean to you?" I have a very simple answer.

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What? You were expecting something theological?

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Omg! I've gotten my first official tutorial request. I mean, I've gotten like questions before but never an actual "write me a tutorial" on a specific icon! I don't know why I find this so exciting. So, tried to recreate one of my recent DV icons in GIMP. For cha_aka and whoever else. Inspired by aruna7's Duncan/Tessa vid. Go figure; I turn it into Daniel/Vala. Anyway, the coloring in the recreation isn't exact, but it's about as close as I can get. Hope it's still useful.

We'll be going from this to

*Image and resource credits can be found in my resource post.

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I'm on this kick at the moment for very simple textless icons. I have a couple methods I've been using, but this is one of my favorites, so I thought I'd share. It combines some techniques I learmed from severa and aiken_4graphics with some other stuff I've just sort of worked out myself.


We'll be going from this to

This is a PSP 8 Tutorial. Should translate into other versions of the program; I'm not really sure about other software, sorry.

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And one more because I've been bored tonight. This is rather a long one. One of these days, I promise to do an icon that doesn't use the Gaussian blur trick. But it won't be today. Mwhahaha. I really love the following icon, and the funny thing was (I'm willing to admit) I didn't set out for this look at all. Given that it happens to also be one of my top 5 all time favorite images, I can't help but make a tutorial. The tut will be in three parts. First will be the making of the texture base; second will be the coloring on the image itself, and third will be the layering that combines them for the neat color effect on the icon. There may be an easier way to do this icon, but this is how I did it. Suggestions are, of course, welcome.

The image prep is actually quite similar to the last GIMP tutorial I did, which was an icon from the same post as this one.

We'll be going from this to

This is a PSP 8 Tutorial but should be fairly translatable.

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