Resource Post

I have entered into the world of Icon Making. And by that I mean doing more than cropping and adding text to pictures which I have been doing for years now. In order not to step on any toes, I will keep an updated list of people/places that I have taken from, be that just knowledge, help or more concrete items like textures or brushes.



Bases/Screencaps:
disparue.org/gallery/
www.sundive.co.uk/eric/index.php

Tutorials:
whitkj22 
tiger_tyger 
icon_tutorial 

Textures:
tiger_tyger 

Full Icons:
kawaii_not 

My First Batch of Icons

Here are some of my first attempts at icon-making:



These two I didn't do anything more than crop and add text:
  and 

The next ones I played around with textures, desaturation, colour, contrast, and brightness: