The random nerdy interests of a random nerdy person
If there’s a word balloon in the section you want to make into an icon, you have a few options: you can remove it, you can remove the text, or you can just leave it as is. The last one is usually not a great option, because often the text is too small to read (or there’s just way too much text). I’ll show two ways to include the text or balloon in a later tutorial. Today, we’re going to cover removing it.
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I’m going to be doing some icon/avatar tutorials, but this one works for any graphics.
Have you ever been stuck behind a truck with a wrap with a super busy background and looked at it thinking, “hope you have good word of mouth, because that phone number is impossible to read”? (this may be an ailment limited to graphic designers) How to keep that from happening with graphics you make? CHUNKY TEXT OUTLINES.
I’ve done literally hundreds of banners for RainbowLists / RainbowFic and I’ve used this trick for every one. Here’s the most basic form:
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These are from the 1955 series of The Brave and the Bold, an anthology series of historical adventure stories. Issue number and story are in the filename. GG = Golden Gladiator, ad = advertisement, SK = Silent Knight, VP = Viking Prince, Sea Rovers, and la = Laughing Arena. Icons made by me – if you want to credit me, I’m Silvercat17 on Dreamwidth and WingedTyger on Tumblr.
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Icon table generated by Chlor’s Icon Table Generator
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Icon table generated by Chlor’s Icon Table Generator
Icons from the comic William of Newbury, issues 1-3. Published by Dark Horse. Art and writing by Michael Avon Oeming. Icons made by me – if you want to credit me, I’m Silvercat17 on Dreamwidth and WingedTyger on Tumblr.
I’m sad that there’s only one more issue. I hope more mini-series get published because it’s really good.
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Back in the late 80s, six issues of the Thundercats Magazine were published.
They, uh, honestly didn’t have a ton to do with Thundercats: the contents were a Thundercats cover, usually reproduced as a poster; a letter page with fanart; short movie, book, and tv promos (Eye on Earth); articles about nature or something else of interest; puzzles and a quiz; lots and lots of ads; and a short Thundercats comic.
The file name says which issue. If you want to credit, I’m Silvercat17 on Dreamwidth or WingedTyger on Tumblr
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These are from the 1976 Captain Britain weekly series, issuses 1-4. I created them for my Ben-Day Shots blog series, which I’d appreciate being read more if you want something amusing. Issue number is in the icon filename. 45 icons total
Feel free to use the icons any way you want, including editing them. Credit can be given to Silvercat17
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This is a fic cover for holding hands and twisting knives, an Only Murders in the Building fanfic
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I found these images to make icons for Rainbow Fic on Dreamwidth and it’s related communities. There’s actually more than I can use. Anyway, I’m sharing them in three sizes – 100px, 200px, and 600px – which should work for wherever you want to use them. (I think it’s Discord that wanted a great big size). Credit to Silvercat17 if you want; I don’t really care. Do whatever you want with them.
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Ocelar is Thunderian oc of mine, from a story that I am likely never to finish writing. She from the Ocalen clan, who are the guardians of plants on Thundera and beyond, welcome even on Plundarr (mostly). Ocalen can sense life force and can instantly tell who is their lifemate. Because they’re the guardians of plants, they eat as little plant matter as possible.
Ocelar ended up crashing on Third Earth after getting caught in a wormhole. The original plan was for her to be Lion-o’s lifemate, but whether I go with that and what form it takes, is very much up in the air now (they might be platonic).
I may end up doing some more reference sheets for her, of her fur pattern under the clothes and her hoverbike thingy.
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I’m trying to do more art. This is for my nsfw alias (Randi D Bugger), but the art so far is clean (nsfw art won’t be posted here – that goes on patreon, pillowfort, and furaffinity…) This is Wolpertimon, a digimon original character (aka digifake or digisona)
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