A very simple icon will probably take me five to ten minutes. The more complicated ones, where I have to do a lot with effects to get it to look the way I want, can take me 40 minutes or an hour, even if they don't end up looking complicated. If it has text, definitely on the higher end. Last night I made 8 relatively simple text-only icons, and by simple I mean really not up to the standards I prefer, and it took me 1 1/2 hours. That's why on the rare occasions I post a batch of icons, they never have more than about 10 icons.
Then again, if I was making icons all the time, I would probably have a collection of techniques and effects I used all the time and could execute pretty fast, and do the same thing with the whole batch, and it wouldn't take as long. Part of my problem is that I almost never make two icons the same way.
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Date: 2007-11-10 01:13 am (UTC)Then again, if I was making icons all the time, I would probably have a collection of techniques and effects I used all the time and could execute pretty fast, and do the same thing with the whole batch, and it wouldn't take as long. Part of my problem is that I almost never make two icons the same way.