woah. really?

[certainthings]

Dear People Who Make Icons,

I just read this "It ususally doesn't take that long for me to make an icon ( 20 -30 minutes) unless I'm trying to get text on it" in a post.

Is this an average thing? Because if an icon isn't coming together for me in about a minute, I scrap it. I cannot imagine spending that kind of time on an icon.

Sincerely,
A person who sometimes makes icons

Comments

[rustydog.livejournal.com]

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.

[certainthings.livejournal.com]

I have a hard time with text only icons, them bitches are hard. Or maybe they're hard because I am horrible with text, so I'm with you on the time consumption of them.