Handpainted Icon

riuthamus

Can you guys give me some tips on where I can improve this? I want to have a glow in the center but have yet to start that. Also, if this is the wrong place to post this please tell me where I should be posting and lock this thread, thanks.

riuthamus

Eric Chadwick

Good start!

If it's an icon, then you should paint it at true size. For a Win7 desktop icon, that's something like 64x64 for the largest size.

Also make sure it is readable at 32x32 and 16x16. Usually these start out as a downscaled version of the large one, then they're carefully touched up at the smaller scale.

Right now the middle part of the rock is almost as bright as the letters, which will make it harder to read at a smaller size. I would make the rocks less "lit" in the middle there.

What is this an icon for? The design of an icon should help communicate its purpose.

riuthamus

Thanks for the thoughts, this is for our greenlight game. Just figured I would get some tips to see what others thought. Again I thank you for putting some time in to post.