icons by bittern

I make icons sometimes.

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i kind of screwed up my process for mu’s icons so i’m just putting THIS here to remind myself. yeah these are usually all the layers and stuff i use. this is adapted from funkadactyl’s process for their icons, who is immeasurably more talented than me

if anyone wants an elaboration of my process, i can write up a more detailed tutorial instead of, uh, this

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I know I pretty much just sent in the Mu request, but I really love your icons! If you don’t have any other requests you want to prioritize, may I request Tsubaki or Izayoi? Also, enjoy your break! It must be really time-consuming to make so many icons. I’m looking forward to seeing whoever you decide to make next.

omg... thank you ;_; honestly i made these icons on a whim bc i saw people wanting icons of x character when there weren’t that many, so i thought i’d put my meager photoshop skills to good use. if people like or are using them then that’s all it takes to make me happy about making them! it’s a hobby for me to do it with games with portraits like blazblue’s

it’s actually not that time-consuming to make because i record a photoshop action after i make a sample. this means that after i make bases of all the portraits i want to use of that character, i can just hit go and save it. every icon of the story mode portraits uses a near-identical process, only differing in levels/color balance/opacity of some layers. the most time-consuming part of the process is settling on which expressions i want to use, adding them as layers to the base, and saving the different expressions as bases. it is also the most boring part. some characters don’t have many diff expressions (ex lambda, mu has many but...most are functionally identical because of her Ginormous Faceplate covering up her eyebrows), while others have A LOT (naoto due to his bloodedge mode--oh my god i spent so much time on his icons). some particular icons i spend a very long time on because of one quirk or another. ex, i spent ages trying to get celica’s healing magic for her sprites to look right (i did not succeed) or naoto’s bloodedge mode sprites (i also did not succeed). but generally once i settle on the process, it only takes a few seconds to pump out a new icon from the base. it also makes them all look identical which is what i want

ex, cropped & resized base to finished product. there is actually ZERO selective coloring or even textures involved here and only 3 adjustment layers (levels, color balance, and hue/saturation). most of it is just various other layers creating that the, uh, particular aesthetic i want and a high pass layer set to soft light as a sharpener. once i decide on the look of an icon i usually get them done in a day or two

tsubaki will be a lengthier process because of her corrupted/mind eater portraits, so when i return from my break i will focus on izayoi! stay tuned in about two weeks

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i’ll be taking a break (uh, hopefully much shorter this time) before working on another character but i am still open to requests!

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110 icons of Mu.

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Thank you for making these!!!

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you’re very welcome! i’m sorry it took so long but Here She Is

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110 icons of Mu. blah blah free to use free to edit just credit if editing do what you want with them

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icons are all done but i’m having trouble finding the site that lets me cut out html fast

TUMBLR.....

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life has been kind of crazy...but moos are coming. soon. in a few days. still playing with icon design

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i recently got a new laptop with a higher resolution and lcd screen and everything is not only HUGE but it also BRIGHT and oh my god my naoto icons are the color of mustard. i’m so sorry that you had to see that, everyone

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Do you still make icons?

YES OTL i’m sorry for the inactivity. i’ve been busy with other things and even though i intended to make icons for the cp-cf characters (as they’re more likely not to have large icon batches made for them already), i...lost interest for a while and forgot ha ha haaaa

i’ll be working on mu for a while and then i’ll pick at random which one to do next, but i am always open to requests

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persona 5 captured my heart (and all my time) for a while there but expect to see more bb icon ssoonish. may even make p5 ones

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196 icons of Nine the Phantom from Central Fiction. Feel free to use and edit.

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guess who’s getting an icon dump soon

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thank you to everyone who uses my icons... ;_; it means a lot to me

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72 icons of Celica A. Mercury and Minerva from Chrono Phantasma and Central Fiction. Feel free to use and edit.

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looks like i had time to make icons after all, for a character that doesn’t have over 1000 expressions anyway (sorry, nine)

sneak peek at my color determining process

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Thank you SO much for the icon posts!

you're welcome!i like making icons in huge batches but haven't done it since the jp release of fire emblem fates. it's fun to be working on them again

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i’m taking a break for a couple weeks on icon making, but if anyone wants an iconset for a particular bb character, suggest it in an ask