[Contest] 10 Randicons

The 10 Randicons [Random Icons] Challenge

Bored? Or simply looking for ideas to create new icons? Then have a try on our Randicons Challenge! In this challenge, you’ll answer 10 questions about yourself by creating a 100×100 icon based on each answer. How do you do it, it’s completely up to you, be creative! After you’ve finished your submission, you’ll be competed against other participants and a winner will be chosen. Check out more for rules, prompts, and prizes.

The entry time has ended. No further entries will be accepted. To those who entered – Good luck!

Tutorial: UTAU for Beginners

Basic UTAU Functions
by Ani (PuniPudding)

Hello~! In this tutorial I’ll be teaching you the very basics of voice synthesizer UTAU.
Grab it here.

Tips: Make Icons Without Resources

How to Make Good Icons Without Textures or Brushes – in Photoshop
by Chelle (pockycrab)

Good icons are not always the ones slapped with billions of textures or decorated with brushes everywhere. However, there are tendencies for beginners to abuse those resources unwisely, resulting in crappy-looking icons and a super long list of sites in their credits (and some even barely care to credit).

Of course, using textures and brushes are not wrong – they can enhance a graphic greatly, and many good graphics designers use them a lot too. But actually there are many ways to keep your avatars/icons simple, while still being cool enough for people to use! As people often say, sometimes less is more.

(While this article is targeted at Photoshop users, others can still get some ideas from here and adapt it to the programs they use. I’ve picked some icons from other sites as examples – they may not be the best examples on earth, but they should give you some general idea of what I’m talking about.)