Activity #11 - Texturize me!

[tinny]

I've been meaning to do a texture activity for a while, and fueschgast reminded me. Let's make some textures!



Your textures have to be at least 100x100 in size and match one of these prompt pairs:

Black/White + Frame	Noise + Gradient	Shapes + Vibrant
Nature + Muted	Light + Spots	Grunge + Monochrome
Text + Angles	Splatter + Primary Color	Duotone + Pattern

Examples


made by (in order): calixa, midnight_road, bourniio,
tinny, samelthecamel, coy_dreamer,
twilightvampyress, unknown, bourniio



If you're unsure how to go about it, here are some good tutorials:

Difference Cloud Textures by unreal
Photography Textures by fuuurs
Scratch Textures by 51291
Sparkle Tutorial

* You can make as many textures as you like
* You may make more than one texture (or even all of them) for the same prompt pair
* Note that it is explicitly allowed to make textures larger than 100x100
* Please submit your textures (and URLs!) to this post, all in one comment (if possible).
* If there are more textures than you would like to submit to a comment, you can submit them to the icon_resources community and link them here.
* Everyone can participate, you don't have to be a member of this community.

Deadline: extended by one day until Sunday, March 25 2018, your end-of-day

Comments

Questions?

[tinny]

Ask them here!

Re: Questions?

[abyss_valkyrie]

Hey!!So I was making these textures today and I'm a bit confused.Do we have to make icons using all nine combinations as above?

Re: Questions?

[fueschgast]

Can I have a bit of an extension? Just to the end of the weekend. I only need to get my set posting-ready, but that'll take me a bit with my stupid perfectionism. And I've stayed up too late already today.

[timetobegin]

Duotone + Pattern || Light + Spots || Nature + Muted

Grunge + Monochrome || Noise + Gradient ||


I made these from fabric samples, and screencaps mostly. Star trek discovery had some particularly nice lights. Wonder Woman was also very helpful, and I used screen layers, vibrance, softlight and some sharpening/blur to get some more effects.

posted a whole lot here if anyone is interested

[breyzyyin]

Your textures are amazing! ♥

[tinny]

posted a whole lot here if anyone is interested

Yes! Very! Those are awesome! I especially like the Nature one, but they're all great!

[abyss_valkyrie]

These are superb!I adore the pattern+duotone one the most!Nature+muted and noise+gradient are very pretty!!Even the monochrome looks good!

[fueschgast]

Oh, these are really good!

[sheliak]

Ooh, I like that first one with the arrow pattern!

Submissions from Breyzy (of breyzyyin)

[breyzyyin]

Black/White + Frame // Nature + Muted // Light + Spots // Text + Angles // Splatter + Primary Color

http://i64.tinypic.com/33c1wti.jpg
http://i68.tinypic.com/2lcoghv.jpg
http://i68.tinypic.com/2lqq85.jpg
http://i63.tinypic.com/ilm32c.jpg
http://i63.tinypic.com/35ndglj.jpg

...This was my first time even attempting to make textures myself. I used a combination of screencaps and promotional art with a bunch of color/flares/saturation/blur techniques. This was definitely an interesting challenge for me since it was really out of my wheelhouse!

Re: Submissions from Breyzy (of breyzyyin)

[tinny]

Oooh, those are great! Texture making is pretty different from icon making, isn't it? :)

I especially like the Nature one and the last one.

Re: Submissions from Breyzy (of breyzyyin)

[abyss_valkyrie]

Oh my!!I love the nature one!Even the light+spots and splatter came out great!

Re: Submissions from Breyzy (of breyzyyin)

[timetobegin]

these are lovely!!! it was out of my wheelhouse too do good job on making it work.

Re: Submissions from Breyzy (of breyzyyin)

[sheliak]

I love nature+muted and light+spots!

[abyss_valkyrie]

First time making textures and some turned out great,some not so much but hey,this was fun! I did make almost all of these from scratch in Photoshop CS2. Used my fanarts for the light spots and 3rd vibrant+shapes texture.



B&W+frame / Grunge+monochrome / 2 X Duotone+pattern


3 X Shapes+Vibrant / Nature+muted


2 X Light+spots / Splatter+primary colours / Noise+gradient

[timetobegin]

wow from scratch!!! great job!!! i really like nature+muted, but the splatter is very cool an yay grunge. have saved a couple :)

[tinny]

Wooow, that you made the nature one from scratch is incredible!

I love them all, but I definitely have a weak spot for the second shape and the second pattern. Gorgeous! I'm grabbing all of them.

[breyzyyin]

These look amazing! My personal favorites are the second/middle row, but they all look incredible. Great job! ♥

[fueschgast]

These are nice! I especially like 2 and 8-10.

[sheliak]

I like your light+spots and shapes+ vibrant textures! Very pretty.

[sheliak]

Black/White + Frame


Nature + Muted


Text + Angles


Duotone + Pattern


The nature and pattern ones I made from photographs I took (the patterns are from my pottery), and I quoted this poem on the first two text ones. The frames I just made by messing around in GIMP until I got something I liked.

And some more (not all of which ended up fitting the prompts):
https://lyreofsheliak.deviantart.com/art/Flowerpot-736495037
https://lyreofsheliak.deviantart.com/art/Frames-736497028
https://lyreofsheliak.deviantart.com/art/Ash-Words-736497362

[tinny]

Great stuff! I especially like the duotone patterns. They're so unusual they make me itch to try them!

Textures

[tinny]

Vibrant Shapes | Monochrome Grunge | Noise Gradient



Primary Color Splatter | Duotone Pattern x2

I made complete sets here (except for the leopard spots) :

https://icon-resources.dreamwidth.org/2078.html (Stars)
https://icon-resources.dreamwidth.org/2451.html (Grunge + Noise)
https://icon-resources.dreamwidth.org/2571.html (Duotone Water)
https://icon-resources.dreamwidth.org/3602.html (Splatter)

Re: Textures

[breyzyyin]

These look amazing! I especially love the complete sets. Great job! ♥

[sallymn]

I did some black and white ones, but completely forgot about the frame bit! Would people like to see them anyway (noting that they aren't part of the actual challenge?)

[tinny]

Yes, sure, post them! The more textures the merrier. :D

[fueschgast]

Finished \o/! The big textures were easier than the small ones, because the later required cropping. It was a bit of a fight between what looks pretty by itself vs. what people might find useful. Do I even have the right idea of what people find useful? I hope so, but either way, I'm rather happy with the result. I only used the Grunge + (sort of) Monochrome prompt, because I'm not a fan of mixed sets.


Sorry, no individual textures, you'll have to download the whole set. Countains 6 large (between 1200px & 2000px wide) and 32 100x100px textures made from sticker remains and grunge between panels on a bus-stop signpost.

[tinny]

Awesome! I love grunge! Definitely going to get the whole set.

I'm not a fan of mixed sets.

Ha, yes, I made several sets for the same reason.

Do I even have the right idea of what people find useful?

IKR? I started out using only 100x100 textures, but the longer I'm making icons, the more I am now starting to prefer larger textures that I can move around and place exactly the way I want them around the subject. They both have advantages, I guess.


p.s.: I hope it's okay if I post examples from the set in the roundup post?

[goo]

B/W + frame

Shapes + vibrant
|| ||


Duotone + Pattern
|| ||

Grudge + Monocrome



Hoo boy, am I a texture noob! It was a really fun challenge though and I ended up with a lot more than these, they just don't fit the bingo plate (I'm gonna post them tomorrow).

[tinny]

Oooh, sweet!

Hoo boy, am I a texture noob!

Making textures is a completely different skill set, isn't it? I'm glad you enjoyed the change!

I especially like the grunge one, the first two patterns, and the first shape.