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It's June, and that means it's time for Ask The Maker again!

Ask The Maker is where you can ask your favorite makers about how they do that thing. You can ask for tutorials, guides/"How to", or ask any other questions related to their work. Check out the Maker thread (below) for makers who have signed up and are ready to answer your questions.

You can also ask questions to the community at large, and hope that someone is able to answer them. Do this in the Questions thread (below).

By now we've known each other for over a year, and know a little about everyone's abilities and style. I for one am looking forward to interesting questions and discussions!

Feel free to promote this activity! (You can use the header above.)

The more participants the merrier! I will promote it at an official promo comm.

Here are the rules:

1) Maker-Driven

Rules for makers who want to sign up

Sign up by commenting to the Maker thread.

Please don't sign up if you know that you can't or do not plan to fulfill the requests you get within a month.

If you are an icon maker and you're willing to write tutorials, guides or answer questions (Q&A's), please sign up here with your name and where you post your work. Please state what you're willing to do/answer and if people can hotlink your work or not. Use this posting template:

There is no fixed time limit in which the signed up makers have to write these tutorials or answer questions, but it would be nice if everyone managed to post their answers within the next month. I will make the master list post around mid-July (i.e. in six weeks). Even if you take longer than that, please try and answer your questions. Please let people know if you find out you cannot fulfill the requests. Try not to leave people hanging.

All tutorials/Q&A etc. need to be posted in your community/journal and be posted publicly. In-depth explanations on tutorials is not a must, but highly encouraged.

When you finish your requests, post a link to them as a reply to the original request comment here. That way, me and the person requesting will be able to see them and I can add them to the master list.

2) Question-Driven - I have a question and anyone can answer

If you have a question about techniques, a specific look, etc, but you can't ask any maker directly (e.g. because they didn't sign up), you may ask your question in the Questions thread.

Be aware that there is no guarantee that you'll get your question answered. You will increase your chances by asking specific questions about specific techniques and by giving icon examples, from different makers if possible. Please don't ask about single specific icons, nobody should feel pressured into participating.

Please don't hotlink icons from other makers without asking them. Reupload the icons (e.g. to imgur.com or upl.co) instead.

What's What

Question categories and examples

Guides - a guide is a general explanation post. The maker will make a post explaining how to achieve a particular effect, use a technique, use a tool, etc.

#1 - Text and typography in gimp by

cool_spectrum
#2 - A flat pastel coloring guide from last year by

tinny

Tutorial - a tutorial is a step-by-step description of how to make a particular icon. Only the maker of an icon can make a tutorial of how they made that icon. If you ask for a tutorial, you must provide said icon with your question. This kind of question only makes sense in the Maker thread.

Last year's tutorial by

fueschgast
Example tutorial #2 by

word_never_said

Q&A - everything that doesn't quite fit the first two categories. Ask away, hope for the best. :)

Maker thread

Questions thread

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Oi, I was looking forward to you writing it up, since I'm already writing another guide on composition. *g*

Do you think you could do it if you had more time? I'm not going to be able to finish my guide this month, either. I'm out of town over the weekend.

If you don't want to do it at all, I guess I can do it, sure. But it will take me at least two more weeks to write two guides. (If you have any specific techniques in mind, let me know, and I'll build on that.)

p.s.: if anyone has any ideas about what to do as our next month's activity, I'd appreciate input on that, as well. I haven't had time to prepare anything yet.

I don't think I can, even with a bit more time.

I only know I would talk about Shadows/Highlights first, put Gradient Map (in greys) for its adaptability (I don't quite know how to put that one into words) somewhere in there and mention the helpfulness of using Layer Masks. I didn't even plan anything for coloring yet.

Here's what I wrote (yay two months later...)

https://tinny.dreamwidth.org/513453.html

If you can think of anything I didn't mention, let me know!

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