Awesomeness Summoned he/him Posted February 4, 2014 Author Posted February 4, 2014 Just playing a round with my own version of the 17th shard icon. 6
Bloodfalcon he/him Posted February 4, 2014 Posted February 4, 2014 Looks great! Personal opinion - it looks like it is surrounded by feathers.If you could make it look like there was smokey-light coming off, that would be really cool.
Awesomeness Summoned he/him Posted February 4, 2014 Author Posted February 4, 2014 Yeah, the light beams didn't turn out exactly how I envisioned them and then they made it hard to read the number. I attempted to rectify with a few blending layers but, as you say, they did end up looking a bit featherish. I went back and reduced the beams a bit and added some alternative lighting effects. This any better? 5
Elbereth she/her Posted February 4, 2014 Posted February 4, 2014 I think it's a lot better. Thanks for the avatar! 1
Chaos he/him Posted February 4, 2014 Posted February 4, 2014 Yeah, the light beams didn't turn out exactly how I envisioned them and then they made it hard to read the number. I attempted to rectify with a few blending layers but, as you say, they did end up looking a bit featherish. I went back and reduced the beams a bit and added some alternative lighting effects. This any better? Well, that's pretty freaking awesome.
Bloodfalcon he/him Posted February 4, 2014 Posted February 4, 2014 Yeah, the light beams didn't turn out exactly how I envisioned them and then they made it hard to read the number. I attempted to rectify with a few blending layers but, as you say, they did end up looking a bit featherish. I went back and reduced the beams a bit and added some alternative lighting effects. This any better? Wow, you got it perfect. That's exactly what I had in mind, great work!
Awesomeness Summoned he/him Posted February 4, 2014 Author Posted February 4, 2014 I've been trying to come up with ways to integrate the KR glyphs with their respective gemstones and it's proven to easily be the most difficult design so far. I wanted to make it look like the glyphs were glowing from inside the gemstones but the picture in my head seems to be beyond my photoshopping knowledge. Working on Metacognition's personal avatar and the 17s icon gave me some ideas that turned out alright I guess. The problem is that I've gone through so many alterations I'm not sure I could recreate this with the other glyphs and it would take a lot of time to make each one. So, let me know if you think it looks good and worth the time to make the others or if I should scrap it. 5
Elbereth she/her Posted February 4, 2014 Posted February 4, 2014 (edited) Personally, I think it looks pretty good. I was picturing the symbol just kind of engraved on the gem, in white maybe.That looks much more awesome. Maybe you could make the symbol all one color? It seems a little disjointed with both the black and the blue. A less complicated sapphire might be easier to begin with, though. I don't know, because I have very little experience with this sort of thing. Whatever you decide will be wonderful, I'm sure. EDIT: I just noticed that this post isn't really very helpful at all. Feel free to ignore it. Edited February 4, 2014 by Limelleth
Awesomeness Summoned he/him Posted February 5, 2014 Author Posted February 5, 2014 (edited) Simply engraving the glyph on the stone is a much simpler process and I can definitely do that if you think it looks better that way: Edited February 5, 2014 by aWESomeness summoned 6
Elbereth she/her Posted February 5, 2014 Posted February 5, 2014 (edited) I think the glyph is a lot clearer. I like it a lot, especially the Windrunner one because it has that edge of blue in the engraving. The red one looks more like white stuff is sticking out, but maybe that's just me. Edited February 5, 2014 by Limelleth
Scriptorian he/him Posted February 5, 2014 Posted February 5, 2014 After about five seconds of contemplation, I had decided the glyph floating inside the gem was beyond my skill level, so kudos for giving it a try. The engraved do ones look pretty sweet.
Swimmingly he/him Posted February 5, 2014 Posted February 5, 2014 I wonder if you could give us a hint of how you did that? It looks awesome and I want to try for myself. Unfortunately, my Photoshop-fu is weak and I'm nowhere near that skill level.
Scriptorian he/him Posted February 5, 2014 Posted February 5, 2014 I wonder if you could give us a hint of how you did that? It looks awesome and I want to try for myself. Unfortunately, my Photoshop-fu is weak and I'm nowhere near that skill level.I could be wrong, but it looks like a basic bevel effect to me. (You do mean the engraved ones right?) you just right click the layer, click blending options, and the bevel&emboss is one of the effects you can mess with. It could also be some mystical technique that I have no knowledge of.
Bloodfalcon he/him Posted February 5, 2014 Posted February 5, 2014 Simply engraving the glyph on the stone is a much simpler process and I can definitely do that if you think it looks better that way: These are exceptional. I encourage you to keep going with it! I might have to call dibs on the amethyst one if it is purple enough
Awesomeness Summoned he/him Posted February 5, 2014 Author Posted February 5, 2014 I could be wrong, but it looks like a basic bevel effect to me. (You do mean the engraved ones right?) you just right click the layer, click blending options, and the bevel&emboss is one of the effects you can mess with. It could also be some mystical technique that I have no knowledge of. Yes for the engraved version it's more or less just a bevel blending mask. There is also a clipping mask for adding the blue edge (which as was noted didn't show up as much on the lightweaver glyph) and some other small details. The one where I tried to do the glowing from within look though is a pretty complicated process to get the light beams. It involves about 5-6 different filters and numerous layers. As I said, it was a headache and didn't look any better than the engraved version so I'll just stick with finishing that set. 1
Elbereth she/her Posted February 5, 2014 Posted February 5, 2014 (edited) Great! Now I have to decide if I want to change it again (twice in the space of a day) or keep mine, which is awesome too. Decisions... Edited February 5, 2014 by Limelleth
Aminar Posted February 5, 2014 Posted February 5, 2014 I wonder if I'm the only person who really wants Feruchemical Zinc over everything else we've seen in the Cosmere... 1
Chaos he/him Posted February 5, 2014 Posted February 5, 2014 Simply engraving the glyph on the stone is a much simpler process and I can definitely do that if you think it looks better that way: I demand a full set of these.
Awesomeness Summoned he/him Posted February 5, 2014 Author Posted February 5, 2014 (edited) Chaos, on 05 Feb 2014 - 12:30 AM, said: I demand a full set of these. Ask and ye shall receive.I tried to vary the shapes of the gemstones a bit. I had troubles deciding on the stone to use for the heliodor and zircon so actually made two alternates for those. Actual smokey quartz (which seems to be the consensus on what smokestone is) has a brownish tint like the one I made above but the skybreaker glyph has a purplish hue so I altered the color of some smokey quarts and made an alternate version of that one. Edited February 7, 2014 by aWESomeness summoned 8
Gamma Fiend he/him Posted February 5, 2014 Posted February 5, 2014 Fantastic work. Many kudos!I'm trying to think of suggestions, can only think of Stormlight stuff, lol. Like Chapter Icons (Kaladin's Spear symbol and stuff) and then the Border Headings of the Heralds (and the Masked Man)I can't really remember any symbols or stuff from Warbreaker. Maybe try and find a cool design for Nightblood? (somewhere)(Maybe do like a .gif of someone with Royal Locks changing hair color?)How about doing some Wheel of Time symbols? I'm sure you could do stuff with the Aes Sedai symbol and the Dragon icon, or Heron marked swords or cool stuff. You got some nice photoshop skills.
Moogle Posted February 5, 2014 Posted February 5, 2014 (edited) All those new gems are so shiny and I love them. You are wonderful. I'd swap over to using one of the nice gems or the very vector-artish no-border Radiant glyphs, but I'm still highly enjoying my Voidbinding glyph over here. Maybe, if it's not too much trouble, you could do a set of Voidbinding glyphs in the style of the no-border Radiant glyphs? The no-border Radiant ones are just incredibly clean looking and it's great. Edited February 5, 2014 by Moogle
Awesomeness Summoned he/him Posted February 5, 2014 Author Posted February 5, 2014 Okay, all the gemstones are finished and linked above. @moogle: I don't have the vectors for the voids so can't make them as clean as the radiant's but I took off the border on the one you have in your profile and added it below. 1
Moogle Posted February 5, 2014 Posted February 5, 2014 (edited) Thanks! Also, the finished diamond one there is pretty awesome. I may be forced to switch to one at some point. And I still love the no-border Radiants. So many nice choices. Edited February 5, 2014 by Moogle
Peng the Just he/him Posted February 5, 2014 Posted February 5, 2014 odd request: could you make an aon daa with the aon more blue instead of yellow? i will pay you in upvotes
Awesomeness Summoned he/him Posted February 5, 2014 Author Posted February 5, 2014 odd request: could you make an aon daa with the aon more blue instead of yellow? i will pay you in upvotes No problem. Just one layer change so a simple fix. 4
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