Just for kicks, I tried making a few icons the other day. Didn’t realize how tough (and fun!) pushing pixels could be. After spending an hour or so with some tutorials, I present to you my final product. I call it the disfigured-ice-cream-sandwich-book-looking thing. I don’t think a disclaimer stating not to pass this off as your own is needed. Maybe with some more practice, I’ll get the hang of it.
Anyway, here’s the tutorials I played around with.
- A Nice List of Icon Tutorials
- Simplebits: Anatomy of an Icon
- Tools suggested by the Apple Developers for creating icons
- Microsoft Developer’s Guide to Making XP Icons
- OS X Style AIM Icon
- XP Folders Icon
- So You Want To Be A Pixel Artist?
- I also found a few good ones over at good-tutorials.com.
Terrible.