Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Introducing the TylerKing.net Icon Library
Why hello there. As a way to get some graphic design practice, I've decided to start building an icon library.
What's an icon library? Well, Most web developers (including yours truly) need a lot of stock icons at their disposal so that they can rapidly develop new sites without having to draw out every single component. These can also be helpful when making Powerpoint presentations, videos, etc.
So yeah, I'm going to try building one. There are a ton of these out there so this is more for practice than anything, but I'm still interested in making things people might use. If you have any need for designs, let me know and I'll give it my best shot.
The image you see above is my first crack at making a few people icons. I'm going to try some different styles to figure out what the overall feel should be for this library. I'll be asking for feedback as I go.
In case you're curious, unless I state otherwise, all graphics I add to the icon library are drawn completely from scratch using Fireworks. Posted by Tyler King
This post has 2 Comments Emotional Avatar Wreck
June 10, 2009 at 06:03 pm
have you given any thought to icons that express certain 'emotions' like TRUST (or anger, hope, fear, etc) June 11, 2009 at 10:36 pm
Good call. I'll be sure to make some of those. I might take away some of the race and gender identification so that I can have a generic emotion set. |
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