Photoshop Tutorial: Making a pencil for surfing board

It is not difficult to find that most of the sites are now integrated into the icon, the icon gradually become an important part of the site, whether it is navigation, column content, even advertising banner and scenes ... Most of the time icons play an important role. When we design a Web page or some interface, whether we have encountered this icon is not good, the icon has copyright, the color or angle is not what we need, that is not what we want to express the meaning of ... So, we need to design our own icons.

Icon Design, many people have their own set of methods. Here I would like to share some of my small experience. Let's take a look at a few lines and the final effect chart:

Well, let's take the last one [pencil] for example (easy to analyze). First, find out where this icon is used. It's about figuring out the need--get a pencil that can be used as a surfboard. All right, all nonsense to this end.

The design process is divided into three parts, hand-painted--photoshop production-icon application. Today, the first two parts are mainly mentioned.

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