The rainbow Aeryn is a class act tbh. It has everything you might ever want - stupid tiny text, a random 'sexy', a rainbow, a light blob, character name as text and in a font that doesn't match anything, AND horrible sharpness/image quality :D
Everyone goes through the 'all the text effects' stage and it's necessary cause it shows that you're at least thinking of how to make the text stand out from the background (I think that's what we try to do with the effects like outer glow and drop shadow?). That should be no reason not to use text though cause that's the only way to learn I think, and there are some great text guides out there too (which I should totally take a better look at cause one of my icon resolutions for this year was to improve my text too)! BESIDES, at least you don't combine your texts with tiny text, and you're pretty cool with fonts, staying away from all the random wtf ones that I used all the time x)
Haha, I remember your 2011 icons ♥ and I'd absolutely LOVE to see one of these progression posts from you one day cause it would be just miraculous and much more impressive than mine.
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Everyone goes through the 'all the text effects' stage and it's necessary cause it shows that you're at least thinking of how to make the text stand out from the background (I think that's what we try to do with the effects like outer glow and drop shadow?). That should be no reason not to use text though cause that's the only way to learn I think, and there are some great text guides out there too (which I should totally take a better look at cause one of my icon resolutions for this year was to improve my text too)!
BESIDES, at least you don't combine your texts with tiny text, and you're pretty cool with fonts, staying away from all the random wtf ones that I used all the time x)
Haha, I remember your 2011 icons ♥ and I'd absolutely LOVE to see one of these progression posts from you one day cause it would be just miraculous and much more impressive than mine.