Icon-A-Day, Icon # 85, SD Card
Moving on through the Drive icons.
Tuesday, May 3, 2005 by mormegil | Discussion: Icons
Icon 85
(SD Card) Moving on through the Drive icons, these days I find myself using SD Cards as my primary form of flash memory. Since I use it the most I want to get it out of the way right away. The steps for this are almost identical to yesterdays icon. The only real different is the basic shapes. So lets do it. | ||
Step 1: First we draw out the shapes of the media with several rectangles, tweaking them a bit with the node edit tool. |
Step 2:
Once more we group our objects
together and use the Perspective Tool to lean our disk back. |
Step 3: Quickly we add some detail to the edge of the card with a few rectangles. I quickly fill in the shapes so that I can tell the shading is ok. |
Step 4:
Now we give the Card their final
colors, including the yellow lock. I also give the full card a bit of texture
with our
Interactive
Transparency Techniques. |
Step 5: Now using simple Text Tools and
the basic drawing tools to make an SD logo and some text to place on the card. |
Step 6: Now we use the Perspective Tool and some basic drawing tools to give the label some details. I also give the the label a bit of Gloss. |
Step 7: |
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Click here to download the finished icon. |
There we go, a nice SD
Card icon. I think tomorrow we will take care of the Ram Drive icon. See you all
then. |
Reply #2 Wednesday, May 4, 2005 4:54 PM
Reply #3 Wednesday, May 4, 2005 5:31 PM
Hehehehehehe....
Nice!!!!!!
Teach is the magician.
Reply #4 Wednesday, May 25, 2005 1:20 AM
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Reply #1 Wednesday, May 4, 2005 6:09 AM
Thanks, Teach.