Chaos Spike Thrower icon

First icon in awhile... I know it needs a lot of changes so give me suggestions!

nice effects. Try different colors like green fire. blue fire with blue eye effects. How do hi res icons look when their minimized?

Basically the same, and minor things that look bad usually are left out.

Also, I'd like him to look more evil. Any suggestions?

The effects are cool, but it doesn't look like a blizzard icon, try to make it more cartoony.

the stars eye looks like in huge sized pics, but now its for an icon, and it will most likely not look the same at all. from my point of view, theres too much high-contrast red tints, its harassing for the eye, i suggest making the background plain grey. it looks like and it is a screenshot from wc3viewer. blizzard icons are most likely freehand, if not, thats beceause time was missing.. you shouldnt limit yourself to a simple cnp, try doing it freehand, it wont look like picasso's but it still can be great.. if you're still going for this cnp, yeah...make the background darker, with a purple halo, but not a red tint, green be fine. you can keep the eye glow, but remove the star effect. i guarantee you it will look better.

My suggestions here are as follows:
first- kickin face, i really like it!
secondly- It seems that all blizz icons are extremely cartoony, so Im thinkin that you may wanna aim for that- try putting more contrasting colors in closer contact- that could enhance the idea of cartoon. Also, touching up with smudge to round out your edges on the model can enhance the cartoony aspect of it.
Also, the eye seems to be a major focus, what might leave a cool effect would be to either sponge/desat. out the res of the face/bg and make an eye glow (colored transluscent smokey stuff rising from it?) OR to just darken (dark layer mask?) everything but the eye, leaving enough color in it to tell what the face is, but having it slightly hidden so the eye is the only point of major color, again, smokey stuff may be cool.

plz dont take any of what im suggestin the wrong way, im just tryin to throw ideas out there! (besides, egg is far better at icons than i :X )

...I tried to be usefull...

draw it from scratch

LOL to Prox Eye, Love the nice glowy things

I'm guessing Prox eye is jester?

Yes and DW he is banned, and since he lost his other accounts password, jesters reign is now over for a little bit :D :D

yes
mantis, can we get an update of the icon? or did you dumped it? i hope you take our suggestions with caring ;)

Meh, I'm too lazy to finish it, maybe I'll work on it again when I get close to releaseing a larger demo of my campaign. However, I will show a new skin/model edit of a chaos thrall with spikes comming out of his armor and glowing eyes (like posessed grom) in a couple of days, since that is replacing the shaman model and skin. High res too.