Icon-Neastrue: The Blood Sucker

i guess ill put my icons in skin section, nowhere else to put it. thanks to tiki for the enabled template. this is all freehand mind you (my avatar is a reduced-size version of it)

oh yea:
Neastrue:
A legendary sickle, its name, Neastrue, means "The Blood Sucker" in goblin tongues.

Alright, you should emphasize the blade some more, make it the thing that really draws your attention. Right now, it looks wicked wussy. The handle is alright... Kinda. The green fog in the back shouldn't come over the blade or handle like it looks like it does. You should have the scythe make a VERY distinct contrast from the background. You should also curve the blade inwards a little more at the tip. Also, try to add shading and maybe even put a star like the light is reflecting from the blade somewhere on the upper left hand side. About 3/4ths of the way through the curve...

This is what I would do to make your icon look better.

cool ty for suggestions. ill work on that

Yeah it´s better now, but outline the blade more. I don´t know if it´s just me but the handle is looking kinda small..

yea i used the original handle on the update (i enlarged on the first pic) ill go back and fix that, and i guess i should add a black border around the weapon?

Yeah, will look more warcrafty that way ;)

ok i tried... i dont like it it mis-shapes the blade... but here it is. (larger handle as well)

youre right about it mishaping the blade....idk what to do about that...

i like the green effects though ^^

The handles a lot better now, for the blade.. maybe smudging it will help?

anythings worth a try
update: softened pretty much everything, it made the fog look--foggier--so i did the fog too

please post 64x64 (normal icon size) that sais a lot more about it.

shoulda known erwt would come along n tell me to post 64x64.... do i just import it into wc3 to get 64x64? or do i need to reduce its size within psp?

you can do it easily with psp

i know i can shrink easily in psp7, but now im wondering, it does wc3 automatically shrink icons like it does higher res skins? or do you have to shrink it on your own for it to work

edit: ok erwt, just for you, heres the 64x64 :god_help_us:

hmm...im not sure

it shrinks high def skins down, so idk if there is a reason it wont shrink bigger icons down...