Weekly Blog Post 4

 This week I worked on icons for my game design class.

I worked on an icon for the red herb, flame crown, and stat potion.

The red herb took a few days because I was not sure how my director wanted the leaf shape to look. After a few different versions, I landed on the illustration below.

Here is my most recent version. I am still working on the details for the gems and the fire and then I will add highlights and shadows to the whole thing.

I first made it with blue flames, but my director preferred red flames.
 

These are some variations I made for the flame crown.

The health potion I posted last week and the stat potion took a lot longer because there was a lot of experimenting with effects and layers to make the liquid look more real and magical. 

I went through a lot of different shapes before choosing the one above.