Vector Icons!!!

Sooo-I was looking at my desktop, and I realized I use a lot of custom icons. So I began thinking..."I want to make my own! It can't be that hard, can it?"

Well-making the actual ICON isn't hard. Making it an actually working icon took a little bit of research, some digging for my OS X.4 install disk for developer tools that most private individuals probably never realized are on that disk, and some searching for icon file extension programs. All that, and I was only able to make Mac only icons. Unfortunately, until I can get my grubby little hands on CS4...or I'm willing to buy a program to convert pngs to icos, Windows users will have to wait. Sorry!

SO-here are the four sets! All part of my vector demented insanity project. Because I don't have OS X.5 or higher, I can't really use Candybar to customize my application icons, so all of these icons are hard drive and folders. But-when I can, and I WILL upgrade at some point...I'm going to customize everything! (Most people do this with cars, I do it with computers.)

You can download the icons for free from Vector Demented.

They are only for private and personal use, so if you want to use something of mine to brighten up your Mac desktop, here you go!
Instructions on how to use them are on the icons page.

Still trying to get it all done! It's coming along. :)

Little Sister-Another Vector!

And the vector bus continues... bump, bump. I did a vector of myself as a child, and my sister was determined that I make one for her, and as she is my one and only sister, I must comply! That is what I as the elder must do for her as the younger! Anyhow, this is her as a child, and since she was always the more playful and fun one, her's is more bright and energetic. I was always more serious and sensitive and more of a loner, so mine was more somber. Yeah, she was a cute little thing. Ha! How quickly she grew out of that!

Err. I think this image killed the memory in my computer though. (Not that I have much to go on after my computer meltdown earlier this year due to bad ram.) So now Illustrator won't allow me to embed images due to insufficient memory, which sucks, because, really-that's the whole purpose of Illustrator. Shoot. I'm totally freaked out after buying bad ram, and I hate having to buy more and risk my computer freaking out again. Memo to myself, my next computer, I shall buy with a crapload of ram, because below 1 GB is not enough to run Creative Suite, and I'm pushing my luck as it is. Hopefully I can find some this weekend, or I may be SOL on comic pages coming up. The inconvenience of this sucks.

Killer Bunny and Reading Fundamentals-Vectors.

Two new vectors today. Number one is a simple killer bunny. Who did the bunny just kill? I don't know, but he doesn't seem terribly insincere about it. Number two is my unsolicited contribution for the youth of today. Yes, read. READ! One of my pet peeves is when someone complains about not understanding or not knowing something. We live in an age where you can wikipedia it, or google it, or look it up. I am a huge reader, and I think fundamentally, it exercises your brain in ways that learning it on tv doesn't do. There's something about physically having to move your eyes across a page, processing the letters and shapes in words and phrases, and concocting an image in your head. I always love reading history books, then looking up people to see if they look similar to how I envision them. It's weird, I'm not old, but when I was younger, all of my research papers and assignments meant trips to the library, and I would check out mounds of books, reading the choose my own adventure stories, the complete OZ series, Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys, and getting books on spiders and lizards and horses and so on at the same time. Now, you can just flip on your computer, type it in, and it's all pulled up for you. I mean, even the SAT has gone electronic. You can now buy a pocket study aid that you can carry around with you (like an electronic flashcard), do practice questions and tests on. I think I would've been a much better test taker with that. I certainly hope technology doesn't outdate or outmode the book. I know it's killing the newspaper right now, but I hope that won't be the case in the future.