Badges for Habr, version

Made your version of badges for Habr.
Not that I don't like the current ones.
I just had a small gap between the projects and wanted to hone my skills (and maybe at the same time do something socially useful).

I painted “just for fun” so I decided not to limit the flight of the soul)) The general style of the habr is quite flat and faded, and the icons were drawn bright and voluminous. Part of the metaphors left old, part replaced. “Hacked”, “Worn out” and “Reader” are still waiting for their turn.

A brief description of the creation of the icon "Troll"

As a rule, I make icons using 3D, which is faster and easier for me.
Model in Max, I visualize Virey. Ready to render in Photoshop
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Sketch with a pencil

Model tree

Well, as a model, we take the finished from the old project and change a little:

Troll model

The icon will be small so you can do it quite roughly.

Impose antialiasing

Drawing textures

For the troll came a piece of frog skin.

Render

We put the lighting and the camera, set up the render and voila - we get a picture. I always render a picture of a higher resolution than the final picture will have. With a decrease, more details remain, it turns out, in general, more qualitatively.

Post-processing in Photoshop

We get rid of the gray background, reduce it, make it sharper, add text and edit it a little more.