Started addressing the suggestions in the comments. Still haven't gotten around to making the stars not suck though.
Thanks again for all the feedback, it's been most helpful.
Here's a simple icon I made for Currencies for Mac, which is a small app that lives in your menubar. It's mostly based off of it's iOS counterpart which has been out now for a while.
Since the original design for Elements was just an exploration that never went anywhere I figured I'd spend a few minutes to change it up a bit and use it as my Notational Velocity icon. Nothing too fancy, just a 15 minute tweak to make ...
I'd really appreciate any feedback I could get on how to make this better. The glowing magic-ness emanating from the hat is driving me crazy. I can't make it taller or it hits the boundaries of the 512x512 box. And if I make the hat smal...
I thought maybe I'd give it some perspective instead of being flat. The black background is just to make sure it's not too dark and the edges don't get lost anywhere.