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Sketchy Icons The Third

by Joshua Bullock Pro Apr 1, 2011
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Sketchicons_teaser Sketchy icons Thinking of doing a hand-drawn icon set but with 8-bajillion sets already out there may not be room for any more. Have some shading issues I'll need to work ... March 31, 2011

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26 Responses (page 1 of 2)

  1. Pro Joshavatar Joshua Bullock

    Added a few more to the collection. Some I've over-rendered and odds are good the corp. logos will have to go with an official release but this should serve as a good start.

    about 1 year ago

  2. Admix_designs_avatar_for_dribble-01 Joe Prince

    Some serious sexiness sir.

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    about 1 year ago

  3. Pro Joshavatar Joshua Bullock

    Thanks for the props Joe, it's been fun thinking through what might be useful to people. Talking to the guys in my studio, thinking about creating a WP or Tumblr Sketch theme using the icons as a base. Hand-drawn ftw! ;)

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    about 1 year ago

  4. Ha Steven Schroeder

    Your sketchbook looks so amazing.

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    about 1 year ago

  5. Pro Larger_avatar Made By Thomas

    oh damn, gorgeous!

    about 1 year ago

  6. Header_rl Rachelle Letain

    Whoa... I'd love to see the rest of your sketchbook if these are the quality of your sketches!

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    about 1 year ago

  7. Pro Dribbble Jason Tiernan

    LOVE. What kind of pen are you drawing with?

    about 1 year ago

  8. Pro Joshavatar Joshua Bullock

    @Steven, Thomas, & Rachelle - Thanks for the kind words! Will look at tossing some more sketchy goodness up soon.

    @Jason - These were all done with a mechanical pencil and Sigma Micron pens because they were convenient. I actually really don't like using them though b/c they tend to bleed and I like my detail work to be a bit more crisp. Picked up some Rapidographs earlier today so the actual icon set will be nice and clean. ;)

    about 1 year ago

  9. Foto op 23-02-12 om 19 Elias Keppens

    Loving the titles of the sketch icon dribbbles haha!

    about 1 year ago

  10. Pro Mk Milosz Klimek

    G R E A T.

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    about 1 year ago

  11. Pro Img_3600_normal Daniele Rossi

    I love how you used the storyboarding Moleskine to draw the icons :) How on Earth did you manage to keep the proportions so consistent?

    about 1 year ago

  12. Pro Dribll ▲Claudiu Ungureanu

    this is pure art. and pure talent.

    about 1 year ago

  13. Pro 55_badge 55 Hi's

    I'm just going to pretend you mocked this up in photoshop to make myself feel better.

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    about 1 year ago

  14. Dsc_0017 Tony Gil

    These are great sketches. I like to see this kind of stuff. A lot of college up coming designers are forgetting this important step. Instead they're going straight to Photoshop or Illustrator. Going straight to these programs without doing quick brainstorming really restricts the exploration phase. Nice job.

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    about 1 year ago

  15. Avatar Caneco

    This icons looks way much better than some we can find in the web…

    about 1 year ago

  16. Pro Davebiopic2 Dave Hornsby

    Love it - very clean sketches

    about 1 year ago

  17. Pro Joshavatar Joshua Bullock

    Thanks again to everyone for the comments.

    @Daniele - Honestly couldn't tell you how they came out this way. Toward the end I dropped in some lines to try and keep the proportions a bit more accurate, but I figured I'd be recreating them anyways so there's still some discrepancy.

    @Tony - Agreed. I try to sketch as much as I can before going to digital. I've recently moved back to my sketchbooks and moleskins b/c I don't have a whiteboard convenient. Sketching ideas on a whiteboard really helped me to capture big ideas. Plus it was all erased too easily so I couldn't get too attached to the art.

    about 1 year ago

  18. Picture-profile Pantufla Cuántica

    Woow. Wonderful.
    I wish i was talented for draw. But no. :)

    Incredible, again.

    about 1 year ago

  19. Pro Slater_small Nick Slater

    DAMN! Nice Icons!

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    10 months ago

  20. N-logo Nathan Hornby

    GTFO

    10 months ago

  21. Pro Sjq_behance_thumbnail Jonathan Quintin

    So so good!

    7 months ago

  22. Pencilgun Hemmo de Jonge

    Those are super duper sketches. That's also a cool photo of your sketchbook. You artyfarty.... you...

    7 months ago

  23. я-новый Evgeniy Terekhov

    I'm 500 who like it! :D
    Great work!

    5 months ago

  24. Pro Dribbble_avitar Mike Jones

    any words of wisdom when building icons? Love the work you do bro!

    4 months ago

  25. Pro Joshavatar Joshua Bullock

    @Mike - thanks man, I totally dig your work, too.

    There's a book that's just been released called The Icon Handbook by the amazing Jon Hicks. I haven't read it yet but looks like a fantastic resource for anyone doing icon design.

    That said, my approach tends to follow a couple of basic rules:
    - Choose a single light source and stick to it
    - Choose a single, visual style and stick to it
    - Try not to stray too far from existing user interface conventions, so your icons are more immediately recognizable
    - Try and keep the icon a single shape, even if it's the background that holds the pieces together

    ...and of course, most rules are made to be broken anyways so mileage may vary. :P

    4 months ago

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