DesignbyStevie

Over the past few months in-between endless bouts of client work and personal projects I’ve also started to try my hand the dark art that is iOS icon design. It’s something I’m hugely interested in but I’ve always doubted whether I had the pure Photoshop skill to be able to create anything on a par with the best.

While I certainly don’t think I’ve quite reached those heights yet, but I’m pretty pleased with the two icons I’ve come up with here. They’re not for any particular app, more just an experiment in lighting, texture and detailing. Sadly at normal iOS sizes a lot of this detail is lost, which is a shame, but I’ve really enjoyed creating them at the larger 512px size.

Hopefully I’ll get to create an actual icon for a published app soon!