Re: Magic Skill Icons
Posted: 16 May 2008, 06:36
Well, unless you’re Royal or a Martian, blood tends to be red, so inverting the “red cross†would seem to hint at something towards vampirism rather than healing, at least to me.
As a voice from the peanut gallery I’ll say: Good looking icons. Personally I’d go with an open hand (raised to signify active healing) for healing. To me that’s easier to decode than a cross or syringe, for example.
Something which perhaps would not look good, and perhaps be undesired to code/draw, is that the skin colour of an eventual hand in such an icon could be depending on the character’s race. Especially since so often the skin colour on general icons tend to be quite “whiteâ€ÂÂ/Caucasian. At least all races seem to be quite humanoid, so no need for different appendages.
As a voice from the peanut gallery I’ll say: Good looking icons. Personally I’d go with an open hand (raised to signify active healing) for healing. To me that’s easier to decode than a cross or syringe, for example.
Something which perhaps would not look good, and perhaps be undesired to code/draw, is that the skin colour of an eventual hand in such an icon could be depending on the character’s race. Especially since so often the skin colour on general icons tend to be quite “whiteâ€ÂÂ/Caucasian. At least all races seem to be quite humanoid, so no need for different appendages.