Inspiration

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I've made some object dock icons. That's fun (especially since we have a larger dimension size to work with). I had created a cursor set a long time ago, but nothing like what's capable with Cursor XP. Problem is, everytime I start to create a cursor, nothing really 'clicks'. Know what I mean?

btw, side note: what's the ideal size for CXP cursors?

Thanks!
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Best place to get inspiration is everyday objects.
Anything from audio equipment to flowers has something that can be used as the basis of a work.
The thing to remember is that although you'll see a lot of great artists out there who never seem to make a bad skin, just remember that they have about 1/2 that many unreleased skins that were probably not very good.
Inspiration comes at the weirdest times, and sometimes you wait a long time between flashes of it.
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Fungus, I think that Hippy gave you some real nice tips.

In my case, everything can inspire me, I allready did skin suites based on buildings under construction, pannel car buttons, hair brushes, light of hospital machine, etc...

Sometimes I stay weeks without even trying to make a skin, then sudenly I can make 5 new differnet templates in one single day.

Also my mood inspires me a lot, when I am to happy or to sad I produce better, when I am just ok, it is harder to find ideas.

About the cursors size: the best size of a cursor, is the one that you feel confortable using it, as for my taste, nothing bigger then 26x26 nor smaller then 22x22
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