Riding off what I thought at the time was a successful icon set, FarkusXP, I sought out to create a second set. I started this one just like I do with any of my creative works, I threw up a vomit of shapes and colors, and saw what stuck. This is what I ended up with. At this time I was planning ahead to mimic Apple's file types so, based on the name of my first set, I named it Farkus OS-X.

I've always had a fascination with the art style used in the Leisure Suit Larry video game series. Any old-school gamer will know what I'm talking about. It's slightly retro, a little art deco. I have no idea what I'm talking about but the art majors out there know what I'm trying to get at. I was trying to emulate that funky, off-tilt look. The name also seemed lame, so I changed to an equally lame Funk-e Simple.

While working on this new set, I was also reading the comments people were leaving for FarkusXP. Among the most prominent complaint was that there are too many blue icons. I wasn't too thrilled with my color choices thus far anyway so I went with another fascination of mine, 70's Kitchen Green. If I ever renovate my kitchen, every appliance will be green. And on that thought, I renamed the package Kitchen and rounded off the monitor's base.

It still wasn't right. I couldn't place my finger on it but something just wasn't working for me. It was at this moment that I decided to try my hand at rendering. This stage of the evolution shows how badly I was at it.

A couple tutorials later and this is where the set landed. I was never really able to do that glossy, shiny look so I just abandoned it altogether. I also went a slightly different direction with the overall look and feel. I was shooting for a Jetson's post-modern futuristic look and missed completely. Still, I'm happy with the results. Another comment left for the FarkusXP inspired me to rename this set. Someone was complaining that I was being self-congratulatory by naming the set "FarkusXP" when my nick on WinCustomize was "farkusmarkus". This made me giggle. So, at the time, I decided that everything I do will be named after me. A lot of inspiration for this set came from the Mac OS-X Panther icons, so I parodied that title (obviously), combined it with my name, and dubbed it Marcintesh OS-W Tabby. And just for good measure, I threw a tabby in the trash can. However, the name struck me as too long so I shortened it to Marcintesh OS-W.

And then the inevitable happened. I lost my mind completely. I'm not sure how it happened or why I thought it was a good idea but I threw in six new colors. I also wanted to try and skin every single file type I could get my hands on as well as any application that I felt needed an icon. I was mad with iconifying. Before I knew it, I ended up with a 12 meg download and several emails to a mod asking if that was okay. I did, however, manage to stop myself before trying to apply funny names to the color schemes, similar to the old iMacs.