Thanks for the links! That texturize comm is exactly what I was looking for, but I also love looking at other people's icons for inspiration, too.

Ha, I think I have icon_tutorial saved in my bookmarks somewhere, I used that site obsessively when I first started making icons. I actually copy/pasted some of my favorite tutorials into word documents to use when offline, because we still had dial-up back in the day (this is like, 2002-2004-ish) and it would take so long for graphics-heavy posts to load. Memories...