Having worked as a farmer and woodcutter for most of my life i became determined to do something that would leave my mark after i was gone. Since then i got back to studies, and i have now a master degree in Electrotecnical Engineering as well as a degree on Electromechanical Engineering. On my free time i like playing and so i became interested in creating my own games or, in the shorter term, modding games to get something closer to what i would like games to be.
Just some examples of icons
Good balance of white space.
Also if you look at the plug.tga you can see the break up of the white space in the background with what looks like fire? Only reason It looks like fire is because I worked on the RGB.
All it is is a background selection with an inner/outer bevel which breaks up the white space further.
Just some thoughts.. :)