Yipes! No working me up to the hard questions, eh? No problem. I'll try to write up something like that. I'll warn you that my brush work is minimal and often absent altogether but I'll do what I can.

Do you have any particular icons in mind? I've looked through the *.psd files that I have (I lost most of my files back when my hard drive died) and I see the following possibilities:

or -- VERY texture heavy style I learned from oxoniensis

-- several textures and a brush

-- texture and a brush

-- textures

-- simple texture use

-- simple texture and a brush

I'm having trouble finding brush use in my icons. I seem to have abandoned it for textures. Most of what I do brush-wise is on masks rather than the image itself these days. I could talk about some favorite brushes from times past, I guess?

Will any of these work for you? Did you have anything specific in mind that I didn't think to put there?