Someone please give an opion! Options

[xtwitchyx]

Ok, I pretty much gave up on designing things due to my lack of having a good computer that will handlle the programs to do it with. Anyway, my best friend(Who has a more useful computer than I for this stuff. It's a sexy computer too! Lol!) likes to just mess around with different programs of all sorts and be creative. So she asked me if I knew of a place where you could show creations and get some opinions. So I told her that I did and that I would get an opinion for her.(She's also the one who made my avatar and sig tag.) Anyway, she wanted to know if she has the basic idea down for making different icon textures and stuff. So here's the two that she wanted opinions on...

She would appreciate any bit of advice anyone could give to her. Thanks!