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Vampire Feast iPhone Game
Posted in Cartoon Characters
Tagged Adobe Illustrator, app, Art, cartoon character, cartoon character design, Cartooning, design, drawing, game, graphic design, graphics, Illustration, iOS, monster, vampire, Vampire Feast, vector, vector art, video game
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iPhone Game Design: Active Bomb Sweeper
Active Bomb Sweeper is an iPhone puzzle game app developed and coded by Zeologic, for which I created the character design, illustrations and overall game design. Read on for more about the illustration and design process, as well as some … Continue reading
Posted in Cartooning, Design
Tagged Adobe Illustrator, app, App Store, Bomb Sweeper, cartoon, cartoon character, cartoon character design, Cartooning, drawing, game, graphic design, graphics, Illustration, iOS, iPhone, Pixel grid, Retina Display, vector, vector art, video game, Zealogic
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Zen Of The Pen
Sharon Steuer’s free ”Zen Of The Pen” PDF is an excellent introduction to the inner mysteries of the vector pen tool in Adobe Illustrator. Update: Sharon has kindly asked me to remove the link to that PDF, she’s working on an updated version. … Continue reading
Posted in Productivity, Resources
Tagged Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, Art, Bezier, Creative Suite, free, graphic design, how-to, Illustration, illustrator, PDF, Photoshop, reference, Software, technique, Tips, Tutorials, vector, walkthrough
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12 Realities of Pricing Design Services
Vandelay Design has a great article discussing pricing issues for freelance creatives. The article talks about design services, but it can apply to illustrators, cartoonists – probably any freelancer out there. More than just a nuts & bolts calculator, the … Continue reading
Posted in Business
Tagged Business, client, design, freelance, graphic design, pricing, Resources, tip
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The Designer’s Toolbox: Free Print & Web Design Resources
The Designer’s Toolbox looks to be a handy one-stop shop for free templates, specs, dimensions, and information for standard postcards, envelopes, CD/DVD layouts, HTML characters, and more.
Free Photgraphic Textures: Texture King
Texture King looks to be a great free resource for photographic texture images for your design projects. I downloaded a random file and found it to be 300 PDI @ 3″ x 5″, so the files are of a decent … Continue reading
Conglomerfont
Bittbox is working on a cool new project — Conglomerfont. The idea is that creatives send in hand-created letters, and the final result will be collated into one schizophrenic, ransom-note looking über-font from everyone’s submissions. The final font will be … Continue reading
Surfboard Logo Library
Found this neat little gallery of surfboard logos via Paul Howalt on Twitter. A huge library of surfboard logos, including multiples of some. These logos aren’t vector art or anything ready for print (unlike the Brands Of The World vector … Continue reading
Adobe Illustrator plugin Phantasm CS Studio Offers Duotones,Vector Halftones, Filters, Live Effects Color Adjustment & More
Adobe Illustrator plugin Phantasm CS offers in-line embedded image editing, color checking and separations, duotones and vector halftones, filters and live effects color adjustment. Looks like a pretty great plugin for Illustrator users who do a lot of bitmap image placing. Personally … Continue reading
Posted in Tools
Tagged Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, Creative Suite, graphic design, illustrator, Mac, plugin, Resources, vector
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Indie Vector Graphics App DrawIt – Free ‘Lite’ Version Now Available
Vector graphics software application DrawIt is one of many recent entries into the indie Mac developer vector graphics software field, including LineForm DrawBerry, VectorDesigner, and EazyDraw among others. Not only has the full version been updated to version 3.3.1, but … Continue reading
Posted in Software
Tagged free, graphic design, Mac, Mac OS X, OS X, shareware, Software, vector
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Color Blindness Software Tools for Artists
Just stumbled across these handy Mac OS X software applications to help designers and artists simulate the effects of color blindness on-screen: Sim Daltonism and Color Oracle. Sim Daltonism works as a floating palette which converts an area under your … Continue reading
CS3 + G4: Using Adobe Creative Suite CS3 on a PowerMac G4
It’s been about a few months since I upgraded to Adobe’s Creative Suite CS3 suite of graphic & design applications, and am running them all on a PowerMac G4 (dual 1.25 processors, 2 Gb RAM). I thought I would share … Continue reading
Posted in Apple/OS X, Productivity, Reviews, Software, Tools
Tagged Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Apple, Art, Creative Suite, CS3, G4, graphic design, graphics, graphics tablet, illustrator, InDesign, Intel, Mac, Mac OS X, Mac Pro, MacBook, monitor, opinions, OS X, Photoshop, PowerMac, Productivity, rants, review, shareware, Software, vector, Wacom
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Pixelmator & Acorn: Quick Comparison Review
A quick overview comparing the two new image editors Pixelmator and Acorn by designer John Whipple. I would have to agree with most of his points. The one thing I really, really like about Acorn is the handy resizing & … Continue reading
Illustrator CS3 Tip: Create A Color Group From Selected Artwork
A great quick tip, from the excellent design blog BittBox, to create a color group of all the colors in an Illustrator document: Select all the art in your document, go to the Swatches fly-out menu and choose “New color … Continue reading
Posted in Productivity
Tagged Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, Art, Creative Suite, CS3, design, graphic design, how-to, illustrator, Productivity, Resources, technique, tip, vector
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