Illustration: N. C. Wyeth's Legends of Charlemagne
This post is just the tip of the iceberg... see The Top Ten Reasons To Support The A-HAA for more jaw dropping images from classic illustrated books ... first edition of Bulfinch's "Legends of Charlemagne" illustrated by N. C. Wyeth. No illustrator ... as well. Wyeth studied under illustrator Howard Pyle, and quickly made a name for himself. His first [more...]
Date: 2009-01-24 01:33:30
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Create a Themed Repeating Pattern in Illustrator
Follow this Adobe Illustrator tutorial to create a range of simple vector objects based around the theme of a designer’s lifestyle, ... on Illustrator’s basic shapes makes for a great tutorial for beginners while resulting in an awesome outcome which can be put to use in a range of design projects. Illustrator Repeating Pattern [more...]
Date: 2008-12-22 03:24:30
Thank you for using my illustration
Other than Carrefour (Malaysia), i notice there's some others company also using my Chinese New Year illustrations... ... on picture for larger previewI know they both are not my illustration... but doesn't it look familiar?You may found this illustration @ shutterstock. Click on link to visit my gallery @ shutterstock [more...]
Date: 2009-01-23 07:42:00
40 Challenging and Incredible Vector Illustration Tutorials
Just because ours are the best vector illustration tutorials around doesn’t mean you can’t find incredible tutorials elsewhere, too. In this post we shine the spotlight on 40 tough but awesome vector illustration tutorials we kinda wish we’d written ourselves! (OK, we did write a few of ‘em). 1. Poster Illustration: Tiger [more...]
Date: 2008-10-23 16:00:57
Illustration Friday - Climbing
Every week Illustration Friday has a challenge for a specific word ... and paintings!Climbing, Digital © Diane ClancyHow do you tackle your Illustration Friday projects ... people! Anyone can join in with their entry to Illustration Friday. I so much enjoy doing [more...]
Date: 2009-01-26 00:22:35
Illustration Friday
How good is this!? The idea seems to be a theme is posted and artists respond, their work is then blogged on Illustrationfriday.com... [ ... Button If1 Illustration Friday is a weekly creative outlet/participatory art exhibit ... . We believe that every person has a little creative bone in their body. Illustration Friday just gives [more...]
Date: 2009-01-24 19:47:40
Create An Amazing Illustration Using Scraps
In this tutorial I will walk you through a few steps that will show you how I managed to create this illustration ... from Australia and one of the depthCore artists. When I saw his illustration named Skin I was really curious to imagine how he achieved the result so I took my own style, used some free stock [more...]
Date: 2008-12-24 04:42:00
Interview with Charlene Chua
Charlene Chua (who is also known by her nick-name, Sygnin) is a Toronto based illustrator and a digital artist. She worked as a graphic designer, a web producer and an interactive project manager before taking the plunge into illustrations full-time. Charlene has a varied and effective commercial style of illustration [more...]
Date: 2009-01-24 13:00:21
Saturday drawerings, from Tron to rayguns
I love the Chopping Block's Tron tee. (Would the dog try to stick its head out the window of a lightcycle, too?) ... , then using Illustrator's Live Trace feature to vectorize it. In Little Chicken Growing Up, scientific ... . Via Vintage: Flickr features a huge mid-century illustration archive, grouped by illustrator [more...]
Date: 2008-08-23 20:54:11
Raymond Biesinger
I always love seeing artists who don’t come from a traditional artistic background. The Canadian illustrator, Raymond Biesinger, is one of those people. Even though he has a BA ... illustrator. His work reminds me of classic European print illustrations from 60 years ago. Everything [more...]
Date: 2009-01-22 15:00:41
Shawn McKelvey
Shawn McKelvey is a California illustrator and landscape painter ... and toy industries. His commercial work includes children’s book illustrations, backgrounds ... is a design/illustration area that I’ve always found fascinating, but is largely overlooked in illustration [more...]
Date: 2008-12-06 15:25:00
The inside word on illustration from Frank Stockton
New York illustrator Frank Stockton is one of those artists who, when you stumble across his work, you can’t help but stop and marvel ( ... draughtsmanship, coupled with a powerful knack for innovative, graphic storytelling, has resulted in an impressive ... Center College of Design in Pasadena’ Since school up until now, what has your artistic journey [more...]
Date: 2008-07-28 15:31:47
30 Super-Juicy Photoshop Illustration Tutorials
Illustrating in Photoshop is a challenging process with the potential to yield impressive results ... -to-create-a-delicious-green-a pple-illustration/" How to Create a Delicious Green Apple Illustration src="http://psdtutsarticles.s3.amazonaws.com/linkb_30illustration/18.jpg" 5. href="http [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 01:30:45
U2 for Rolling Stone magazine. Wrong.
I'm veeeery happy.I was contacted by Mr. Marco Cendron, art director for Rolling Stone Magazine, to do some illustration work ... (by the japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto) into a narrative illustration that helped me to skip ... . The illustration you see above is NOT the one that will be published on RSM because [more...]
Date: 2009-01-24 11:02:00
Design a Rocket Powered Retrofuturistic Digital Illustration
Retrofuturism is a topic that has always fascinated me. In this tutorial, we'll go through the steps of recreating my own experiment in this style. After making the 3D typography in Illustrator, we'll use Photoshop to create an out-of-this-world digital illustration on the topic of space exploration. [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 13:26:00
HELP WANTED: Graphic Designer
Hello, readers– COMMENTARY is in the market for a freelance graphic designer and illustrator who can produce web article illustrations as well as ... . Required skills: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, HTML, CSS, Flash. Please send resumes [more...]
Date: 2008-09-18 20:30:34
23/01/09
A giant happy birthday wish to Grace! There are a few pictures of the 45” record project. It was done by illustrating on paper, adding digital color, and printing them on CD labels ... shine and illustration front view showing shine and illustration [more...]
Date: 2009-01-23 13:33:17
Lynda.com - Illustrator CS4 for the Web
Illustrator CS4 for the Web with: Mordy Golding Released on: 1/23/2009 | 248 MB | WinRAR | Lynda.comMordy Golding demonstrates how to be more productive, efficient, and creative by taking advantage of Adobe Illustrator to create pixel-perfect web graphics and interactive Flash content [more...]
Date: 2009-01-25 02:39:00
Ronald Kurniawan
Ronald Kurniawan is a Los Angeles based illustrator who graduated from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena ... , and a profile on Illustration Mundo. (Image above is a poster for the West Hollywood Book Fair, illustration by Ronald Kurniawan, graphic design by Ryan Ward.) [more...]
Date: 2008-11-20 16:16:24
10 Awesome Gradient Mesh Tutorials on VECTORTUTS
The Gradient Mesh Tool is an unusual and powerful part of Illustrator you can take advantage of ... Borealis Design in Illustrator To recreate the light patterns of the Aurora Borealis you’d probably turn to Photoshop’s filters and effects. Use Illustrator however, and you’ll not only achieve [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 16:08:04
STERLING HUNDLEY
I like art where you can tell that the artist has a pulse.Sterling Hundley's theatrical posters are not only impassioned, they are smart, too ... his human imprint on his subject.His illustrations also appear in publications such as the New ... . Like his theatrical posters, his illustrations tend to be emotionally complex and beautifully [more...]
Date: 2009-01-25 15:26:00
Dummy: Illustrator.exe - Fatal Application Exit
Recently purchased and installed CS4 Web Premium. Launch Illustrator CS4 Click Open on welcome Screen Illustrator Crashes with this error: ... (none appeared to be associated with Illustrator, however). Anyone else encounter [more...]
Date: 2009-01-26 06:16:39
Guardian Gives Shape To Obama’s Words
Expect Obama-mania in the media over the next couple of days as Inauguration Day approaches – ‘the nearest America will come to a coronation, ... by a mixture of designers and illustrators Introducing it all is this cover by David Carson Contributors ... Mellor and a host of other illustrators - some established, some new - set G2 very much apart [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 15:45:13
Inaugural Art
In addition to hosting the Manifest Hope: DC Extravaganza, Shepard took the time to design the official Inauguaral Poster for President Elect Obama ... . A run of only 10,000 numbered prints have been made of this special illustration commemorating ... to help mark this historic event.”Shepard Fairey’s red, white, and blue “Hope” illustration [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 01:47:36
A Silicon Valley Christmas Tale
Editor’s note: The poem and illustrations below were submitted by an engineer in Silicon Valley who works for a big company and wishes to remain anonymous. The views expressed are not (necessarily) those of TechCrunch. The awesome illustrations are by Doug Shannon Every geek Down in Geek-ville Liked searching a lot … But Bill Gates [more...]
Date: 2008-12-25 04:28:06
Ramiro “AMK” Fernandez - digital artist
Ramiro “AMK” Fernandez is an Argentinian designer who makes illustrations in such way that even Hemingway would have difficulties in describing. Beatiful colors, chosen well and put together in a few illustrations. An interesting fact about him is that he was the winner of the 2nd Honor Mention in Nvidia Amazing Creations contest and also [more...]
Date: 2009-01-25 13:25:19
Ramiro “AMK” Fernandez - digital artist
Ramiro “AMK” Fernandez is an Argentinian designer who makes illustrations in such way that even Hemingway would have difficulties in describing. Beatiful colors, chosen well and put together in a few illustrations. An interesting fact about him is that he was the winner of the 2nd Honor Mention in Nvidia Amazing Creations contest and also [more...]
Date: 2009-01-25 13:21:45
What is panettone?
At just about all specialty food stores, as well as a good number of regular supermarkets, ... are always adorned with illustrations of what’s inside, but an illustration is never as good as actually seeing the product. Panettone is a somewhere between a bread and a cake in taste, a sweet yeasted bread [more...]
Date: 2008-12-18 15:25:04
Daniel LuVisi Interview
Daniel LuVisi is a California native who has a tremendous passion for illustrating ... then? My first digital painting was an illustration of Tom Hanks from Road to Perdition. I remember seeing ... Feed to keep informed about the best Photoshop tutorials, design articles, and inspirational digital [more...]
Date: 2008-09-29 13:13:17
5 Complimentary Skills to Graphic Design
In today’s economy competition is rougher than ever and even before this economic down turn I had mentioned how competitive the field of graphic ... a better illustrator will allow you to create more creative designs, do freelance illustration work ... design was getting and how more and more job listings were looking for multi-talented designers [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 00:44:44
Forty years of wankitude
Shapeling Ellen writes in: Last night I ran across a picture of the 1965 Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover ... do more blatantly what most advertising does, which is to buy your attention with half-naked bodies. Sports ... wankfest at that. Which is why the graphic Ellen made is so illustrative. What is considered blandly [more...]
Date: 2008-08-19 03:25:32
Community Generated HowTos
Molly Kleinman, the “multi-purpose” librarian, has started putting together some easy to digest HowTos on Creative Commons ... : Using an illustration on a birthday party invitation = Non-commercial Using an illustration on a charity auction invitation = Commercial Using a song as the soundtrack to a collection of home videos [more...]
Date: 2008-08-26 16:43:19
Heiko
Heiko Müller (b. 1968 in Hamburg, Germany) has a diploma in illustration and design from the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences and is co-owner of a small media design agency. His art has been treading on various grounds in the past – such as illustration and digital compositions – and it is only recently that he returned to painting [more...]
Date: 2009-01-24 16:46:00
How to Talk to Non-Tech-Savvy Clients
Jargon I wrote this article originally for Freelance Switch (my first paid article ever) so go check out their post to read what other tips Freelance Switch readers have offered ... in the illustration industry…”Have you ever worked with an Illustrator before?” Don’t Underestimate Their Knowledge [more...]
Date: 2008-07-06 11:00:20
Jillian Tamaki
jillian tamaki We recently had the opportunity to speak with the wonderfully talented New York-based illustrator Jillian Tamaki and asked her ... moonlighting and building up freelance clients. Eventually I jumped into it full-time in 2005′. How long have you been working as an illustrator? How would you describe the arc of your professional caree [more...]
Date: 2008-09-05 11:56:44
Josh Cochran
Josh Cochran’s illustrated world is full of hard-edged shapes, ... and calligrapher, and my Mom’s been working in graphic design since the early nineties. I have to also put ... him in what ways his illustration style has evolved over the years: ‘My style really came from a general [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 15:17:31
Mystery Artist, Guess Again
Yes, I know it’s supposed to be strike three and you’re out, but I’m having pity on you ... by this author-illustrator. First, let me show you this. This should help. This photo from Life ... or paintings. If that’s not enough, here is a preliminary sketch our author-illustrator used [more...]
Date: 2009-01-24 21:37:58
Mélange
This fabulous dragon 'tank' comes from another volume out of the (very) weird baroque series - 'Frauenzimmer Gesprechspiele' ... that this engraving would be the first of many quasi-'biological tank' illustrations for a thematic entry ... , 1565 (at BSB). There are no other illustrations as I recall. This book belongs to the [more...]
Date: 2008-08-10 13:56:00
Free Stylish Business Card Templates
Business cards are one of the most inexpensive yet very powerful marketing tools you can use to promote yourself or your business ... in Photoshop. However, to edit the EPS or Illustrator files, you need to open them in Illustrator ... card design with swirl object, silhouette, floral pattern etc. Simply your graphic design work [more...]
Date: 2009-01-23 12:38:34
Once upon a time, every illustrator worth his or her salt kept a morgue file. The term comes from newspapers ( ... is an accumulation of images, often clipped from magazines and old books, that illustrators used for reference [more...]
Date: 2009-01-23 17:25:38
Lane Bennion
Utah artist Lane Bennion finds subjects for paintings were I, for one, would never think to look for them ... like David Dornan, Paul Davis and Tony Smith. He later graduated from the Medical College of Georgia with a specialty in Medical Illustration, though I can’t find reference to medical illustrations [more...]
Date: 2009-01-23 16:46:52
How to Create a Three Color Wolf Skull in Illustrator
Clients often ask us for mind blowing vector images with a low number of colors and no gradients. The question is how can you add depth to an illustration, give it an artistic feel, and still keep it commercial? One solution: concept, variable line thickness, contour, shadow and fill color [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 13:00:09
There's a Party in Heaven
"One day I'll look around and I'll find that I've left the sad things of this world far behind ... . Maybe an angel will give me a tour in Heaven." The lovely illustrations show people with the same ... paged illustrations show children playing, friends and loved ones being reunited, angels interacting [more...]
Date: 2009-01-25 13:54:00
This Week’s Favourites – October 17th 2008
Included in this week’s roundup of interesting finds are inspirational packaging and custom illustration examples from Tutorial9 and Abduzeedo ... , Photography, Illustrator and Web Tutorials published on his site. This article in particular showcases ... interests. Find me along with a huge collection of other designers in the Graphic Designers and Web [more...]
Date: 2008-10-17 03:00:05
ILLUSTRATION: Illustrating Children's Books...
Découvrez le livre de 160 pages "The Encyclopedia of Writing and Illustrating Children's Books: From Creating Characters to Developing Stories, ... a special section on the commercial realities of the children’s publishing industry, with tips [more...]
Date: 2009-01-24 00:28:00
COMIC CON BOOKS AND BOOTHS
"Girls of Monster Paradise" by Stephanie Gladden. Soft cover, 8.5" X 11". Full-color, 48 pages. $15 ... copy is a progressive scan DVD containing over 40 minutes of time lapse character design. Imagine ... (illustrator on site: Justin Gerard) Ticket (illustrator on site: Cory Godbey) The Ringing Bell (graphic novel [more...]
Date: 2008-07-19 21:50:25
Illustration: St Nicholas Magazine, Dec 1910
Sorry for the late posting on this... we had server problems that couldn't be corrected until after the holiday. [ ... St Nicholas Magazine December 1910 I would like to take this opportunity to wish you Happy ... , here are more wonderful illustrations from nearly a century ago. St Nicholas Magazine December 1910 [more...]
Date: 2008-12-26 18:37:07
Basic Clinical Massage Therapy: Integrating Anatomy & Treatment
Title: Basic Clinical Massage Therapy: Integrating Anatomy & Treatment Authors: James H. Clay, David M ... techniques. More than 550 full-color illustrations of internal structures are embedded into photographs ... are performed. This edition features improved illustrations of draping and includes palpation for each [more...]
Date: 2009-01-25 20:33:50
Rudolph Zallinger
I’ve wanted to do a post on Rudolph Zallinger for some time, ... of Fine Arts on a merit scholarship as a painting major, and was also trained in illustration. He taught at the school after graduating. He also started dong some scientific illustration and his talents [more...]
Date: 2008-08-24 16:44:31
This Month in Web Design: Best Links of November
Now that November is winding down it’s time to take a look at the best items from the month ... submitting sites to galleries Graphic Design: 20 Typefaces to Start a Designer’s Career - Just Creative ... Style Plaid with Illustrator in 4 Steps - COLORBURNED Design a Shiny Bass Guitar Illustration [more...]
Date: 2008-11-28 12:00:28
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