Photoshop Tutorial: Create dynamic lighting
Monday 08 Feb 2010
Dynamic lighting isn’t new – far from it. The 16th-century Baroque art movement saw artists such as Giovanni Baglione use chiaroscuro (Italian for light and dark) to add a sense of depth, atmosphere, and emotion to their work. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how the same lighting principles can be applied to your photo manipulations.
Photoshop Tutorial: Transform lolly sticks into textures
Wednesday 03 Feb 2010
Are you inspired by the mundane? The seemingly normal everyday things you come across? If not you should be, because what may appear to be nothing, can be turned into something unique.
Classic Photoshop Tutorial: Create distressed textures for digital paintings
Monday 01 Feb 2010
Are your images slick and polished, when you’re after a rougher, more urban feel? Mess things up a little: David and Sarah Cousens show you how.
Photoshop Tutorial: Create a children's book illustration
Wednesday 27 Jan 2010
Learn how to give a soft edge to composited images with help from Photoshop
Classic Photoshop Tutorial: Design striking stencil art for posters
Monday 25 Jan 2010
Digital artist Ian Keltie reveals how to composite elements in Photoshop to create a striking, stencilled art poster with an industrial edge.
Illustrator Tutorial : Design for vinyl wall stickers
Wednesday 20 Jan 2010
Ben the Illustrator shows how to prepare artwork for making trendy wall decals
After Effects Tutorial: Make an animated 3D pop-up book
Wednesday 13 Jan 2010
Design a stylised, 3D-looking pop-up book using 2D elements and Adobe After Effects
Classic Photoshop Tutorial: Master 3D type effects
Tuesday 12 Jan 2010
Nik Ainley of Shiny Binary shows you how to add the wow factor to 3D text using Photoshop’s art tools.
Photoshop Tutorial: Design a Twitter page with a tiled background
Wednesday 06 Jan 2010
To get noticed not just for your tweets, but also for your style, try creating your own custom tiled (or patterned) background.
Photoshop Tutorial: Create dynamic backdrop lighting
Wednesday 06 Jan 2010
Take your lighting effects to the next level, creating a deep, rich background for this fantastic rising sumo wrestler image.
Photoshop Tutorial: Design a custom Twitter page
Tuesday 05 Jan 2010
In order to get noticed for both your tweets and your style, you'll want to create your own custom background. Here we'll show you how to create one that looks as good as your creative work.
Classic Illustrator Tutorial: Design self-promotional postcards
Tuesday 05 Jan 2010
Character-maestro Andrew Groves shows you how to use Illustrator to create your own promotional postcards.
Photoshop Tutorial: Speedy 1980s text effects
Wednesday 23 Dec 2009
In this tutorial you’ll learn how to create flashy type-based art quickly by making cunning use of Photoshop’s layer styles, which are easy to composite into other artworks.
Classic Photoshop Tutorial: Turn sketches into fantastic digital paintings
Monday 21 Dec 2009
Digital artist David Cousens reveals how to develop a sci-fi art sketch in Adobe Photoshop using the airbrush and a few nifty tricks.
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paintings & illustrations, mostly, which i upload to flickr.RT @fragmentedm
I draw manga/anime characters. I also do graphic design and photography.RT @spialelo
Yes. I usually put them up on my #deviantart account for feedback on how to improve.RT @spialelo
Photoshop Tutorial: Master skin tones
Wednesday 16 Dec 2009
Use light and shade to bring a Photoshop drawing to life.
Tutorial: How screen-printing works
Tuesday 15 Dec 2009
Take a peek behind a screen printers doors to see how this hip way of producing prints and t-shirts works, and how a stunning artwork was created.
Classic Illustrator Tutorial: Create realistic glass surfaces
Monday 14 Dec 2009
Create this wine glass from scratch using Illustrator’s transparency and translucency settings, with tips from James Arnott.
Photoshop & Illustrator Tutorial: Design artworks for screen-printing
Wednesday 09 Dec 2009
Learn how to create scorching posters or T-shirts with hands-on tips from screen-printing experts Waste.
Photoshop Tutorial: Create vintage poster art using Photoshop and Daz Studio
Wednesday 02 Dec 2009
Roll up, roll up for Mark Mayers’ step-by-step guide to using 3D elements for vintage poster effects with Photoshop and the free Daz Studio tool.
Classic Illustrator Tutorial: Create A Scanner Darkly effect
Tuesday 01 Dec 2009
Artist Aaron Sacco, who worked on the movie A Scanner Darkly, shows how to recreate the film’s signature effects.
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