Here’s an article I heard about today on Twitter that I found interesting:The proper care and feeding of the in-house graphic designer (from the Jeff Fisher LogoMotives blog) There are lots of great points in the article, it’s a good read for in-house designers and those who work with them. It’s also good as a…
Click the image to see a larger version. I have moved the separate pieces apart to show the divisions. A friend asked me recently what the difference is between the knife and scissors tools. You’ll notice in the image above that the knife tends to cut on a squiggly path. It also creates closed shapes,…
I can finally reveal that this illustration is a Mother’s day gift. While I’d gotten input on the sketch from my Mom earlier, I didn’t tell her until Mother’s day that the illustration was a custom gift for her. Kind of sneaky, but it worked out well for me! She said the lady kind of…
Here’s the initial progress on the vector of the lady with a fan (the sketch is viewable in this post). Just the flat colour here, but you can see most of the costume changes in this image. I’m still working on this one behind the scenes, but I need to decide on some more background…
Just a little something I drew on the prompt “hats and hair.” My mother said it seemed to have a bit of a Regency feel to it and made some suggestions about things I could add to give it a more obvious Regency inspiration. Drawn with fineliner marker and cleaned up in Photoshop. I’ve been…
I’ve made some updates to my portfolio website. In the design section, there are some new pieces that I completed for Swastika Laboratories (you can see the page of items created for them here). I designed their website to focus on the content while also strengthening their branding. I also designed some forms for them.…
This is a pencil sketch of me and my cat, Tabitha. I plan to do a digital version of this later to add to my Twitter page. I’m holding a Cross mechanical pencil in my right hand, in case you were wondering 🙂 It’s my favourite pencil for sketching. The clothing is based on things…
I posted the pencil for this drawing a while back, in this post.And the inked linework is in this post. Here’s the Final Image (click to enlarge): The final image can be purchased as a print on RedBubble, here. I’m not sure if I want to add more detail to the background. If I do,…
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