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Zombies Spawned from World's Heaviest Pumpkin. What master sculptor Ray Villafane does with pumpkins is more than just carve a typical holiday jack-o-lantern. We've seen his past pumpkin sculptures before but his latest creation for The New York Botanical Garden is otherworldly. Or should we say... UNDERworldly! (Because he carved out zombies.) Over the course of two days, Villafane used two giant pumpkins to publicly sculpt this masterpiece. Brant and Eleanor Bordsen's 1,693-pound pumpkin was carved out to bring the zombies to life, while the world's heaviest pumpkin, weighing in at 1,818.5 pounds, provided by Kelsey and Jim Bryson, formed the foundation.

The zombie-infested gourd will be on display throughout the Halloween weekend or until October 30, 2011. Ray Villafane's websiteThe New York Botanical Garden's website and FlickrOther Ray Villafane Madness:Most Expressive Pumpkin Faces Ever! Views: 17806 Tags: Halloween, Ray Villafane, Zombies Spawned from World's Heaviest Pumpkin, art, design, sculpture. LEGO Great Ball Contraption | It Is Monday. Lorenzo Duran. L’artista spagnolo Lorenzo Duran si avvale delle foglie come tela per le sue incisioni.

Dopo il lavaggio e l’essiccazione, rimuove con precisione chirurgica ed estrema cura i segmenti in eccesso, usando una tecnica simile a quella del tradizionale paper cutting. Quest’ultimo passo è ovviamente il più difficile vista la fragilità del materiale scelto, il risultatò di questo processo è una serie di affascinanti disegni geometrici incredibilmente belli e dilicati.

Grazie a Francesca per il suggerimento. via: illusion.scene360.com. Graphic Design Blender | Master the Business of Design – Freelancing, Client Advice, Business Tips & more. Swirl Mania in Illustrator & Photoshop. There are lots of ways to create swirls in Illustrator, you can even download vectors from sites such as bittbox and dezignus, and if you are using Photoshop you can download brushes with those sorts of symbols. However in this tutorial I will show 4 ways to create swirls, and by mixing them you will learn some very powerful techniques that will allow you to easily make tons of different styles of swirls and crazy sperm vectors. 1st Way - Arc, Circle, and Path tool Select the Arc Tool and create an arc. You can change the arc's properties by holding the mouse button and pressing the UP and DOWN keys for the angle of the arc, SPACE to move it, and ALT to change the center point.

Now create an ellipse using the Ellipse Tool (L). After you create the arc go to Object>Path>Outline Stroke. The stroke will be converted to a shape, the select the Direct Selection Tool(A). 2nd Way - Blend Tool(W) Create 2 circles, one will be the start and the other the end points of our swirl. 3rd Way - Spiral Tool.