Make Watercolor and Marker Style Portraits with Illustrator. With this tutorial, we are going to work through ways of creating digital portrait illustrations that have a unique and somewhat tactile feel of marker and watercolor. This tutorial will focus on using a drawing tablet and Adobe Illustrator. There will be a focus on technique and technical settings, but the overall product will rely on your own personal style and taste. Preview Resources Portrait by Lillian Bertram (Creative Commons Share Alike – used here with permission) Step 1: Set up your Illustrator document Start with a print document of 8.5 x 11″. Step 2: Import the reference photo Import the photo you will be using as a reference (File > Place). Size it up or down as necessary—try to size it up to the artboard.
Don’t sweat the resolution or pixelation of the image since the reference photo is only a guide. Since the artwork will be imported into the first layer, name it “Photo Reference” using the Layers panel. Your work area should look like this: Step 3: Set up your work area.
Faking it in Photoshop. Mbine textures with vectors | Tutorial | Computer Arts magazine. When you work with Illustrator and Photoshop together, you have the best of both worlds. Illustrator has an impressive set of vector drawing tools and features, enabling you to create wonderfully detailed, sharp illustrations with ease. However, sometimes the sharpness inherent within vector art is also its downfall. Vector graphics can look too perfect, especially when reproduced at scale. Adding the necessary imperfections is where Photoshop comes in.
Blending modes, masks and Alpha Channels can give a convincing distressed effect to your vectors. In reality, a scratched surface would be neither uniform nor consistent across the surface area. Click here to download the support files (1.05MB) Click here to download the tutorial for free. 30 Ultra High-end Photoshop Tutorials. 100+ Outstanding Photoshop Actions to Enhance your Photography | Freebies. Freebies by Bill Jones 5inShare If your like me you enjoy enhancing your photos in Photoshop. It’s a lot of fun to take your shots and experiment with them. Have you ever seen photos in magazines or on the web and wondered how they achieved that look. I have collected over 100 Photoshop actions that will help you achieve some of these looks and save you a ton of time in the process. Happy post processing! Union Actions Cross-Processing ATN Portrait Actions Action Pack I Actions Clyck Caitlins Actions Colors Actions Cool Photo Effect Action Enhancing Skin Color Eye Color GuteCharlotte Color o2 Kalifbanane – Cross Coloring Lovely Action NoiseLess RetroFit Actions Pack Actions 01 Photo Coloring 11 Photo Coloring 11.2 Photoshop Action: Diabolic Photoshop Action: Dim and Jade Photoshop Actions 101 Photoshop Actions 96 Photoshop Actions 68 Photoshop Actions 99 Photoshop Actions 78 Rather Large Set of Actions PS Actions Dark Sepia 5 Black and White PS Actions Black White Sepia PS Action Like Our Site?
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Minimal Movie Posters. These two posters are the finalists for the Now You See Me fan poster competition, which I posted about here. Let’s call the top one Option 1, and the second Option 2. Now you’ll get to help to choose the winner by answering this question: which poster do you prefer, Option 1 or Option 2? Artists and designers can make the ordinary seem magical. Get involved in Summit Entertainment’s Now You See Me tumblr poster contest! Summit Entertainment is looking for fan posters to help promote their new magic/heist film, Now You See Me, starring Jesse Eisenberg, Dave Franco, Morgan Freeman and Isla Fisher (to name a few!) , and I’ll be helping to select the winners.
Create YOUR Now You See Me Tumblr poster, tagged with #NowYouSeeMe and submit it here: Contest ends on 5/30/13 11:59p.m. The Art Of Jeremy Enecio. I recently ran into a stunning portfolio of art by Jeremy Enecio, a Phillipines born illustrator who migrated to the US when he was four. His work is absolutely beautiful, and even when he works digitally his work retains an incredibly painterly feel. I encourage you guys to check out eight more of his works after the break. With the exception of the Street Fighter piece above, I find a lot of his other work to be surreal, haunting and incredibly beautiful. As a heads up, there might be some NSFW content after the break.
If you guys like his work, I'd strongly recommend you guys pick up some of his high quality Giclee prints of his beautiful work here to support his efforts. Some facts about Nuclear weapons. This shit is crazy. via. ALT/1977: WE ARE NOT TIME TRAVELERS on the Behance Network. Banned Advertising Campaign - Diesel Be Stupid Ads Campaign. Diesel ‘Be Stupid’ Ads Banned for Being Indecent and Antisocial For those who are adventurous and have the guts to do something offbeat would love these creative ads. These images are sure to zap you in case you haven’t seen these earlier.
These portray sheer courage and are pretty blunt too. It is rightly said that when the message is depicted in the raw form it meets the targeted audience in a far better manner. However, on the lighter side you’d probably not preach the same concept when out on roads or amongst the friends. Although it might help you in drawing their attention but a permanent concentration can ruin your image. Its being banned for portrayed a strong unexpected image of femininity.
JAMES FACE - OLI + ALEX. The Top 100 Best Business Cards from 2010. The top 100 best business cards of 2010 really are a varied collection, with more and more unique ways of creating business cards being developed every month. While large corporations typically elect for standard (and relatively boring) business cards, small businesses and freelancers can capitalize on their creativity and focused brand image to create a unique and creative business card.
Large companies sometimes can create unique cards as well, as their larger budget and personal design teams can have free reign to develop something awesome. Whether you’re a fan of letterpress business cards, functional business cards, vector and cartoon cards, or even a bit more clever business card, you’ll find some awesome cards in this collection. If you missed our post yesterday, you might want to check out the 50 Best Creative Logo Designs from 2010, as there is at least one that makes an appearance here as well!
If you need more business card inspiration, check out these posts: Good Apples Kenny. Tron Legacy (2010) Year: 2010 Tron Legacy permalink I spent a half year writing software art to generate special effects for Tron Legacy, working at Digital Domain with Bradley "GMUNK" Munkowitz, Jake Sargeant, and David "dlew" Lewandowski. This page has taken a long time to be published because I've had to await clearance. A lot of my team's work was done using Adobe software and Cinema 4D. The rest of it got written in C++ using OpenFrameworks and wxWidgets, the way I've always done it with this team ;) Uniquely however, Digital Domain's CG artists were able to port my apps over to Houdini for further evolution and better rendering than OpenGL could ever provide.
Special thanks to Andy King for showing me that what seasoned CG artists do at DD is actually not so far off from what's going on in the Processing community. Interview with GMUNK about the team's process In addition to visual effects, I was asked to record myself using a unix terminal doing technologically feasible things. Fireworks, mmmm.
Japanese graphic design from the 1920s-30s. In the 1920s and 1930s, Japan embraced new forms of graphic design as waves of social change swept across the nation. This collection of 50 posters, magazine covers and advertisements offer a glimpse at some of the prevailing tendencies in a society transformed by the growth of modern industry and technology, the popularity of Western art and culture, and the emergence of leftist political thought. "Buy Domestic! " poster, 1930 [+] Cover of "Nippon" magazine issue #1, Oct 1934 [+] "Fuji Weekly" cover, Oct 1930 [+] Poster for Japan's first national census, 1920 [+] // "Health for body and country" poster, c. 1930 [+] Grand Nagoya Festival poster by Kenkichi Sugimoto, 1933 [+] Kyoto Grand Exposition to Commemorate the Showa Imperial Coronation, 1928 [+] Poster design by Shujiro Shimomura, 1928 [+] "NAPF" (Nippona Artista Proleta Federacio) magazine cover, Feb 1931 [+] "NAPF" (Nippona Artista Proleta Federacio) magazine covers: Sep 1931 // Oct 1931 "May 1" movie poster by Hiromu Hara, 1928-1929 [+]