Illustrate a Recipe that Showcases Your Style STEP 1: Engage Your Senses Wander through a garden, berry patch or orchard. Visit markets and groceries, bakeries, cafes, deli's and diners. Step 2: Identify the Job of Your Illustrated Recipe List the kind of work or projects you would like to receive from an art director. Salli created this recipe because she wanted more jobs using her chunky hand lettering style. STEP 3: Select a Recipe There are 2 basic ways to select a recipe: 1) Do you have a signature dish or a favorite go-to that you make for parties or easy weeknight meals? Favorite recipes: Maybe you have a awesome smoothie blend or a classic sandwich combo. 2) Think of things you like to eat or want to draw. Look through cookbooks, magazines and search the Internet. Salli made the title of her recipe more of the feature and was able to showcase her handlettering. Farida Zaman created a series that showcase her fun painterly style, are easy to follow and have great titles. STEP 4: Build Your Concept Create an infograph.
Illustrator tutorials: 50 awesome ideas to try today! Since its release, Adobe's Illustrator has grown to become the designer's right-hand man when it comes to creating premier vector graphics and elements. There's so much you can do with it that it can be difficult to know where to start. Happily, we're here to round up the best Adobe Illustrator tutorials, covering everything from illustration to logo design, adding depth to your typography and much more, to help you get the most from this amazing app. Jump directly to a section using this handy category guide, or just get started browsing the whole list! With so many to choose from, you're sure to find a project to inspire you, whether you're using an older version of Illustrator or are signed up to the Creative Cloud. Adobe Illustrator for beginners: 11 top tips If you're just starting out with Illustrator, here's a fantastic guide to some of its tools. Setting up a new document In this video tutorial presented by Angie Taylor, you'll learn how to set up a new Illustrator document.
The Top 8 Websites To Sell Your Stock Pictures Photography to many of us is purely a hobby, something that we indulge in when we get the chance. For others, it is the very essence of living, if there is a photo to be taken, they are the one’s who take it. Whether it’s a hobby or it’s your job, making money from your photos can help supplement your income and help businesses get the right images for their brand. Many photographers are daunted by the stock selling process but in reality it is very simple. Whilst you are able to submit your photos for review, not all stock photography websites will accept your work, so they would need to be of a pretty high standard to gain admission to a marketplace. With that in mind, I would like to present to you eight websites to sell your pictures. 1. Snapvillage is a microstock website from Corbis that offers a unique marketplace for pictures and illustrations. Users can upload as many images as they like, the Snapvillage team then review them and post accepted images for potential buyers to see.
Pencils, Pixels and the pursuit of Awesomeness The following is an excerpt from The Animator’s Eye: Adding Life to Animator with Timing, Layout, Design, Color and Sound by Francis Glebas. In The Animator’s Eye, Francis teaches you how to become a strong visual storyteller through better use of color, volume, shape, shadow, and light – as well as discover how to tap into your imagination and refine your own personal vision. Here, Francis explains the importance of timing! BUNNY: What is the key to comedy? IGGY: Hmmm, I’m thinking, wait don’t tell me, ah, oh yeah … timing. BUNNY: C’mon, we’re late … What kinds of time exist in animation? How far do you space the drawings? Where does our sense of time come from? An animated action is comprised of three separate times: the time of expectancy of anticipation, the screen time of the action, and time for closure of the action. Here are some things to think about when timing your exposure sheets. 1 Time for Clarity The audience needs time to process the animation. 2 Time for Excitement
60+ Beautiful Logo Design Tutorials And Resources When we talk about a famous brand, the first thing that comes to mind is its logo. The logo is the most essential component of any personal brand and also the hardest part to execute. A logo must be appropriate, aesthetically pleasing and a reflection of the company’s credibility. An amateurish logo design can more likely make your business fail for a number of reasons. Today, we present some outstanding logo design tutorials to give you a head start when it comes time to creating an amazing logo for your own business. Further Reading on SmashingMag: Link Logo Design Tutorials Link Logo Design Project Step by Step Walkthrough6 Follow this step by step documentation of the whole process of the logo design from conception to completion. How to Design the Firefox Logo in Photoshop8 This tutorial goes through how to create the Firefox logo in a scalable Photoshop format. Dache: Logo Design Process12 This case study provides full creative brief and progress images from start to final. (al)
Make money selling stock illustrations: 5 expert tips Selling stock illustrations is becoming increasingly popular with illustrators, and the reasons for this are pretty clear: it fits perfectly with an illustrator's lifestyle owing to its flexibility. Selling stock illustration can be an excellent sideline, you can upload in-between commissions or depending on rights you can add some completed work to sell again. The percentages are quite low (depending on the complexity of file and if you are exclusive or not) making only around $5 or approx £3 per download, however the same illustration may sell 500 times that year making you as much money as a good commission and if you have multiple files that sell well then it can be well worth your while. Lion's share Some illustrators I know make the lion's share of their salary through selling stock illustrations. There are other stock libraries you can sell your work too of course - check out these 10 best places to download stock art online. 01. 02. 03. 04. 05. Words: Anna Wray Liked this?
How to make money designing printables - MichelleHickey.Design When I shared my first printable on this blog, three years ago, I did it to thank my readers (all 10 of them, at the time), for showing up and supporting me. Little did I know that sharing those bookmarks was the first step on this journey from tiny blog that nobody read, to launching an Etsy shop that provided me with a little extra spending money, to a full fledged career that is now bringing in a higher income than any of my former full-time jobs. When people ask what I do, I tend to stumble over my words. How can I possibly explain to them that I support myself by designing pretty things and giving a majority of them away for free, without them thinking I’m delusional? The reality is, the internet has made it awesomely easy for graphic designers and creatives like you and me to do just that. If you’ve wondered how you can take your creative talents and put them to work for you, this article is for you.
25+ Examples of Inspirational Text Art Get the FlatPix UI Kit for only $7 - Learn More or Buy Now Creative designers can use typography in amazing ways. In this post we’ll feature inspiration text art from various artists. When you see something you like, click through to see more of their work. Text Art Showcase: For more inspiration, please see: About Steven Snell Stephen Snell is the owner and editor of Vandelay Design.
How to Sell Art Online - Website Tips for Artists << Back to Articles for Artists Related article: Increase Website Traffic & Keep Visitors Longer Related article: Common Artist Website Mistakes Q: I'm ready to start selling my art online. Please visit my website and tell me what you think. What about paying for gallery or exhibition space or a web page on large art websites or links on large art websites with lots of other artists? A: Selling art online is a bit of a catch-22 for artists. As for linking or renting space on large art websites, that's usually pretty futile, and a good way to waste money. That said, the Internet is becoming increasingly important as a marketing tool, artists and the art business included. To begin with, buy a domain name like www.yourname.com, www.yournameart.com, www.yournamepaintings.com, or www.yournameartist.com and have it hosted by a hosting service. Once you've got a domain name, make that website about one thing and one thing only-- YOUR ART. Personalize your website. Give reasons to buy your art.
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