Art and the art world
A Gold Mine of Adobe Illustrator Resources
By Melissa Scroggins What could be better than striking gold? How about a huge list of Adobe Illustrator resources? For many designers, a list of resources to help finish those design projects in a quick and easy fashion is like finding gold on the Web. In this article, there are over 200 (mostly) free resources for Adobe Illustrator. Finally, have fun stockpiling all the brushes, patterns,, symbols, vectors, swatches, and fun additions to the Adobe Illustrator presets. 1. There are a multitude of brush sets that can add volumes of creativity to design projects. 17 brushes for Illustrator 28 Free Illustrator Brushes for making Swooshes and Swirls 33 More Paint Brush Style Illustrator Brushes 20 Free Illustrator Art Brushes: Ink Sketch Lines 57 Exclusive Illustrator Multi-Colored Paint Brushes Free-Dot Dash Illustrator Pattern Brushes 10 Arrowhead Brushes for Illustrator Free Illustrator Brushes: Ink/Watercolor 60 brushes for Illustrator Free Illustrator Brushes and Vectors: Foliage 2. Gradients 3.
Most Popular Artists
The most popular artist searches last month: a not-to-be-taken-too-seriously measurement of which famous artists have the greatest "mindshare" in our collective culture. Moving up: Edgar Degas (#22 to #12), Titian (#28 to #18), and realist painter Janet Fish (appearing for the first time on the list at #29). Moving down: Joan Miro (#13 to #19), Wassily Kandinsky (#11 to #24) and Paul Gauguin (#21 down to #32).
Starlay for iPad - Éditions Volumiques (@volumique) in collaboration with David Calvo
Created by Éditions Volumiques in collaboration with David Calvo, Starlay is a new genre cartoon for the iPad aimed at children as much as adults. Every two days, a new page is unlocked and when the album is complete, a revelation emerges. Starlay, a tiny seahorse, wants to bear the children of his girlfriend, Starlayte…Drifting in the everflowing world of the interstitial zone, will Starlay ever find his soulmate ? “Starlay” is a new kind of comic book for kids and adults of all ages. Every two days, a new page will be unlocked, revealing the eternal quest for true love. Download for free on the AppStore Starlay Official Website | The Starlay Website (English) | Éditions Volumiques | David Calvo David Calvo is a writer, artist, screenwriter and game designer born 1974 in Marseille, France. Les éditions volumiques is a studio inventing, designing and developing new games and toys, focusing on the relationship between the tangible and digital.
3D Paintings on Panes of Glass
Using multiple layers of clear glass, Canada based David Spriggs and Chinese born Xia Xiaowan, transform flat artwork into 3D sculptures. Viewers are treated to different shifting perspectives of the works based on where they stand in the art space. Spriggs work revolves around powerful explosive imagery, often resembling storms, cosmic blasts or firework like explosions. See Also INCREDIBLE 3D ILLUSTRATIONS JUMP OUT OF THE SKETCHBOOK For more on David Spriggs see his beautiful website at davidspriggs.com or for more on Xia Xiaowan see Wikipedia Above and Below: Xia Xiaowan’s distorted 3D figures Artist: Xia Xiaowan Below: David Spriggs beautiful paintings fill the room with stormy emotion. Artist: David Spriggs Artist: David Spriggs Source: amusingplanet.com
Starburst Wrapper Bracelet Tutorial | Paper Kawaii
So, have you been wondering how to make the amazing bracelets from Starburst wrappers? A simple folding method, plus some finishing tips, will help you make your very own Starburst bracelet. Using these simple instructions, you’ll soon memorize the folding pattern, and it’ll be a piece of cake! (or candy..) The average bracelet takes 30-36 Starburst wrappers, so save up! Asking friends to unwrap carefully and “donate” helps quite a bit. You can make this bracelet from any rectangular wrapper: dum dum wrappers, tootsie roll wrappers, most gum wrappers, now and laters… be creative, there are lots of options! Keep in mind that when you have finished, you need the bracelet big enough to slide on and off your wrist without too much trouble. Click on any of the photos for a larger view. Step 1 Take your first wrapper… and flip it over. Step 2 Fold (hot dog) one side in to the halfway point. Step 3 Fold (hot dog) the other side to the halfway point. Step 4 Step 5 Fold (hot dog) in half again. Step 6
142 Fantastically Funky Modern Furniture Designs
Funky Furnitures: 142 Creative Modern Furniture Designs Article by Urbanist, filed under Furniture & Decor in the Design category. We sit on it during the day, sleep on it at night, eat off it and even look at our reflection in it – but how much thought do we really give our functional and space-saving furniture and the rooms we have full of it? Some designers have gone to great lengths to get us to view even the most mundane pieces of furniture in a new and different light. From creative transformable, collapsible and comfortable designs to incredible flat-pack, funky and futuristic ones here are one hundred and forty-two furniture innovations that will at least turn heads. 18 Brilliant and Bizarre Modern Bed Designs We spend a third of our lives in them so why not make our beds the center of attention, the most marvelous, strange and sensational pieces of furniture we own? 20 Uncomfortably Cool Contemporary Chair Designs 16 Marvelous Modern Table Designs 24 Crazy Contemporary Clock Designs
Tiny Polaroid Magnets | { Ambrosia Girl }
Hi there! It’s felt like forever since I’ve last blogged, and has felt like an eternity since I’ve done anything crafty and nifty. Since my morning sickness has gone into full speed (yes, we’re expecting our third this fall!) I came across these DIY Pantone chip magnets on How About Orange and wanted to do something similar. You will need: Cardboard (mine was the backing of a sketchbook — much thicker than the back of a regular spiral bound notebook) or 2-3 sheets of white cardstock or poster board spray-mounted together to use as a sturdy backing to the magnetsOpaque white marker (necessary only if your cardboard is not white) Craft knife Metal straight edge/ruler Clear packing tape or frisk film. Step 1: Download a Photoshop file of the Polaroid frames below. Step 2: Print out photos onto photo paper. Step 3: Spray the back of your sheet of photos and also the cardboard with spray mount. Step 4: Trim out photos with craft knife. 487 Comments
