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New Movies Review Trailer and More Fights between Marvel and Disney characters were about ineluctable in the weeks that came the big buyout news — some originative, some laughably bad. Fortunately, The Beat called attention a fantastic gallery of “dark” Disney Princesses as drawn by illustrator Jeffrey Thomas.
How To Draw A Wave This art tutorial, kindly donated by surfing comic strip illustrator and surf artist Bob Penuelas covers how to draw a wave the Wilbur Kookmeyer way! If you're like me, then you've probably spent a lot of time in high school class daydreaming and doodling a thousand perfect cartoon waves in your notebook. It's safe to say that ninety percent of us surfers have a habit of scribbling perfect waves whenever a pencil is in our hands. Hopefully the following pointers will help you change your throw-away wave doodles into actual compelling artwork that you want to keep forever. Remember, there are millions of ways to draw a wave and hopefully with these simple pointers you'll find a million more.
25 Helpful Tutorials for Lighting Effects in Photoshop Photoshop allows designers with unlimited possibilities when it comes to creative effects, including lighting effects. There are plenty of different ways to create lighting effects in Photoshop, and there are equally as many different possible uses for them. If you’re interested in learning more about how to create awesome lighting effects in your own work, here are 25 tutorials that can help. Artist Du Jour: Christopher Uminga The child superheroes that inhabit the illustrations of New Haven, Connecticut-based artist Christopher Uminga can best be described as “emo.” Pretty much the furthest emotion you would attribute to their adult versions, which makes Uminga’s work that much more interesting. (Aloof, pensive and depressed are probably also appropriate adjectives for them.) We stumbled upon his booth at New York Comic Con and immediately coveted this contemplative Hulk print (among other works).
20 PSD Tuts That Will Turn You Into A Photoshop Guru Many people can use Photoshop, but only a select few can call themselves gurus. Learn all the methods in the 20 tutorials below and you’ll be well on your way to joining this elite. Rather than focus on tuts for beginners, intermediates or advanced users, we’ve simply chosen ones which produce jaw-dropping effects. All of them are easy to follow, although most do require at least some prior knowledge and experience. Artist Du Jour: Cliff Chiang We came across the work of Brooklyn-based comic illustrator and self-described “international playboy” Cliff Chiang at New York Comic Con last weekend. While we ended up buying a set of his printed cards depicting various female superheroes as retro pinup girls (shown below), this image of The Teen Titans channeling The Breakfast Club is still our favorite. Also included after the jump are two more of Chiang’s album cover mashups — Batgirl and Batman acting out Prince’s Purple Rain and Elektra as the Irene Cara character from Flashdance.
Playing with Displace Filter in Photoshop I have been playing a lot with the Displace filter in Photoshop and I still get impressed with how powerful it is. Even though I have written some tutorials using it, I decided to try to recreate a different effect that I saw in one of the images submitted for the Daily Inspiration. It was a brick wall deformed like it was made of cloth. So in this tutorial, or a quick-tips I will show you how to create a curtain made of bricks or how to deform a brick wall as it was a curtain.
The Cute Side of the Force Art, Featured — By BB Admin on July 28, 2011 12:00 am A short time ago on a website not so far away… It is a period of creative chaos. 15 awesome illustrators you should know is really impressive to see how many talented illustrators there are out there, sharing their work on the Internet. For your inspiration, I have compiled a list of 15 illustrators that rock. 1. Tang Yau Hoong 2. Unusual And Creative Tattoo Ideas Few days back we posted Tattoo Ideas for Science Lovers which was much liked by our readers. And now we have brought some unusual and creative Tattoo Ideas which I hope you will enjoy. These tattoos are not particularly in any order and i think they are odd enough to be featured on this odd stuff magazine, although i don’t know what is right, to get a tattoo or not but i guess the comments in this has some better views, please let us know what do you think about tattoos? I hope you will like the selection and let us know if you have any pictures of your with some uncommon tattoo designs and ideas for tattoo lovers.