Beautiful and creative Toy Art roundup

Posted by on Apr 8, 2009 in Inspiration | 3 comments

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Toy Art is a contemporary movement using toys as fashion or for collector. Mostly created by designers, illustrators or plastic artists. We’ve selected beautiful, creative and inspirational vinyl toys for you. Enjoy it!

Ocean Life Vector Silhouettes

Posted by on Apr 6, 2009 in Freebies | 7 comments

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Ocean Life Vector Silhouettes: an assorted pack full of octopuses, crabs, turtles, sharks, seahorses even a marlin :)

How To Do a Vexel Pop Art Photophop

Posted by on Apr 1, 2009 in how to | 3 comments

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Roy Lichtenstein has inspired many artists till nowadays, with his beautiful paintings simulating the comic style, marked by the presence of primary colors and reticulated aspect. Now we are going to digitally recreate this style in a newer vision using the vexelling technique in Photoshop.

Inspiration from body painting

Posted by on Mar 30, 2009 in Inspiration | 7 comments

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This week’s inspiration goes beyond digital/paper surfaces and explores another kind of art: body painting. Let’s see different styles of this beautiful and curious alternative painting.

Color Theory 101 – Color and light, RGB, CMYK, Color wheel, Harmonies and much more

Posted by on Mar 24, 2009 in Reference | 18 comments

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This Color Theory 101 is a practical guide for designers to help them understand better this complex and so important subject. This article is not too technical, we’re going to study colors in an applicable way, talking about how do they work, color characteristics, additive and subtractive color, color harmonies and resources.

Illustrator 101: installing, setting up and getting it running

Posted by on Mar 20, 2009 in Reference | 4 comments

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Previously we posted the article “Photoshop 101”; now it’s time to read about how to set up your Adobe Illustrator.

Freebie: FlexiZoomer : simple and resizable image zoomer

Posted by on Mar 17, 2009 in Freebies | Comments Off

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FlexiZoomer is a Free web application that allows you to scroll and zoom images using a flash component. It sports an extremely easy installation, so easy that if you are not into reading manuals (or even better if you don’t have flash) you just have to download it and go to the example_htmlPage folder, and replace image.jpg with your own image. Then Upload the files, and load index.xml and that’s it, you can see your gorgeous image with the FlexiZoomer.