Have suddenly gotten a hankerin’ to do some motion comic style animation. Aside from the obvious choices of Flash, Photoshop and After Effects, there are other ways to accomplish such. http://www.computerarts.co.uk/tutorials/3d__and__animation/create_an_animatic http://www.calicomonkey.com/development/episode-10-scene-anatomy.php http://beta.toonboom.com/ http://en.softonic.com/s/comic-animation-software

Some examples of incredible Illustrator art pieces, plus a few artists’ galleries. http://www.ebypaidrick.com/Gallery.html http://www.bertmonroy.com http://www.arabezier.com/Gallery.htm http://homepage3.nifty.com/highside/gallery.htm http://i-evermind.deviantart.com/gallery/ http://www.illustratorworld.com/users/enikone/ http://www.illustratorworld.com/gallery/ http://www.nickdiggory.com/ http://www.real-trace.com/page1/gall1.html http://www.krop.com/techvector/ http://lifeinvector.com/category/vectors/ http://www.khulsey.com/masters_yukio_miyamoto.html http://www.wizard2.com/

A few links on the subject of design life, freelance or otherwise… I’ll keep adding to this list as I find new ones! Design Blogs to write for… that PAY! Attractive Pricing Tables Use your blog to get design jobs How to be More Productive and Start Earning More as a Freelance Designer 10 Passive  [ Read More ]

A collection of tips on the subject of web design… http://designm.ag/resources/colorful-free-wordpress-themes/ http://designm.ag/resources/30-excellent-css3-tutorials/ 15 Essential WordPress Plugins for Portfolio Sites Use your blog to get design jobs The Concept of Balance in Web Design How To Become A Web Design Expert 13 Free Plugins to Transform Your WordPress-Based Site Add Facebook Comments To Your WordPress Theme

Working on a series of posters inspired by some old 1930s-1940s era US Public Works posters, now in the public domain. They have been used by others, notably for a series of Star Wars-themed travel posters. I figured “Lord of the Rings” needed a set too. I have several done (or near done)… here’s one  [ Read More ]

Just a few links to some great photography resource sites… more will be added eventually, but these have some great resources…! http://www.computerschool.net/photo.html http://www.picturecorrect.com/ http://www.prophotoresource.com/ http://www.dpreview.com/ http://www.photographysites.com/ http://www.profotos.com/ http://www.naturephotographers.net/ http://photo.net/ http://www.photography.ca/ http://powerretouche.com/ http://www.photolinks.com/ http://www.dcviews.com/ http://www.photographymuseum.com/ http://www.megapixel.net

This is a collection of tutorial links, not to be confused with resource links, which have stuff to download… no, this post is more about learning stuff, than downloading 27,349 Photoshop brushes, of which you will only ever use six… Graphic Design tutorial sites: http://www.photoshop.com/ http://inspirationfeed.com/category/graphics/ http://designmodo.com/graphics/ http://worldiscoveries.blogspot.com/ http://designinstruct.com/ http://layersmagazine.com/category/tutorials http://www.gomediazine.com/category/tutorials/ http://www.computerarts.co.uk/tutorials/2d__and__photoshop http://www.khulsey.com/student.html http://www.bittbox.com/ http://www.pinkzap.com/  [ Read More ]

A collection of graphic design web sites that have various resources (brushes, textures, etc.), many of them free to download… Graphic Design resource sites: http://www.photoshop.com/ http://sixrevisions.com/category/resources/ http://designm.ag/category/resources/ http://designmodo.com/freebies/ http://inspirationfeed.com/category/resources/ http://colorburned.com/ http://thinkdesignblog.com/ http://www.melsbrushes.co.uk/ http://www.webanddesigners.com http://www.webdesignbooth.com/ http://www.digital-photography-school.com http://www.computerarts.co.uk/

Color Scheme Generators A collection of links to various colour scheme/palette generators, some on-line and free, others as standalone applications (free and commercial). http://kuler.adobe.com http://www.colorschemedesigner.com/ http://www.tigercolor.com/ http://home.gna.org/colorscheme/ http://www.colorsontheweb.com/colorwizard.asp http://www.degraeve.com/color-palette/ http://www.colourlovers.com/ http://www.colorzilla.com/firefox/ http://www.100randomcolors.com/ http://www.colorhunter.com/ http://www.ficml.org/jemimap/style/color/wheel.html Colour Gradient Generator

Links to various and sundry Photoshop Brushes, most of them free: 450+ Free Acrylic And Paint Photoshop Brushes 600+ Nature Brushes for Photoshop 40 Awesome Free Smoke Photoshop Brushes Sets 800+ Free Hi-Res Photoshop Brushes 40 Best Photoshop Brushes To Use In Photo Manipulations 500+ Free Smoke Photoshop Brushes 150 Free Rust Brushes for Photoshop  [ Read More ]