Daily Designing

Prismacolor sketch-Sunflower

ChrisR — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 16:30:56 +0000

On the weekends I’ve been enjoying sketching flowers. I’m fascinated with Sunflowers and have a wild area in my yard filled with them. Here is a Prismacolor sketch I did.

Joomla! inspired Firefox Personas

Flavia — Wed, 12 May 2010 23:19:00 +0000

This morning I came across a posting in the Joomla! Ideas Forum that prompted me to look up how to create Firefox Personas. I created a Joomla! inspired Persona to fill the void in the community. It is an interesting exercise as one does need to examine how to use the space appropriately. Firefox allows [...]

Jazz Festival Poster

Kelly — Mon, 10 May 2010 02:40:35 +0000

Another in the series from the Kelby training. In addition to some filters, like finding edges, this tutorial uses the pattern brush, which was new to me. I think there could be a lot of interesting uses of it.

Mac App and Finder Shortcuts

Shelly — Mon, 03 May 2010 14:45:26 +0000

So I’ve been playing with this for quite some time. I’ve been trying to “go mouseless” because I know it’s a lot more efficient than the “hunt and peck” habit I have for myself. (I hunt and peck everything. I can’t even type without looking at the keyboard – even though I know where all [...]

Pencil Sketch- Tulip

ChrisR — Mon, 03 May 2010 02:27:37 +0000

Goal is to do one sketch a week. Here is a sketch of one of the tupils I planted.

Sketch-Red Umbrella Windy Night

ChrisR — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 03:52:20 +0000

Digging through my sketch archives and came across this pencil sketch I did for a editorial project. Reminds me to take more time to get back to story telling through Illustrations.

Musicians

Kelly — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:41:07 +0000

This is the first of (I hope) several examples from the Kelby Photoshop seminar I went to last week. This piece was done using adjustment layers, layer masks, a variety of image adjustments and a little painting. I added the drummer photo to the original photo of just the guitar player.

“Homeless” kitty

Yelena — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 10:10:05 +0000

No, not a stray. The kitty was supposed to be a part of the logo, but the recession ate the business when we were still at the initial sketches. That was going to be a fun project for a very nice client. Anyway, the kitty now officially has no place to go, so I thought [...]

Spring – Empty Nest

ChrisR — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 04:02:14 +0000

Enjoyed creating this birds nest sketch in watercolor and Prismacolors.

Digital flower, done in Harmony

Yelena — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 23:52:39 +0000

This is sort of hand drawn, although Harmony adds its own thoughts to every stroke. Like with drawing in ink, the beauty of it is in that you can’t correct anything. There is no eraser in this tool, nor can you realiably cover mistakes using a background color

Grunge Album Art

ChrisR — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 23:20:00 +0000

Created this piece in Photoshop for a music project my son is working on. He writes lyrics and songs and wanted me to make him art that would represent the mood of the music. Used some brushes, imagery and type.

Patio Tabletop Design

Ilene — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:28:14 +0000

This year I plan to create a mosaic top for the table. I used Adobe Illustrator to create 3 designs.