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Seotiras A Visual Identity

Alasdair — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:43:43 +0000

Creating a Business Brand Seotiras is an Internet Marketing Agency in Cyprus with a mission to optimize websites for greater exposure. As most of you will probably know SEO is a highly competitive market and the brief we received aimed to create a modern visual brand that would represent their company tagline ‘Website Saviours’. Visual [...]

Digital Illustration Vs. Traditional Media

Alasdair — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:02:36 +0000

Written by Rebecca Jobling Digital Illustration In Recent Years Over the recent years digital illustration has become more popular and more accessible. It has even been suggested that it might cause non-digital illustrators to become obsolete. So what is it that has made illustrators turn to digital work apart from the pressure to keep up with [...]

Drawing Durham Cathedral – Inspiration Closer To Home

Alasdair — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:00:23 +0000

Those of you who read my recent article Drawing The Colosseum will know all about the trials and tribulations that came with that illustration, why I nearly gave up and why completing the cross hatching was the best thing I could have done. This drawing from the Durham Cathedral Cloisters is the first in a [...]

Why get your Visual Identity from Dark Design Graphics

Alasdair — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:10:49 +0000

There are hundreds of Logo Design companies out there, all vying for your attention and competing for your custom. We are no different so we decided to explain to you, our potential clients, why Companies and Organisations often chose Dark Design Graphics over the other Graphic Design companies and Freelance designers. To see the process we [...]

What’s On The Fringe a Visual Identity

Alasdair — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:38:34 +0000

Whats On The Fringe was created as a place for off west-end and fringe theatre to get reviews and listings. With the London fringe theatre scene being so vibrant and more and more productions and venues appearing they became frustrated with the inability to find anywhere that focused on providing reviews for these theatre companies [...]

Drawing the Colosseum

Alasdair — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:03:18 +0000

So my idea for this project was to draw the Colosseum on A2 sized paper, using the cross hatching technique with fineliner pens while also Time-Lapse filming the design to create an expressive and atmospheric rendition of this magnificent building. But as this article explains this project did not go as planned and here I [...]

Caricatures Step by Step

Alasdair — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:23:32 +0000

By Ben Coomber So you want to draw funny face’s? Make people laugh, push the boundries etc? Well Caricatures is where it’s at for that. There are two sides to the caricatures and in this tutorial I will try to cover both. Seeing Now before we even start writing about how to draw caricature we [...]

Why I don’t Smudge Pencil Drawings with my Finger

Alasdair — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 10:54:11 +0000

‘Smudging your pencil drawings with your fingers is bad practice’, this is what I was taught at school during my art classes. As it turns out this was, in my opinion, very bad teaching. It was only when I got a new teacher who actively made us try all the different techniques involved in creating [...]

So Saint George Slayed A Dragon

Alasdair — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 14:35:54 +0000

When asked to do a tattoo design of Saint George slaying a dragon I started as with all my drawings by doing a lot of research. Two things immediately jumped out at me, the legendary myth about Saint George slaying a dragon is only a small factor in the reason he is the patron [...]

Skull and Snake Tattoo Design – Feature Length

Alasdair — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:24:44 +0000

Finally the feature length time lapse video for the Skull and Snake tattoo design. This design was created as an example of different techniques used to colour in drawings and designs. Have a look below to see my feature length time lapse video showing the creation process from sketching to inking and finishing with colouring [...]