Caramel Ink

Tutorial: Design a Stylish Surreal Portrait

Carine — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 00:33:34 +0000

In today’s tutorial we will combine surrealism and fashion effortlessly to create a state of art portrait. I’ll show you how to achieve this essentially through a combination of photos, filters and brushes. You can then translate these techniques into your designs to add an artistic edge to them! You can view it at photoshoptutorials.ws.

Wordpress Custom Permalinks broken (404 page not found)

David — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 11:36:48 +0000

Hello from Australia which we now call home! Sorry for the lull in posting, we are now back in business! Are your permalinks broken, regardless of the version of Wordpress you try? I kept getting 404 “page not found” errors after using a custom structure in the permalinks. I initially attributed this error to Wordpress as I [...]

Tutorial: Design a multimedia website

Carine — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 06:34:04 +0000

First impressions do count! Stunning our viewers with a visually compelling portfolio is one of the most important things that a designer can do to court a new client. Today we will demonstrate how to use photos, brushes, and textures, and 3D objects to design a creative multimedia website layout in Photoshop. Let’s get started! Click [...]

Fashion Watercolor Artwork Tutorial

Carine — Sat, 08 May 2010 15:11:30 +0000

As promised, I’ve written a step-by- step tutorial on how to create a dramatic fashion artwork with watercolor effects inspired by fashion illustrator, Stina Persson. I contributed it to an awesome tutorial website, photoshoptutorials.ws. You can view it here.

Illustration inspiration : Lanitta Makarova

Carine — Sun, 02 May 2010 09:31:52 +0000

Her illustrations are a mix between the catwalk and a fantasy world: fresh, vibrant and most of all fun. Lanitta aka Svetlana Makarova is a talented Ukrainian illustrator based in Kiev. There is beauty and perfection in her delicate slim fashion characters. I admire her great attention to details, shapes and proportions in her [...]

Illustrator Tutorial: Bird Design Process

Carine — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 08:23:45 +0000

In this step-by-step tutorial I will show you the process of how to draw a stylized bird inspired by one of my favorite illustrators, Catalina Estrada. If you’re looking for a step-by-step technical tutorial for beginners, I suggest that you see my Flowers & Leaves tutorial first. No matter how talented, every designer takes inspiration from [...]

20 Exquisite Watercolour Illustrations

Carine — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 17:24:05 +0000

Watercolour, an extremely old medium hasn’t lost it’s appeal in today’s digital world. Indeed it is still very much in vogue and has the power to enhance digital designs. Watercolour is exceptionally successful in fashion illustrations. Its pure, beautiful, organic, and unpredictable nature brings much glamour and allure in any design composition. Here you will find [...]

Wordpress tip: Hide WP Stats Smiley

David — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 11:39:15 +0000

Wp Stats is a great Wordpress plugin that displays useful statistics on your dashboard such as Top posts & Searches. However, it will display a small smiley at the bottom of your page. Here I’ll show you how to hide the smiley so that it does not disrupt your beautiful layout. Just insert this code snippet [...]

20 Best Christian Album Artworks #1

Carine — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 10:01:55 +0000

Disturbing, powerful and beautiful. Today we’ll look at 20 of the most artistic Christian cd covers which I think many of us haven’t seen before. Not your typical Christian design, with the stereotype divine light shinning down from heaven, these artworks have solid concepts, imagery, and/or illustration. This is the first set in a series of [...]

Illustrator tutorial : Flowers & Leaves

Carine — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 10:13:39 +0000

Flowers and leaves are an all time favourite theme in design. Whether you’re designing for a website, a magazine or a fabric pattern, these simply never go out of trend! Step 1 Use the pen tool to draw a petal. Then use the rotate tool to copy and paste a few petals. Modify some of [...]