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This is the latest tutorial commissioned by UK magazine Web Designer (issue 175).  I was asked to bring street art / graffiti style to a (faux) youth community website. Verging off a recent visit to a spectacular Keith Haring exhibit, I paid homage to one of the finest street artists

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Street Art Blog Tutorial

Keef was kind enough to spend time to do a interview with me. He also happens to know my obession to old japanese super robots, and mecha godzilla. He also has interviews with various other artists, entertainers models and etc.

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Ontario yours to uncover: Interview

I quite often get emails from unpublished authors who have seen my books, my website or my blog, and ask if I’d be interested in illustrating their book, and what I charge. I have to tell them that it simply doesn’t work like that

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Written a Children’s Picture Book?

Whilst looking through Behance I discovered a female illustrator called Irina Vinnik from Saint Petersburg, Russia. Her illustrations immediately struck me as being fantastically detailed. Drawn in a moleskin they have a quiet unassuming quality that makes them even more interesting

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Featured Illustrator: The Super Talented Irina Vinnik

credit: Shutterstock Poor PC freelance users, we never get the love we deserve! So to help rectify that, I took some time to round up the best 50 PC apps that freelancers can use in their business, in no particular order. Everything from time tracking apps and online storage apps, to anti-virus apps and instant messaging apps, well-known favorites to new-comers in beta, we got a comprehensive list of PC applications to help you organize your digital workflow. 1.

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Cool PC Apps: The Top 50 PC Applications for Freelancers

On Saturday, I took myself off to Manchester for the day, to meet up with some other illustrator friends and attend a lecture by children’s book illustrator John Lawrence , part of the Manchester Literary Festival . Many people may recognise John’s illustrations from the spin-offs to Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials . To my shame, I didn’t previously know his beautiful work

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A Day Out

Aurore Damant: Character Designer, Art Director and Illustrator CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE INTERVIEW AND SEE HER GALLERY Media: Traditional Mediums, Adobe Photoshop, and a Wacom Cintiq.

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Aurore Damant Interview

I like to think that this is a list of some of the more high quality 3D text effect tutorials out there, Some of these aren’t for the faint hearted as they use programs such as Xara and 3DS Max, then they are imported in to Photoshop to get the desired results. While some are quite labour intensive there are some that can be quite easily achieved just by using Photoshop …see my selection below.

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15 Awesome 3D Text Effect Tutorials

Introduction In this Photoshop tutorial we’re going to step outside my usual Photoshop Only philosophy and use the 3D rendering power of Adobe Illustrator to create a cool little 3D text effect. Don’t worry noobs, you don’t need to know anything about Illustrator, as usual I’ll coach you through the whole process, but you do need

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Modern 3D Text Effect

A title to keep you guessing, eh? Well, ‘Mouldy’ is fab author/illustrator Chris Mould , currently Artist in Residence at Dean Clough , a gargantuan, restored carpet mill, now a business and arts complex in Halifax. That’s Chris above, in his studio space at the mill.

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A Mouldy Day at Dean Clough

This week’s Illustration Friday prompt, “slither”, was fairly easy to whip out because I already had a bunch of animal illustrations that I had done for Science Museum Oklahoma. I did them originally for a large map installation, but then, on my own, just for fun, I thought it might be kind of fun to do a sort of ABC book featuring animals native to Oklahoma.

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Animal alphabet

The latest episode of Freelance Radio, the official FreelanceSwitch podcast, is now available! This episode, the panel (John Brougher, Dickie Adams, Kristen Fischer and Von Glitschka) gives some of their favorite recommendations in four different categories.. Subscriptions to the podcast are available via iTunes and an archive of all podcasts will appear in the podcast section

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Freelance Radio, Episode 45: Recommendation Roundup

My artwork for Bears on the Stairs came back last week. Another lovely, massive parcel to open! I may have mentioned this before, but publishers are obliged to return the original drawings: the fee they pay the illustrator doesn’t buy the artwork, just the licence to reproduce it as a children’s book

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The Bears Come Home

I’ve had some inquiries about what the Food Girls look like as sketches, so here they are! Typically I start with an idea of how the girl will look, hairstyles, pose, etc and make a quick rough in my sketchbook. Then I surf the net for inspiration and collect reference images of colour, food, rendering style and anything else that’s helpful. Next, I scan the roughs and trace the basic shapes in Illustrator.

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Food Girls Original Sketches

On Saturday I took part in my first ever Sketchcrawl . It’s a phenomenon that’s been around a while in the US, but we Brits are catching up! The idea is, instead of taking a sketchbook out on your lonesome, you meet up with a bunch of other folk and spend the day together. Saturday was Worldwide Sketchcrawl Day , so people were doing it all over the globe .

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Wakefield Sketchcrawl

This article will be of interest to anyone considering hiring a character design illustrator , or becoming one themselves. Regardless of which path you are on, identifying the traits of a great character design illustrator will be of great interest to you. First we must really look at the purpose behind a character design illustrator, and then analyze what it would take to be, or identify a great one.

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Traits of a great character design illustrator

On Sunday evening I scanned in some of the train sketches from last week. It was a fair old trip to Bedford and back, so I did a few. As you can see, I was feeling a bit tired by the time I got there, having come straight from my day in Yew Tree Primary : I went to Bedford to visit Margaret Beaufort Middle School in Riseley

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Sketches from Last Week’s Travels

The latest episode of Freelance Radio, the official FreelanceSwitch podcast, is now available! This episode, the panel (John Brougher, Dickie Adams, Kristen Fischer and Von Glitschka) talks about Dickie’s freelance dilemma. Subscriptions to the podcast are available via iTunes and an archive of all podcasts will appear in the podcast section . We hope you enjoy it! Subscribe to Freelance Radio on iTunes You can subscribe on other podcast aggregators by using our podcast feed –it’s simply http://feeds.feedburner.com/FreelanceRadio

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Freelance Radio, Episode 42: Dickie’s Freelance Dilemma

The latest episode of Freelance Radio, the official FreelanceSwitch podcast, is now available! This episode, the panel (John Brougher, Dickie Adams, Kristen Fischer and Von Glitschka) talks about Kristen’s freelance dilemma and offers some suggestions.

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Freelance Radio, Episode 41: My Freelance Dilemma

I was sad to hear that my new friend and fellow illustrator, Cassia Thomas , is imminently deserting The North and disappearing Down South . Shame on her! Actually there are perfectly good reasons, which is why friends forgave her sufficiently to get together in Manchester this week, partly because we fancied supping some mulled wine and pottering through the markets, but also as a kind of send-off. Though the others were all fresh-faced, disgustingly young, up-and-coming writers and illustrators, they were polite enough to affect not to notice the old bird nudging her way in, and a good time was had by all

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Good Luck Cassia!