My Mini Moos

Here's a set of mini moo business cards I designed for myself thanks to winning them on web design shock. I got inspired by this set that uses quotes from Seth Godin's books, and so I put together quotes from designers I admire. The cards came out nice, only thing I would do different is to make the front text legible. As of now it's really small and you can barely read it... didn't realize just how mini the mini cards are.

JPC - Noooooooo!

Good going JC Penney. Here's their ad campaign announcing a new system to hit their stores. People apparently freaked out about it, but I just love it. It shakes the established system, setting grounds for a totally new look and feel.

30 Illustrator Video Tutorials Every Designer Should See

Chris Spooner does another wonderful roundup of illustrator tutorials here. I know the basics and perhaps a little more but there are treasures in illustrator so I'm linking to his post in the hopes that I'll get to go through them.

Coloring in the lines

I was creating this postcard for a Tu B'shvat wine and cheese tasting event and found that the line art in the cork was begging to be colored in. I used the wacom tablet with the brush tool in photoshop. 

Digital Painting Challenge

I gave myself homework in a previous post to use the wacom tablet and just paint. Not enough to have this fancy device sitting on my desks. So here is what came out of blending the colors using the tablet's sensitivity settings in a half hour's time.

Oil Painting by Leonid Afremov

What a happy world it is! Leonid uses only his palette knife, that means no brush strokes on his canvas. See him in action in the video below. You can browse more of his incredible work on deviant art and youtube.

Digital painting with a Wacom

This and 19 other digital painting tutorials were posted on Chris Spooner's blog. It came in perfect time as this was something sitting on my to do list for the past week. Here's my homework  assignment: Go through these tutorials and practice with the wacom. Within the next week or two I need to have something that I've painted, posted—even if it's not perfect ;)