Tag: graphics

  • The art of Drfranken from Madrid (Spain)

    I get a lot of emails (junk) from all platforms, mostly marketing stuff. There’s the group of emails selling money making schemes and then there are e-mail scammers who offer you discounts to non existing products or telling you that you have millions of dollars but you need to give them some money first (ROWL),…

  • 20 Iron Man Illustrations for Inspiration

    Who doesn’t know Iron Man? Even before Robert Downey Jr. wore the powerful exoskeleton, Stan Lee’s tank armor clad ultra rich playboy super hero creation has been fighting for world peace inside our imagination from comic books to animation series and now a blockbuster movie with a sequel. Born Anthony Edward “Tony” Stark, he is…

  • Inspiration: How to Draw Cartoons Online – Jeff Scarterfield

    The internet is overflowing with rare gems. Websites that we can consider a great find in the multitude of websites trying to get a piece of that popularity pie. As a web designer I am often on a quest in search of new skills I could include to my arsenal. And one time I was…

  • How to Make Party Balloons in Photoshop Tutorial

    Today I’m going to show you how to make party balloons in Photoshop, nothing fancy, I just find balloons handy from time to time. You can use it to take up an empty space in your scene, create desktop wallpapers like the banner I borrowed from deviantart.com by wisseh, they can be a lot of…

  • 8 Easy Steps to Fake an HDR Look in Photoshop

    This tutorial was originally written by KolNedra it’s so unbelievably easy to recreate, I had so much fun doing it. I’m reposting it here with step by step screenshots so you can have a visual guide of what’s going on (mostly for those who are still new to Photoshop). Or go visit the original tutorial.…

  • Inspiration: We will, WeeWillDoodle

    I featured January “Jan” Cavan’s dawghousedesignstudio.com in my previous article Inspirations: Cultural themed website designs where I highlighted her web site’s grungy doodle inspired design. In that article I wrote that doodling and doodlers are now gaining momentum in the design community. To expand on that notion I would like to introduce you to a…

  • Typographic Portrait Tutorial by Abduzeedo

    Typographic Portraits Using type to create portraits is a technique that produces a form of art known as typography. It involves arranging and modifying the type selection, spacing, font size, and the length of the line to be used in the artwork to come up with a desired illustration. Typography is performed by typesetters, compositors,…

  • Sharing the love of free iCons

    Sharing the love of free iCons

    Web designers love iCons, not just because a lot of them are free but also because users appreciate the information they represent. Icons makes visitors want to interact with the website. They rattle on their curiosity creating a form of call to action response. Having worked for a phone development company as a user interface…

  • Sharing Desktop Wallpapers is always fun

    I think one of my earliest computer skills was changing my desktop wallpaper. Some people may not agree that your desktop wallpaper is more than just an adornment of a laptop or a desktop. It could be your own personal gallery to display your digital artwork or even photographs that you are too proud to…

  • Inspiration: Cultural themed website designs

    I love browsing online, sometimes I think I’m addicted to it, *flashback – it was the time when there was no internet and I was getting buzzed with channels from cable TV, ahhh those were the days. *Back to the present, as a web designer I spend a lot of time online to search for…