Fun with Silhouettes

Via CRAFT, I found this very fun tutorial on how to make some fun silhouette art. The talented Anna Maria Horner demonstrated how to make some very cool-looking art with some paint, fabric, and a cool stencil–she even provides two awesome, ready-to-print stencils for your use.
Since I didn’t actually have any fabric in the apartment [...]

New free background

I whipped this little fella up today as my kind of semi-reinterpretation of this cool monster tutorial by Spoon Graphics. My version is a little different from the illustration you would create when strictly following the tutorial… I think I might have a hidden fascination with blue octopusses lurking just beneath the surface.
By the way, [...]

Fun with paper masks

Many thanks to the fabulous Matt Cipov for providing this (and several other) super-cool printable paper masks! I found Matt on Etsy and was so taken in by his unique illustrations that I had to run over to his website and check out the rest of his work. He has a very fun “free stuff”-type [...]

Adventures in Illustrator Tutorials

For someone who is supposedly a Photoshop lover, I’m rather inept when it comes to adding textures to my illustrations. Actually, it’s something I hadn’t even really thought about. I’m glad I found this very cool tutorial from Photoshop Star–it gives a very tantalizing taste of the variety of effects that one can achieve with [...]

Get your daily dose of calcium!

Well, sort of. Some of you may have already seen this, but since redoing the website and unfortunately eliminating the “Fun Stuff” section where I kept a few free backgrounds and coloring pages, I’ve decided to post them exclusively on my blog and just have them all filed under the “backgrounds” category to your left.
So, [...]

Drinking Chocolate Recipe

You see? This is what happens when I don’t watch TV… I actually end up being sort of productive! So, earlier I said that I’d be trying out a new recipe for drinking chocolate but found that I was missing one or two of the ingredients. So I decided that I’d experiment a little with [...]