Little Deer Painting in Progress

Last night I finished the background for the little deer painting. As you know, I started with a “stencil” that I had expanded and printed out from a digital illustration of mine, then colored it in with pink.
I filled in the brown background last night. I know I must be pretty rusty when it comes [...]

Fun with Silhouettes, Part Deux

Here’s what happened with those little bird silhouettes from earlier. Not bad, really. The set actually looks pretty cute. As soon as the big bucks start rolling in from the new job, I plan on getting these babies framed so I can hang them all in an arrangement similar to the one in this [...]

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 [...]

Staying on top with “Childrens Art”

Etsy is a great place for crafters–if you’re a person who makes cool things (be it clothes, paper goods, and anything else) then Etsy is a great place for you. But sometimes it’s really tough to get exposure there, which is unfortunate since it has so much built-in site traffic.

I’ve started a new routine of [...]

Adventures in Print Scanning, Part Trois

So, as some of you may know, I’m no longer relying on my not-so-awesome scanner to create product pics for the prints. Instead, I’ve opted to use the Texturizer filter on Photoshop (or on GIMP) to achieve a similar effect with more true-to-life colors. So far, so good.
But yesterday I wanted to experiment a little [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

Adventures in Print Scanning, Part Deux

About a week ago, I told you guys about how I had found the end-all-be-all-super-cool solution to getting accurate pics of prints for my listings. As it turns out, it’s not necessarily such an awesome solution. There are many good things about scanning–in my case, it seemed like the best way to get the texture [...]