Although its name clearly implies a close relationship with photography, Adobe Photoshop is widely used as an illustration and design tool. Photoshop has also excelled as a color separation tool for prepress and photochromy jobs. Cartoonists and Illustrators find the possibility of using pressure sensitive tablets with Photoshop a huge asset. Architects use Photoshop to embellish their perspective drawings. Industrial designers and 3d artists can correct and enhance their 3d rendering. Pixel perfect images are created by icon and web designers. This section is a guide to different art and design resources, such as books, software, fonts, clipart and tutorials to help you to build a creative way of thinking and working.
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How to paint trees
Trees need not be difficult to paint if you keep a few simple facts in mind
Author: John Lovett | Visits: 1230 |
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Watercolour tips for beginners
Tips and techniques to help you avoid the most common problems encountered with watercolour. This section also includes notes on drawing and important advice on
enjoying what you have accomplished
Author: John Lovett | Visits: 466 |
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What to include
When faced with a complex subject what do you put in and what do you leave out? These examples show how to decide.
Author: John Lovett | Visits: 254 |
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Landscape features
Breaking landscape subjects down into simple elements to aid composition
Author: John Lovett | Visits: 295 |
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Direction
The element of direction can have a powerful influence on the mood of a painting. Find out how to control it.
Author: John Lovett | Visits: 238 |
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Texture
Give your work a more interesting surface
Author: John Lovett | Visits: 279 |
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Garlic, Garlic, Garlic In Scratchboard
Got a call from Susan McClellan, the art director for Chapters Publishing. I had already done a project for them, a book about onions with recipes and information about types of onions and their characteristics.
Author: Michael Halbert | Visits: 445 |
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Ralston dog for flex-o printing
The illustration that I will be taking you through, is just one of several illustrations that will be used on packaging for "Purina One."
Author: Michael Halbert | Visits: 329 |
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Drawing Gutenberg
The illustration that I will be taking you through, is just one of several illustrations that will be used as a title page for an annual report .
Author: Michael Halbert | Visits: 339 |
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Third labor of Hercules
This is the second illustration that was done for a direct mail campaign promoting a motivation lecture. The campaign used the Labors of Hercules as its theme.
Author: Michael Halbert | Visits: 365 |
