Throughout art’s long history there have been many different mediums used by artists from charcoal cave drawings to oil paintings on canvas.  Not to long ago came the advent of digital painting using software  like Photoshop and Corel Painter.  The latest in digital evolution is the mobile studio.  Artist can now paint or draw on [...]

What is Spec Work? Spec work (speculative work) is work done without the guarantee of pay for your efforts. Essentially, the premise is that if the client likes the design you come up with, then they will pay you for it.  Spec work is a topic in the design industry that often evokes passionate responses [...]

If you’re looking for an alternative to Photoshop or would just like to be able to create and edit images from any computer with a flash enabled browser, then Sumo Paint is your answer. While Sumo Paint May not be a Photoshop killer, it is a great alternative for those who either can’t or won’t [...]

If your not already familiar with the new site vectortuts.com, then you’ll most definitely want to check it out. Vectortuts is a free vector tutorial site and like it’s sister site psdtuts.com, it has some of the best tutorials on the net. I’m proud to say that my tutorial on how to create the traffic [...]

Wouldn’t it be great if you could create your very own book and have it printed?  How cool would it be to have your portfolio printed onto a nice hardcover book.  With blurb you can do just that! 

       As designers and artist we all love typography and probably have more fonts on our hard drives than blades of grass in our yards.  Still, we are always on the lookout for that next must have font.  Most of us have, at one time or another, wanted to create our own font.  With Fontstruct [...]