Since my dreamstime sell is so far a dismal $1.35, I decided to research more on what illustrations sell well on these microstock sites. One thing I noticed is that patterns tend to sell well. So far, the only 2 sales I made has come from this one, which is also a pattern. So I [...]
Happy Valentine’s Day! Here’s a cupcake for you… I woke up this morning with a rejection email from dreamstime for this 3D cupcake. I thought it was pretty cool cupcake but they said Reason: – Poor execution, please pay more attention to the details. For illustrations, please look for: poorly traced/auto-traced and scanned images, noise [...]
I’ve been practicing Illustrator and one project on my list was to re-do the banner for my food blog. I drew a beautiful? salami and cheese using Illustrator, and decided to use them on my banner. When I finished desiging this I tried to go to File -> “Save for Webs and Devices” to save [...]
I think I mastered more illustrator techniques in the last 2 weeks than in the Illustrator course I took in art school. It’s only my fault since I didn’t pay attention in class. My teacher even reached out to me to tell me she barely passed me and that I better re-study if I ever [...]
I was trying to draw a cheese icon with my illustrator for my other food blog and was looking at various sites for tips. For some googlicious reason I landed at Andrea Austoni’s cheeseburger icon site. I decided to follow the steps (great way to spend Friday night). This is an excellent tutorial if you [...]
Double click on the brush tool and make sure you deselect “Keep selected” under options. This will deselect the brush stroke you just drew.
