I just found a really awesome site by Cory Thoman. It’s a really informative site for those aspiring freelancers who want to make a living out of drawing cute cartoons. He seems to be really hard working and productive. One thing I really like was that he has a clear goal set every year to [...]
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 [...]
When I was growing up, in elementary school Whitney Houston was the choice of music in our school dances (OK you can probably guess my age lol). I love her songs! The movie Bodyguard was really good too – super romantic! A lot of my friends are posting RIP comments on facebook. Instead of a [...]
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 [...]
Friday night I randomly landed on Toon Boom’s page. I was trying to draw a cartoon of myself at my recent dance aerobics class. I started to draw with my WACOM tablet and Painter Essential (the software that came free with my WACOM Cintiq) but for some reason I was so intrigued by Toon Boom’s [...]
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 [...]
I’ve been trying to play around with Adobe Illustrator for the last couple of months since I’ve been helping my coworkers/friends design their company logo. I’m also trying to design a logo for my foodblog site – right now I’m not satisfied with it. I’m ok with drawing the concept etc but when actually trying [...]
Double click on the brush tool and make sure you deselect “Keep selected” under options. This will deselect the brush stroke you just drew.
I’m reading the book “Refuse to Choose” by Barbara Sher and I’m so inspired! I now know I’m a scanner – and very proud of it . This book is for people (like me) with too many interests and can’t settle into one career. I’ve always been ashamed of that, but now I’m proud of [...]
When you try to save your beautiful illustrator production by using “Save for Web”, you might get the error message “image exceeds the Size Save for Web”. Check this blog out, it teaches you to bypass this! http://rwillustrator.blogspot.com/2008/03/of-document-sizes-and-crop-areas.html
