I saw an Illustrator tutorial for creating kawaii foods a couple of days ago which looked like fun so I had a go. It was mostly burger, fries and Coke type foods. This morning, I wondered if the style would work with ice creams so I spent this afternoon trying it out.


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I've not uploaded any graphics for ages it seems! I had a go at doing a photo-realistic tomato from a tutorial so that's kept me busy this afternoon.


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I was looking through my graphics folder this morning when I found a half-finished illustration. I don't know why it got abandoned but I thought I would finish it off.


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I made this suitably festive greeting last year but I wasn't able to post it then as I had no internets. I've had to wait a whole year to share it!


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When I posted my cartoon-style self portrait recently, it got such a good response that I decided to do another portrait in the same style (it's here if you missed it). I thought for all of a millisecond as to who I should pick to immortalise in a portrait and then spent a most enjoyable hour or so looking for a decent photo to use ( Read more... )

I was thinking about reworking my CV and trying to decide on a better way to show my contact details. I wondered if displaying them like a contact screen on a phone might work. As well as creating the actual contact screen, I decided to have a go at creating a phone as well ( Read more... )

A while ago I came across a tutorial to alter photos so they looked like they'd been made out of Lego bricks. It used a picture of the Statue of Liberty but I thought it might be more fun to use photos of famous/recognisable people and see what they looked like after being Lego-ified. I managed to get together quite a list, not just of famous ( Read more... )

I was in a creative mood a couple of days ago and I'd seen a tutorial for a 'Vibrant Peacock' which really tempted me so I thought I'd have a go. It was really detailed and took me a good three days to do (although part of that was because the person didn't specify to use RGB instead of CMYK so some of the blending effects weren't working properly ( Read more... )

A few months ago, I had a minor crisis when the site that hosts my digital portfolio was hacked and redirected all traffic to dodgy pharmaceutical sites. Although it came back up 24 hours later, I'd already started to look at alternative portfolio sites. I actually started trying out wix.com which is more free website hosting than specific ( Read more... )

I was feeling kind of creative the other day so I had a look through my collection of tutorials to see what appealed. I follow a design blog site which has lots of tutorials and any that look interesting are put on Pinterest where I have a board for Illustrator tutorials and another for Photoshop ones ( Read more... )