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Surreal and unique illustrations of Iain Macarthur

reADactor — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 12:44:55 +0000

His work can be described as surreal and unique in its own way. Using mostly pencil, watercolours and pigment pens, the artist create portraits of ordinary people and animal illustrations but create them in a unusual way by, embellishing patterns and watercolour effects into the portrait to give a vivid explosion effect—transforming their faces or bodies from something plain to something entirely bizarre and wonderful at the same time.

Iain Macarthur is influenced by many artists and illustrators – all with differing styles and mediums – and have turned to their work for artistic stimulation over the years. Among them are Alphonse Mucha, Gustav Klimt, Lucian Freud, Jenny Saville, James Jean, David Choong Lee, Sergio Toppi and Ashley Wood. He also gained much inspiration through cartoons art and lighting; people’s facial expressions, eyes and different forms of organic patterns and shapes.

Where to find Iain Macarthur on web

Graphic Designer Bundle $500 worth at price of $20

reADactor — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 05:55:35 +0000

Have you ever been stuck just before a deadline, searching for the right piece of stock to finish off your work? The Graphic Designer Bundle will put more than 70 graphics and royalty-free stock photos at your disposal, ready and waiting for your next design project.

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Vivid Digital Paintings of Michal Dziekan

reADactor — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 16:30:19 +0000

Where to find Michal Dziekan on web

55 Inspirational Birds Theme Logos

reADactor — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 10:22:10 +0000

Not many animals have such a strong mark in our minds regarding the visual identities, like birds. Even there are over 10000 known species of birds in the world, when is talk about corporate identity, is true, we find a strong cliché. Do you have a grill related business? The the chicken get skinned. Do you have a delivery service business? Course, you will like some wings in your logo, rite? What about a guard or security company? “The eagle” claim the crowd. Oh, you can do more then that, because your professional profile is book, study, learning, teaching related. An owl with glasses is all what you need, correct? Yes, cannot end this endless list without to mention the nonprofit organizations. Is possible to have a logo for a such profile without some graphical hands with a dove? No, you can’t!

Is known that the clients have strong ideas and they pay the bills. Is hard to believe that like branding designer to have too much freedom in choosing the logo elements, but, at least you can find a new way to express something overused. The following list contain logos with bird theme what achieve nice results using fine ideas or a good graphic realization.

70 Free Professional PSD Templates for Web Design

reADactor — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 15:08:38 +0000

When we talk about free professional PSD templates, beside the coded versions what can be purchased from market, those free templates are examples for what mean a good balanced web design layout, for what mean a proper usage of space and typography, concepts and creativity. Enjoy!

Surrealism Art of Anton Semenov

reADactor — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 07:51:40 +0000

Anton use Adobe Photoshop for his artworks and prove great skills on Painting & Airbrushing technique. Even he start to pay a serious attention to the digital area just from 2007, is easy to see a background of years of trainings and exercises with traditional techniques, pencils, paint, ink etc. This is a strong lesson for the young “digital generation”, if you want to be good in digital graphic art, then, put the hand on the pencil and paper.

Enkel Dika’s expressive graphic imagination

reADactor — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 11:08:14 +0000

Creative Digital Illustrations of Nik Ainley

reADactor — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 06:49:48 +0000

Nik is constantly trying to expand his range of abilities and is happiest when learning new software or techniques. He works in both 2D and 3D software to produce his images and especially enjoys the results combining the two can achieve. Nik find a great inspiration in using tools in ways they weren’t originally intended, and the more tools he have to experiment with, the greater his work can be. The Transform tools, Liquify filter, layer masks, and blending modes in Photoshop give him virtually limitless creative options.

Where to find Nik Ainley on the web

Artist of the week: Matei Apostolescu

reADactor — Tue, 31 May 2011 12:32:00 +0000

Matei is a freelance illustrator from Bucharest, Romania, EU, what use all kinds of tools ranging from Rotring pencils, markers, spray paint to Wacom tablet, Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator. You don’t see often this days such details integrated in art. Spend a time over his big resolution works from links provided at the end of article and enjoy the way the shapes build forms and ideas.

Another amazing thing what keep your attention alive is the color palette. Is a true challenge to use so much colors and to not overload the canvas, but Matei it seem that found the magic path to the vivid world of colors.

Free icons for your WordPress library

reADactor — Wed, 04 May 2011 11:29:59 +0000

ThemeForest is the world’s largest marketplace for WordPress Themes. ThemeForest library rivals even the official, free WordPress library in size! Authors from around the world contribute cutting edge themes to the marketplace, and the library is growing daily. Beside the WordPress theme category, exist and a sister marketplace, CodeCanyon where you can find great premium plugins for your WordPress solutions, from mega menu plugin to events calendar and shortcodes, etc.

The icons are available free of charge, licensed under the GPL just like WordPress itself! So that means you can even use them in items for sale on commercial web design projects. Enjoy!