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Artist Of The Week: Nico Di Mattia

reADactor — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:51:12 +0000

His interest in arts, comic books, animation and narration, and his passion for drawing and colors compelled him to enter the Cinema and TV school at Cordoba`s National University.

His first Speed Painting was in 2001 where he painted the poster from the movie Planet of The Apes on his bedroom wall and recorded the process on VHS. In 2007 Di Mattia moved on to the big stage by opening his own Speed Paining Channel on YouTube. He now has thousands of subscribers and his videos have been watched over 55 Million times.

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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!

Win a 199$ Stock Photo Account on Pixmac

reADactor — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 10:44:57 +0000

Pixmac is one of the fastest growing, most usable and reliable microstock photo agency out there. So if you’re looking for best picture or just trying to sell your best shot, Pixmac is your perfect tool, with accurate search results and lots of help for you at every step. Pixmac has offered to giveaway 3 x $199 photo account subscriptions to reADactor readers. Take a look at the following images to see the quality and the range covered by Pixmac photo stock, where you will find also over 45000 free images.

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How to win: Give a “Like” to the reADactor Facebook page.
The 3 winners will be announced Friday, on 22 July. Selection will be made from our fans.

The Winners

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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.

RockWell – Portfolio & Blog WordPress Theme

reADactor — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 06:43:43 +0000

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Ability to use different Templates on every single post you want – even if they are in the same category
Ability to use different Templates on every category you want
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Enkel Dika’s expressive graphic imagination

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