Well…. six months after being laid off I am still looking for steady work. I was riding high for a while, back to school, graduated, my first art job, then laid off. I’ve been surviving on various odd jobs and bits of freelance.
I have been working on my site a bit so if you have a chance to visit please do.
| Stormvisions
Today I added two items which may be of interest …
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I made another small pack of brushes -not my favorite but hopefully some will find it useful.
You can get it on this page and see what brushes are included in the set …
| http://stormvisions.com/pages/freebies/photoshop.php
and here is a small sample texture to show some painting done with the brushes -click to see another, larger, sample.
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I’ve added another small collection of brushes. Click on the image to open the downloads page in a new window and see more preview images.
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I like to draw and have often thought of creating a comic book. My character skills are still a bit underdeveloped and getting a consistent result from frame to frame takes a lot of time. Using Flash as a way to build reusable characters to pose and render out as static comics (or with some animation like moving clouds, exploding panels etc) has been on my mind. I imagine the standard library building techniques would be great for this and once built, could speed up the process - what do you think?
| Ryan Simmons at CartoonSolutions, who I interviewed last year, has created a series of Comic Book Products. These include comic book page templates, action sounds, word and thought balloons. All of these can be used with the background, prop and character packs.
All the products are pretty inexpensive so I decided to put together a quick page. Here is what I did in about one hour (click to see a larger version) …
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I created another small collection of ’stone’ Photoshop brushes which you may want to check out.
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I added another small collection of free Photoshop brushes. You can paint with them, use them to cut through layers to expose different textures and use layers styles to generate effects like this quickie texture I did.
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I added brush previews to the page so that you can see what is included in each pack before downloading.
I decided to try my hand at a few desktop wallpapers. Not sure how good -or bad- they are. My aging monitor seems a bit off -stuff that looks good to me seems to be too dark, too light or too saturated to other people; can’t figure it out. It’s also possible I screwed up the color space settings I guess.
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Feedback appreciated.
I started creating two beginner level Photoshop tutorials aimed at texture art. If that is something that interests you check them out.
Creating Cracks
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Using the Displace Filter
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I'm a 49 year old family guy who returned to school in 2005 to pursue a childhood dream of becoming an artist and writer. The first half of my life, I worked in many other fields, but at heart I have always been a storyteller, a creator and a dreamer. In May of 2007 I got my first creative job working as a digital artist at Animax Entertainment.
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