April 6th, 2010
I am not alone when it comes to developing mock up websites or doing any sample graphic design work that requires dummy text or “lorem ipsum” text. I found myself always searching for this dummy text and then copy and pasting it. I’ve found several solutions to this dummy text madness we all experience.
Head on over to one of these handy lorem ipsum generation sites and you’ll get your dummy text. So have it bookmarked and you’ll always have it close enough. Plus you can generate based on number of paragraphs, words, bytes or lists. Not bad as its pretty customizable but how custom does it need to be since its only dummy text.
So repeat visits to the lorem ipsum generator can be mitigated if you plan accordingly. Open up a new text document and copy... Continue Reading...
Tags: dummy text, lorem ipsum, mock up design, Photoshop CS4 extension plugin, web themes
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October 24th, 2009
Last time I worked on a quick header banner for my friend for his auto parts website. Since then, the company is taking a different direction on their focus as opposed to just selling auto parts. Truth be told, I believe this is much better because selling auto parts pulled from dismantled autos is hard to maintain a live inventory and selling on eBay just eats away your margins.
The above is a mock up and concept derived on the fact that they are in fact recyclers. Scrapping all parts of an automobile that is no longer operational from usable parts to straight scrap metal.
Originally, I always felt that when you think of auto dismantling or junkyards you associate to those car compactor machines, a baler. Unfortunately, I could not find many images out there of such device and it... Continue Reading...
Tags: auto dismantling, logo design, lpd auto, recycling
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May 22nd, 2009
A friend told me to remove the Flashmo template for my website and my intention is to make one a whole new site. I’m just not satisfied with my level of creation working with Flash at the moment. I want to have it mostly HTML and CSS and perhaps implement a bit of Flash.
Also, just learning the ins and out of Photoshop and Illustrator as both can be used to create website layouts.
Here are a couple of logos I have drafted in Illustrator.
This is a flat design I pieced together. It is a font I was able to connect together to get the end result I was looking for. The RJC on the left has straight edges and the one on the right has rounded edges. Personally, I think the rounded edges is more elegant. This is what I started off with, lettering and combining it together to have... Continue Reading...
Tags: adobe illustrator cs3, designrjc development, logo creation
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April 7th, 2009
My attempt at a photorealistic lamp.
I’ve been spending more time in Photoshop recently starting first with sketching on a tablet. I recently switched from using all CS2 products to CS3 so I am still getting familiar with it. Yes, I am far, far behind since CS4 is already out but I probably will never need those new features. I was able to get some sketches down but I needed to learn some techniques to paint. As usual, I would Google everything scouring the net for tutorials, walkthroughs, and videos on some of these tips. I found some pretty great videos (not actually tutorials) of some artists literally all digital tablet gods at painting in Photoshop. **Sidenote: Is it even more difficult to paint in MS Paint? Not only is it amazing to watch the videos it also... Continue Reading...
Tags: adobe photoshop, bmw m3, illustration, painting, photo realism, wacom tablet
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April 5th, 2009
So as of late, I’ve been practicing using my Wacom Bamboo tablet to sketch and trace just so I can be comfortable with drawing digitally. Understanding the pressure and different strokes being applied is important because drawing on a tablet is much more different than what I have been used to such as a pencil and paper. I think I definitely have a better handle of it now so I wanted to paint in some of my sketches. Here are a couple I did last week.
#gallery-1 {
margin: auto;
}
#gallery-1 .gallery-item {
float: left;
margin-top: 10px;
text-align: center;
width: 50%; }
#gallery-1 img {
border: 2px solid #cfcfcf;
}
#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {
margin-left: 0;
}
SHARETHIS.addEntry({... Continue Reading...
Tags: adobe, cs3, digital painting, illustrations, photoshop
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