Separating Photoshop Layer Styles Into Their Own Layer — A Method & Craft Video

Check out Luke Holder from Method & Craft on “Layer Style Jailbreaking”. He show us how to make Photoshop Layer Styles separate into their own layer and some reasons why we want to do that.

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COOQ’s Landing Page

After a lot of work and tweaking around things, we’ve finally made live the landing page for COOQ (http://cooq.com/). I’d love to hear your feedback!

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Phil Coffman on Creating Tileable Textures in Photoshop

I’ve been looking for a while for a tutorial that explains how to do tileable textures in photoshop. Two days ago I stumbled on Phil Coffman’s great video tutorial (from Method & Craft) explaining exactly what I wanted. Definitely must check it out!

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Branding style for a construction related website

I created this design really quick to show a client some ideas I had in mind for his construction related iPad app’s website. This is the original sketch for the character: As always, any comments are appreciated!

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Post of the day: Characters brainstorming

I’m creating a mascot character for a client’s business, and this is part of the brainstorming process: One of my favorite steps of this job . Here’s one of the characters that I came up with during the brainstorming session: For generating ideas my favorite thing to do is draw for hours whatever comes into [...]

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Post of the day: Landing Page Sneak Peek

Now that I have a couple of characters designed, I started putting together the landing page. Wasn’t 100% sure about the button, I think it looks nice, but don’t know if it matches the style that we’re going for. I’d love to hear your comments please, anybody! In case you’re wondering, the purpose of this [...]

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Post of the Day: Cool Cook

Full size illustration. Quick sneak peek from one of the chars I’m working on.

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Post of the day: A mangiare! (Illustration)

I’ve been collecting inspirational pieces for the last two weeks and studying the work from dribbble awesome artists like Jayde Cardninalli, Glenn Thomas, Lydia Nichols, Shiu Pei Luu and many others. So here is the first vector illustration I’ve ever done. The cloud and text look a little bit out of place, but I was [...]

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Post of the day: Landing Page Sneak Peek

I’m creating a landing page for my client’s startup and this is how it’s looking so far. This is a really exciting project that I have the honor be working on. Can’t tell you how much fun I’m having designing and putting all my neurons to work to generate new creative ideas. This is not [...]

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Post of the day: Ze zecret is love

Played a little bit trying to achieve an old school cartoon style for a coming up project. Any comments?  

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Post of the day: Cooks of the World

Today I started drawing a set of characters that are going to be included in the final design for my friend’s landing page. So far, in my illustration career, I’ve only drawn random characters, so it’s been a challenge to keep a consistent style across all the drawings and repeating the same character doing something [...]

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Post of the day: Japanese Chef

See full res image One of the characters that I’m developing for a client of mine. Not approved yet, but just wanted to show the progress and create a fun shot :-)

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Post of the day: Mom who loves to cook

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Trying to achieve a cartoonish vintage style for this shot. Learned a couple of really nice tricks in Photoshop, totally worth the time put into it.

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Post of the day: Italian Cook

Today I was drawing a set of characters that a friend asked me to do for his startup. The italian cook is just one of them, I’ll post the rest in the following days.

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Post of the day: Evil Minion Robot

This is my post for last Friday, unfortunately this drawing took so freaking long! I was trying to practice textures more than everything. Although it doesn’t look super awesome, I learned a lot while working on it. I felt a lot more confortable using Sketchbook Pro this time around. Check out bigger version here:

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Post of the day: The villain

(Full size image) I got CreatureBox sketchbook last Tuesday and I’ve never been more inspired to draw! I was amazed at how good they were at using Sketchbook Pro, so I decided to give it a shot today (tonight)

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Post of the day: Mini Stove Icon Design

I had a meeting today with a really cool guy and he told me about this crazy idea he had for his startup logo. The icon I designed is just the base for that idea, but it still looks pretty cool . Everything was designed in Photoshop from scratch, using real life pictures (of my [...]

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Post of the day: Magak Logo Design

For today’s post I chose to design a logo for my friend who’s just getting his business started and to be honest had a crappy logo (to say the least). It hasn’t been approved yet, but thought I might share it here. Designing is becoming so addictive! Post your comments or say something if you [...]

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Post of the day: Zombie Attack

Today’s post, I’m experimenting painting with water color. Really like the effects that you can get with them, a lot more texture and color mixing colors is a lot of fun :-) .

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Post of the day: Lt. Callahan — Police Academy

Me and my girlfriend have been watching the Police Academy series for the last 2 weeks, so I chose it as my theme for today’s drawing. Not 100% happy with it… The sketch on pen was kinda good, but the coloring didn’t go as good as I wanted it to. I feel like I could [...]

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