Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Photoshop Tutorial: How to Make a Simple Web Button

In this tutorial I will show you how to make a basic button like the one below and export it for web in Photoshop.

I will cover things like layer styles - drop shadows, gradient overlays, strokes and I will cover using the Save for web and devices export option.


Thursday, June 7, 2012

Illustrator Tutorial - How to Make a Rising Sun or Sun Rays


In this Tutorial I will be showing you how to make a rising sun graphic in adobe Illustrator. This is also a good insight into making sun rays really quick.


You can watch how to make this in the following YouTube clip.
It is very easy and a time saver when confronted with drawing each of the rays individually....pft who would do that when you could just do them all in 4-6 clicks


Again if you have any questions just ask :)

Monday, May 28, 2012

Tutorial - Beginners Guide to Colouring Line art in Photoshop

In this tutorial I go over the fundamentals of how I colour my pencil and ink drawings in Photoshop. I'll go through things like scanning your image, adjusting levels to darking your lines and get rid of pencil smudges quickly, and colour your image without destroying your pencils.


It's half an hour long so sit back and enjoy. Who knows you might pick up some new tricks :)

Monday, May 14, 2012

Retro Bottle Cap Badge - Part 2 - Photoshop Tutorial

Here's part two to my previous tutorial, in this one you'll be shown how to add effects to your bottle cap in Photoshop to make it look more realistic.


 I'll cover things like adding layer styles, adding a texture overlay and using vector masks.



In this video I use a texture to which I have provided below. Feel free to use it in anything you want, there's no copyright restrictions on it.


As per usual if you have any questions please ask.


Friday, May 4, 2012

Retro Bottle Cap Badge - Illustrator Tutorial

Hi all!
Thought I'd try out a tutorial video to show you how to make a retro styled badge in Adobe Illustrator.
The final outcome should look like this:

To get the above just watch the clip below :)



So yeah this puts down the basic construction. You can then take it into Adobe Photoshop and make it look fancy like this:

The process is pretty easy so I hope you enjoy it and if you have any questions please ask.

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Giraffe

A quick animation I made up the couple of days. I'm going to try and roll out a few more short animations in the next coming weeks and see if I can make this a regular thing. I'm Also thinking of making a few how videos mostly on the way I draw and colour in Photoshop and maybe some animation info.

 In the mean time Enjoy!