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25 Kickass Digital Painting Tutorials You May Have Not Seen

February 27, 2010

So you all probably thinking, “I’ve seen loads of digital painting tutorials on more popular blogs.” :) Yes, that might be true but I’ve also seen those collections of digital painting tutorials. What I noticed is that most of the tutorials showed you how to digitally paint the female anatomy. I’m not saying that’s a bad thing either ;)   This round up of tutorials takes you from giant sea creatures, painting different environments, mystical creatures, a future concept bike and loads more. So click, sit back and enjoy.

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12 Inspirational Big Header Websites

February 17, 2010

When a someone visits a website its the header of the site that the visitor would first see. It either makes or breaks the visitor’s opinion of the site. A designer would focus a lot on how the header of the website would present itself. A more attractive and polished website header will convince the site visitor to continue browsing the website.

This is a showcase of some exceptional websites with inspiring and attractive headers.

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Digital Painting

January 31, 2010

I purchased a drawing tablet a few months ago and since then I’ve become completely addicted to painting digitally, when I have the time. ;) This is a minor selection of what I’ve done. I have a few other works in progress so I’ll definitely be giving an update on this section soon.

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6 Free Apps for Designers and Artists

January 31, 2010

12 Free Designer ApplicationsNot all designers and artist can afford the top of the range software like the Adobe Creative Suite. Open Source and Free software is the key to unlock those limitations for those people that don’t have deep pockets. Now with this list of applications at your disposal the only limitation would be your creativity and imagination.

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Another 16 Free Games (9 Online)

November 18, 2009

16freegamesHere is a list of another 16 Free Games, 9 of them are online multiplayer. I think the best game out of this list is Urban Terror, which is powered by the Quake 3 Engine.

Get downloading and start playing against your mates! :)

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Nature Photography: 30 Amazing Photos of Nature

November 3, 2009

Nature PhotographyNature has been part of traditionalism in photography since beginning of photography. The beauty of nature that a camera captures for a split second of time can leave a person astonished, breathless and simply stupefied.  The photos I have featured in this article aren’t just pretty pictures of landscape and animals interacting in nature. Each individual photo depicts a true halt in time, such quality and essence will never be captured through a lens for the rest of time. Of course more photos can be taken, but another photo will never be identical to a previous one.

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Interview with Alex Casteels

October 15, 2009

Interview with Alex Casteel, designer and digital artistThis is a transcript of an interview with Alex Casteels.

Alex is a talented 23 year old Belgian designer and digital artist. I found his profile on Deviant Art and I was instantly inspired. This interview is worth the read and you can view some his work at link further down.

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Complete WordPress Cheatsheet!

October 15, 2009

Complete WordPress Cheat SheetIf you’re a wordpress theme designer/developer then the WordPress cheatsheet is essential to have handy! I often use it to quickly reference tags of certain functions when designing a WordPress theme.

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Man Vs Girls Gone Wild!

October 11, 2009

Man Vs Girls Gone WildThe guys from College Humor put this one together. I got quite a laugh out of this. :D Bear Grylls teaches you how to survive an onslaught of boobies on Mardi Gras.

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Pianos make stairs fun to use!

October 11, 2009

Pianos Make Stairs FunOkay, so generally people are lazy. Now I’m not saying EVERYONE is lazy.

People would rather use the escalator instead of walking up the stairs. Right? Check out this video and see how innovation and creativity persuaded people to use the stairs instead of the escalator.

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