This is the result of following the tutorial exactly

Heres the result of another quick tutorial, I’m trying to stick to video tutorials so I can watch everything step by step. This one is for making shapes using patterns.  Cool looking results I think and its about a 7 minute long video. Try it out and come up with something cool I just did a quick easy robot face to start it off.

quick robo face, it took like 2 minutes to do after watching the video

The potential is pretty cool, I’m gonna mess with using the pathfinder tool and see if that helps with the curves.

Source: Layers.com

Vector poster by Rydeen

I’ve been really drawn to vector illustration and characters, they can be anything to fresh and cartoony which I love (as I type this I just realized I want to make a vector powerpuff girl.) That is of course not all they can be, as I’ve been reading Logo Design Love (yep I finally got my copy) it reminded me how much fun illustrator was.

this is the last real thing I did in illustrator, know who this is?

Problem is, I haven’t really used illustrator since I took a class in it about a year and change ago. So on that note, I’ve been finding some basic tutorials as refresher, first one was very quick and pretty informative, I had no clue what the path finder tool was before I did this tutorial by Chris Spooner. Check out the results and to find out who it is in the picture hit the jump.

vector rss icon result of the spoon graphic tutorial

This took about 5 minutes to do and it goes over a quite a few tricks and tools that I didn’t know about. Check it out here at blog.spoongraphics. Have any other tutorials or you’re on the same track? Hit up the comments section and let me know. 

Give up?

it was curtis mayfield, singer, song writer, musician, all around cool guy, composer of the superfly soundtrack the best movie ost ever.

you think i got close?

Red is my favorite color, one of the primary colors, its known to evoke strong reactions.  The brightness catches the eyes of others, when I have a red on it inspires confidence to wear something so attention grabbing. Used for stop signs and traffic lights the world over, this color is known for love ,courage, strength, blood, guilt, anger and even sin. A quote from wikipedia references the bible “Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow.”  A quick google search came up with this when I searched for red in color theory.

Red is the color that provokes the most physiological responses. It has been shown that red causes the human heart beat and blood pressure to rise and to aid the interconnection of brain neurons. It has also been shown that people working in a red environment work faster, but they also make more mistakes. It increases restlessness and nervous tension. Also, red is commonly regarded to increase appetite

Some would actually disagree with red being used on the web, however fuck those guys I love red and I’ll continue to use it, I looked around and took pictures of all my red stuff. Hit the jump to see my stuff, not pictured is my red suit case when I get my new camera (also red) I’ll put that up as well.

P.S.

Don’t mind my messy bed.

not full red but every flannel i bought this past winter were mainly red

we got red hoodies here, bape x kaws chomper, on the left, triumvir hoodie on the top right and my new addition, a lupe fiasco tour hoodie i bought at the show it says konichiwa on the chest, sayonara on the back and glows in the dark full pics later cause its so awesome.

My red sweaters baby, keep me toasty the winter, the cardigan isn't as deep a red as the others though, I think that means time for another red cardigan

New addition to the collection sperry top siders in time for spring/summer time I've been rocking them pretty hard

These are my supra vaiders aka the soo woo pras (blood joke, please don't shoot me i'm not a gang member)

my phone is a red black berry pearl and right now this is my only red tie, I need to pick up something in a red knit tie me thinks.

That’s it for now, if you have your favorite color collection post it up and share.

info source: Colors on The Web

I’ve been browsing the office spaces over at Office Snapshots and came across this picture of a studio called Razor Creative who had a razor blade door. How can you not love it?

source: Office Snapshots

all michelle's fault

I’ve had this picture drawn by KaNO for a few years now .  I thought of it last night and I wanted to share it with everyone but not as the pic of the day because I wanted to show more of kaNO’s art.  A New York designer and illustrator this picture started my love of his style and I already have my eye on a few pieces of work that I want including his book and limited edition wallet. Here are a few other things hes done. 

Source : Kano Kid, Kano Kid shop