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Spot colors. Shade them!

November 9, 2008

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Spot colors. Shade them!

Colors – we talked about how to lay the flats on our artwork, but this alone sometimes just doesn’t cut it. As I said, having only lines or lines and flat colors is fine, sometimes even better than an elaborate detailed thing – it all depends on the design you are doing. In most cases, [...]

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From Raster to Vector. Lines

November 6, 2008

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From Raster to Vector. Lines

The title might be a bit confusing, but, trust me, once you see the pictures you’ll understand. Basically, this is a short tutorial on how to convert a raster image into a vector one using one color rendering. Only this time, instead of using halftones, we are going to use a more controlled method, using [...]

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Spot Colors – Flat’em!

November 1, 2008

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Spot Colors – Flat’em!

As you know, there are ways and ways to work with color. As many as they are, we can reduce them to  some basic methods, when it comes to apparel design. And the two most used techniques are coloring with halftones (when we need to obtain a big number of shades without increasing the number [...]

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Vexel Art

October 21, 2008

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Vexel Art

This type of art has become very popular lately, invading most of the digital art sites and blogs. This is the reason why we try to make a relevant and documented post regarding this subject.Etymologically the word vexel is a mix between the words vector and pixel, as Wikipedia explains. The word was introduced by [...]

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Getting friendly with line art. Scan, clean, vector!

October 19, 2008

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Getting friendly with line art. Scan, clean, vector!

I just sketched some awesomeness. And I need my awesomeness to get digital, because I want to do bad stuff to it in Photoshop. What to do, what to do, in order to keep things just as good looking as I already see them in my head? Well, this is the kind of process that [...]

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