Happy anniversary to us! It is the one year anniversary of our Arsenal! In just that amount of time we produced eight unique sets of vector art as well as three texture packs, four fonts, two icon packs, two motion packs and more! This of course is on top of all of our design work that we do for clients. We celebrated today by having a pizza party. Woohoo!

We would like to sincerely thank each and every customer that has supported us! We are giving an extra big thanks to our VERY FIRST customer who bought a vector pack from us on November 8, 2006. This customer’s name is Dan Olson, and here is a picture that he provided to us (modified slightly) to be featured here.

Thanks Dan!

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This is the poster I was talking about in the post below. Just sit back and admire the beauty.

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Some random artwork I created for a poster that we never finished. It was the worst looking poster you can imagine! Just thought I’d post this.

Edit: This artwork is modified from the original poster. The “worst poster you could imagine” came from the idea that everyone in the office create something cool and then all those elements would be assembled into one big piece of art. I created a 3D “rebuild” text and Oliver created the word “aesthetic” out of fruit, and Bill had some vectored lady faces, and Dave had to take those elements and make them work together. Needless to say it didn’t work out the way we had planned! I took my render of the 3D “rebuild” and made it it’s own little piece of art and posted it above. I think it looks neat by itself.

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I’m going to show you the process as to how I do my ornate lettering. This is a new design I did for Stone Sour that utilized this technique. Now right off the bat, this is not a step by step tutorial. It’s more of a look behind the scenes into how I work. The very core of this process is having a solid drawing ability and a good understanding of letterforms, typography, spacing, composition, yada yada. Also, I assume you know your way around Illustrator, Photoshop, and 3D Studio Max. There is no simple process to this - so yep, that means it actually takes work! So for those of you who are only interested in a shortcut to get this look, you can probably just skip reading. Because there really isn’t anything short about this. It’s good old fashioned hand lettering that’s tweaked and finalized on the computer for a vector final result. Here is how I do it:

Start with a Sketch:

No of course, it took lots of bad sketches to get to this point. I probably went through (more…)

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