Tag Archive | "illustration"
Monthly Review – May 2009
I’ve decided to call these Monthly reviews now since I don’t seem to be able to update them weekly much anymore. I’ve been busy, so here are some notable Go Media happenings for May. Launched a new Go Media site at www.gomedia.us. We haven’t updated our portfolio and design services site in such a long [...]
Continue reading...Shading with Watercolor Textures
Thursday, April 30, 2009
This tutorial will try and show an alternative way of using the watercolor texture files (as most of you know, you can download Go Media’s watercolor texture pack here, or you can try and make some of your own by painting them and scanning them into a digital format) in order to give some color [...]
Continue reading...Draw a Windy Sunset Illustration
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Introduction I’ve always loved Asian art and particularly Japanese illustration. While Asian art is the main source of inspiration for my design, the point is not to create a traditional Japanese illustration, but rather to filter design inspiration such as this one through personal style and experience. Today, we’re going to create something new based on [...]
Continue reading...From the Portfolio: Maylene & the Sons of Disaster
Monday, February 23, 2009
This is a design from roughly a year ago. While I was pretty excited about it at the time, I look at it now and get disappointed.
Continue reading...From the Portfolio: Jedidiah Clothing
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Client: Jedidiah Clothing Designer: Jeff Finley Designer: 2007 This shirt design was one of the designs I completed for Jedidiah Clothing back in 2007. It was accepted, but I still have never seen it printed or for sale. As a designer, even though you were paid to do a design, the client may not have found [...]
Continue reading...Should Shepard Fairey Be Sued for his Obama Poster?
Friday, February 6, 2009
By now you should have heard about the fiasco surrounding Shepard Fairey's Obama HOPE poster. It's been all over the national media and every designer should pay close attention to it. Is AP in the right to sue Shepard? Is Shepard protected under the "fair use" law? Use this post to discuss this serious issue that puts all designers in the national spotlight.
Continue reading...From the Portfolio: Triple Five Soul
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Client: Triple Five Soul
Continue reading...Barack Obama Portrait Deck on UrbanOutfitters.com
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
In August, the Obama campaign was running a contest for the next Obama T-shirt. I thought to myself “Self, you don’t like John McCain, and you certainly don’t like Sarah Palin. You DO like drawing, fresh ideas, and what Barack Obama will bring to this mess of a country that we’re living in.” [...]
Continue reading...Help Go Media on Design by Humans!
Friday, September 5, 2008
I had some spare time at home last week and thought I’d submit something to Design by Humans’ 10K contest. I tweaked another piece from 2006’s Concentric Series into a tee. I actually think it will make a better shirt than the design that won shirt of the month in June,which is currently [...]
Continue reading...How to Draw Your Own Vector Wings
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Everyone loves to give away free vectors, but what about teaching a man to fish? Here's how to create your own wings Go Media style. In this tutorial you'll need Adobe Illustrator and some skills with the pen tool.
Continue reading...How to make an animated GIF with 8-Bit Characters: Part 1: Design
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Have you ever wanted to make a kick ass animation of 8-BIT characters tearing each other to shreds? Well now you can. In this tutorial, I will take you through the process of creating vectorized 8-bit characters for use in an animated GIF. I’ve also included the vector source files of the characters and [...]
Continue reading...57 Inspirational Sites from 7 Remarkable Apparel Designers
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
I gathered 7 of the top t-shirt designers today and asked each of them for a handful of sites they couldn’t live without; sites they surf for inspiration, design resources, advice, community, etc. I was surprised at what I found. A few sites that I didn’t expect and some I’ve never heard of. [...]
Continue reading...Jeff’s Moleskine Round 2
Saturday, July 5, 2008
Here we are again with another round of scans from my Moleskine. Not much to say about these other than I was just having some fun drawing skulls and things. I was using just a regular ball point pen, which to my surprise, works great in these books. I think I’ll do [...]
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