Tag Archive | "illustration"

Monthly Review – May 2009

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

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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 [...]

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Shading with Watercolor Textures

Thursday, April 30, 2009

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Shading with Watercolor Textures

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 [...]

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Draw a Windy Sunset Illustration

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

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Draw a Windy Sunset Illustration

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 [...]

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From the Portfolio: Maylene & the Sons of Disaster

Monday, February 23, 2009

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From the Portfolio: Maylene & the Sons of Disaster

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.

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From the Portfolio: Jedidiah Clothing

Saturday, February 14, 2009

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From the Portfolio: Jedidiah Clothing

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 [...]

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Should Shepard Fairey Be Sued for his Obama Poster?

Friday, February 6, 2009

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Should Shepard Fairey Be Sued for his Obama Poster?

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.

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From the Portfolio: Triple Five Soul

Thursday, February 5, 2009

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From the Portfolio: Triple Five Soul

Client: Triple Five Soul

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Barack Obama Portrait Deck on UrbanOutfitters.com

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

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Barack Obama Portrait Deck on UrbanOutfitters.com

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.” [...]

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Help Go Media on Design by Humans!

Friday, September 5, 2008

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Help Go Media on Design by Humans!

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 [...]

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How to Draw Your Own Vector Wings

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

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How to Draw Your Own Vector Wings

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.

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How to make an animated GIF with 8-Bit Characters: Part 1: Design

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

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How to make an animated GIF with 8-Bit Characters: Part 1: Design

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 [...]

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57 Inspirational Sites from 7 Remarkable Apparel Designers

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

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57 Inspirational Sites from 7 Remarkable Apparel Designers

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. [...]

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Jeff’s Moleskine Round 2

Saturday, July 5, 2008

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Jeff’s Moleskine Round 2

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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