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Interview with Illustrator Dan Mumford

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Can you start by telling us about who you are, what you specialize in and where you’re from? My name is Dan Mumford, i am an illustrator/screen printer and i live in London. I know you had formalized study in illustration, did you always plan to do band art [...]

Weapons of Mass Creation Interview: Geoff May

Thursday, January 7, 2010

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Weapons of Mass Creation Interview: Geoff May

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Welcome to the second installation of the Weapons of Mass Creation video interview series. Not sure what this is all about? Read the kick-off article to get caught up! Our first interview was with Richard Minino, otherwise known as HORSEBITES. If you missed it, you can watch the first [...]

Von Glitschka – Adobe Illustrator CS4 Guru

Friday, October 16, 2009

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Von Glitschka – Adobe Illustrator CS4 Guru

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: If you aren’t already familiar with Von Glitschka’s art, you should be. An ‘illustrative designer’ as he’s coined it, Von’s work is a tour de force in the vector art world. Flexible and versatile in both style and technique, Von’s unique talent shines through in every creation that flows [...]

Create a 3D Vector Labyrinth

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: A Square Foundation Let’s start off by creating a new document that’s 1024×768. Name this first layer “Maze.” Then, take the Rectangle tool and draw a 50×50 square. Give this square a 10px black outline and no fill. Then align it to the center of the canvas. Repeat this [...]

Erika Simmons: Ghost In The Machine

Monday, August 31, 2009

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Erika Simmons’ ‘Ghost in the Machine’ series is an imaginative approach to image creation/illustration. The concept of incorporating elements of the subject matter as the medium is a great example of thinking outside the box. The use of the cassette tape forces the viewer to envision the process, which [...]

Go Media’s Rapid-Fire Illustration Technique

Monday, August 24, 2009

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Go Media’s Rapid-fire Illustration Technique Hey Designer and Illustrator faithful! It’s time for another wicked tutorial from your brethren here at Go Media. I had a particular project I was working on recently that I thought would make a great tutorial. The technique I would like to share with [...]

Go Media’s Jeff Finley: Interview at VectorTuts

Monday, August 17, 2009

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Go Media’s Jeff Finley: Interview at VectorTuts

Just a quick heads up to let our readers know about the extended interview by Sean Hodge with Go Media’s Jeff Finley over at VectorTuts. Jeff shares design, illustration as well as design industry insights, along with related thoughts on graphics software, balancing the personal and business aspects of your online presence, collaboration with other [...]

Monthly Review – May 2009

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: 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 [...]

Shading with Watercolor Textures

Thursday, April 30, 2009

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: 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) [...]