Creating a 32-page children’s book dummy can be a frustrating experience. Illustrator Bob Staake just made it a bit easier to organize all that content with his Idiot-Proof Picture Book Dummy Template. Just FYI: The link to the full size template may be easily missed; it’s on the word “this” at the end of the [...]
This is a fairly quick explanation on how to add some texture to your vector images (or raster images) in Photoshop. I’ll go over a couple of methods that I use, and explain how to use them.
Paul (Drout750) O’Sullivan’s Select Tee “And You Don’t Stop” is up for sale at Threadless. The Select series is a specially curated line of Threadless shirts, all designed by established artists and designers. Other Stylus members that have shirts in the Select series include Ray Frenden and Oscar Pasturus.
In 2008, Jim Munroe of No Media Kings created a text-based interactive fiction game called Everybody Dies. The game is accompanied by some great illustration by Stylus’ own Mike Cho. Mike’s style really suits the game’s bleak tone and ‘blighted suburbia’ setting, which is reminiscent of his 2008 webcomic, Waiting.
Here’s a quick tutorial on how to create a custom brush in Photoshop. I’m using PS CS3, but the information should work for all versions of Photoshop back to CS. Let’s get started…
