Tag: Inspiration

Amazing Illustrations by Richard Roberts

Richard Roberts is a freelance illustrator and artist, currently based in Milwaukee, USA. Richard specialized in digital illustration and photo manipulation. He has been illustrating for over five years and has had the pleasure of being featured in publications and working with clients world wide. He is a very diverse artist using an array of different styles, and works on a wide variety projects. He is represented by AA REPS. If you have a project or idea that would be suitable for him, he’d love to hear from you.

Learn a New Photoshop Trick with VunkySearch

One of the best ways to learn a new trick in Photoshop is to grab a tutorial that catches your eye and dive right in. VunkySearch offers just that kind of eye-pleasing, pick-up learning.

Users can comb through VunkySearch using keywords or simply hit the randomize button to see dozens of tutorials from different sites thumbnailed on the main page. Clicking on a thumbnail pulls up a larger sample, and the lesson can be browsed in a lightbox-style window on VunkySearch or you can go to the site directly. The tutorial-in-a-window setup is surprisingly smooth, getting you back to the tutorial gallery quickly if you need a different perspective.

Photoshop’s Secrets Revealed

Collage techniques, arguably, have been around since humans started drawing on paper, but the art form really took off in the early 20th century. Popular among the Russian constructivists, European surrealists and Dadaists, the collage enabled its exponents to make their point by recontextualising ‘real’ images. For some, the motivation was political; others just wanted to make an aesthetic statement.