FAVICON CONTEST FINALISTS WILL BE POSTED SHORTLY.
This piece took a lot of time, longer than most of my pieces.
I’m quite satisfied with it though it could use some tweaking. I like how it came out though! I could make a tutorial on this, but I’m not exactly sure about it. It’s a confusing thing to write about…at least for me.
I could always try, though. I mean if I see that enough people want me to write it. God tutorials take forever to write, bleh :P
I think I might re work the coloring and design a bit on this one but I like how it’s headed.
For those interested in seeing the rest of the progress of my horsey graphic, here is phase 2 that I worked on last night. Click the image to see a bigger size.
The original size is somewhere around 1000px but I’m not too sure.
ANyway, just got back from working 7 hours so I’m KIND OF tired, hahaha. I got the job yayyy!! But OMGG do I have a blog about my first official day of work. That is coming later, today is the first day of Ramadan so I’m gonna go break my fast in 30 minutes. Hell yeah!
YOU ALL BETTER BE GOING TO MY LIVE CHAT ON THURSDAY AT 3 PM!!
Been working on a new piece. It’s not NEARLY done, but I’ve spent a few hours on the basis of it and I’m quite pleased with myself. You know, ignoring the fact that I’m up at 3:40 am and I have to be up early. It’s not my fault. I’m dead awake and on the inside I’m tired as hell.
Just kinda wrote JUMP in there for the hell of it. Don’t mind that corny title. It was an excuse to use my tablet, which I love to scribble and use. I fail at sketching with it, haha. Like I said, this is soooo far from done but I like the way it’s turning out. I’ve been meaning to learning manipulations, they’re an important skill set…
Okay now, bed. Bye guys.
Music: Break Even – The Script
If you haven’t noticed I added a new brush set. I hand drew these in the boredom of class, they actually look MUCH better on paper but I wanted to offer them at a fairly large size. They look best when they’re scaled down just a bit.
New paisely brushes up!
And don’t worry I haven’t forgotten about that tutorial. I’m about to make a tutorial based on light/abstract effects such as these:
( Full View ) this is brand new
Comment on which graphic you would rather learn to re-create. Both are slightly the same in terms of the concept which is light/abstract, but the way I made them is completely different. So number 1 or number 2??
Abstract techniques are very popular and I’m going to teach you guys what everyone else refuses. Yup that’s right, everyone who has mastered the abstract technique wants to keep it to themselves. But I don’t think that’s right! Shareee with the world! :) Gotta figure this stuff out for yourself eh?
Anyway I am in class and in less than 50 minutes my spring break begins. Do you know what this means?!? I AM FREEEEE. For a week. But still. Best week ever! :)
I’ll be able to update and get that layout up soon. Yayyy :D
LOOOL btw I think I sprayed on Mens Perfume. WTF Dolce and Gabanna you wanna label your products??? IT DOESNT SAY MEN OR WOMEN but when I google searched it it said it was men….but then it said women. It’s called “The One” by Dolce and Gabbana.
Well you know what it smells so damn good so whether it’s womens or mens it doesn’t matter to me, as long as I don’t smell like a dead fish I’m good~
I’ll be in Ann Arbor today, and then in Birmingham later at night. I’ll be all over Michigan! Woooo. If you want to follow me along my live adventures you can follow me on twitter and see what I’m up to! I usually update that first if anything comes up.
New layout WAS completed and will be up by tomorrow if everything goes well. I loveeee this new layout and can’t wait to put it up ;)
Here’s a preview because…well the preview looks just as good as the whole thing. Or at least in my mind it does.
I was curious about what type of tutorial to make next, and I figured since a lot of people want to learn about absract techniques it would be a good idea to make a tutorial based off my “lights go OUT” graphic.
Personally it’s very hard for me to learn new techniques because some people don’t explain how they do a certain thing. Of course it’s always up to you to go out and practice and figure it out for yourself (which in my opinion is a great learning style, rather difficult but you do learn the best) but when you have the option of following a tutorial, why not?
I want to do what other people didn’t do for me. :)
Anyway like I said new tutorial coming up and a new layout. I’m going to be working more closely on organizing the site and getting things to look cleaner. I always seem to miss the mark.
Oh and everyone. I wasn’t lying in the last blog.
Swimchick.net is a free design resource site and personal blog about the whacky life stories of Jessica, a Lebanese girl pursuing a BFA in graphic design +
Swimchick.net is a free design resource site and personal blog about my whacky life stories through design and whatever else all written by me, Jessica. I'm a weird, but still pretty cool Lebanese girl living in Michigan pursuing a BFA in Graphic Design. I'm aided in this exciting route by Sumaiya, extraodinare of everything under the sun.
