Category Archives: Honing Your Skills
Craft Is Not A Dirty Word – A Short Essay By Brian Bowes
A Short Introduction & What My Agenda Is Part of my goal with these essays is to incite quandary in your mind. Through pictures and words, I hope to encourage you to question and remain curious about illustration, to help create an atmosphere of hard work and self discipline and to transmit my unbridled passion… Continue Reading ⇒
Ask The Expert: Photoshop Tips & Tricks #1
This is a guest post by Adobe certified Photoshop expert instructor Daniel Johnson. Transitioning from traditional to digital illustration The best thing to do is just to learn how to use the software tools. Computer graphics are really just another medium, like oils or acrylic. The skills you learn in areas like composition, color theory, figure… Continue Reading ⇒
Tech Tutorial: An Introduction To Using Headway for WordPress for Your Illustration Portfolio Website
As some of you found the Headway theme for WordPress a bit of a struggle to get started with, I’ve once again asked my tech whizz wife, Lea, to create some tutorials to help overcome some of these challenges. Without further ado, I’ll hand over to Lea for the tutorials…… Continue Reading ⇒
Tech Tutorial: How To Install & Configure WordPress To Create Your Illustration Portolio Website
You’ve probably heard about WordPress and how well it can function as a CMS (Content Management System) which can be ideal for your illustration portfolio website. We’re big fans of it too and use it for almost all of our web design clients – in fact in combination with the Headway theme, you can build… Continue Reading ⇒