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Lately one of my favorite things to incorporate in my artwork is typography. I can’t say as decent as most designers out there, but I do like adding words and manipulating them in a way to give the piece more meaning and definition. In this tutorial, I’ll be taking you through a walk through of how I created this poster I made for someone special as long as showing a few techniques that I used to create this piece and other pieces that I have made in my graphics career.
An unwrapped female head model ready to be textured for practice or personal projects. Continue reading to download and read more about it.
In this quick tip, Aaron Forney shows you how to import meshes into Mudbox.
Categories: 3D Art Quick Tips
And so after many self-realizations about who I am, what I am, what I do, and all those fun questions about myself, I’ve come to notice that I’m probably pushing too far beyond of my current abilities and capabilities. I know, it’s good to aim high, but if you aim higher than what you’re capable of, or aiming for a goal that you’re not ready for, then you’re really putting yourself in a situation where you’re completely lost, confused, and really “depressed” about your situation. By “depressed“, I’m not meaning you’re sad about something, but more so, you just feel a bit down because you have all these great ideas, great motives, and fabulous goals to do, but in reality, you’re just pushing yourself into a corner that’s going to be hard to get out.
Sometimes you have to let go of things in order free time to do other things. Sometimes you have to readjust who you are in order to realize what you can do/capable of. And to put it bluntly, sometimes you need to sit down and say to yourself, “Who am I?”.
The main problem that I’ve been dealing with was figuring out what to do with my blogs/websites/online homes. One side of me wants to do a graphics blog with tutorials, resources, and so forth. The other part of me wants to do something personal. I have this studio that I’m starting to bring to the surface, and I have a lot of projects that I want to do to be a part of my network community (so to speak).
After reading an article by David Bushell about his reason for “blogging”, it finally hit me on what I really wanted to do. I’ll be creating a new blog that will be my personal extension of myself as a designer along with having this blog to still supply tutorials, resources, inspiration, and other things towards the community. The journal category will be lying about, since I do cherish this layout a lot, but the new blog will have a simplistic look on it, as I want the content to be the main attraction. In addition, http://creative-le.com will turn more into my company’s website as times goes by.
I’ll be giving you a heads up on the new blog and domain when it comes, and just giving you a notice that I’m not dead or forgotten about the blog posts on this site. I’ve been going through a lot of headaches figuring out what to do. You’ll see some interesting updates in the next few weeks, and I’ll definitely blog about them.
-Dan
Categories: Journal
Another doubtful post title and maybe depressing for some of you. Trust me, I’m not really living a stressful life or living in depression (although everyone has their moments) it just seems like bad things just happen to me, but in the end if I keep hope, then hopefully things will turn around. Anyway:
Happy July 4th to you guys. I’m rather late, but for the past 2 days I’ve been working on catching up from my mishap last blog post, and I can finally say that I’m caught up to where I was. Which is a plus and negative since I definitely wanted to be farther than that, however I did do other things that didn’t include watching fireworks or celebrating the independence of America with other people.
Let’s recap my weekend and make a new list for myself for this week.
Recap of the Weekend + More
1. As I mentioned, I redid my CSS styling for the wordpress theme that I’m currently working on with Vtension. And now I’m left to do the comments, the archives loop page, and making the portfolio function, as well as contact pages and forms, and finally theme options for it. And THEN I have to fill the content up so that it looks nice as a demo. So close, yet so far. This will my top priority.
2. Worked on a friend’s site for his business. As much as I wanted to push this to the side, for some reason I did most of the work that needed to be done for it this weekend. I basically took an old looking site with super awesome TABLES and great ASPX technology, and wrapped it in some plain divs and css and it magically put itself together. And I also put up his site for his other section of business that will hopefully do well. In the end, I worked a lot more on it than I expected and got a lot more done than I expected and so this was a plus for my weekend.
3. I watched all the episodes that are currently subbed for Schemes of Beauty. Those of you that know about dramas especially asian ones, can know that it’s almost a task just to keep updated, or catch up, or watch these dramas. However, I guess I’m glad I had some insomniac as of late since I’ve been watching these episodes pretty late at night. Then again, once I watch one clip, I just can’t stop until my eyes just quit for the day. Schemes of Beauty is a really good drama and I’m glad Vina recommended it to me. Now I’m kind of anxious because, now I have to wait for the other episodes to be subbed and who knows how long that will take.
As a result, I’m looking for another show to watch, so korean, chinese, japanese…whatever recommendations you may have, feel free to give me some.
4. I got a piano! But I haven’t used it fully yet. I need to organize my room for space, but the midi to USB converter I bought works well with my Mac and Synthesia, so when I get the chance I hope I can entrance myself into the world of music. It’s something I’ve always wanted to do, but never had the time and motivation to do it. But I think with the way my life is going now, I have good motivation to practice. (Can’t say that I have time, but I do have the strive). I’d like to thank my teacher for lending the piano for me. It saves me money, plus it’ll probably give me a good feel of using a piano again after having not touching one since highschool. (although I was bad back then too)
5. Getting rid of more stuff. My 2nd monitor is up for a prize tonight, and so is my iPod Touch, but my friend helped me on that by giving away his old iPhone 3GS to me and so I no longer needed an iPod Touch. More and more I want to live life to its minimal state, but it’s getting harder as time goes by. I definitely need to go through my garage and make a garbage corner since I’m desperately looking for a place to live now and don’t want to own so many things.
6. It feels like I did more, but probably didn’t. In all, I had a work-filled holiday. I’ll get to posting some things this week. I owe you guys a tutorial, and I think I might do a list of links since I recently compiled a list for someone that wanted some inspiration and sites to look at.
Categories: Journal
