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Water Changes Ad

  

Charity Water's  is clever and delivers the message clearly. We may take advantage of water, but I'm sure most of us forget about the unsanitary water that other people are forced to use, because there's no clean water available to them. Water helps our lives whether it's the necessary drinking, growing gardens to provide food or having fun painting, it's an essential part of our lives. This ad is another simple and well done design.

Eagle Painting by Hua Tunan

I wanted to share this, because I thought it was a very well done and awesome looking painting created by Hua Tunan.

March Madness sale on Branded Baron

Branded Baron March Madness sale is going on. Buy some awesome tees and sweatshirts for a nice discounted price. There are posters, stickers, and buttons for sale if you want some more items.

You can purchase any item at http://www.brandedbaron.com

Omunky Farm Series KICKSTARTER Campaign

I met Rick of Omunky this past year after "digitally" knowing him through the internet. He has an animal theme t-shirt line, but it's not your normal animal shirts since they all have a fun and quirky twist. Rick is always out at various craft and street fairs selling his tees and spreading his humorous line to the world. He has decided to up the ante with his new "farm series" by creating a Kickstarter campaign. Your rewards range from buttons, to digital wallpapers, to one of the tees, all of them, and some screen printed posters. Think of them as really good prizes you can get. Help him make these new designs over here.

 

 

30 Photoshop secrets to improve your skills

Creative Bloq created a list of 30 photoshop secrets to help improve photoshop. Hey, it never hurts to read and see if there's anything that'll help finish your tasks quicker. Check it out over at Creative Bloq here.

Combine real and digital brushes in this digital arts tutorial

Digital Arts, released a new tutorial on combining real and digital brushes to help improve an illustration. You can view it here. I personally like combining my techniques and it is a good read to see what Adi Gilbert's methods were.

DIY Emboss with Greg Mathews

Greg Mathews teaches his diy method of creating an emboss. Check out here.

Shark Mascot logo

Here's a shark mascot that I was working on in Illustrator from sketch of mine. One of my goals is to start working on more mascot designs, so here's one step in that direction.

DOOM scene recreated in photoshop

I don't know how many of you played DOOM back in the day, but I was a fan of the computer game. The fact that a scene was recreated in photoshop is nuts. It is very well done and so awesome. What is just as great is you can watch the progress video of this image being made. Props to you Elemental79.

Iron Man/Superman Mashup

This is a creative and well done illustration combining the Man of Steel and Iron Man. There's more mashups by Kode Logic here.

Tattoo artist Dave Tevenal Snake/LanternIllustration Time Lapse

Here's a time lapse video of an illustration done by tattoo artist Dave Tevenal.

20 Useful Photoshop brushes from Creative Beacon

Some great set of photoshop brushes are up for grabs thanks to Creative Beacon for gathering them and posting it.

Download them here

Inspiration Cool Designs by Javier Gonzalez Pacheco

View some really cool designs by Javier Gonzalez Pacheco

New Orleans Pelicans Logo

The NBA New Orleans Hornets will now be the New Orleans Pelicans when they play their 2013-2014 basketball season. The pelican is Louisiana's state bird, which makes sense why they changed their name. It also has the Fleur de Lys which is another symbol that represents New Orleans. I personally like their new logo and their secondary logos. I feel the colors work well and that overall logo has a classy look and modern style that compliment each other. The pelican itself is okay even though I feel the head and bill isn't that recognizable compared to the wings. I think the angry aggressive look is fitting and shows a fierce bird that many people who are not from Louisiana will consider to be a non threatening mascot when they think of the word "pelican".

What are your thoughts on the logo? Is it simple enough? Does it work well with what the team wants to be portrayed as? 

BaseNow "Five-minute posters"

BaseNow developed posters that were done in 5 minutes or less. They are simple with either humorous or inspiring phrases. They are certainly worth taking a look at. View here

 

Zodiac signs by José Luiz Benício

To view more click here José Luiz Benício