Salutations fellow designers- today’s free graphic design resource is a collection of grunge city collages that can be used to graphically enrich any print or website background. These five city collages are textured with a desaturated overtone to accentuate that urban city/industrial look. This free graphic design collection contains a total of five high resolution jpeg images- copyright free art that can be used on any personal or commercial work.
We’ve got more Native American vector art to share with the design community. These are traditional pottery designs, most often used to decorate the interior of large serving bowls of tribes in the American southwest.
The vectors were created by hand by us from published sources that claim no copyright on the patterns themselves. These vectors can be used for personal and/or commercial design and craft projects. You can’t however sell them, or post them for download on another website. Read the rest of this entry »
Photoshop special effects are amongst my favorite things to do with photographs.� I recently found a tutorial over at psdtuts.com that shows you how to convert a regular portrait photo into a Michelangelo-esque statue using a few photoshop tricks.� You can see my two attempts at following this tutorial below. One statue looks more like stone, I then added a column and some lighting.� I made the other statue look more like marble for a sleeker surface texture, I then added some angel wings.
From the public domain comes 12 vintage car vectors from a prior age. They range from the first horseless carriages to motorized coaches to turn of the century gangster and “Great Gatsby” age cars.
One of the old car illustrations is Adobe Live Paint ready. If you have Illustrator CS3, just select the Live Paint tool and click around the image to change the color of the tires, body, running boards, seats, trim – everything! Use gradient swatches to give some depth and dimension.
Nostalgic cars, vintage cars, retro cars, all highly detailed and free for both personal and commercial scrapbook and graphic design works, the old car vector art download includes 12 individual automotive illustrations for Adobe Illustrator 8 or newer. You’ll need Illustrator CS3 for Live Painting the single .ai file.
When I was in kindergarten my teacher always told me to color inside the lines- fast forward twenty years later, now as a designer we’re encouraged to color outside the lines.� I guess it’s true what they say about rules- you have to know them before you can break them.� Well for those of you who do know the rules- you’ll enjoy today’s free vector download of grunge paint splatters illustrations from Neno Design.�These are great, especially when your working on a preciously neat, formal design, and you’ve refined it down to the most minute detail and just when you think you’re done- slap one of these sloppy grunge splatters atop- perfect!
No matter how many I have, I just can’t get enough swirly curly leafy brushes in my ever expanding brush palette. A steady supply helps keep me inspired and exited when starting on new projects, particularly cd cover design backgrounds. There are plenty of good free Illustrator brushes out there, and here are some new ones recently discovered at CreateSk8.
They are for Adobe Illustrator CS2 or better. Put the file in Adobe Illustrator CS2>Presets>Brushes. Then select “Open Brush Library” from the Illustrator brushes panel menu. Then make something cool!
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