Folks! I know, it’s Thursday and I was supposed to upload a new tutorial, or brush, or something useful today. But … at this moment I am in a small German town called Ladenburg where everyone drives BMW’s, Audi’s and Mercedes’s and I simply did not manage to prepare anything useful as we drove from Brussels to here almost whole… View Post
Terms of Use
I am receiving a lot of questions about commercial usage of my brushes and other artwork that is available on this blog. Most of you, naturally, understand that I invest lot of work, time and effort to create and offer free brushes and other free resources on this blog. Now, here is the deal: ALL WORK ON GRAPHIC-ILLUSTRATIONS.COM BLOG IS… View Post
Learn to draw, for beginners
Try a little exercise called “Vase/Faces” where you can see how a side benefit of learning to draw is getting to know your own brain a little better. Source: drawright.com
Illustration today
Starting in the 1990s, traditional illustrators confronted a challenge from those using computer software such as Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and CorelDRAW The use of Wacom tablets and similar apparatus also increased the ability of drawing and painting directly in a computer. Whilst some of the new generation of illustrators are trained at colleges directly in front of the screen, most… View Post
Illustration function and history
A few words about history of illustration. Illustrations can be used to display a wide range of subject matter and serve a variety of functions like: 1. giving faces to characters in a story 2. displaying a number of examples of an item described in an academic textbook 3. visualizing step-wise sets of instructions in a technical manual 4. communicating… View Post
Graphics Illustrations
This is the first post in my blog which will, eventually, become one of the most popular blogs on graphics and illustrations in a time to come 😉 It’s a hard work and I have a long way to go, but I intend to make it so useful, that you will just love it. (If you are in any way… View Post
