I was checking that stats of my blog the other day when I realized that more than 3000 visitors are coming to this site every day. Now, how cool is that? That’s, like, 30 000 in 10 days! I will not calculate more. Also, many of you write about great stuff you did with my […]
“A free gift”? What kind of phrase is that?
I was browsing the net, minding my own business the other day, when I ran into one more commercial that uses the stupidest phrase ever used in marketing copy: “Free gift inside!“. Again and again and again they insult us consumers with this nonsense phrase! There are variations – as you know. Sometimes it’s “We’ll […]
What Really Matters?
It’s hard to say it in words. So, I said it with this little graphic. I wanted to express my understaning of what really matters. Through symbols, words, shapes and colors. Probably we should turn this blog into a visual one. Less words and more images. Or maybe those two forfill each other? Anyway, I […]
Tutorial: Vectorizing an image
Turning a photo into an illustration in Illustrator Step 1 First, place a high-contrasted image (high-key image, in this case my model Iva) into Illustrator work area. Step 2 There is a bunch of tracing software and plug-ins out there, but for this example I decided to do tracing manually with pencil tool. Step 3 […]