Illustrations are a nice way to give to your site a less formal style. With hand drawings, the style gets even less formal and also it gives to the site a super unique feel, allowing the designer to show off his/her skills. This type of element can be used for small details or even for the whole site layout. One thing is almost certainty, hand drawings will make your site looks more friendly, however it's very important to find the balance and make sure that they fit with the theme and subject of your site.

Yesterday I was looking for some icons for a project I am doing lately, and it's just great how DeviantART got some awesome free icons! It is a great place to find just the right icon to pimp your designs, so I've selected a few! These are pretty cool, and the best thing about them is that it's all free. So hurry up and go catch these great sets of icons... So, I hope you all enjoy my selection! Cheers. ;)

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The famous digital art group DepthCore released this weekend their new chapter with the theme "freestyle". If you wondering what happens when you get the most creative minds of digital art and give them freedom to create whatever they like you need to check this out!

Last weekend I was, once again, stuck waiting more than 4 hours in aiports. So I was checking out some skateboard deck designs and found an amazing one from Girl Skateboards. The cool thing about that design was the effect, reminded me of those old signs that were painted on the walls, in old factories and industries.

Every week we're going to post about architects that make or have made history influencing many. Nothing better to start us off than with a great Brazilian architect who has been referred to worldwide for having turned architecture into a popular subject in his country, and even today at almost 102 years of age, still continues to gift us with his work.

I've probably said it before, but watercolor is definetely one of the greatest techniques of painting there is! It's truly incredible what a good illustration will do with it... so I thought it would be cool to find some watercolor illustrations of Super heroes and villains.

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Next week the famous Carsonified Event "Future of Web Design" takes place in New York City and here you will see what to expect from this great event. The best web designers in the world will take place to talk about different topics that will bring up your web game to the next level. Check it out! First you need to visit the event page http://events.carsonified.com/ to get a good felling of what's going on.

I was cruising through Behance last night looking for something cool and I was not disappointed. I happily stumbled upon the work of Oregon based painter Adam Haynes. Adam works a lot with acrylic on wood panels and I, for one, am really digging his style. The detail he puts into his paintings pleases me very much.