January 30, 2009 PauloGabriel's blog

Video of the Week #33

During this past year, we've seen plenty of watercolor inspirations, which were pretty awesome! Sometimes we get to see trends

Featured Tutorial

Swirl Mania in Illustrator & Photoshop
Swirl Mania in Illustrator & Photoshop
There are lots of ways to create swirls in Illustrator, you can even download vectors from sites such as bittbox and dezignus, and if you are using Photoshop you can download brushes with those sorts of symbols. However in this tutorial I will show 4 ways to create swirls, and by mixing them you will learn some very powerful techniques that will allow you to easily make tons of different styles of swirls and crazy sperm vectors.

Try this Wallpaper

Wallpaper of the Week #5
Wallpaper of the Week #5
This week's wallpaper of the week is from a friend of ours, Eric DeFazio, also known as Koston101. It looks pretty darn cool, and we are cheering that this dude will make some other cool wallpapers such as this. Enjoy!

Book Suggestion

Book Suggestion: The Art of the LP: Classic Album Covers 1955-1995
Book Suggestion: The Art of the LP: Classic Album Covers 1955-1995
The book suggestion of this week is very inspiring, especially for those out there fans of LPs. The book is called The Art of the LP: Classic Album Covers 1955-1995 and it has a great variety of cover design styles from punk rock to pop all divided by thematic chapters.