In this tutorial I will show you how to create a really cool effect using some watercolor brushes mixed with photos. The image we will create is inspired by the works of Bruno Fujii, Margot Mace, Raphaël of My Dead Pony, and Stina Person.
This tutorial was originally published at Pixelmator Learn site, you can see more tutorial I wrote for them at http://www.pixelmator.com/learn/
The wallpaper of this week is an image created by Sebastian Andaur, a 17 years old self-taught, multidisciplinary freelance Art Director, Digital Artist and Graphic Designer located in Santiago. Sebastian loves colors since he was born and when he got his first computer he started to playing with them.
For more information visit http://work.andaurstudios.cl/
Desktop Version
The book suggestion of this week is a very inspiring one for those in love with vintage typography, it's called Scripts: Elegant Lettering from Design's Golden Age. It's definitely a book for when you need some extra motivation and inspiration.
About the book
Elegant, quirky, fluid, brutish, ostentatious— a visual resource of cursives and other typefaces that resemble handwriting.