This tutorial will walk you through the simple steps used to turn a regular photograph into an interesting digital painting illustration, using Photoshop's Filter Gallery and the Smudge Tool. Depending on the photograph you choose, it shouldn't take you more than a couple of hours to complete.
The wallpaper of this week is an image created by Leroy van Drie, also known as LeRoi3. LeRoi3 studied at the 'Grafisch Lyceum Utrecht' in Holland and now he's working for a design agency called 'The Others'.
For more information visit http://leroi3.com/
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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.
