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Incorporating Organic Artistic Textures (plus freebies!)

It’s become a fairly common practice to use photographs of rust, wood, metal, concrete and dirty surfaces as a means to bring texture into designs and illustrations via photoshop layers. There are a ton of great images to be found online, both free and for a fee. And of course you can always grab a [...]

Brief Thoughts

  • I've gotten the heads up from a few readers that my comments weren't working. I deactivated the commentluv plugin, and it seems to be working now. That's kind of a shame, because I thought commentluv was a really cool plugin. Anyway, if you tried to comment before and it didn't work, please do try again. One reason i write this and give all of this stuff away is to connect with people; I'd love to know more about who's reading. ...

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This blog started out in 2005 as an mp3 blog. Sadly, I lost two years worth of my old posts. But now I’m back with a new focus; design, photography, and illustration (with a mix of music thrown in now and then as well). I’ll be sharing textures/photos/photoshop brushes/illustrations and writing the occasional tutorial. Thanks for checking out the blog, I hope you like what you find!