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 [...]

Free Vector T-Shirts and Sneaker

Today I have another little goodie for you; a set of vector t-shirts and a Vans Half-Cab shoe (my personal favorite from Vans, as far as the design of the shoe goes; though you generally always see me in my checkered slip-ons because they’re the most comfortable shoes I’ve ever worn). The shirts can be [...]

Photoshop Tutorial: Vinyl Album

The other day I had an idea for a poster design that involved a vinyl record. I thought about taking a photo of one of my own records, like I had done for this cd packaging I designed last year
but I had previously had issues with too much noise in the image (time for a [...]

comments working, i think

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. [...]

Free Textures for April 21

Yep more free grunge textures. I have lots and lots of these. Aside from the free ones, and the 80 premium textures I have for sale here, I probably have another 200 or so sitting on my hard drive waiting for a home. I’ll continue to upload them here as time permits. Between the dayjob [...]

Rock & Roll Photoshop Brushes

After thinking about doing this for a while, I finally sat down and made my first set of photoshop brushes. I give you, the Rock and Roll Brush Set! These were taken from photographs of my own gear, so it’s all 100% brand new, never before seen photoshop brushes. The brushes were created in CS2 [...]

Free Images

Well, I had the intention to write a new tutorial and make some photoshop brushes for you this weekend, but it would appear that my allergies and sinuses had different plans for me, and I didn’t get much of anything done. To make up for it, I have eight free high res images for you [...]

Typography Short Films

I’m working on some things to share with you this weekend, but in the meantime, I’d like to post a few cool videos I found on youtube. Here’s a short film about typography that I love:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o1U4o1bc2k

Today’s Free Images

Once again, I have some free photos/textures for you. Two blank signs, and two grungy backgrounds. Have fun with them!
get ‘em here

Screen Printing Tutorial

Last year, I taught a workshop on silkscreen printing to a group of kids and their parents, and we all really had a great time. By the end of the day, even the youngest student went home with a really awesome tshirt that she made (with a little help from dad!). It occurred to me [...]

More Free Textures!

Today I’ve got seven textures for you to use as you’d like. They’re all 300 dpi, 3072 x 2304 pixels. I’m still working on a set of brushes, and also some free vectors. Keep your eyes out for those in the next couple of days. I’m also going to write a tutorial on silkscreen printing [...]

Don’t Worry, Music Fans

To reassure my older readers that they’ll still find songs here, I’m posting some this morning. This is just collection of music I’ve been listening to recently, and it’s really pretty random. I started to add Metallica’s “Fade to Black”, but then realized Lars might sue me, so nevermind. Instead, I’m sharing the following [...]

Another Free Texture

I went out on a little photography trip today, and came back with lots of great textures. I’m working now on putting together a set of them to give away, and another set to sell, as well as some photoshop brushes. I plan to have those ready for you tomorrow. In the meantime, here’s a [...]

New focus for What Noisy Cats Are We

It’s been quite some time since I made a post… sorry. I was keeping up with the older version of the blog pretty well for a couple of years, but it seems I’ve fallen far, far behind. Part of the reason for this is that I work a lot more now, both at my “real” [...]

So much good music, so little time to post

The other day I got a real treat; The Mugs sent me a copy of their upcoming album Here Tomorrow, and it’s just incredible. I’m already a fan of the Mugs and wrote about them in the previous incarnation of this blog (you can find their free ep Daisy Cutter here, I highly recommend it). [...]

What am I getting myself into?

Several months ago, while thinking of the possibilities of my new canon 20d, with the 5 frames per second burst mode, I decided to make a video for a smashing pumpkins song. I didn’t know which song, I didn’t know what kind of video. Something along the lines of the old INXS video, “what you [...]

Sleepy Demons - Dog Days

Sometimes I go actively searching for new music. I get tired of the stuff I’m listening to every day, and I’ll just peruse the music blogs or myspace hoping to find something that really gets me going. And other times, the music finds me, takes me completely by surprise. This is the kind I [...]

NEW

You might notice all the posts are gone. I’m starting over. shannon-palmer.com is now my portfolio for my art/design/photography, but What Noisy Cats Are We is still very much alive. I’ll be working on putting back some of the older posts, but mostly you’ll just see new stuff here. I have a few posts planned, [...]