I was so happy when received my first 2007 Christmas card form Emelie (Thanks!): jumping all around and clapping my hands like a baby! (a huge one, :-))
It’s a great feeling when someone uses my work and when I get to know that person! That’s great. And that’s all about!
So, please guys: make me happy every day: please send me a link with your work, or your work … or anything that uses my Photoshop brushes, Illustrator symbols and other. I’d like to see all that great things you can do!
Happy thoughts!
S*
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Two days ago I bought 2 domain names, one is my “user name” bsilvia.com and the other is blogffiliate.com.
So, now I have to combine my work in microstock agencies with my new domain name and try to get some visitors on my bsilvia.com.
blogffiliate.com blog will contain useful info for new bloggers but also for other bloggers who are in need of new graphics, buttons, banners – you know, stuff I’m creating :)
Happy thoughts!
S*
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We are moving to the new apartment! (from here to here in Zagreb city)
Cheers!
S :)
PS: I’m tired… I’m tired… I’m tired…
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I love cats. In fact, I was a roommate with two of them. Therefore, out of love and respect for animals I fully support the idea behind this site: pet-abuse.com.
Unfortunately, I was a witness of animal cruelty because one of my roommate cats was a victim. Today, I sill find it very hard to talk about it although both of my cats died in their old age (over 16 years). In this post, I put a picture, which will say much more.
Thanks to: Cats are crazy
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Today is Blog Action Day!
What would happen if every blog published posts on the same topic, on the same day? One issue. One day. Thousands of voices.
Don’t you want preserve something beautiful like this:
Croatia, Plitvice Lakes National Park
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Folks! I know, it’s Thursday and I was supposed to upload a new tutorial, or brush, or something useful today.
But … at this moment I am in a small German town called Ladenburg where everyone drives BMW’s, Audi’s and Mercedes’s and I simply did not manage to prepare anything useful as we drove from Brussels to here almost whole day.
Tomorrow, we are heading toward Austrian Alps where everyone is yodeling and we’ll stay there for two days. This week is rainy for whole Europe. I don’t know what to expect in Austrian Alps at this weather but we already made a reservation in some very hard to pronounce village so unless we wanna lose our money, we better be there. (I’m not quite sure what kind of cancellation policy they have there though … maybe I could still cancel without any financial damage) And, since you guys did not buy any books from Amazon, I can not afford … many things.
So, on Sunday we’re back and next week I’m taking all my teeth fillings out. Yes! You heard that right! I like to do that once in a while. (?! NOT)
And as the dentist takes the fillings out I will visualize new brushes in my head and you can count on some really scary ones too.
That’s all for now. See you next Monday. Stay well.
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I am receiving a lot of questions about commercial usage of my brushes and other artwork that is available on this blog. Most of you, naturally, understand that I invest lot of work, time and effort to create and offer free brushes and other free resources on this blog.
Now, here is the deal:
ALL WORK ON GRAPHIC-ILLUSTRATIONS.COM BLOG IS PROTECTED BY COPYRIGHT AND/OR OTHER APPLICABLE LAW. ANY USE OF THE WORK OTHER THAN AS AUTHORIZED UNDER THIS LICENSE OR COPYRIGHT LAW IS PROHIBITED.
OK. So, general idea is:
All artwork here is offered for you to create your own designs with it. Naturally, you are then the owner of all artwork you derive from the artwork offered on my blog.
Here is more details:
1. COPYRIGHT OF THE FREE BRUSHES AND OTHER FREE ARTWORK OFFERED ON THIS SITE
1.1. YOU MAY NOT re-sell any of the work from this site in it’s original form. Remember, make your own artwork and do what you want with it;
1.2. YOU MAY NOT re-distribute (offer for download or share or copy on any other digital or analog media) artwork from this site in it’s original form (e.g. “.abr” files) without my permission;
1.4. YOU ARE KINDLY ASKED to provide a back link to my site if you use my free downloads :)
1.5. YOU MIGHT even consider purchasing the PREMIUM version of the brushes
2. COPYRIGHT OF THE ARTWORK THAT IS PURCHASED AND PAID FOR
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You MAY:
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2.1. YOU MAY use the content to create layouts for your own personal use, commercial and non-commercial use like scrapbook kits, wedding invitations, birthday cards, ads, web sites and other commercial and non-commercial projects.
2.2. YOU MAY make gifts for family and friends.
2.3. YOU MAY alter size, color, etc. to suit your layouts.
2.4. YOU MAY submit project for publication using these graphics.
2.5. YOU MAY make one copy of this set for backup purposes only, but not with intent to redistribute.
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You MAY NOT:
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2.6. YOU MAY NOT Claim brushes as your own.
2.7. YOU MAY NOT share this set in it’s original format with anyone.
2.8. YOU MAY NOT redistribute or resell the file(s).
2.9. YOU MAY NOT remove any notice of copyright included in the content.
2.10. YOU MAY NOT make any of the graphics into brushes again and redistribute them.
2.11. YOU MAY NOT offer these brushes on any web site as downloads or send them through a news list or any other way. This is pirating, and is ILLEGAL!
That’s it!
Thanks everyone and have fun creating!
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I’ve just created a new Blog, close and personal.
On this blog, I’ll try to explain what are we going to do in order to earn 404.039,00… and a peaceful life.
And I’m going to be honest there. You’ll find some intriguing facts about me and my work, maybe helpful for you.
Big smile.
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Actually, I don’t think I would ever stumble upon this book if it was not for my friend Marijana who did the illustration for the cover page.
The illustration it self is rather interesting because of the innovative technique she used. It is made in clay and then digitally re-done in Photoshop to get the impression of 3D, depth in the illustration.
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While using a drawing tablet isn’t a necessity for website designers or graphic artists, many do opt to use them for a variety of reasons. For example, sufferers of carpal tunnel syndrome find using a pen is much more comfortable than a computer mouse that can often be very repetitive on the wrist. For artists who started off with hand drawn sketching, they simply find it quicker to stay drawing with a pen rather than learn how to use a mouse to create their cartoons and animations.
Wacom Intuos3 4 x 6-Inch Wide Format Pen Tablet (PTZ431W)
The Wacom drawing tablet is compatible with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Flash as well as many others as listed on their website.
How to use a Wacom drawing tablet link: hypergurl.com
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Try a little exercise called “Vase/Faces” where you can see how a side benefit of learning to draw is getting to know your own brain a little better.
Source: drawright.com
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Starting in the 1990s, traditional illustrators confronted a challenge from those using computer software such as Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and CorelDRAW ().The use of Wacom tablets and similar apparatus also increased the ability of drawing and painting directly in a computer. Whilst some of the new generation of illustrators are trained at colleges directly in front of the screen, most are merely made aware of the technology available and expected to train themselves to utilize it.
While illustrations have been previously been considered just a small part of the creative and entertainment industries, they are becoming a new and significant factor in industries such as games, animation, advertising and publishing. Nowadays, because the entertainment and creative industries are very dynamic and have an easily bored market, it can be especially difficult for a title to survive without creative and appealing illustrations. This is because the imagination inside the illustrations presents a more unique sensibility and helps manipulate a reader’s mood through their imagination.
Wikipedia list of illustrators
Source: wikipedia.org
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A few words about history of illustration.
Illustrations can be used to display a wide range of subject matter and serve a variety of functions like:
- 1. giving faces to characters in a story
- 2. displaying a number of examples of an item described in an academic textbook
- 3. visualizing step-wise sets of instructions in a technical manual
- 4. communicating subtle thematic tone in a narrative
- 5. linking brands to the ideas of human expression, individuality and creativity
- 6. inspiring the viewer to feel emotion in such a way as to expand on the linguistic aspects of the narrative
Early history
The earliest forms of illustration were prehistoric cave paintings. Before the invention of the printing press, illuminated manuscripts were hand-illustrated.
15th century through 18th century
During the 15th century, books illustrated with woodcut illustrations became available. The main processes used for reproduction of illustrations during the 16th and 17th centuries were engraving and etching. At the end of the 18th century, lithography allowed even better illustrations to be reproduced. The most notable illustrator of this epoch was William Blake who rendered his illustrations in the medium of relief etching.
Early to mid 19th century
In the early 19th century the proliferation of popular journals, which often serialised novels for mass-circulation, produced a boom in popular illustration. The medium moved away from steel engraving which was the standard in the early century towards wood-engraving which could more easily be incorporated into pages of text. Book and journal publishers would employ workshops of wood-engravers to render artists’ drawings onto polished blocks of fine-grained yew or box-wood which could then be locked directly into the printing-chase with the metal type. Notable figures of the early century were John Leech, George Cruikshank, Dickens’ illustrator Hablot K. Browne and, in France, Honoré Daumier. The same illustrators would contribute to satirical and straight-fiction magazines, but in both cases the demand was for character-drawing which encapsulated or caricatured social types and classes.
The British humorous magazine Punch, which was founded in 1841 riding on the earlier success of Cruikshank’s Comic Almanac (1827-1840), employed an uninterrupted run of high-quality comic illustrators, including Sir John Tenniel, the Dalziel Brothers and Georges du Maurier, into the 20th century. It chronicles the gradual shift in popular illustration from reliance on caricature to sophisticated topical observation. These artists all trained as conventional fine-artists, but achieved their reputations primarily as illustrators. Punch and similar magazines such as the Parisian Le Voleur realised that good illustrations sold as many copies as written content.
Source: wikipedia.org, answers.com
Illustration: The Aberdeen Bestiary (12th century).
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This is the first post in my blog which will, eventually, become one of the most popular blogs on graphics and illustrations in a time to come.
It’s a hard work and I have a long way to go, but I intend to make it so useful, that you will just love it. (If you are in any way in graphics/design/photography business).
OK. Now, where do we start … just like in old-fashioned books on theory of something let’s see what wikipedia has to say on the definition of graphics and illustration.
graph·ic (gr?f’?k)
adj. also graph·i·cal (-?-k?l)
- 1. Of or relating to written representation.
b) Of or relating to pictorial representation.
c) Of, relating to, or represented by or as if by a graph. - 2. Described in vivid detail.
- 2. Clearly outlined or set forth.
- 4. Of or relating to the graphic arts.
- 5. Of or relating to graphics.
- 6. Geology. Having crystals resembling printed characters.
n.
- 1. A work of graphic art.
- 2. A pictorial device used for illustration, as in a lecture.
- 3. A graphic display generated by a computer or an imaging device.
A visual representation such as a photo, illustration or diagram. A graphic may contain text, but text by itself is not considered a graphic unless it is done in a stylized fashion. In the computer, a graphic is a file such as a JPEG or GIF.
il·lus·tra·tion (?l’?-str?’sh?n)
n.
- 1. The act of clarifying or explaining.
- 2. The state of being clarified or explained.
- 3. Material used to clarify or explain.
- 4. Visual matter used to clarify or decorate a text.
- 5. Obsolete. Illumination.
Visual element in an advertisement. The illustration is an efficient way to represent an idea and works in concert with the headline to attract the reader to the advertisement. It is the illustration that helps to make the copy believable.
Graphics
are visual presentations on some surface, such as a wall, canvas, computer screen, paper, or stone to brand, inform, illustrate, or entertain. Examples are photographs, drawings, Line Art, graphs, diagrams, typography, numbers, symbols, geometric designs, maps, engineering drawings, or other images. Graphics often combine text, illustration, and color. Graphic design may consist of the deliberate selection, creation, or arrangement of typography alone, as in a brochure, flier, poster, web site, or book without any other element. Clarity or effective communication may be the objective, association with other cultural elements may be sought, or merely, the creation of a distinctive style.
Graphics can be functional or artistic. Graphics can be imaginary or represent something in the real world. The latter can be a recorded version, such as a photograph, or an interpretation by a scientist to highlight essential features, or an artist, in which case the distinction with imaginary graphics may become blurred.
An Illustration
is a visualization such as a drawing, painting, photograph or other work of art that stresses subject more than form. The aim of an illustration is to elucidate or decorate a story, poem or piece of textual information (such as a newspaper article), traditionally by providing a visual representation of something described in the text.
Source: wikipedia.org, answers.com
Illustration: Marijana Jelic
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