Unicode has lots of characters that are graphically striking on their own regardless of their intended meaning. When I see a symbol that I don’t know the meaning of (and there are lots of them like this symbol ⏃ for Dentistry), I see a simple, abstract icon devoid of meaning, but still interesting to look [...]
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shoe love: adidias originals in amberlight • dance dance dance The house that I’m buying has wonderful tiling in the kitchen and in the bathrooms. What makes the tiles so special is that they are tiny, opalescent squares that remind me of pixels. I love them. Now, the tiles in the photo above belong to [...]
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Maybe I’m a little premature to think about decorating my house before my home loan has been finalized, but I’m already thinking about tiny embellishments for my future home office. I’ve had succulents and air plants on the brain for the last few days and I’ve found some cute hand-dipped pods on Bird and …
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Park Life @ Clement Street As I mentioned in the Atlas Magazine post, I have a scallops brush tutorial to share with you. It’s a shorty because it reuses many of the techniques I’ve shown in my previous brush tutorials, such as Steps 3, 6, and 8 in the Pixels Brush tutorial. This time, instead [...]
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In this tutorial I’m going to show you how I made my pixel brushes, and I’ll use the pinking shear (zig zag) brush as an example. As I was making these brushes, I was impressed that by moving a single pixel, a brush would take on an entirely different pattern. For example, even though a [...]
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Katsura Garden // 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 21 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 I recently …
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Pugly Pixel, Style, and Eat Darling Eat all use the same single column theme, and at one time, they all used the same banner font, Cooper Black. Since I was going for a cohesive look between sites, I thought it was a good idea to give them all the same font, too. But I created [...]
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example: straight and dotted lines Photoshop brushes are like rubber stamps and roller brushes all in one. There are so many things you can do with the default round Photoshop brush! I have a bunch of brush-related tutorials scheduled to post in the near future, so I thought it would be great to review brush [...]
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Bad Girls Throughout History Postcards by Ann Shen As I mentioned in my previous geo post, I’m going to show you how I create my Photoshop geo shapes. Photoshop shapes are versatile because they can be scaled to any size without becoming pixelated. And besides, Photoshop shapes can become part of your Custom Shapes library. [...]
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I installed these calligraphy brushes last week. I’ve only used them to draw arrows, really (like the ones here and here). Though I’m obviously not a calligrapher, I enjoy using these brushes anyway. I love how the angled nibs create natural-looking lines of varying width and taper. Very nice. If you like these brushes and [...]
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