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Photoshop History Brush: the time traveller

26 February 2010

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Photoshop History Brush: the time traveller

Hey guys, this post is an addition to The longest Photoshop coloring tutorial, I posted a video in which you could see how I use the History Brush when I use color, but it didn’t seem too clear, so before we go on with the tutorial I will explain in detail what the history brush [...]

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The World´s longest Photoshop coloring tutorial (day 1 to 5)

23 December 2009

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The World´s longest Photoshop coloring tutorial (day 1 to 5)

Hello buddies, time for a very special tutorial, I will try to write the more detailed tutorial you have ever seen about how to color in Photoshop, SOSFactory color style. I will post the tutorial by issues, every issue will have his own video on real time from my Youtube channel, voice courtesy of Anita [...]

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Download lineart and practice your coloring skills with Photoshop

28 November 2009

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Download lineart and practice your coloring skills with Photoshop

Time for another exercise, this time let´s practice our digital color in Photoshop over a profesional lineart made by SOSFactory. If you do a try, please email me a JPG of your final image, if you are interested I could post your image here and give you some tips to improve your coloring skills. Here [...]

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How to integrate a mascot design in your website

16 November 2009

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How to integrate a mascot design in your website

Mascot design for webs is one of my specialties, in the last few years I’ve been designing dozens of corporative characters for webs. Clients are usually very satisfied with the design, but they don’t know how to make the most out of it. Sometimes they have to use them at very small sizes, sometimes they [...]

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Pros and cons of Illustrative Logo Design

8 November 2009

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Pros and cons of Illustrative Logo Design

Theory says that a good logotype must be simple, clean, economical, versatile, etc, etc. This is a very pertinent principle but, is it still valid? In my opinion, it is partially obsolete. The advance of impression techniques, the evolution of the consumers overburdened with publicity and the evolution of the mass media (Internet, Television, mobile [...]

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The making of Temper Tamtrum illustration and logo

18 October 2009

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The making of Temper Tamtrum illustration and logo

Time for a new tutorial, this time less detailed and quite more advanced. It´s something completely different from my usual cartoonish style. This is a more realistic illustration of a MMA fighter (Mixed Martial Arts). I painted it for a logotype, aimed at the printing on T-shirts, of a new brand named Temper Tantrum. I [...]

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Avatar creation with Photoshop, the SOSFactory way

9 October 2009

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Avatar creation with Photoshop, the SOSFactory way

Hello buddies, here you have a new video of myself at work, this avatar was created by order from SOSFactory for Hiyo, a free application for your MSN and Yahoo! messenger, courtesy of Incredimail. Photoshop avatar by the face I asked permission to Incredimail to offer one avatart for free and for personal use, my [...]

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Vectorial character design with Illustrator

30 August 2009

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Vectorial character design with Illustrator

It’s time to write a tutorial on vector illustration. In this post I’ll explain the process I followed at the time of designing by order (from SOSFactory) the mascot in vector format for Twisted Monkey Studios, producers of horror films. www.twistedmonkeystudios.com Ingredients : Paper and pencil. Scanner. Photoshop. Illustrator. Silhouette (a plug-in for Illustrator). Basic [...]

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Master post about drawing and inking in Photoshop

3 December 2008

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Master post about drawing and inking in Photoshop

I think it´s a good idea to create some master posts to gather all the information I have about some specific topics. I will update them from time to time.Here we go with the first compilation about Photoshop drawing, I hope you will find it useful Vectorial drawing in Photoshop (basic) As you can see [...]

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Mascot Design In Real Time Order – PSDTuts

15 September 2008

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Mascot Design In Real Time Order – PSDTuts

Hello guys, I was hired again by PSDTuts to write another tutorial, this time completelly FREE. YOU CAN READ THE TUTORIAL HERE In this article Im going to talk about my workflow used to design mascots for websites. This process in this article was described in real time as I created the designs. Let’s look [...]

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