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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 [...]

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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 you [...]

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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 are [...]

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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 phones, [...]

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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 have [...]

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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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Improve your drawing skills spending just 30 minutes a day (week 2)

30 September 2009

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Improve your drawing skills spending just 30 minutes a day (week 2)

Hello buddies, this is the second post of my series improve your drawing skills spending just 30 min a day. This week we have 3 funny and short exercises that I´m sure you will enjoy. Basic shapes Exercise: choose an cartoon character you like. Your goal is finding the basic shapes of cartoon characters. Have a look [...]

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Improve your drawing skills spending just 30 minutes a day (week 1)

20 September 2009

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Improve your drawing skills spending just 30 minutes a day (week 1)

We’re opening a new section, every Monday we’ll make quick and fun drawing exercises. I assure you that, spending only half an hour every day, you’re going to notice your own progress in quite a short time. These are the exercises I propose for this week: The silhouette Exercise: your task will be to express different [...]

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Realistic Painting in Photoshop

1 September 2009

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