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Category Archives: Behind The Scenes

21 Dec

Merry Christmas: The Making of My Christmas Card Illustration

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  Every year I create a custom Christmas Card in which I send to friends and family. I started to record my process and below you can watch the video on the making of my Christmas Card. Enjoy! Speed Art...
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20 Apr

Speed Art: The Process of Creating an Animated Globe in Photoshop

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In one of my first posts, I wrote a tutorial on how to create a spinning globe using Smart Filters in Photoshop (click here to read the original tutorial). I finally got around to recording a speed art video of...
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Animation, Behind The Scenes, Tutorials 3D, Photosohp, Speed Art 1 Comment
2 Feb

Speed Art: Strawberry Ad using Photo Manipulation Techniques

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  This ad was created for DesignTuts+ as part of a collaboration with Nacho Riesco. Nacho did a wonderful job creating the strawberry characters in 3D and then passed the files to me so I could incorporate them into a...
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22 Dec

The Making of My Christmas Card (with Speed Art Video)

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  Every year I create a custom Christmas Card I send out to friends and family. It wasn’t until recently that I started to record my process. Below you can watch a video on the making of my Christmas Card,...
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24 Nov

Behind the Scenes: Creating Stylized Autumn Typography in Photoshop

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Today, I want to share with you the process I used to create my Autumn Typography piece. This project is over 500 MB, took over 14 hours to complete (mainly experimenting with different techniques), and contains over 400 individual layers....
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13 Oct

Speed Art: Custom Lego Text

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  Not to long ago, I developed a new technique for creating a lego-style text effect as seen in the image above. I recorded my process and, until now, never released it. Here is the speed art video: For the...
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15 Sep

Behind the Scenes: Creating the Sharpie Markers

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One of my favorite pens to draw with is the Sharpie®—and what better way to commemorate my appreciation for this drawing tool than to recreate the marker in Photoshop. I’ll take you behind the scenes of this image which I...
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