illustrator blogs

Over the past couple days I've been redesigning my website.First, I made a design for my website in Illustrator that I'm happy with. What's better is that I was able to implement it fully in a matter of minutes because of the clean template structure I used previously. I had wanted for some time to add some flare to the site, but not to do too much, since I would never want to detract from the content. I hope this design is successful, I don't think it's too flashy. Please let me know what you think. Next, I made a lot of minor appearance changes and cleaned up a good amount of the code, fixing up a few sections ... (more...)

I'm up and running with CS3. It's not too much different, sadly, but it's awfully weird to see "Adobe Flash" and "Adobe DreamWeaver". The only thing that seems to have changed is some better integration between Illustrator and Flash (which is really awesome and something I've wanted). Besides this, some aspects of it are pretty annoying. In Illustrator, you can't scroll through the fonts like you used to by just pressing up and down, instead you have to click the bar and click the next one, it really disrupts my workflow. Also I can't find an easy way to change the stroke weight in Illustrator. If anyone knows a way to easily do either of these things ... (more...)

For the past couple months I've been working a photo-editing job, working on old family photos for an estate. The work is pretty interesting, and I really like my coworkers. We do crazy amounts of scanning and then have only a few minutes to retouch each photo. It's really helping me get faster with Photoshop, and a lot of the photos are very old, and therefore really interesting. I've also been working for the past couple days on an illustration of Kate to give her for her birthday. It's an important one, so I'm spending extra time perfecting all the vectors in Illustrator. I also made a pretty cool pattern for the background. She already knows that I've been working on ... (more...)