Printing effects: a guide to making your cover special
If you thought that self-publishing doesn’t offer much in terms of printing effects that can make your cover SCREAM – you were wrong. …or at least partially. If you decided to follow the print-on-demand route, then you probably won’t have
Tutorial: My artwork feels off; how to fix it?
Have you ever felt that there is something fundamentally wrong with your artwork? I think each of us has been in this situation before. Imagine: you’ve been looking at the same image for hours on end, fiddling with this and
A 2020 summary – Art & Design
Welcome to 2021 – goodbye 2020! 2020 left us all with a bad aftertaste in our mouths, but one thing certainly did happen – we were forced to navigate a very different reality than the one we knew before. I
Where to find affordable stock images
When you’re a hobbyist or beginner artist, finding stock photos that won’t bankrupt you can be a challenge. Subscriptions to popular stock image services do give you access to bases of millions of pictures, but they can be a heavy
5 Tools That Make My Job Much Easier (Designer/Artist Edition)
Every artist has tools that they would preferably never be separated from – tools that make our lives SO much easier and save as tons of time that we can now productively use to watch cat memes on the Internet.
Blend it: Lighting for Beginners
Introduction Hi there! In this tutorial, we’re going to take a look at something we all struggle with – lighting. After reviewing the basics, we will analyse several common lighting situations and share some useful resources to help you with