Front page and WordPress theme customization for artist Tracy Brehm Alden.
Collar piece made up of stars, butterflies, and girly-styled skulls.
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I got my order of 195 bicones today from Amazon.com. There are 13 colors, I think 15 of each color. A really pretty mix. There are two shades of pink, a purple, a red, two blues, a green, a turquoise, orange, clear, jet, a pinkish amber color, and something slightly yellow- its not quite cantelope. I’ll look up the color names later today to see what they are for sure. Looking forward to getting my order form Fire Mountain tomorrow so I can get started on some stuff using these. I never did post what I ordered from FMG, did I? The stones I got were on sale for about a dollar a strand, so got a good deal there. I went with silver plated instead of actual SS for the res because quite simply, SS is expensive stuff.
Our anniversary is coming up- get an identity package including logo, business card layout, letterhead, and a web page design for $250.00! This would normally cost at least $400 for this package. Logo design will have three initial concepts, plus up to five revisions. Web page design will have one initial concept, and up to ten revisions. It does not include coding- design only. Please see the menu at the top of the page to see samples of my work and further details of how I do things around here. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to ask me. I will answer as quickly as possible. This great deal will run until the end of this month.
I won’t be using the rainbow color scheme, but am thinking starting black on the top, and working my way through the grey spectrum to end in a white layer on the bottom tier, and am thinking about edging it with a scalloped lace to finish it off. The hard part will be finding enough different shades of grey to work my way through the spectrum, but the good thing will be I will only need a half a yard or so of each color. Hopefully I can find a good diversity of patterns to keep it interesting to the eye. Not sure about the waistband yet, and what color I am going to do it- white would be a logical choice to balance the white bottom, but at the same time, I think it would also be a great time to add a color into it- maybe a black and red polka dotted fabric, or black and purple. Hard decisions abound! I’ll be sure to take many photos of the progress once I get started and post them. Its been a while since I’ve had a fun sewing project to work on. Now if only I had a sewing machine here at the house.
I also noticed the only web-ready pixel based outputs are PNG or BMP. That’s a little disappointing, but it could be worse. And theoretically (I haven’t opened it yet so I don’t know anything) I can just open and convert it in Gimp to something else. I’m definitely looking forward to learning these two programs though, and I’m thinking that my first project to practice with will be a tattoo design. I’ve decided I want to get a day of the dead style skull with all the colors and details on my upper left arm, as a 1/4 sleeve. I’m still trying to sort out the details, but I’ve got all the time in the world. I can’t do anything until after I pay off my boyfriend’s birthday present anyway. After that, I can start saving up for it. That’s something to look forward to. Creative Nerds posted a great list of programs for the artist in you, included some I have been meaning to try for a long time. These include Gimp, and Inkscape. I’ve been wanting to find alternatives to the over-priced Adobe suite of programs, and from what I’d heard, these two may provide much of that answer. I’m looking forward to working with them. I’m not going to swamp you with a list of 20 or 50 of these. I’m only going to post a few. These are some that really caught my eye as I was browsing.
It does utilize a pen tablet to do this one, but I’m sure you could modify it a bit to make it work with a mouse. Actually I know you could. Tutorial by VecTips.
The attention to detail is careful and great. Tutorial by TutsPlus.
They use an old boot to show what can be done with it, and at the end its almost photo-realistic. Tutorial by TutsPlus.
Tutorial by Computer Arts. |
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