Character design can be a great inspiration. Be it for coming up with new ideas for characters, inspiration for color, or even for background scenes. Here is a huge collection I’ve rounded up for your viewing. If you have any suggestions, please leave a comment and I will add it. LusterForever.com – Cool silver charms [...]
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Carlos Cabrera: Illustration & Concept Art Tutorials
Carlos Cabrera, a freelance illustrator and concept artist has a very nice selection of free tutorials up on his website. Looks like some really great quality stuff up there, well worth a look. We have to be thankful for people like Carlos for taking the time to put up free tutorials like this :) And [...]
Product Design Inspiration
An excellent roundup of inspirational (conceptual) product designs from DesignM.ag: Product Design Inspiration. I’ve also got an idea for an inspiration post in the pipelines, so you can expect that soon :)
Picking Colors for your Design
Quite a nice and inspirational little video here from From the Couch: The video documents the tutorial in Adobe Fireworks (I think), but the principle applies to any piece of software you might be using.
Freebie: My First Texture Pack (31 Various Textures)
Here is my first ever texture pack. I’ve only just begun taking photos, so please forgive me if they seem a little low quality, but I personally think they came out quite well! :) Would love any comments at all. Below you can find some previews, and the download link. Please feel free to use [...]
People to follow on Twitter for design resources
I reckon I now use Twitter more than RSS, so this is really quite an effective method of finding new (design) resources for me. This post rounds up Twitter profiles you should follow to find some great new design resources. If you liked this compilation, posting a tweet, bookmarking on Delicious, or stumbling it. I [...]
Eye Candy: Mesmerizing Curves of Ampersands
Mmm some eye candy! Gotta love these ampersands :) Check out The Mesmerizing Curves of Ampersands for some nice free and commercial fonts, previewed simply by an ampersand.
30 Free Cardboard Textures
A wicked-nice roundup of textures from DesignM.ag: 30 Free Cardboard Textures. Just a shame that there isn’t a way to download them all at the same time!
PatternHead: Free Vector Patterns
Just found an interesting website with a large collection of seamless (vector) patterns that are great for web design. Check out Patternhead.
Noobr: Great Resources for “Noobs”
I think it’s a little degrading to use the term “noob”, but since that’s in the name of the website I guess I have to use it here. Anyway, I do see some of my resources featured here (stamps) but no link is give back to me. It looks like a great resource, I just [...]
