Archive for May, 2008

Free Vectors: Hand-drawn Decorative Ornaments II

I’m back from about a week-long hiatus, and I wanted to kick things back off with some killer freebies. This is another set of “hand-drawn” decorative ornaments. A lot of you seemed to like the first set and I enjoy making them, so I decided to crank out some more. These were hand sketched on [...]

BittBox Freebies In The Wild: Bonnaroo 2008

It’s always nice to see people put BB freebies to good use, but there’s no way to spot them all. I was flipping through Rolling Stone over the weekend and spotted some of my Illustrator brushes (teardrop foliage) in an ad for Bonnaroo 2008, a huge music & arts festival in Tennessee.

Free Vectors: Hand-Drawn Decorative Elements

Time for some more free vectors? Yeah, I thought so too. I had a lot of fun making these on the Wacom. Let me know how you like them in the comments. I can pump these out relatively quickly, so If everyone likes them, I’ll prep for round 2. Anyway, hope you can put them [...]

Download a Full, Free Photoshop Book at Sitepoint

The folks at Sitepoint and 99Designs are making a free book available for download if you act fast. For a limited time, you can download The Photoshop Anthology: 101 Web Design Tips, Tricks & Techniques, a full version book aimed at helping web designers. Head on over and download it while it lasts. The book [...]

Illustrator: Load Brush Libraries Faster [CS3]

This is a very quick Illustrator CS3 tip that will hopefully save you some time in the long run. I’m sure a lot of you, if not all of you, know how to load a Brush Library. There are 3 ways, actually, but my favorite, and quickest way is the Brush Library icon.