Category Archives: design

skeletor gets a root canal

By lesterbanks | Published: March 5, 2010

Tweet Under The Influence: Masters of the Universe Tribute Art Show has all kinds of great He-Man artwork displayed and for sale, you should check out some of the pieces, so great! If you are interested to find out more about the show, feel free to check out the gallery website at www.gallery1988.com.

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in memory of robert mccall

By lesterbanks | Published: March 3, 2010

Tweet Robert McCall Passed away last week at the age of 90, I will always remember him as a strong influence in my life, growing up when the space era dominated childhood dreams and fantasies. I used to spend an afternoon staring endlessly at his work, the subtle detail in the short quick strokes, and [...]

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how to warm-up for gesture drawing

By lesterbanks | Published: February 21, 2010

Tweet Mark McDonnell instructs at Disney and Dreamworks, life drawing in fact. You are able to find a small series of videos on his blog where he shares some tips and lessons. Also, check out his YouTube channel. Via Drawn!.

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capacity rebrands nbc, great inside look at the process

By lesterbanks | Published: January 25, 2010

Tweet Capacity the Culver City, California studio recently rebranded the NBC network, and provided this great inside look at the process starting from the pitch phase, development and production, and right down to the technical aspects and challenges that they faced. It is always great to see what the design process was like on a [...]

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autodesk project cooper sketching software

By lesterbanks | Published: January 21, 2010

Tweet Autodesk releases project cooper, a simple no hassel 2D drawing application that is ideal for quick design work, Project Cooper* sketching software enables you to draw accurate, detailed plans and layouts to scale using simple 2D drawing tools, predrawn symbols, and sample drawings. Because the software produces files in one of the most widely used [...]

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ID sketching, using markers drawing a transparent cube

By lesterbanks | Published: January 14, 2010

Tweet IDsketching’s ted Spencer Nugent with a little tutorial that demonstrates a technique on achieving transparencies with markers. IDSKETCHING.COM: Transparent Cube from Industrial Design Sketching on Vimeo. Sketch demo showing how to use markers to achieve transparency one way.

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tons o’ fun alchemy version 008 beta released

By lesterbanks | Published: January 8, 2010

Tweet Alchemy updates the beta to 008. This little app for windows, linux and mac is tons of fun. The Alchemy drawing canvas has an intentionally reduced level of functionality to really promote experimentation so it does take a while to get used to having no undo, no selecting, and no editing. All the interaction [...]

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scarygirl & scarygirl game trailer

By lesterbanks | Published: January 5, 2010

Tweet The Scarygirl game trailer – if you haven’t already, check out the site as well – so worth it. Scarygirl Game Trailer from Touch My Pixel on Vimeo. Copyright © 2008-09 Passion Pictures Australia – Producer Sophie Byrne. Artwork by Nathan Jurevicius. Animation by Renmotion and Halo Pictures. Game design and programming by Touch [...]

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simon page interview at grain edit

By lesterbanks | Published: January 5, 2010

Tweet The great Grain Edit has an interesting interview with self-taught graphic designer Simon Page that you should check out. Also, check out Simon Page at his site, his Flickr photostream, and twitter.

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mc bess malevolent melody book

By lesterbanks | Published: December 31, 2009

Tweet McBess’s malevolent melody book looks pretty sweet! You can pick it up for around $25 here and there. While we are on the McBess, lets take another look at Wood shall we? WOOD from mc bess on Vimeo. get the Dead Pirates track here : http://music.dirtymelody.com/ and get mcbess book with a free 7″ [...]

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