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How to reduce pain in the hands

Being a professional designer or artist means you are repeating some movements on a regular basis. Usually you don’t even think about it until it start to cause pain. Have you ever experienced pain in the wrist or fingers while typing or drawing digitally? That’s great if have not. But you if you already had you probably – it’s quite a dilemma when doing what you love and makes your living hurts!

Inspiration: Snow in vector art

Snow… That’s what winter is famous for, right? So it’s a part of almost an winter illustration, unless we are speaking of tropical winter. There are not to many approaches to depicting snow in vector art. In this inspiration pack you will see 3 powerful techniques that can help you in your future projects.

Inspiration: Psychedelic winter

As for me winter is not the most exciting and inspiring season. It’s kind of hard to concentrate on art when it’s cold outside, so I prefer to spend winter in a warm country. But when you get to a place like South-East Asia, or South America you might experience some nostalgia for the snow, winter forests and all that romantic stuff. To suite this need I’ve collected this inspiration pack. I hope, you guys like it!

Free vector Valentine’s day card template

Yes, it’s almost a month ahead of Valentine’s day, but it’s better to start preparing earlier so you won’t have any headache on 14th of February ;)

This freebie is a Valentine’s day special. You can easily modify it with Adobe Illustrator CS to change the text.

Vector Landscapes inspiration pack

When you are thinking about creating a vector landscape artwork different kind of styles can come to your mind. Here’s a small showcase of vector landscapes grouped in four sections – stylizations, paintings, photorealistic and urban. Stylizations “Little world” by Sckamb

Advantages and disadvantages of living in Thailand as a freelance graphic designer

Going to a country you have never been to with a plan to stay there for few month is a very exciting experience. It is even more exciting when you have to work during such trip. Of course you had made an investigation about the place you are going to before you have bought the […]

Free Halloween site decoration kit

This is a Halloween decoration kit for almost any kind of web-site. It has a funny and cartoonish yet a bit bloody look. Use pumpkins and skulls to start headers, bones to make frames for images, pointing fingers to attract attention to important information, blood drops for lists and bloody lines for horizontal lines, hyperlinks, […]

How to Make a Colorful, Environmental Slice Adobe Illustrator CS4 tutorial

This tutorial is about creating an earth slice that looks like a piece of cake. When doing such “environmental” illustrations it’s kind of hard to stop adding details. The first twenty four steps are about creating the slice and another thirteen cover the rest. The process of adding the details are covered at a quicker […]

International statistics

Photo by Marina Nozyer. Continuing the series of my Preparing for a trip posts (1, 2, 3) here is a list of sites you might want to use to get statistics on different subjects in different countries around the globe. Speedcheck.org This site gives you information about average download and upload internet speed all over […]