OxCreative
2011
After being a customer and a fan for quite a while, I finally submitted my first design to Threadless and it is now available for voting!
It will only be available to vote on the for the next 7 days so any votes would be greatly appreciated and if the shirt gets made, I’ll be giving some away on here and www.jordanmemari.com!
2010
We caught up with our first place winner of the Letraset competition we ran a few months ago.
The ever-so funky Holly Stanway was the lucky winner of a 24-piece Letraset Tria Visualization kit with a bleedproof marker pad.
Holly is an Illustrator & artist working with everything from pens & paints to fabric & textiles. If you’re looking for an interesting read, or want some instructables on making somethings yourself, check out Holly’s blog alittlestranger.com.
2010
Ok so we’re a little slow of the mark but Happy New Year from us all! We hope everyone had a good year in 2009 (Year of the OX!) but we hope you have an even better year in 2010.
I’ve been thinking about a few things that I would like to achieve in 2010. Whilst these are really specific to OxCreative, they are things that I think most of us could try to embrace:
1. Write more Blog Posts
More blog posts equals more content. More content equals more traffic. More traffic means lots of interaction, followers and good networking! It would be nice to start interacting with those in the community and so we are looking to (more…)
2009
It’s been a while since we’ve created a tutorial so here’s a quick Photoshop tutorial which you can do if you have Photoshop CS or higher to create a Bokeh/Particle effect – it’s similar to the blood effect tutorial we created some time ago.
Step 1
Open a new Photoshop document and set the background colour to black. We used a 1000px X 1000px document.
Create a new layer and from the brushes panel select a soft round brush – we used the 45 pixel brush (see below).
Step 2
In the brush editor, select ‘shape dynamics’ and set ‘size jitter’ to 100%. Next, (more…)
2009
Pro Markers are Letraset’s entry-level alcohol-based marker pens (the premium range are known as Letraset Tria’s). This is not to say that they cannot be used for professional purposes and with them you can achieve some (more…)
2009
1 – Use good quality products
Whilst it’s true that a good artist should never blame his tools, it’s unlikely you will create something with a stick drawing in the mud as well as you would with good quality paper and good quality pens, pencils and markers. With this is mind, it is important to get what suits you best as there are lots of quality products available. I use Windsor & Newton (more…)