A brand style guide is essentially the guidelines to ensure your business’s brand is consistent in feel and look. This allows employees and independent contractors alike understand how to represent your brand to the world. Why Do You Need One? There are a few reasons to establish and follow...
Book review – Change by design, Tim Brown
Every once in a while you come across a book that completely changes the way you see a specific subject. This was the case for me with Change by Design. One of the biggest takeaways from this book for me as a graphic designer is that design, as a broad...
How to draw and paint cartoons on Photoshop (I)
In this brief tutorial we will see how to draw cartoons in the classic American style (looney tunes, animaniacs, etc.). This work process is not suitable for making cartoons, since for this, animation software such as Animate (previously called Flash) is usually used, but it is a suitable foundation to...
How to create a low poly car in 3D: modeling and texturing (Part 1)
1. Starting scene We start with a typical Blender scene, with the cube that we will end up transforming into a spectacular sports vehicle. We have the screens in 4 views. You can easily do it by pressing the ‘Quad view’ button that appears in the options panel (N key)...
Modeling and basic rigging of a Clay Fighter-style character
In this tutorial, we are going to elaborate two characters in a scene very similar to that of Clay Fighter, a game that had its origins in Super Nintendo, in the early 90's. Acclaimed by many, detested by others but remembered by all; a game that we remember today with...
How to create pixelated graphics for video games
The focus of this tutorial is on the technique of coloring based on grayscale tones, on which non-destructive editing techniques are applied to achieve both adding color and adjusting the brightness and contrast of each layer or group of layers. The video covers up to this part. Subsequently, I proceeded...