You can teach an old horse new tricks! I know that for a fact…because my sister has a couple horses LOL! Seriously, I’ve been working with Illustrator and Photoshop since the programs were released many, many years ago. I was and continue to be completely self-taught. There was no web or internet back then, no schools using, let alone teaching how to use these programs, the only thing you really had was the book that came with the multiple floppy disks containing the program! That was it. So if I wanted to learn how to use the program I basically spent hours “playing”.
Today there is the web (how did we ever live without it!), there are copious online tutorials and there is an almost overwhelming amount of images on the web for inspiration. Needless to say I still have many moments of – how’d they do that – even thoughI’ve been using the programs for fun and as a professional designer for all these years! I could never say I am a “master” or “expert” – its been my firm belief that anyone claiming to be an expert or master of these programs is not being truthful because these programs just allow you to do so many different things and each update they make to the program simply raises the bar. Learning is never-ending and mastery is illusive.
One of the digital artists that I greatly admire is on Flickr – Skeletal Mess is the handle he goes by. His work is amazing. He also creates a lot of the textures that I’ve been using on images that I post on Flickr lately.
His work is also the type of work that make me scratch my head thinking how the heck did he do that…and for one instance my question found an answer on his blog in the form of a tutorial. THANK YOU!!!
Following the tutorial I made the image above using a photo I took of a gorgeous lilac.
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You can teach an old horse new tricks! I know that for a fact…because my sister has a couple horses LOL! Seriously, I’ve been working with Illustrator and Photoshop since the programs were released many, many years ago. I was and continue to be completely self-taught. There was no web or internet back then, no schools using, let alone teaching how to use these programs, the only thing you really had was the book that came with the multiple floppy disks containing the program! That was it. So if I wanted to learn how to use the program I basically spent hours “playing”.
Today there is the web (how did we ever live without it!), there are copious online tutorials and there is an almost overwhelming amount of images on the web for inspiration. Needless to say I still have many moments of – how’d they do that – even though I’ve been using the programs for fun and as a professional designer for all these years! I could never say I am a “master” or “expert” – its been my firm belief that anyone claiming to be an expert or master of these programs is not being truthful because these programs just allow you to do so many different things and each update they make to the program simply raises the bar. Learning is never-ending and mastery is illusive.
One of the digital artists that I greatly admire is on Flickr – Skeletal Mess is the handle he goes by. His work is amazing. He also creates a lot of the textures that I’ve been using on images that I post on Flickr lately.
His work is also the type of work that make me scratch my head thinking how the heck did he do that…and for one instance my question found an answer on his blog in the form of a tutorial. THANK YOU!!!
Following the tutorial I made the image above using a photo I took of a gorgeous lilac.