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How to use Illustrator’s Color Guide
Developing a color palette from scratch can be intimidating. Illustrator’s Color Guide panel can make the task less daunting by making some objective suggestions. Here’s the least you need to know to get a lot of value from...
Solving a problem with code
I was looking for a good excuse to learn CoffeeScript so I came up with a project that takes a note and returns the blues scale in that key. It’s not a completely contrived example, I currently work this out manually using the...
Drawn to profit
I’ve been doing more self motivated illustrations lately and decided to submit some as stock images. I figured that since I have a bit of inventory, I should put it to work for me. I definitely underestimated the amount of work that...
More content, less system
Since I moved back to Ohio, I’ve been playing guitar more and even built a cigar box guitar with my dad. There is more of a community around cigar box guitars than I would have guessed, but not as many educational resources as I would...
Illustrator for web layouts
Illustrator has some fantastic layout tools that are often overlooked by web designers. Here is a screencast overviewing some of the reasons Illustrator is in my workflow. I cover Split Into Grid, Text Wrap, Paragraph Styles, Transform...