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Online Doodle Graveyard

Doodle-Dee - Doodle-Dah

Wikipedia says, "A doodle is a type of sketch, an unfocused drawing made while a person's attention is otherwise occupied. They are simple drawings which can have a meaning, a shape or just irregular forms". I've drawn hundreds, if not thousands of these over the course of my lifetime. My doodles are typically cartoony people doing average things. At one point in my life, I thought about becoming a cartoonist, but I soon realized that this might be slightly tedious, so I abandoned that dream.

Doodles No. 1

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Creating Realistic Objects Using Illustrator and Photoshop

The Evolution of a Bottle Cap

When I began converting the website to the current format, I needed to update some of the graphics along with it. And one of the things that bothered me from day one, was my ugly bottle cap. It's the one located in my website header that has my logo in it. If you don't remember what the old one looked liked, trust me, it was ugly. I decided to make the new one and I thought I would give you a quick run down of the steps I went through. First thing to know, it's not a photo. The entire bottle cap is made from scratch using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.

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Arghh... Or After Using Photoshop's Save for Web, The Color is Not Matching

Photoshop Tip & Trick

I seem to go through this about once a year. I'm not sure if I change something or if Photoshop just hates me. But if you are ever working with an image in Photoshop and it will look totally different after you perform a "Save for Web". then take a look at the small little dialog on the "Save for Web" dialog box. In there you should see a setting that says "Convert to sRGB". Make sure that's not checked. It should save you a headache or two.

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