The best colors for websites are those which they best suit the content and style of your website. To take it a step further, the best colors for websites are those that feel and look right in their environment. In defining the best color for a website, there are three relevant factors to consider: content, …
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How to choose the best color for your decor
Whenever you decorate your home, you have two basic choices: you can either buy things or make them. Furniture, curtains, rugs, artwork, even clothes, are all examples of things you can buy. On the other hand, wallpaper, curtains, rugs, artwork, and clothes are all examples of things you can make. For example, if you are …
How to choose and combine colors
This is our color wheel. I realize that it looks a little unfamiliar, but that’s because we’ll also be talking about color saturation and hues. If you have experience with Adobe Photoshop or PaintTool SAI, then you are familiar with this wheel. The outer ring of the color wheel is the so-called hues. The square …
How to choose the perfect color scheme for the site?
Nearly 85% of shoppers cited color as their main reason for purchasing products or services. Use this tool to attract loyal customers to your blog, online store, or company page. This article will tell you how to do it step by step: why learn color associations, why color perception depends on age and gender, and …
It’s EASY to create children’s books!
Do you believe this? In vain….Once at a party in Cambridge, in the circle of educated and successful people, a conversation started about who was doing what. I boasted that I create children’s books. To be honest, I am very proud of this fact. To which one of the neurosurgeons present exclaimed that it was …
Illustrator’s sketchbook. Why do you need it?
I haven’t drawn in sketchbooks for a very long time. I simply didn’t have them. Even when I became a professional illustrator, I worked mainly in Photoshop and immediately on commercial projects. It took many years before I “saw through” what was the meaning of the illustrator’s sketchbook and what the value of this small …
Where to study to be an illustrator?
Recently, I have been increasingly asked to talk about my studies at Cambridge and how I became an illustrator. The trick is that I entered the University when I had already achieved some success in illustration and only then went to study. I completed my MA in Children’s Illustration from the Cambridge School of Art. …
Create a Drawing Habit!
Once a year I run a Crocodile Day marathon. We draw together. Long time. After the marathon, I still receive letters for a very long time that a vacuum has formed, the incentive has been lost, and the next marathon is needed. How not to fall out of this mood to create?There is a lot …
Stamp and its use in illustration – my insights
I know that for many, Stamping is a complex topic. Many people cannot understand why they need it? What is this anyway? We used to draw with our hands, paint over with pencils, and think with lines, and a stamp is a completely new look at familiar things. It expands the space for creativity and …
What is important for an illustrator to know about brushes in Proprietary
Brushes in Procreate are one of the most important tools of the program, solving completely different tasks: lettering, shading, background filling, stylization. It is worth noting that the application has more than 180 built-in brushes, which can also be transformed into feathering and an eraser. And this, in turn, allows for an even more individual …