I have promised to do a tutorial on flourishes, but my RSI is quite chronic at the moment so I’m reducing the amount of fine pointing activity I do – unfortunately this includes flourish work in Illustrator! I do have some free vector shapes lined up (peacocks!), but I’m quite snowed under at work right…
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Weaving Flourishes – An Illustrator Tutorial
I’ve had my first request for a tutorial! It never occurred to me that people weren’t aware of how to get elements “weaving” in and out of other elements (like text) in Illustrator. So click through and check out my first tutorial on “Weaving Flourishes”.
The Fad of Flourishes – Naff or Not?
Honestly, it feels like flourishes are everywhere. As someone who has doodled throughout her life, during classes at high school and university and later whiling away time in meetings in “proper adult life”, I feel a little sold out. But to tell the truth I also feel a little vindicated. I remember I first started…
For $500 I’m prepared to get Naked & Angry!
A little while ago i submitted patterns to Naked & Angry, a community driven site focusing on pattern and textile design, created by skinnyCorp – the guys behind threadless.com. I was stoked to see my submissions approved, and shamelessly promoted myself to all my internerd friends, and then promptly forgot about it. Tonight I came…