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Deity

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A possessed arcade machine sits in a desolate futuristic landscape – populated by tentacles and thorny vines.

Neko

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The tragic tsunami in Japan made me think about what Japan means to me. This is something of a reflection of how I felt about Japansese culture as a 14 year old when it had the strongest impact, a heady combination of sakura trees and neko girls.

Blathering on about social media on Vectortuts

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I wrote a lil something something for this vectortuts+ article about using social media to reach a wider audience under my DeviantArt pseudonym 'MisterISK'. A bunch of other rad vector artists had their say too, its worth checking out the article just to have a gander at their artwork!

The Mighty Pencil book

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My illo 'Black Magic' is in supercool industry book 'The Mighty Pencil vol.1'. The book is an industry only publication, so if you’re in a position to commission illustration, if you’re an art director, art buyer, magazine editor etc, then email themightypencilillustration@gmail.com and request a free copy!

Me in Computer Arts (September 2010)

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I've been putting off blogging this for ages, dunno why. Should really have posted it when it was relevant but whatever. Heres a kinda shoddy webcam pic of my page spread in the Exposure section of Issue 180 of Computer Arts (Sex&Design), from September 2010. This was a bit of a teen dream come true for me as most months I'd spend a hefty chunk of my allowance on Computer…

How to merge two shapes in Illustrator CS4

Quick n easy pathfinder tutorial. This tutorial describes the first pathfinder tool 'Add', which allows two shapes to be joined or merged. If you want to join two paths check out my join tutorial. 1 – Setting up For this tutorial I will be demonstrating on two circles. Draw the circles using the ellipse tool (L). To use Add they must overlap. Select them both with the Selection Tool (V)…

How to create texture with gradients in Illustrator CS4

A few quick techniques to add texture which I use all the time. I'm not going to describe the set up in detail, so it will help to already know the basics of Illustrator. The colours I'm using for this tutorial are CYMK (55.15,0,23.63,0) and CYMK (55.15,34,23.63,4). For the purposes of this tutorial I'm going to refer to the lighter colour as 'light' and the darker as 'dark'. 1 -…

Style widgets of the Kubrick theme with CSS in WordPress

To style the containers of the sidebar widgets of the Kubrick theme you can either style them all individually, or create a catch all widget CSS class. This styling will take place in the style.css which can be found in Appearance>Editor. 1 – Catch all widget class To access the uppermost widget class style li.widget Below is an example of widget settings. If you don't know CSS then you can…