Emma & Hinkley

Emma the Boston Terrier and Hinkley the Bulldog were proofed on Monday. We will still be proofing by e-mail this week until we get caught up on orders. If you are waiting on a proof please hang tight for a few more days.

More New Pet Portraits

"Toby"

"Oliver"

"Bentley"

It is feeling a little like Christmas today instead of St. Patricks day. We have a little over 2 dozen pet portrait projects on the board for the remainder of the month. I am posting 3 that we proofed today by e-mail. I am going to try very hard to get 2 more clients proofed by the end of the day.

Vectoria

Amazingly cool concept by dfever (made in fireworks pro)that I just saw in deviantart. Balanced copmostition, great use of type and lines as a design elements on a 45 degrees scale.

Tips for smooth and controlled paths in Illustrator

Here is a short list of tips for drawing smooth and controlled lines with the pen tool in Adobe Illustrator.

- Drag your handles around one third of the length of the curved line.
- Drag handles while you're creating the first anchor point for a curved line. Drag away from from the previous line and towards the direction you want to the cirve to be directed.
- Use as few anchor points as possible.
- Position anchor points where lines change their direction.

Hed Kandi wallpaper #2

Here is another great wallpaper based on Jason Brooks Hed Kandi style of illustration done in Adobe Illustrator by Ianwoollam Click on image for full size (1920×1200 pixels)

Vintage Dog illustration

I went searching Flickr for vintage dog illustrations and found so much great stuff. It was hard to narrow down this post. You can click through images to dig deeper into the photo streams of these Flickr members.

Keyword "Vintage Dog"

Vintage Postcard ~ Poodle Dog
Originally uploaded by chicks57

Wow, I took the entire day off and now my brain is still on a mini-vacation ... I guess it is called a "weekend". Playing around over at Flickr I searched "vintage dog" and found a large assortment of good stuff. Maybe Sunday I will do one of those long image hot-linking posts ... beats the heck out of writing, and I am determined to post every day this month. Click this image to find more cool vintage images from this terrific Flickr member.