With the year drawing to a close we naturally reflect on the past year. 2009 has been kind to this little blog and I look forward to what 2010 may bring. I aggregated a list of the 20 most visited posts from 2009 from the stats and this is what I found. Oddly enough, some were pretty recent, and some were from last year. I decided to include the ones from last year as well since I have many new readers.
Example from save-janos.net - this example has been placed on a painted acrylic background
With this exercise you are not going to be drawing at all. All you need is some wire and a pair of pliers with cutters. My favorite wire for this exercise is tie wire and you can get it almost any hardware store. The idea is to explore shapes and lines that you create by bending the wire. This exercise will force you to focus more on the line and less on the “drawing.” The nature of the wire also makes it more difficult to create tight corners. Don’t fight this and allow the properties of the wire to influence your piece.
I am getting pretty excited about the tools being developed for the iPhone / iPod and have been looking into which of these tools are the best for artists. As I am looking are, I found the apps that I listed here. These are apps that I have seen people using and praising the most.
With Christmas right around the corner, everyone is trying to find that perfect gift. Here are 25 T-shirts for you or an artist in your life. (more…)
So, after I finished yesterdays post I started adding the new icons to my design and found the were too clean for my look. Here are the dirtier, grungy social media icons. This is basically the same file as the previous with a grungy set of layers applied. Oh, and FYI there are 10 in the PSD, (Google). Enjoy 
![[del.icio.us]](http://images.del.icio.us/static/img/delicious.small.gif){kind=small}
I know that I have some web designers that read the site, so this post is targeted toward them. I needed some social media icons for a site that I am working on. Everywhere I looked all I saw were glass icons. Yes I realize I have a glassy icon in the top right corner of this site, but there will be no glass on the new site (coming soon). Needing a clean set of social media icons that were not glassy, I created these. The link includes a .PSD download and sorry they are not all in vector. I hope these are useful to someone.
Every artist has a “tool chest” they rely on in creating and showing their work. So, I am working to create a list of resources and tools that people find useful in creating their art.
What I need: I need you to send me a list of items that you find useful in creating and showing your work. What are your favorite tools? Do you have any resources that you rely on to get your work seen? etc.
How you can get it to me:
Thanks for your help and I will post the info soon! Oh, thanks to furryscaly for the awesome toolbox photo.
SUMO Paint is an online image editor that feels alot like Photoshop and its free to use. The application includes layers with alpha adjustments, many brushes and shapes, multiple undos, copy paste functionality and the ability to save images to your computer. If you are needing light functionality of Photoshop then this is your tool at the right price, free.
Kevin Kelly posted 1000 True Fans in his blog yesterday discussing the Long Tail of certain niches. In his post he shows how a creative person only needs 1000 true fans. Kevin’s definition of a true fan is someone who will buy almost anything that you create. Kevin discusses some practical ways of accomplishing this and how pleasant and invigorating it is to be able to personally respond to fans of your work. Building your micro-celebrity status is easier than ever with free tools found on the internet. Checkout his post and begin building your fan base. - found via boingboing
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You will need to make your image 168 x 168 pixels or smaller.
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