Here’s a fun one. Cody’s Creations, maker of really nice dog accessories, needed an image for their website. They wanted in a clean, flat color style. So here the result. Click on the image for a larger view.
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HP Tweetnotes
Working with Somnio and Sunni Brown at Brightspot, I created a series of eight whiteboard-style illustrations for an HP sales conference. Somnio was asked to come up with an idea for the conference, and they settled on what Sunni and I are calling “tweetnotes” – pictures that could be periodically tweeted to the participants. The goal was to keep them interested, reinforce the content, and use a Twitter persona experiencing the same things as the conference participants. (Continue reading HP Tweetnotes)
Featured Tutorials
Resizing Your Photos for the Web
For this tutorial, you’ll need: Picasa software and some photos. Picasa is free, download it here.
Isn’t a 72 dpi Image a Web Image?
Many people have trouble with the concept of photo resolution. They’ve heard about dpi and think “300 dpi is for print and 72 dpi is for the Web.” Those numbers are actually meaningless. I’ll try and make this simple.
What matters is the number of pixels in an image. DPI (dots per inch) is an arbitrary number, and it tells an image how many dots (pixels) to print per inch. Here’s why the simple number of pixels in an image matters more. Say you to print a picture at the sharp 300 dpi resolution. To find out what size that image will print at 300 dpi, you divide the number of pixels wide by 300 and the number of pixels high by 300. I hope I haven’t lost you, because it gets easier below.
Self-Publishing Your Art Book or Comics Collection
(Note: I wrote this article for Webcomics.com, and it is mostly aimed at people who have webcomics and want to self-publish a collection of their strips. However, it also applies to all artists, as the figures in the article are based on my experiences creating the Dog a Day Project book. I hope you find it useful.)
While ordering books in quantity from a printer will get you the lowest per-unit cost, you need to order your books in the hundreds or thousands. This might not be ideal for those of us just getting our feet wet, or without storage space for all those boxes. I’ll readily admit with my readership numbers that I can’t expect to sell hundreds of books, but I still want to have a nice collection of my strips to sell at cons, through my site, and even to give as gifts to supportive friends and family. (Continue reading Self-Publishing Your Art Book or Comics Collection)
