I’ve been a graphic designer and vector artist for a long time. I enjoy it, I feel good about it, and I spend a lot of time at it. In the past, when someone I love has been sad, sometimes I’ve drawn something for them. But usually that leaves them feeling a little, um, underwhelmed. […]

With my new equipment and applications mostly sorted out, I’m finally able to start doing screencast tutorials! I’m very excited to bring this new type of content to my site. I am open to tutorial suggestions and requests. I have a few on my list right now, but I’m not opposed to seeing it grow […]

Do you know what today is? Are you excited? You should be. I know I am. You still don’t know? It’s Silhouette Sunday! This week I’m sharing a free cut file of one of my favorite projects to date. I wanted to do something special for my sweet son’s adorable Kindergarten class. I wanted something […]

A few weeks back we made a Whirly Pop in Illustrator. Thanks to the never-ending heat, summer imagery is rarely far from my mind. While that tutorial was born from fantasies about midways and carnival rides, this week’s tutorial is born of beach memories. In this quickie but goody we’ll explore some shortcuts and incredibly useful […]

Who’s up for another Ten Minute Tutorial? You can’t go wrong with these guys, they’re just so easy, fast and will teach you something useful! Last week we learned to make Whirly Pops in Illustrator (though that took a bit longer than 10 minutes, I’d guess). This week we’re going to make a wood texture […]

Did you know that those awesome giant lollipops that Cosmo Kramer was eating in the backwards episode of Seinfeld are real? And that they’re called whirly pops? I was pretty young when I first saw that episode and I had no recollection of ever seeing those before. I called them The Kramer Lollipop. I’ve since […]

I love art, and decorations, and doing things myself! This spring I talked Kevin into talking me into spending way too much money on some new equipment to bring my art to life, and I’ve been quite obsessed with this machine ever since. This little cutie is a Silhouette Cameo and I’ve fallen quite in […]

It’s time for another super-cute Ten Minute Tutorial! In this tutorial I’ll demonstrate a very quick and effective method I’ve been using lately in my (yet unpublished) recent work. It’s a great and easy method that will speed up symmetrical shapes that aren’t being created with default shape tools.  Let’s make a web-ready panda cartoon […]

Well! Fall is in full swing and Halloween is on its way. Recently I showed you guys how to make a simple pumpkin vector in Adobe Illustrator CS4 using an ellipse tool, the appearance panel and a few hand-drawn paths. Today, we’re going to turn that guy into a Jack-O-Lantern and wrap him up in […]