An abstract space scene desktop wallpaper with the Good Dog Creative paw. You can view and download the full size wallpaper by clicking on the image.
To create this image I used techniques that learned from the “Create a Fantastic Abstract Fan Poster” tutorial on Tutorial9. continue reading…
A play on Warhol’s “Marilyn Diptych” and his famous quote.
“In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.” ~ Andy Warhol continue reading…
This is just a fun steampunkish/scifi photoshop project inspired by Dr. Grordborts Infallible Aether Oscillators and the “Creating a Stunning Old-World Look in Photoshop” tutorial from PSDtuts.
Augustus Bellywort’s Radically Reticulating Rayguns! continue reading…
We all had to start from somewhere and for some of us that somewhere was a completely blank slate. For a host of reasons many people deciding to make web design their career don’t go to school for that particular field of study. In my case, I was a visual art major and spent my college life in classical art classes such as painting and drawing. After school I found myself in my first job as a graphic designer which, through a few employment changes and some dumb luck, ended up in a web design position. Luckily for me and for others like me, there is a plethora of online learning resources for those wanting to start out in web design and front-end development.
Here are some of the best places on the web for newcomers that I used to learn the basic skills I would need to succeed as a web designer. continue reading…
For day 25 of the daily design challenge I thought I’d give Gooddogcreative.com it’s own persona. “Personas are easy-to-use themes that let you personalize the look of your Firefox.”
This persona has been added to the persona gallery so now everyone can have a Good Dog Creative themed Firefox.
Based off of a shirt that my wife and I picked up when we were in Memphis, TN. The shirt speaks the truth, “No White. No Black. Just Blues.”
Just as a side note… if you don’t have Freddie King’s “Same Old Blues”, Buddy Guy’s version of “Mustang Sallie” or Otis Rush’s “I Can’t Quit You Baby”, do your ears a favor and add them your playlist. Trust me. continue reading…
Cutting contests were a form of musical battles between various stride [a jazz piano style] piano players between the 1920s and 1940s, and to a lesser extent in improvisatory competition on other jazz instruments during the swing era. The practice exists in some vestigial form in the “trading” of segments of a tune in jazz improvising.
A desktop featuring a line from the Elton John song “Rocket Man”. I use parts of the Stereoscopic Image tutorial from PSDtuts to guide me on this one.
If anyone would like to use this desktop in any way please feel free.
