Remember when you were but a wee lad or lass, and you just started using a computer? If you are anything like us, then one of the first things that really stuck out about the computer were the small pictures that opened up into programs when you double-clicked them. We are, of course, talking about icons. Like little, precious jewels, icons are not only a really cool design element, but they are also an integral part of what makes computers, smartphones and tablets user friendly.

Photography is one of man kind’s greatest breakthroughs. Before it, representations of the self or images of places you liked were a thing that only the well and truly upper class could afford, since the only people that could provide you with them were painters. Photography changed all that, making images readily available for a much wider group of people, and eventually revolutionizing things like journalism and even art. Truly, we owe a lot of what is modern society to the invention of film.

We hope that these tutorials will teach you a few useful things about working in Illustrator and Photoshop, and that your newly acquired knowledge will help you in your artistic endeavors.

Artists famous for painting and drawing portraits figured out a ton about composition, form, shape, shadow, and framing well before the camera ever made it big. The conventions they originated, back when spending months on a single portrait was the most efficient way to capture someone in the flesh, are conventions that still surface in photography today, many of which initially originated in paintings.

Have you ever felt the need to escape this world and its rules? Have you ever imagined how it would it be like if your dreams came true? Literally speaking. How would it be like if you’d live in a universe where you’d swim through the clouds, and fly above the ocean? Well, I’d really like to know that too, but I can’t seem to find the secret magic formula.
But there’s there’s also some good news: being a creative individual you can use your imagination to create a different world, your own wonderful world where you step in through your graphic design artworks. Whenever you want to escape from reality, let your work become the window to your universe where there isn’t any restriction or limit.