More FREE Vector artwork
March 3rd, in Free, Vector graphics

More FREE Vector artwork

The team at Apaganza studio are regular contributors to many free vector sites. Vecteezy.com, Freevectors.net and freestockvectors.com. This week we are offering 2 new free vectors hosted at www.freestockvectors.com.

The first is this highly detailed hot rod vector artwork image….

you can download from Freestockvectors.com HERE

Secondly, some tandem paragliders in flight

which can also be downloaded from Freevectorstock.com HERE

Enjoy these free vector artwork files and don’t forget, if you make money out of them, donate a dollar!

Uploading your work to the free vector galleries mentioned in this article is a great way to showcase your work, monitor it’s popularity and make people [...]

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Have a FREE font or make your own!
February 19th, in Design

Have a FREE font or make your own!

I have just found a font generator that allows you to create your own OpenType fonts within a couple of minutes. Go make your own handwriting as a font. The process is really easy…. just download the free template, fill it in …

There are some basic guidelines to follow…

Once finished just scan and upload and a few minutes later you can preview you own font. You can submit as many times as you want….

Here are a few examples of other peoples efforts…

You can download FREE my handwriting at the bottom of this page (You will have to go through [...]

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FIGHT GAME Tshirt designs
February 16th, in Case Study, Design, Free, Photoshop, Tutorial, Vector Kits

FIGHT GAME Tshirt designs

Following on from my earlier post regarding NIKKO shirt designs. The original designs were rebranded to FIGHT GAME for an upcoming movie/video game of the same name. Executive producer and NIKKO MD, Bas Boon, asked us to come up with some more designs specifically for the FIGHT GAME brand. In the tutorial I will ‘talk through’ the designs called liberty….

Starting off with another of Noud van Miltenburg’s great illustrations…

My first decision was to bring in the black line illustration and the colour on separate layers, the original colouring wasn’t the correct hue for this shirt and the flames were [...]

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ASCII Art Made Easy
February 8th, in Case Study, Design, Free

ASCII Art Made Easy

When I was at school, many decades ago in the dark ages. We had a computer room, with a computer. Attached to this computer was all sorts of wires, card punching data storage, a noisy dot matrix printer with sheets of sproket fed paper and a group of nerds that made up the computer club (they are all probably IT multi-millionaires by now!). If you weren’t in the club, you never got a look in. Occasionally, though, long sheets of paper would emerge with images made out of letters and would be pinned up outside the computer room. It [...]

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Win a FREE Apaganza Vector CooKit!
February 7th, in Design

Win a FREE Apaganza Vector CooKit!

The first person to post a coherent comment on this article answering the following question wins an Apaganza Vector CoolKit of their choice!

I often use the layer effects options in Photoshop, they are a great time-saving tool. One of the small details that I find perticularly annoying is they default setting on the outer glow.

As you can see it is set to a sickly yellow at 75% opacity on the ’screen’ setting. It’s a setting I, personally, never use… so here is the question…

How do you change the default settings for layer effects in Photoshop CS4?

First correct answer posted [...]

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Fast and furious photo montage in Photoshop
February 4th, in Free, Photoshop, Tutorial

Fast and furious photo montage in Photoshop

Sometimes you have to help a pal out. A good old friend of mine emailed me last night asking if I could work up a poster for his outdoor adventure business based in the Lake Distict, UK. He had ‘knocked something up’ himself in Word (:)) and wasn’t too pleased with it.

I put aside 3 hours to try and improve on things. I had the photographs above and what I could download from his website (www.keswickoutdoors.com). I picked a particular photo to start off…

This, I decided to use as the central picture, not sure why, but you have to [...]

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Windy Fight Gear - Street Fashion
February 2nd, in Case Study, Design, Vector Kits

Windy Fight Gear – Street Fashion

Windy have been making professional sports fight equipment since the 1950’s. They are one of the world leaders in boxing gloves, pads and shorts. Their European dealer recently asked us if we would be intertested in designing a small (at first) range of Tshirts that could be worn as a gym or fashion item, again, of course we accepted the challenge. The theme was to be Thai with influences toward Tattoo art and Thai boxing (Muay Thai). Also, strangely, they were keen on one being of a heraldic nature. Following the Tshirt range we were also asked to ’spice’ [...]

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Free Illustrator Tutorial
January 27th, in Design, Free, Illustrator, Tutorial

Free Illustrator Tutorial

Family friend ‘Uncle Vince’ has recently discovered ’social networking’ on the internet, so, as a bit of fun, I set about creating a custom illustration in Adobe Illustrator for him to use as an avatar. I often joke that he looks like an east-end, hardman character out of the movie ‘Snatch’ or ‘Lock, Stock and smoking Barrels’ in most of his photos. So we picked a photo that looked more like his true character of friendliness and good nature!

Nice! The first task was to try and work out some shadow areas, I ran the photo through the posterize filter [...]

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Retro Magazine Art
January 22nd, in Design

Retro Magazine Art

If you are reading this you are already taking some time out from work, right?  I am a big fan of retro artwork, especially these magazine front covers from science publications from the 1920’s and 30’s. They are all visions/dreams of how the future might be. The ideas look a little naive now, but the illustrations still have charm and appeal. These images are from the modern mechanix blog (weblink at the bottom of this article). So why not sit back and be inspired by the ideas and dreams of a generation gone by…

These are just a few examples [...]

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Apaganza Creative CoolKits now available!
January 18th, in Design, Illustrator, Photoshop, Vector Kits, Vector graphics

Apaganza Creative CoolKits now available!

Apaganza Vector CoolKits, Texture CoolKits and PS Brushes are now online and ready to go. At just $4.99, yes you read it right, ONLY $4.99 you are getting a great big box of creative ammo! What’s more, the crazy dudes here, have decided that the first five customers will get one FREE* Vector Coolkit pack for each one purchased. Be the first! get these creative tools first and get more FREE!!

*After your PAYPAL payment goes through, we will email you and ask which FREE CoolKit you want, and we will send it to you within 24 hrs.

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