16 posts tagged “illustration”
The JesterArts/Leo Blanchette Design and Illustration blog has moved to WordPress: http://jesterarts.wordpress.com/ Check it out for designer tutorials and JesterArts updates!
A special thanks to Clipartof.com (Kenny Adams, Jamie Voetsch) for helping in Redesigning JesterArtsIllustrations.com. The new layout works beautifully, and now like ClipArtOf.com, collections are available for download for the customers who require more images at a reduced bulk price. Without a doubt a lot of special programming had to be accomplished for certain functions of the website, and Kenny has been one awesome problem solver! A special thanks to ClipArtof.com!!! Screenshot below.
The JesterArts/Leo Blanchette Design and Illustration blog has moved to WordPress: http://jesterarts.wordpress.com/ Check it out for designer tutorials and JesterArts updates!
The orange man has his own website! Thanks to the unsung heros at www.ClipArtOf.Com, this cute little hub of orange man activity now exists on the internet! This site is special! It will exist specifically for the purpose of making orange men available to the internet in much broader supply!
Curious? http://www.orange-man.com/ is where its happening. Most people don't know this, but if you put your nose to your computer monitor and smell the orange man, you can actually smell the citrus-ness eminating from the little character. Stop what your doing and smell this picture below:
The JesterArts/Leo Blanchette Design and Illustration blog has moved to WordPress: http://jesterarts.wordpress.com/ Check it out for designer tutorials and JesterArts updates!
AO-Maru was used in Popular Science Magazine!
http://www.zinio.com/reader.jsp?issue=416085264&o=int&prev=si&p=6
It was an article about medical robots! I never figured AO-Maru to be much of a doctor, but I guess he is just full of surprises! Screenshot below.
The JesterArts/Leo Blanchette Design and Illustration blog has moved to WordPress: http://jesterarts.wordpress.com/ Check it out for designer tutorials and JesterArts updates!
Many people use clip-art for interactive purposes, such as flash, powerpoint presentations, icons, etc. I'd like to refer a new player in the Microstock community -- Acme Sound! If you download an orange man or robot and need, say, a helicopter sound effect, this guy has them! See his portfolio here: http://www.istockphoto.com/user_view.php?id=4819534
The JesterArts/Leo Blanchette Design and Illustration blog has moved to WordPress: http://jesterarts.wordpress.com/ Check it out for designer tutorials and JesterArts updates!
Wardenclyffe Tower 3d Visualization,
Upcoming JesterArts Illustrations.
Would you like to read an inspiring, powerful, and yet sad story? Read Man out of Time, by Margaret Cheney. Nikola Tesla was different from other inventors of his day or prior in many ways. He is credited for pioneering the concept of alternating current, creating the alternating current motor, plus a few other concepts that literally drive industry today.
But who has ever heard of the wireless transmission of electrical energy? He had hoped to accomplish this through his concept of the "magnifying transmitter". This was his greatest dream, of which all of his work was leading up to. It would be a clean, efficient, and elegant way to provide communications services and energy to the entire globe without power lines or environmentally destructive methods of any sort. It seems like a thing of the future, and yet it was on the verge of becoming a reality as far back as 1903.
The Wardenclyffe Tower which was to house the magnifying transmitter was near completion and then shut down when investors realized a disturbing fact concerning this invention: Who can profit from supplying free energy? A new type of technological society was at its birth in those days. Industry much the same as our present day was powered not by electricity, but money. So many of Tesla's inventions and endeavors were really just stepping stones to this grand invention which he would never complete due to economic reasons. He did not see this as a defeat. He stated: "The present is theirs ; the future, for which I really work , is mine."
Photo example below of the almost completed Wardenclyffe Tower:
So this project, a realistic 3d depiction of the Wardenclyffe tower, has been on my to-do list for a long time. I'll be using the free open source software Blender 3d to create it, and the resulting illustrations will be free to use keeping in stride with the purpose behind the invention itself: Keeping it FREE.
I'll be giving attention to all of the important details and will be making special efforts not to stray from accuracy. I will also do various renditions of the same model to serve educators and enthusiasts alike for any purpose they find. It will be free, and no, its not a marketing ploy. Keep checking back for updates.
NOTE: I am looking for qualified volunteers to help with layouts for the tower itself. See this thread:
http://www.scienceforums.net/forum/showthread.php?t=40841
The JesterArts/Leo Blanchette Design and Illustration blog has moved to WordPress: http://jesterarts.wordpress.com/ Check it out for designer tutorials and JesterArts updates!
Thanks to Clipartof.com JesterArts has taken to flight in selling illustrations on
JesterArtsIllustrations.com!
Whats the advantage of this? Every time you spend three minutes searching and buying an Illustration (or two, or three) on JesterArtsIllustrations.com a hamster is set free to the wild.
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For internet imaging, times are funny. Actually, times are funny for everyone, which is actually funny in itself. But things are always funny in stock photography/illustration. Constantly changing search algorithms, thousands upon thousands of contributors adding thousands of images - daily, and forums bustling with talk on those very subjects, with threads being locked/deleted so as not to cause panic and negativity, and people scrambling like mad cramming out new images involving new spins on old concepts, and complaining about stealing eachother's ideas and lack of sales. That was a very long and confusing sentence. Please read it again and e-mail me if you find errors.
Getting lost in the crowd is easy when it comes to internet imaging -- but not when your wearing a Jester's hat. Now Orange Men, AO-Maru, and all the accompanying illustrations will be sold separately from the crowd in a nice, refreshing interface that is not too much on the eyes.
So now under construction is the new http://www.jesterartsillustrations.com/ being created by the nice people at http://www.clipartof.com/. They are geniuses, multitaskers, and I believe must have a refrigerator devoted to energy drinks. How else are they doing it?
Well, I've managed to write an entire blog entry and I haven't inserted a meaningful picture that goes with the subject. Let me look in my archives here...
Ah...here you go. Its totally not related, but should look good.
The JesterArts/Leo Blanchette Design and Illustration blog has moved to WordPress: http://jesterarts.wordpress.com/ Check it out for designer tutorials and JesterArts updates!
The JesterArts/Leo Blanchette Design and Illustration blog has moved to WordPress: http://jesterarts.wordpress.com/ Check it out for designer tutorials and JesterArts updates!
My biggest personal discovery as a "designer" (I try not to use this term too much) is that there life outside of orange. This has altered my entire world, considering I was born only being able to see the "orange" part of the color spectrum. Now that I'm healed and can see more of the world (admittedly I have used some blues) in all of its wonderful colors, I've now taken all of those little orange men and adapted most of them to other color horizons...like blue...green...yellow...coffee.....
Here's some examples:
www.Clipartof.com has the greatest selection of these alternate colors. See here: http://www.clipartof.com/portfolio/leoblanchette
(If you check my other sites such as Istock or Crestock you will mostly see just orange men). My hope is that these added colors will open up new design possibilities -- or at least just add convenience!
The JesterArts/Leo Blanchette Design and Illustration blog has moved to WordPress: http://jesterarts.wordpress.com/ Check it out for designer tutorials and JesterArts updates!
I'm now on Facebook!
Do you use facebook? If you do be sure to add me as a contact! It will allow an easy way to contact me for custom
work, help with files you may have purchased from my microstock portfolio, and so forth! It is set up now that you can also see all of my new work as its put online. Check out my Facebook page! http://www.facebook.com/people/Leo_Blanchette/562394892
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