7 posts tagged “illustrator”

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!

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.

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

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!

Announcing a New Line of Microstock Bots!

A lot went into the preperation of this highly optimal workflow. But now I can announce a new series of robots to make their entrance into the world of Microstock! Pictures below:

 

 

 

There will be more on the way! These were simply my test subjects to see if my ideas would work properly between Illustrator and Blender 3d. I also intend to do animations with this robot, which will be available on any microstock sites supporting video.

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!

Creation of Custom Orange Men

 

The Orange Men are handy little design elements that provide strong visual impact along with a lighthearted professional appeal. As innocent as they look, they have the branding power of a 1,000,000 watt soldering iron!

I first created them a while back to serve as a handy visual tool for designers. I was surprised to see they instantly found popularity with the web design audience!

You the Designer

To my added surprise, I get many inquiries regarding custom work with the orange men. Although its already an extensive series -- at the time of this writing there are about forty different pictures -- you may find you need a special pose or situation to accompany your design. You may be curious as to which rights of use I can extend to you, how much I charge, and so forth. 

So I've created this page to cover the entire subject, from the creation to the use of these orange men!

 The Creation

 

Unlike most illustrations that are on the market, the orange men have to be raised from baby-hood. Ok...thats not true. But its still a nice picture, right?

In actuality, they are easy to make. I enjoy doing them in batches of 10 - 12. Please tell me how many you would like, which situations/poses you would like, and if its necessary to go into detail in your requests, please do! My accuracy will be largely dependent on the directions supplied. 

Give me about a week...this allows me ample time to do a good job.

 The Cost

 

It baffles people when they hear "I work for free" in making orange men. Well, technically I work for free. I don't charge you for my labor. You will have to pay for them through whichever stock photography site you generally download through. (If you found this through a search or browsing blogs, see http://www.jesterarts.net/ to be directed to where these are sold). My profits occur when they start selling as stock. So no worries, there will be no money changing hands between us in our creative ventures with the orange men!

Which Rights Can I Extend?

 

The BIG question! Thankfully it has a short answer:

You have whatever rights to the image that the stock photo agency you bought it through allows. Do to many legal complexities, I have to turn down requests such as the most common:

1. Can I have exclusive rights to what you make me?

2. Can I use it in a logo?

3. Can I buy directly from you?

These I cannot allow because it would pose quite a conflict with the sites I upload to, even if I make you a "special" orange man that never gets uploaded. Its still an orange man! 

For extended print runs or uses outside of the "standard contracts" an "extended license" can be bought which allows greater/different uses. If there are any questions as to what exactly is allowed, contact the support department of that particular stock site you are buying through. Sticking to rules helps us avoid situations like the picture below presents!

 

 

Picture to left: Giant moster attack triggered by ungoverned/legally careless use of images.

So, the steps to give life to a new orange man for your use are these:

1: Request the orange man(s) you want.

2: I create them, free of charge.

3: I upload them, and we wait for image approval (generally less than a week).

4: You download.

5: HAVE FUN!!!

Step five is actually encouraged throughout the entire process. 

 

I look forward to working with you!

http://www.jesterarts.net/

 

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!

Hello people!

I've just moved my Gradient mesh tutorial into vox. If you use Adobe Illustrator in your art or design projects, you may find it helpful. Here are images I created with techniques discussed in the tutorial. See it at my blog.

http://leoblanchette.vox.com/library/post/gradient-mesh-editing-tutorial-adobe-illustrator-cs2.html

 

 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!

And here I am!

Well, I just moved into Vox. This is a big step for me because I've never blogged before! I'm generally not a person that likes to waste my time, or yours for that matter! :) 

However, its certainly not a waste of time if I happen to share something beneficial or useful, right?

Well, I have written an extensive tutorial on how to work with Gradient Meshes in Illustrator. To see what exactly an image composed of gradient meshes can look like in Illustrator, see the example to the right.

See the tuturial here:

http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=55190&page=1&RefNum=LeoBlanchette

My hope is to add a tutorial here now and then, which will keep this blog nice and useful for both of us! Besides that, check out my illustrations. If you have any of your own, please message me, I'd love to see them!

 - Leo