5 posts tagged “orange man”

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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.

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A little known fact is that Orange Men are like little chameleons -- they can change color according to your design needs!

...they just need a little help.

Thank goodness for the Adobe Illustrator Magic Wand and Eyedropper tool, which this tutorial will teach you how to use!

First, why don't you swipe this little picture goodie below: A color pallet of the default design mascot color variations. A tutorial on how to change orange men to other colors follows below.

This is an easy tutorial. It uses pictures!

Step 1: Have a vector orange man ready. If you don't have any, you can find them at www.Orange-Man.com or www.JesterArtsIllustrations.com 

Step 2. Look at picture below. It shows where our essential tools for this operation are located.

 
Click on the picture if you need to see closer. It works on all the pictures. Be sure to use back button afterward on your browser!

Step 3: Add the color pallet you swiped onto your Adobe Illustrator work area.  Picture Below:

Step 4: Change the settings on your magic wand tool from default  number to 0. This is done by double-clicking the icon on the tool tray. Pic below. (After this I'm going to stop saying picture below, ok?)

 
Step 5: Use the Lasso Tool to draw a selection line around the area you want to operate on...which is usually the orange man/woman. Sometimes the orange men have props and objects separate from them. We do not want these to be affected, so we will lock them in the next steps.

 
Step 6: Lock inverse. Start by going to the menue items Select/Inverse. When you've selected inverse, then go to object/lock, thus locking all that other stuff you don't want to touch in this operation.

Step 7: Magic Wand tool, selecting colors. Click the magic wand tool on the tool tray or push "Y" on your keyboard. Then click the shadow/dark oranges of the orange person you are working on.

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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:

 

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I often get inquiries -- "Can I buy the entire set of orange men for a reduced price?" For perhaps over a year this little known opportunity has  existed on the rare gem of a website known as "Clipartof.com".

See this link

A little factoid concerning clipartof.com: The Orange Man practically lives there. I like to think of all of the websites I supply my art through as cities that I visit as a traveling merchant. Examples to follow:

Istockphoto is like that bustling super-metropolis filled with art and talent of every sort, fully populated with coffee shops where people exchange ideas and vision together. Its a supercity that is sparkling and refined.

Shutterstock strikes me as a more industrial city with merchants hurriedly running in and out, with their product selling faster than it can be stocked. Its a little more unrefined, but useful to those who have more creative ability.

Dreamstime and Crestock are somewhat like those medium sized towns with their own set of strengths.

Clipartof.com, though, is far different. Its like a small private town, almost a gated community. Only a few artists in comparison are found here, but the selection is the cream of the crop as far as illustrations available. Its more family oriented, and there is not even the slightest hint of beaurocracy. One might think it was a private club secretly opened to the public -- the best of both worlds! Any artwork bought from clipartof.com also has a much wider ability for use due to the user license agreement. 

This is where the orange man has truly blossomed and discovered himself, and where the best deals can be found in his use! Most sites have one or two color versions of the design mascot (also known as orange man), but Clipartof.com has 11 color versions! Clipartof.com is also the only site that sells them in bulk packages for a reduced rate. For those of you who have taken a liking to the orange man, its highly, highly suggested that you see both the package deals as well as the color versions.

Feel free to contact them with questions. They will treat you like family. 

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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:

For a quick preview of these, check out my flickr sets. There are about 150 of them available as previews.

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!