Category: Art and Design

For those with a Photoshop brush addiction Brush Fed houses more than 800 brushes which can be downloaded and used.

Often you need photographic reference material for a particular drawing Art Morgue aims to assist artists by hosting thousands of images that can be used as reference material. Images can not be used for other purposes such as digital manipulation in a graphics software package but it looks a very …

For morning inspiration I have been poking about the The New York Public Library Digital Gallery and typed in textile into their search box. Some lovely eye candy  came up. So if you are feeling a little stale and need a bit of a visual boost head to the New …

GetBrushes.com is a Photohop brush exchange site. The site also hosts links to Photoshop resources, tutorials and tips, tricks and techniques. The site also hosts a forum.

Portrait-artist.org describes itself as a portrait art tutorial site, with lessons on sketching and drawing faces, tutorials on digital art, an overview of art and drawing techniques, art supplies, book recommendations, anatomy, and much more. For anyone interested in drawing and developing their drawing skills in techniques using pencils, oils, …

50 ways to become a better designer is written for designers who work in a digital medium such as web designers but many of these ideas can be applied across all areas of design. For textile practitioners the first 8 or 9 points are particularly relevant. Thanks for the link …

Colour Blender is another free online tool for colour matching. Choose a colour using the colour picker and a 6-color matching palette (a “blend”) will be automatically calculated. Blends can be saved and are available when you return to the site or they can be saved as a Photoshop colour …