Yesterday I was using my Water Color Splatters Photoshop brush set for a business card project where I needed to create a vector graphic from one of the splatters. I was very happy with how the splatter looked as a solid black vector, and it looked great as part of the artwork for the business card. So much so that I had to vectorize the rest… and therefore a free vector pack was born. I’m calling this one as I see it… Vector Water Color Splatters. Enjoy!

Below are samples from this set

Good morning all… I have a new vector pack consisting of 8 scribbled skulls. The idea for this set hit me while doodling yesterday. I have been studying skulls as part of a character design course that I took at the end of last year. As an exercise, I have scribbled as many as I could as quickly as possible. These skulls are rough and scratchy… and a little bit creepy.

Okay… I know we’re well into January now but I wanted to take a few minutes to round up all of the Photoshop brushes that I released in 2009. It was a busy year, but I managed to get a few good sets out to the masses. Below are all of the Photoshop brushes from last year. Enjoy!

Water Color Splatters

3D Explosions

Beautiful Splatters a Web Design Ledger Exclusive

Star Clusters

Water Color and Salt

Water Color Dry Brush a Web Design Ledger Exclusive

Water Color Newspaper a Round Table Companies Exclusive

Strange Light Effects a Round Table Companies Exclusive

I know… I know… There are a million free vector wings out there. And every aspiring t-shirt designer and his grandma uses them in all of their design work… Yeah yeah. So perhaps wings have been a little over used lately as a design element. But never-the-less I get a lot of requests for vector wings, they are fun to design, and over used or not… they still look cool. And nothing says “Rock and Roll” like a giant pair of wings on your band’s new t-shirt, right?

So go ahead, download and enjoy these Super Cool Vector Wings… you know you want to Daddy-O.

Download Super Cool Vector Wings | Illustrator Version 10 EPS file

Below are samples from this set.

For those of you who may not know, I’m in love with watercolor as a design element, and it’s one of my favorite mediums for creating Photoshop brushes. I’ve created a new set called Watercolor Newspaper, and it’s available as a Round Table Companies exclusive. We’re starting a new design blog over there with lots of great stuff in the works. So head over there, download this brush set and show your support. Be sure to subscribe to the RSS feed for future updates.

Below are samples from this set.

The fine folks at GoMedia have done it again. They saw a need, and filled it like only they can do. They felt the artist community was lacking in quality spray paint textures and they were right. Do a Google search for Spray Paint Textures and you’ll see for yourself.

So the crew at GoMedia brought in a well-known graffiti artist from their home town in Cleveland to create this set of high quality textures. The graffiti artist had the supplies, technique, and experience to create the incredible blended tones & texture found in this set.

They were kind enough to provide samples (at 1/3 of the full PSD resolution) of these textures to Room122 readers! Download these samples below.

If you like what you see, and you will… Purchase this set from GoMedia today!

I recently had the opportunity to work with Austin, Tx based musician Kevin Myers on his first full length album release. The title and theme of the album is Horseshoe. Kevin came to me with a basic concept. He wanted something simple to illustrate the idea and overall feel for the album. I think the result turned out well and matches the singer-songwriter / folk style of Kevin’s music. I also have to mention, that this album is truly great! If you have the chance to see Kevin play live or purchase the album… I highly recommend it!

Oh, and I’m having so much fun designing album covers, posters and t-shirts, that I am continuing my Discounted Rates for All Musicians campaign indefinitely… Spread the good word!

This Photoshop brush set is the result of off-the-wall experimentation. Watercolor does some interesting things when sprinkled with salt, and even more interesting things when caked with salt. This brush set is great for stacking grungy, clumpy, dirty color onto your designs. Have fun experimenting!

Download Watercolor and Salt : A High Resolution Photoshop Brush Set

I’m going to do my best to take time each week to seek out designs by designers who inspire me to up my game a bit. I’ll share the results here, and hopefully you will find some inspiration as well!

Kjegwan Leihitu

Rron Nushi

Sugarrhyme

wtamplin

ThirdDesign

Tony Ganem

Martijn van Dam

I was recently invited to be a part of the latest issue of Germany’s DigitalPHOTO Photoshop Magazine. A photo, write-up and 10 of my Photoshop brushes are included in the issue. It’s very cool to be featured in such a great looking magazine. I really wish I could speak German, so I could read it!