http://www.room122.com The Art and Design of Nathan Brown Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:07:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.room122.com/freebies/vector-water-color-splatters/ 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 ... http://www.room122.com/freebies/vector-scribble-skulls/ 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 ... http://www.room122.com/photoshop/room122-2009-photoshop-brush-round-up/ 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 ... http://www.room122.com/freebies/vector-wings/ 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 ... http://www.room122.com/photoshop/watercolor-newspaper-a-high-res-photoshop-brush-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 ... http://www.room122.com/freebies/new-gomedia-spray-paint-textures-exclusive-samples/ 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 ... http://www.room122.com/graphic-design/album-cover-art-completed-for-kevin-myers/ 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 ... http://www.room122.com/photoshop/watercolor-and-salt-a-high-res-ps-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 http://www.room122.com/inspired-by/inspired-by-weekly-round-up-1/ 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, ... http://www.room122.com/graphic-design/featured-in-digitalphoto-photoshop-magazine/