Dmitry Marduk Blog

Tutorial Sites

kooljoy — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:51:38 +0000

Here is a collection of tutorial sites I compiled. It includes tutorials on creating web interfaces, text effects, general effects, drawing, animation, creating pos

ters, working with scripts, working with wordpress, buttons, banners, creating illustration in Adobe Illustrator. I think the list is pretty solid.

Web Design Library misceleneous

Good Tutorials high & low quality web interfaces, text effects

PSDVIBE.com web interfaces

Grafpedia web interfaces & other photshop stuff

Pixel 2 Life high & low web interfaces & other photshop stuff

MickM animations, basics, drawings, effect, text effects

Smashing Magazine photoshop effects, posters, scripts

Psdtuts text effects

Vectortuts text effects

Six Revisions few high quality tutorials on web interfaces, scripts

Photoshop Star text effects, web graphics & general photoshop

HV-Designs wordpress, psd to html, web interfaces & general photoshop

PSHERO.com effects, buttons, banners, posters

Tutorial9 concentrates on effects

PSDFAN concentrates on effects

Abduzeedo concentrates on effects

Tutzor concentrates on effects

10Steps.SG concentrates on effects

Alfoart.com concentrates on effects

Worth1000 concentrates on effects

Digital Arts concentrates on effects, posters

PhotoshopSupport help with using photoshop

Vectordiary Illustrator

Webdesigndev web interfaces, advertising banners & more

DRAGOART drawing

Flash

Senocular Flash Education

Kirupa Flash Education

FlashComponents.net

Recommended Fonts

kooljoy — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:18:55 +0000

Here are some of the fonts I recommend. I devided them into san serif, serif, slab-serif, and modern.

Modern Sans Serif Fonts

Advent

Cocon

Dax

FF DIN

Lisboa

VAG Rounded

Classic Sans Serif Fonts

Avant Garde

FF Meta

Frutiger

Gill Sans

Myriad

News Gothic

Officina

Optima

Rotis

Trade Gothic

Univers

Serif

Bembo

Bodoni

Garamond

Georgia

Minion

Mrs Eaves

Sabon

Trajan Pro

Slab-Serif

Clarendon

Rockwell

ITC Lubalin Graph

Font Links

Fonts by Inspiration

25 Classic Fonts That Will Last a Whole Design Career

Common fonts to all versions of Windows & Mac equivalents

25 Excellent Handwritten Fonts

Halloween fonts

Fontyukle.com -free fonts

40+ Excellent Freefonts For Professional Design

Customizing Your WordPress Blog

kooljoy — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:54:12 +0000

When customizing you wordpress theme first thing I would recommend is to make a copy of another theme and change the style.css. For more info refer to WordPress Theme Development

Modify style.css

/*
Theme Name: Rose
Theme URI: the-theme's-homepage
Description: a-brief-description
Author: your-name
Author URI: your-URI
Template: use-this-to-define-a-parent-theme--optional
Version: a-number--optional
.
General comments/License Statement if any.
.
*/

Create Author Bio

Author bios in articles are becoming very popular. Here is an example. To create the bio just include the following code somewhere in single.php

Job Resources

kooljoy — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:41:20 +0000

This post contains a list of top job sites for digital art professionals whether looking for full-time or freelance opportunities. Also there are resources for setting up online resumes. Check often as the list will grow.

Freelance

www.getafreelancer.com

www.freelancedesigners.com

Fulltime

Freelance Switch

Authentic Jobs

Krop

Simply Hired

craigslist.org

Articles

How To Create A Great Web Design CV and Résumé?

Design Showcases

kooljoy — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:44:23 +0000

Here is a list of design showcases. The list will keep on growing so make sure to check back.

Portfolio Showcases

Showcase Of Elegant And Original Blog Designs published 4/28/09

Single-Page Portfolio Sites published 8/19/09

Posters

60+ Amazing Poster and Advertisment Tutorials published 6/1/09

50 Beautiful Movie Posters

60 Concert Posters From Ten Amazing Artists

Breathtaking Typographic Posters

50 Brilliantly Photoshopped Movie Posters published 3/18/09

Advertisement Banners

RightBanners

Banner Design Portfolio

40 Brilliantly Photoshopped Print Ads

Showcase Of e-Commerce Fall Sales Designs

Typography

53 Mind-Blowing Uses of Typography

25 Classic Fonts That Will Last a Whole Design Career

Sexy, Bold And Experimental Typography

Breathtaking Typographic Posters

Grunge

Colorful Grunge Look

Matte Painting

Desktography

Graphic Design Resources

kooljoy — Wed, 20 May 2009 19:16:31 +0000

Here is my collection of recommended high quality design tutorial, article, & design gallery sites

Article Sites

I Love Typography concentrates on typography

Inspirational Gallery
Design Shack

LogoPond logos

LogoMoose logos

deviantART

Scientific Posters

Pattern Tap collections of common site interface components

Right Banners collection of advertisement banners

Designers

Dylan Cole (matte painting)

Yanick Dusseault(matte painting)

Inspirational Sites
Danny Diablo

Slider

Healogix cool slider

iCarousel

Spundo cool slider

Patterns

200 Photoshop patterns – Pixel patterns

The Ultimate Collection Of Free Photoshop Patterns

WebTreats

Spiderman Pattern

Textures/Backgrounds

80+ Fresh New Textures for Creating Web Site Backgrounds

10 Free and Exclusive Paper Textures

Image Libraries

SXC

Free Stock Photo Sites

Grunge Essentials Pack

Icon Libraries

Fonts

dafont

Fontyukle.com

DeviantArt

Places to Post Your Portfolio

Coroflot

DeviantArt

Behance

Computer Graphics Society

Brushes

Blood Pack

Photoshop brushes

46 Stunning High Resolution Photoshop Light Effect Brushes

Brush King

Forums

Computer Graphics Society

Digital Artist Tools

Wacom Intuos A5

How to create wordpress portfolio

kooljoy — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:45:10 +0000

Here’s what you need to do to create your wordpress portfolio

Register your own domain name. I recommend using a reputable host like godaddy.com
Install WordPress. Most reputable hosts have an interface such as “Install Applications” which you can use to install WordPress.
Buy a portfolio wordpress theme. I recommend buying a wordpress theme from themeforest.net.
Gather together samples for your portfolio. You might need to crop your samples

stay tuned for additional tips