Fashion & Glamour Photography: Beautiful Black and White

Like I have mentioned in a earlier post that, I will do some inspirational features from time to time, so yesterday was nice sunny Sunday and I watched some movies revolving around fashion and Glamour industry, so thats what the theme of my today's featured showcase is, plus I thought my blog needs a lil touch of glamour, it's been a lil quite and boring here, ain't it?...sorry for being so neglectful, will try to be a good host henceforth! :) I will also take this opportunity to welcome all the new readers.

I am a huge fan of photography and browsing around deviantart site I found some beautiful fashion photographs, black & white and monochrome photographs has its own beauty and here I want to showcase some that caught my attention! Please click on the respective images to see them in full glory and appreciate the piece, the model and the photographer.

and a bit different...

Finally, to conclude recently, I read a quote in a newpaper by a actor turned politician, he said, "Glamour has limited power whereas power has unlimited glamour" so, what do you think? is it true? or is it other way round?!! ;)

Anyways, hope you enjoyed the feature and stay tune for more!

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What is it about Designing or Art ...

So few day back, (okay maybe a month) I asked people who follow me on Twitter  a question:

I just thought I should make a blog post out of all the replies that I got. It is so cool to know, what is it about our passion to art and design that we like most and given the fact that you have to reply within 140 words limit, all the relies were awesome!   I wanted to post this earlier, but somehow got delayed, it also has to do with me being a die hard procrastinator! So, here you go...




By @Fitzillo  (www)

 The initial sketching part I like the best... something about raw pencil drawings.

By @JeremyOLED  (www)

The realization of my thoughts. Creation... essentially, feeling like a god :P

By @moritzangermann  (www)

 I like the experience.

By @loopix 

What I like the most is that it adjusts to your mood, so it's like an outlet to what your feeling at the moment. Expression! 

By @Mercydesign

I love the playing, sitting and working with something until I have that AHA moment, when I know that it's perfect (or as close as I can get it) I've never found perfection, which is also part of the fun ;)

By @LoraineA  (www)

Art and design give me pause, cause to question, I often wonder about the artist, what they felt, how the piece makes me feel.

And, last but not the least my dear friend,
By @ginkgografix  (www)

Everything! the combination of colors, content and the way to spread a certain message!

And, finally, you might ask what about me? Well,  the best thing I like about designing is that I completely get immersed into what I am doing, something like a meditation-being in the moment and cherishing it! I like the process, the journey from visualization to seeing something on the artboard which before that was just a thought!

So what is it about YOU? What do you like most about designing, art or creativity? I know now my lil blog has enough feed readers, so please don't be strangers,  I would love to hear what you have to say!! :) And, of course thanks to all the twitterers who participated, hope to hear more from you.

And, now finally, some Twitter fun! I found this hilarious image while browsing! Totally made me change the Twitter icon that I was using which said, Follow me on Twitter! mwhahaaa!!

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Twitter, Feedburner and Stuffs.....

I have kind of jumped in and joined the bandwagon, yeah I recently made a new Twitter account. I had known about it since a long time now, but only made a account recently, to know what all it is about! I am still exploring it, I feel it is too noisy at least that is what my initial impression is! Anyways, if you're a Twitter user, you can add me, I will be posting some cool off site links, like good tutorials, freebies or just a nice piece of art or graphic design that I discover. It becomes easy to share such stuffs in a microblogging platform like that of Twitter. I will be also updating there about new posts that I write on other blogs as well!

Those who have blogs or websites with RSS feeds, might be knowing about Google taking over of Feedburner. So if you have not yet transferred your feed to Google, you should now. Personally, for me it was a smooth transfer. I also updated my RSS button links and stuffs as well!

Though, I heard some weird stories from other bloggers losing all there readers/feed count etc. haha!!

Other than that, I have been really slow on updating my blog, I get caught up in works and stuffs, but I hope to write some cool tutorials, tips soonish!

I have also added a new header to my blog, let me know what you think about it! Although, I am still looking for some cool theme for my blog which I can adapt and play around with its CSS, to make it more appealing and add some personal touch to it!

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A couple of Articles...

Before I forget, I want to let the reader's of my blog know that recently I wrote some articles for the vector tutorial website, Vectortuts.


The first article that was published a few days back is, 20 Challenging Illustrator Tutorials on DeviantArt please check it out.

Apart from that, I took the interview of a very talented artist, Masha Gubar, popularly known as Limkis. If you're a Illustrator enthusiast you should not miss the opportunity to read her interview.


Interview with Masha Gubar, AKA Limkis

More of my articles are to be published shortly on Vectortuts, so stay tuned!

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Logo Design Trends

Well, I think this article makes sense, check it out: 11 trends that will define logo design in 2007

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Free Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition (Windows)

Discover the basics of digital photography with Adobe® Photoshop® Album Starter Edition software, the free software that makes it easier than ever to view, find, fix, and share your photos. It's fast, easy, and best of all — it's free!

• Fix common photo flaws — like red eye, color, and brightness — in a single click.


• Easily share your memories! Attach photos to e-mail, or send them to mobile phones. Make your own prints, or order prints, photo books, and more online.


• Find any photo in a snap with automatic organization that lets you view all of your digital photos in one place using a familiar calendar view.

Download Photoshop Album Starter Edition 3.0

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Talent isn’t everything!

Read this very interesting & informative article, Talent isn’t everything: 7 habits of highly effective junior designers

The article emphasizes on following 7 habits & I find them so true:

1. Work quickly, produce a lot


2. Attend to details


3. Be versatile


4. Make an effort to learn


5. Anticipate problems


6. Set goals


7. Display a positive attitude

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Getting Inspired

Sometimes I really feel a lack of creativity or creativity block, I am sure every artist feels that at some point of time or other! The best thing to do in my opinion is to just relax, cool one's mind, see TV or movies or read something....(yes the advertisements on tv, the cool colorful pictures on magazine often inspires me) or just cruise around on internet to see other people's artwork, one can derive inspiration from that! Here are some random links I often take a look at:

Designer's Block

Shadowness Archieves

istockphoto

cgsociety

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A Wow Website for Logo Resources

Best brands of the World is World's one of the most visited web sites intended for browsing and exchange of the World's famous brand-logos. The primary use of site is to enable designers to access vector-forms of the well-known brand-logos that they can use in their presentations, given the permission of the copyright owner. The web site also enables designers to upload their own works and professional details.

Tons of logos all EPS files, here one can browse the collection by category.

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Some Cool Freeware Digital Arts Apps.

Artrage 2

With Art Rage, you can paint with oils, sketch with pencils, sprinkle glitter, and more. You can paint with gold leaf, silver foil, and other metallic colors. You can even load in your photos as Tracing Images to help you recreate them as paintings.

For the professional user, ArtRage also offers multiple Layers for painting, and layered PSD document import and export so you can easily use it alongside your existing tools.


Paint.NET

Paint.NET is free image editing and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows. It supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools.

Artweaver

Artweaver is a simple Freeware program for creative painting, i.e. Artweaver offers you all artistic effects which you need for your work.

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