Just Showing Off

I admit it, I love showing off my work, whether its a painting or a website layout, paint or pixels. I did this the past week. Its India ink on Bristol board. Which is not really board. It's more of paper. It was loosely based off of Wu Guanzhong's 'The Banyan Tree'.

Using your Talent

By now you may be getting to the point where you're wondering what you can do with your new-found Photoshop talent. Well, there are always the obvious: doing graphic design work, either for payment, or for your church or baseball league. But you can also use Photohshop to make T-shirts, clocks, and any number of things that you can sell online. If you want to print them yourself, you can use Etsy. Etsy is nice because you get to pick the prices and interact directly with the customers. And it only costs $.20 to post an item. Or you can use a service like CafePress or Zazzle. They allow you to upload your graphics and put them on any of their products. People can then purchase them through the site, and you get a small cut of the profit. And then there are the sites like Threadless and Infectious that pay you a pre-set price for your designs, if they make the cut. But if you don't care about monetary gain, but want to show off your mad skillz, I recommend deviantART.

"Share the Love"

This is a little illustration I've made for a contest Infectious is having. The goal was to create an image to be used on a laptop cover that had to do with blogging. Hope you can tell what I was trying to get at with it.