…just wishing I had an iPhone and iPad myself 
Anyway, the day came when you could start designing your own protective cases for iPhones and iPads at Zazzle.com, and here are my first designs:
The image was made with Xara Xtreme Pro (now updated to Xara Designer Pro).
So what do lazy cartoonists do when they don’t draw new stuff? Recycling old clip art and simply adding some “funny” text, making it a cartoon
This cartoon is made from my computer support stock illustration (sounds better than “clip art”), available for example from iStockphoto and ClipartOf.
Made with Xara Designer Pro.
My guest tutorial on how to create a planet and a solar system in Xara Xtreme 5 is published (Nov 15th) at XaraXone.
Especially the steps on how to make the starry background is rather brilliant if I may say so myself.
An additional explanation about the background on page 4 and 5 could be in place: If I did not make the snowy bitmap a black and white contone, I would not be able to use the color fill profile to adjust the strong contrast that creates the starry effect.
If you have read my previous posts you probable know by now that my favorite work horse for digitally created images is Xara Xtreme and the images made are in theory vector images, but in real life it is more of a hybrid between vector and bitmaps. And this tutorial is in theory a vector image where I have used a couple of bitmaps as color fills. If you do not have Xara Xtreme you can download a trial version here. Could be interesting for all you Illustrator users to compare and test.
Technorati Tags: tutorial, Xara Xtreme, planet, how to, space, solar system, stars
Another set of the Twitter Duck buttons with a Christmas theme. Feel free to use them!
Christmas duck 01a
Christmas Twitter Duck button
Christmas Twitter Duck small button
As Twitter becomes more and more popular, all kinds off Twitter designs and button start to appear on internet. Seeing some interesting Twitter birds I thought I make a Twitter Duck, based on my digital rubber duck design (rather Smurfy I would say).
Take a look at my Christmas duck design as well!
Feel free to use the buttons below (…and I don’t mind if you add my credits or a link back to this page).
twitter duck 01a
twitter duck 01b
twitter duck 02a
twitter duck 02b
twitter duck button
twitter duck small button
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