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Christmas Twitter Duck

Another set of the Twitter Duck buttons with a Christmas theme. Feel free to use them!

Christmas duck 01a

Christmas duck 01a

Christmas Twitter Duck button

Christmas Twitter Duck button

Christmas Twitter Duck small button

Christmas Twitter Duck small button

Introducing Twitter Duck

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 01a

twitter duck 01b

twitter duck 01b

twitter duck 02a

twitter duck 02a

twitter duck 02b

twitter duck 02b

twitter duck button

twitter duck button

twitter duck small button

twitter duck small button

Christmas Rubber Duck

A digital rubber duck wearing a Santa hat in an icy pond

A digital rubber duck wearing a Santa hat in an icy pond

This image is based on the other rubber ducks I have made,. Here I added a Santa Claus hat, an icy texture to the water and some snowy background. The snowflakes are a custom made brush. Some people may think this is a Photoshop image, but it is actually vector, made with Xara Xtreme Pro.

The design is available at Zazzle as Christmas cards, stamps and mouse pads:

Illustration Friday: Strings

Soon, no strings attached

No more strings

Here’s an illustration made for the weekly Illustration Friday, this weeks theme: Strings.
Here we see a puppet looking like George W. Bush and is about to have its strings cut by the 2009 scissors.
The illustration is a pencil sketch which was scanned and imported in Xara Xtreme Pro where I added the colors.

Book cover makeover

A couple of years ago I designed the year book cover for GSCE. The old look is dated and a new one is required.

Book covers

Here is how I designed the new cover… Continue reading ‘Book cover makeover’

Xara Xtreme Halftone Effect

In this tutorial we learn how to create a halftone effect in my favorite graphics software Xara Xtreme.

halftone teaser

Continue reading ‘Xara Xtreme Halftone Effect’