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samspratt:

SAM SPRATT’S SPRING PORTRAIT CONTEST/CUSTOM PORTRAIT/SIGNED PRINT GIVEAWAY!

Spring is around the corner which means as thanks to you for following me here, as usual—I am giving TWO of you the chance to win a custom portrait made by me, custom-tailored to your heart’s desire. Free, no strings attached.  The rules are simple, but read them so you can win.

What You Get:

A Web-resolution (1100 pixel) custom portrait, tailored to your most bizarre of requests. You can get a very traditional portrait done or as outlandish as you can dream. Zombies, Hipsters, Pirates, Ninjas, Superheroes, Robots, etc. are all fair-game themes in which you can have yourself transmogrified in painted form.

ADDITIONALLY, I’ll be giving 3 runner-ups their choice of a 13”x19” signed velvet archival print. Choices are: Sherlock, Ron Swanson, and Inspector Spacetime.

How to Enter:

FACEBOOK: Simply comment on the following facebook post. You get an extra entry if you click the “share” button and post it to your wall. ( Sam Spratt - Facebook Contest )

TWITTER: Follow http://twitter.com/#!/SamSpratt and tweet the following phrase verbatim on twitter: 

“ Entering to win a custom portrait #painting from @samspratt’s portrait contest! https://www.facebook.com/sam.spratt ”  

This also counts as an entry.

TUMBLR: Just reblog/like this post!

How long this will last:

This contest will run until April 6th, 2012. 

You all are the best! Good luck and thanks again to all who follow my little slice of artwork on the web.

NOTE: You must be a follower or subscriber at the time of the win. 

Why all this? Well, you’ve gotta write a big check with quite a few zeros at the end of it to commission art from me—and call me crazy, but I firmly believe that in a perfect world, people *should* get to own art AND do things like “pay rent”, “eat food-like substances on occasion”, and maybe even “continue to live”. Two of you can do that, the rest of you… you’re screwed. Sincerely, <3 Sam 

clientsfromhell:

Me: A two-page web design will cost X. Four-page would be X, Six -

Client: How much if it was double-sided?

Me: The website?

Client: Yes.

(via redhype)

A little pixel pushing fun.

rawbdz:

Design is Simple Communication - Poster design for Main Street Webworx

• Question: WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE INANIMATE OBJECT? - tumblrbot
• Answer:

  A pencil.

This may be my personal taste, but I think it’s pretty applicable to any design or really any part of your life. I have a 5 steps to help simplify, that I like to go through, for just about everything I do so I don’t stumble over myself.

1. Grab all of your information and put it in a pile: Much like when I was a kid cleaning my room, the best way to gather all of the items and organize them was to throw them in a giant pile. Putting of your ideas in on basket lets you see the sum of the whole.

2. Organize the clutter: This is where you separate the toys from the clothes; your give-aways from your treasures. You can now take all of the ideas and separate them into categories of your choosing.

3. Get rid of everything you don’t need: Goodwill and the trashcan benefit greatly from this step. This step is very important because we’re getting rid of all the clutter we don’t need,and keeping only the most vital parts to best communicate to the audience. 

4. Condense the important stuff to get strait to the point: Like folding clothes and using hangers, we have to condense our information. Edit your text and edit your text again. If there is an easier more direct way to communicate your idea this is where you find it.

5. Organize your information: I know I’ve been saying organize! organize! organize! but it is very important. To make sure that you have communicated your message correctly and concisely you must make sure that the proper steps have been taken to insure the reader, reads what you want them to in the order you want them to. (This part I like to call designing)

“Always Design On a Grid”

I’ve been having a lot of fun with lighting effects in photoshop trying to take something unrealistic and make it seem realistic. Fire has been of real interest because of it’s organic nature and it’s naturally creepy liquidity.

http://bit.ly/jrqxEY

The last in about a ten hour sitting of back to back to back to back photoshop fun