Ah, the web designer’s dilemma: when to declare a site is finished and ready to go live! With a straight HTML site, this is easy…you move the files to the live server (from your testing server) and your site is live. With a WordPress site, it’s a bit more complicated to transfer files from a [...]
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In our family we believe summertime just isn’t complete without an afternoon enjoying watermelon! So juicy and sweet…definitely watermelon YUM! My little sheep and panda friends also love watermelon and I’ve created some cute little products featuring these designs. Girl Sheep Eating Watermelon by sheepstation Girl Panda with Watermelon Slice by PandaPlaza Girl Sheep Eating [...]
Here’s one of my new designs that celebrates one of our favorite summertime activities: building sandcastles! Our little panda friends have their buckets, shovels, sand, and shells and their little sandcastles look fantastic. I have two versions of the design: boy panda wearing a green and orange bathing suit and carrying a blue and yellow [...]
Ah, it’s that time of year again…love is in the air! In honor of Valentine’s Day, I have a new design in my SheepStation Zazzle store featuring my little sheep friends holding big hearts. The little boy sheep is holding a big red heart while the little girl sheep is wearing a bright pink hair [...]
As an art student, my niece Allyson is asked to do projects that require her to learn new tools and techniques. For a recent project in her technical drawing class, the instructor demonstrated how to use french curves to achieve perfect curves. After several disastrous attempts to work with the french curves, Allyson finally reverted [...]
I recently started experimenting with using Illustrator to create vector patterns to use in my artwork. Creating perfect seamless patterns is not the easiest task to do…it can be quite frustrating. After many hours and attempts to figure it out on my own, I found the following excellent tips and techniques. Vector Tuts+: How to [...]
My niece Allyson’s latest pen and ink drawing is “Flora, the Woodland Fairy”. The brunette fairy is wearing green and black striped thigh-high stockings, a matching green short frilly skirt and brown fitted corset. Her wings resemble leaves and branches. We scanned the hand-drawn sketch, digitized it and then colored it using Illustrator. We’ve also [...]