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Not easy posting after Mek. God damn.

Bad ass!

this thread is pure gold.

Happy halloween!

good stuff Tango!

Re: 12oz's current state makes me sad/pissed Also it's worth noting that whilst there's like 12 members in Ch0 right now, there's also 340 guests. Speculative to say but i'd imagine a fair amount of those will be people who have or have had log in problems and have maybe given up on trying to get into their accounts and just come to take a peak at threads like the documentary thread, tattoo thread, various music threads, etc. I don't think 12oz is dead, but it certainly isn't what it used to be that's for sure.

Re: 12oz's current state makes me sad/pissed I suppose the only way to turn it around is to try to post more invigorating content, in the hope that heads new and old will engage and perhaps then we'll see a steady increase to people using 12oz like it used to be used. I do think the blog played a big part though, alot of things that usually would have a thread got/get posted and it sort of cancelled out the creation of threads on such topics where alot of discussion about current events, etc would happen. And i only left because i got locked out of my account, it's only over the last couple months that it's started letting me log in again.

Ah the much simpler days of 2006, when i could jump staight to the forum and be logged in, and when huge banners with autoplaying videos telling me to drink Dr Pepper (which have disapeared again, which i'm pretty happy about) weren't crotch thrusting into my screen real estate, and of course no god damned complex media bar... 06 reppin'.

Some really great stuff in here. Props to all, Esp. FrankReynolds, TheAlmighty... & JazzTechno

All vector this time, no textures. Also it's only a second draft, so still a work in progress but i think i'm getting near the end. Just waiting on some feedback from the client.

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Thanks for the kind words man, means alot! I worked with vectors a bit in the past at my first graphic design job, i copped a Wacom tablet but never really got used to using it much and as it came with a mouse, ended up using it just as a mouse really. After a while i lost the pen to it and i moved away for uni and just really forgot about it, fast forward a couple years and i was trying to get into the freelance game and was having a hard time getting what i was doing on paper to the computer effectively so i figured i'd give working with a tablet another go. The tablet i got this time around was a "Bamboo Touch" by Wacom, in the small size. They do different versions that have different features, some can be used as a touch pad, some are wireless, that kind of thing. Generally though as long as it's got a pen you're good. I found it a bit strange at first, mostly looking forwards at a screen instead of looking down at where the pen is, that kind of thing. But after a while you get the hang of it. I found the best way to get myself into it was to draw on paper, then scan it in or take a flick of it and draw over it using the tablet. After about a year of messing around and getting used to it i figured i'd treat myself to a better tablet and got a "Intuos 4" by Wacom. Whilst i had no complaints using the "Bamboo", the leap in quality, at least in my eyes, is pretty massive and worth every penny. I honestly couldn't recommend either tablet enough. Both come with software that walks you through set-up and gets you started pretty easily. One thing to take note of is that prices can jump up if you start looking at bigger tablets, but unless you really need a big drawing space, don't bother spending the extra moolah. I've found the small sized tablets to be plenty in terms of drawing space. Plus it's easy to forget that the tablets themselves are bigger than just the drawing area, so when you jump up a size or two, they can take up more desk space than you may think. There's alot of tutorials that are easy to follow that can help get you up and running, i've found youtube to be pretty handy for that kind of thing, aswell as websites such as http://vector.tutsplus.com/ and http://abduzeedo.com/ amongst others. Hope this helps! If there's anything else feel free to ask dude, and thanks again for the props on the work front, much appreciated.

The "Backyard Boogaloo" guys are putting on an album launch party for Fliptrix, the head of UK hip-hop label High Focus Records, and seeing as i've done them a couple posters in the past they came to me to put something together for it. As usual, the Winchester, High Focus, Eats N Beatz and Boogaloo logo's aren't mine. Just layout and illustration and whatever whatever.

Couple of things i've been up to lately. (Just a note, on the Boogaloo poster, the "Boogaloo", Eatz N Beatz, Broken Culture and Winchester logo's aren't mine. I did everything else though.)

Some dope stuff up in here!

Thanks dude! yeah i recently got a new graphics tablet (was using a Wacom Bamboo touch, copped a Wacom Intuos4 off Amazon) so been messing around with some portraits amongst other things.

Another simple but pretty handy tutorial here... http://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/tutorials/?featureid=3307615

Uploaded with ImageShack.us Just a little something i was messing around with. Also, for whoever asked... You can add textures in a couple ways depending on what you want to do and how complicated you wanna get, there's alot of cool stuff on http://abduzeedo.com/tags/illustrator that i've found pretty helpful in getting a grasp of things, textures being one of them.

Went to college for art and graphic design, dropped out after a year and got a job as a graphic designer off of my portfolio. Head graphic left after a year, so i became head graphic and ran the graphics department. Still with the increase in responsibility and stress i was on pretty shit money, figured a degree was what i needed to get higher up in the industry, so went to university and again my portfolio got me in over my qualifications. Did a year, hated it. Just couldn't get with the whole school thing again after working professionally in what i was studying. Teachers were bitter old failures and classmates were (mostly, save a few people with real talent) hipster dicks. So i left and now i'm working freelance. The way i see it, if your portfolio is good and you've got some solid experience and handle job interviews well, you can get in wherever you want to fit in and work you way up. Also whoever said it before, don't stop learning. if you need to be good at illustrator/photoshop/flash/coding/whatever then look online and put some time into getting your shit dialled. The internet can teach you pretty much anything these days.

i've been busy trying to get used to CS5 after being out of the game for a minute. not been on the oontz for a while, well, more or less since i last posted in here! what's happend? no-one using illustrator these days? i got some new bits and bobs to post in the next couple days, get this thread going again!

pretty good tutorial, more or less everything you need to know to get familiar with illustrator CS5. just download the 3 .rar's and off you go. http://www.heroturko.org/tutorials/other-tutorials/343278-vtc-adobe-illustrator-cs5-tutorials.html

had one out, no gas just a shot in roof of my mouth,(no homo) it got pretty gnarly, the dentist broke his "number 5"s trying to remove it and took dude like 20 mins to get it out, quite alot of blood but i couldn't feel a thing. bout 5 hours later it felt like kimbo slice hit me in the face with a mallet. after i got on the codeine train though everything was bearable. kept bleeding for like 4 days and i couldn't eat for like a week but i didn't care much as i was high as fuck.

haha, that shirt is next level dope! i'm feeling the new designs teaser also. did somebody say they're not shipping to europe? i'd blow peoples minds if i was drinking tea and eating crumpets in some 12oz gear up in this bitch.