Two New Tutorials and a New Template

 

Here comes new stuff!

For you coding junkies, we’ve got a fantastic new tutorial on JQuery taught by Lawrence Turton. What the heck is JQuery you might ask? Its a Javascript library that easily lets you do a lot of fancy stuff! More details on this discounted 4 hour tutorial are here.

For you artists, illustrator extraordinaire, Neil Phyfer, brings us a lengthy course which takes you through the real time process of creating a lush cartoon painting. He uses Photoshop CS5, and goes through sketching, inking, shadowing, highlighting and final FX. This tutorial is also discounted here.

Last up, master programmer Tibi offers up an amazingly cool Flash template which is optimized for mobile devices and tablets (like the Samsung Tab). This new deep linking template can be found here.

Thanks for listening!

Some Speed Digital Painting.

Just found this stumbling around on Vimeo. Pretty cool right…

Now if only it wasn’t so speedy. Maybe I’ll contact this guy and see if he can slow it down next time for something for us.

How to draw Zombie Ninjas

Not sure how high this ranks on the Necessary-Know-How chart but ya never know when a real life zombie ninja might ask you to draw them. And if that day comes, this tutorial created by iDrawGirls.com will give you a leg up.

Click to visit the site

Also if you surf around this guy’s site, he’s posted hundreds more short videos. Most of them of scantily clad women, hence the aptly titled domain, iDrawGirls.com .

5 Minute Photoshop Lessons (Times 10!)

Our Photoshop instructor, Humburto Abreu, did a ton of 5 minute lessons for his  site stormvisions.com, and he’s let me share them on my Vimeo account. Instead of uploading all ten 5 minute files separately, I’ve copied and pasted them into one long movie file. And if you want to download them in a high rez .mov file for safe keeping, click here

If you want to hear more of Burt (not in 5 minute chunklets) he did an incredible CartoonSmart tutorial on Photoshop’s Textures and Brushes.

And speaking of lessons, two NEW ones should be launched later this week!  Flash and CMS: Part 2 and an Intro to Classes.