Tree Houses The reason I wanted to use Tree houses for today’s daily inspiration is because anything that looks beautiful to the eye is inspiring and all these illustrations do just that. As a kid I always wanted a tree house! most kids do. Now grown up that dream still hangs round in my head. I have spent some time going round the net finding some lovely examples of really cool tree houses. This post [...]

Ken Barthelmey interview Today Creative-Phlare has had the honour of interviewing the amazing Ken Barthelmey. We want to say thank you again to Ken for this interview, which is absolutely awesome.     1.when did you become interested in illustration/art ? Ken Barthelmey: I started drawing when I was very young. Even as a child I would pick up pen and paper and draw everything I saw. When ever I watched a movie or read [...]

Street art Street art is a very versatile art form Produced around the globe by many fantastic artists, it turns the urban jungle into one big canvas. Devised specifically for the street, street art has become hugely popular, with famous artists like Bansky exploding it on to the mainstream art world. Not to be confused with graffiti (as much as I do love good graffiti) street art uses many different mediums to create a finished [...]

CG art, you’re in for a treat!! Browsing the web for some CG art today has been an eye-opening experience! The amount of amazing artists out there is unbelievable. CG art is a mix of drawing, 3d techniques using programmes like Maya, Cinema 4D and other great 3d programmes. Also there is a lot of matte painting and concept art techniques. Used a lot for video games and movies this stuff is top of the top [...]

Cool websites around the web Cool websites are the topic for today’s daily inspiration. If you check around the web you can find a serious amount of crap!! Sorry but there are so many bad websites out there it’s redonkulous! But!! There are also some unbelievably cool websites that leave you jaw droppingly inspired! With the release of HTML 5 and HTML 5 canvas things have just got even better. Gone are the days when [...]

Todays freebies are a mixture of tool tips, notifications and alert psd’s. These beautiful elements make any website look lovely and professional. These files are well organised, fully layered and easy to use. If you don’t learn anything from these, I.e layer styles, at least they will save you some time! Enjoy. Mini Tool Tips   Alerts   Dark Tips   Notifications   Notifications message boxes   Patch tool tip   Testimonial boxes   Tooltips [...]

Photo manipulation in photoshop This tutorial is going to show you photo manipulation. Photshop is a fantastic tool for photo manipulation as you probably already know. When new to photoshop things like layers, levels, curves and balance all seem a bit scary, but once you get the hang of them you will see they are a piece of cake! In this photo manipulation tutorial I am going to show you how to merge 2 animals, [...]

Today’s daily inspiration is game concept art. Game concept art Has got to be one of the best and absolutely the coolest kind of art around. Being a guy I obviously love video games anyway so when you see a game cover with great game concept art, that will draw me straight over! When I was younger my dream was to be a game artist, At that time though, concept art and computer art wasn’t [...]

Therese Larsson: Life, art and work Today, we have the great pleasure of interviewing the fantastic Therese Larson. First we would like to thank Therese Larsson for taking the time to give us this interview and telling us how she works and what it’s like to live you art. Please check out Therese Larsson works here   1.when did you become interested in illustration/art ? Therese Larsson: Art has always been a huge part of my [...]

Jonathan Kuo: An interview with an awesome artist Today Creative Phlare has had the honour of doing an interview with Jonathan Kuo First we would just like to say thank you to Jonathan Kuo for taking the time to do this interview. You can see his works here: www.wix.com/ovius-mon/jonathankuo www.jonnadon.blogspot.com Working and creating at Rebel entertainment and an impressive list of previous experiences and degree’s under his belt, Jonathan Kuo is an artist to be [...]