Color Flare Poster

I love those lens flare effects you see on some photos.  It's a pretty easy filter in photoshop that you can use.  This weekend, I really wanted to try and recreate something like that in Adobe Illustrator, which is my go-to program.

Why so intimidating, freelance?

I've done research on freelance.  I've googled what you need to do first, to freelance.  So why does freelance sound so scary and intimidating?

I mean, you can be your own boss and make your own hours. The hurdle you just have to jump first is getting your name out there.  Sounds easy, right?  Maybe it is, but scary.  

I don't know if you have read designlovefest's post on how those girls recently answered what made them go freelance.  It's a great read, if you want to check it out.  Gives you some insight how other people have done it, one keeping a full time job and freelancing on the side and the other freelancing as a whole.

Maybe in the future when the opportunity arises, I may take baby steps into it. 

Are you a freelancer? Do you have any sort of advice for me and anyone else thinking about going into it? 

Introducing the Artsy Fartsy Magazine... Kinda.

While flipping through magazines, my favorite part is looking at the layout and how it flows throughout.  I notice what makes a good magazine is if it flows nicely.  Using the same font throughout, combining things with shapes, and color schemes.

I have always found it fascinating how magazines are put together, so for this next project I have created a mock magazine cover.  You'll notice that I changed the color of this blog, well I took the idea from this.

As always, click the photo to view in a larger format. 

So, now.. Think of Artsy Fartsy as a magazine.  Let's just pretend. :) 

-Cindy

Oh, yeah!  Finally was able to get a new computer and I... Love... It.