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Flourish - Art and design by Ann Storer
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Freebie — vector elephant sticker
I told you I’d return, and now I’m back with a quick little freebie for you! I received a sticker making kit as a gift a few weeks ago, and you know I can’t leave that alone. Just for fun, I wanted to create a set of obnoxiously c...
New vector art: Growth
Last week I had the opportunity to blow a Christmas gift certificate at the local art store, and I stumbled across iron-on transfer sheets for use in printers. Naturally I had to grab them, and this week has been spent coming up with new designs I c...
Graffiti Icon Set — first draft
I’ve been thinking about doing a new set of icons for the last week or so, and I’ve noticed that there’s a real dearth of graffiti styled digital media out there. It’s a shame because there’s really some beautiful stuff...
Inspiration 2008
Well, it’s the close of another year, and it’s time for the obligatory looking back post! 2008 has been an awesome, exciting year for me — I finally started my website, I’ve made some new friends and great contacts, and IR...
Tutorial: Vector painting!
I’ve had several requests from people to explain how I work in Illustrator, so I decided it was high time to try writing my first tutorial. It was a lot more work than I thought it would be — trying to describe what I’m doing whil...
The art of the gig poster.
Just to prove I’m not dead…a preview of what I’ve been working on. :) It’s been snowing like crazy here today, so I’ve been dividing my time between marveling at the coolness of that and trying to get some work done. Th...
Update! Stock Illustration gallery.
Whew! All four of the preliminary images I submitted to Dreamstime made the cut! It’s good to know that the time I spent reformatting and cleaning up my images paid off, and that they were technically good enough to be accepted. It’s ...
Adventures in stock illustration.
Hello chickadees! I haven’t been treating this site as much of a traditional blog, but tonight I need to ramble about my newest artistic endeavor — selling stock vectors. If you don’t know what this is all about, it’s basic...
New floral vector art
I have a some new vector art to show off! This will be part of a huge new pack I’m working on making available for download, full of the leaves, flowers, and flourishes that I love so much to do. I’m also thinking of making this ...
New vector art: abstract flower
I’m back with another vector doodle for you tonight! I’ve been experimenting more with drawing freehand in Illustrator and combining the gradients and transparencies in new and interesting ways. I’m thinking about writing a tutori...
New vector art!
I have some cool new vectors to show you! I love working in Adobe Illustrator, I think it’s the most intuitive, well-designed program out there. The images shown here are part of another experiment of mine with gradients and transparencies, a...
Happy Halloween
Just in time for the holiday…a scary digital eyeball to watch you. One of the few things I’ve ever done entirely on the computer, this is all just photoshop…and patience. :)...
Nuclear Owl
This is something I sketched a while ago, just getting around to cleaning it up and coloring it now. I thought it’d be fun to make him a sort of nuclear blue glowing color. Photoshop is great fun for giving lighting effects to images, and I...
Texture experiment #1
There are so many great textures out there on the internet, it’s a shame not to put them to use whenever possible. They add a great element to digital art, a sense of the tactile in an image that has never touched paper. It’s pretty a...
