Wish I Could Design Like This

This post is really just an admiration post. A shout out to SOSFactory for their awesome designs.

I’ve known about em’ a little while and might order some stuff soon. Their design really is flawlessly stunning. Fantastic artwork with skillful Photoshop precision and coloring.

They’ve designed for some top bloggers. Most notably John Cow and Tyler Cruz.

Here’s one of my favorites:

Check out their full portfolio here and have a good browse of awe as you look at these pure class designs!

I’m actually quite a good drawer, as I was a bit obsessed with it as a kid. Like… young kid, maybe 8 - 13. I’m really good at drawing things I can see. Like, I could probably duplicate that Drunken Monkey thing above very nicely.

I just cannot draw off the top of my head. It’s like my preconception of objects, animals and people is irradiated when I actually go to draw them. I can obviously draw basic things but it just seems so hard without something in front of you to actually draw. So I really admire people like this who can just draw crazy over the top art with such accuracy in terms of scale and realism of features. Off the top. Really nice.

I can sort of design with Photoshop. I mean… not really lol, I’m very lazy with it. I can create logo text I suppose but I’ve never attempted scanning an image in, digitalizing it and then coloring it.

That’s gonna be one of my new goals for 2008 actually. To become a good sketch to Photoshop designer. It can really benefit you cost wise if you can design all your own logos. It’s just time that it takes up. But you get nice feeling of satisfaction when you create a good piece of art.

There’s some great tutorials on SOS’s site as well by the way. Although, not in the best of English, looks like the text has been freely translated. But they’re pretty clear for even a complete newbie. Check out the tutorial page here.

I know this kind of looks like a review, but it’s not lol. I was just browsing their site and felt like doing this post. So I did.