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Istockphoto Battle Royale

By Che Mcpherson Friday May 29, 2009

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But it’s not to late, you all have until the midnight 31st mst to create something new.
Its easy go to istockphoto download the psd file I’ve created above create something new from the design and resubmit it to the competition page.
There’s a bunch of great prizes including 5K usd for first place.

Now to the artwork…
I had the main image bookmarked for a long time.. Its from a good friend of mine Jeremiah (upheaval on istock)
Its a great pic and I was excited as it will work well and really help soften the ruggedness of the design.
I was also excited to introduce some morocan and islamic mosaic tile design into the design and is something im sure your going to see in more of my designs.

I’m also putting together a tutorial over at TUT candy on how to create this design for yourself…

check some of the progess of the design below

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MMA Warehouse advert illustration

By Che Mcpherson Tuesday May 26, 2009

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This was a really fun chance to just go wild… Mika at mmawarehouse.com is a very out of the box thinker in a world of desaturation, grunge and cold hard design he goes against the grain… and I think its great… his definately getting seen and remebered and benefitting from his dare to be different attitude… So I was pretty excited when he invited me to work on his next advertising campaign to be released for UFC 100.

Now for the job… Mika contacted me as he had seen a fair bit of my work around the place so he already had a pretty good idea of what he wanted but I was basically given free rain and was basically busting with ideas and was excited to get started… I was really happy with round 1 of my illustration but instructions were to add in a previously designed character from the logo to the center of the design, the big problem is my style didnt match so I needed to put a fair bit of love into the previous illustration to have it tie into my design I also needed to give the previous illustration legs… and if theres anything im more suckier at drawing its gotta be legs closely behind hands hahahahaa

anyway i think in the end it all come together well… I still like my original design better but thats maybe because its 100% me but regardless I think its gonna pop out of the magazine so im happy.

check out the evoloution

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Eleventyseven CD cover art

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I always love the chance to flex my Illustrative muscles and give corel draw and adobe illustrator a good work out…
Im a bit of a fan of corel as I think the shape tools are a tad more intuitive but I definitely cant live life without illustrator…
Matt Langston front man from Eleventyseven had the great [...]

iStockphoto $5000 photoshop competition

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Yoooo yooo so most of you all know I have a fair bit to do with iStockphoto.com… One of my roles with the company is to look after the steelcage which basically is a way to learn develop and challenge other keen photoshop users and designers… everyone from highend designers to first timers get in [...]

My NEW design tutorial site

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Im still putting the final dress touches on the site and working hard on the content but im to excited to hold it in any longer.
So here’s a informal introduction to TUTcandy a video design tutorial site. Im hoping its well recieved and Im looking forward to flexing my design skills for all to share, [...]

Check out The Doors

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Every young man goes through a stage where the Doors just speaks to the soul… I know I went through it and its funny although I don’t listen to them much now the experience still lingers with me. So taking on the project of designing the bands new site was very special and it was [...]