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Cheap customers come, cheap customers go. I have 'customers' come in that want to get some 'sick' art for their shirt/sign/toilet/whatever ... but when I tell them I only offer 15 minutes of free design time and what they are looking at is atleast an hour or two of me sketching and redrawing...

Pretty much this. In illustrator the 5 things you will need to learn is the pen tool and point manipulation, your Pathfinder and object menu options, layers and clipping paths and lastly your custom brush settings ... pretty much everything else is extremely simple or just not needed for normal...

I must be doing it all wrong then ... I go completely high tech ... I use a ruler and knife to cut mine. http://www.amazon.com/Empire-Level-4006-Aluminum-Straight/dp/B000ETYTKY And of course I have a 20 lb drop weight I picked up from an old offset shop to hold the ruler in place at the end...

And on this weeks episode of "What the ... that isn't out there! Guess I have to draw it!" "A rooster holding a kick ball while propping his leg up captain morgan style on another one." I know, I know ... the feet are sort of janky.

cx-24 is used. ... they stopped making it a few years ago when they added an optical eye to the machine ... it became the gx-24. judging from the prices ... you're going used on both. ... when you can a brand new gx-24 for around $1700 including a stand sometimes ... I don't know why you...

This. When I send stuff out for printing or do it myself my black values are always 100,100,100,100 because I want a rich dark black. On photos I have to drop it down to a 75, 75, 75, 75 otherwise I will get oversaturation of most photo papers and canvases because having 400% saturation of...

I miss the days of hubcaps ... I was at war with a neighbor and stuck a block of frozen squid in each of his hubcaps ... horrible stuff because it reaks like dead fish farts for about a week in the heat of summer and the fact the moisture sort of stays in solid hubcaps (especially in humid ***...

I'll go hang out with just about any of my 'competitors' mainly because there really isn't such a thing as competition if you only compete with yourself to produce the best product you can. That and you aren't trying to be the cheapest in town. They can do things I can't, I can do a whole lot...

outdoors or indoors ... doesn't matter ... it's abrasion. imagine rubbing an ink layer that sits on the top of a flexible substrate with anything with a tooth in transit (cases, bags, etc.) ... not even enameled paint lasts long if you keep rubbing it on things and then take it outside and use...

you always have to laminate. nothing is light proof set proper expectations to the customer when they inquire about stuff like this. -edit- WAIT, what? they were on laptops ... that isn't fading from light ... that is wear and tear from abrasion. Laminate.

I haven't touched race cars in years. Every one of them wants it next to nothing because some dink bag at the track "will wrap it for $500" but will also ask "if you put your logo on it as a sponsor will you drop the price?" **** THAT! I will stick to paying customers. That isn't to say I...

I really don't ask why an IT Dept. needs a shirt like this. There is just too much to read into and I enjoy letting there be some mystery. Personally, I think they hunt wild boar ... but who knows. It's not like jobs I finished this week that are cut and dry and pretty much stock and trade...

Moonshiner is a perfect match! Thanks Tiki! :U Rock:

I thought it was Antique Half Block ... but it's not. any idea on what this is would help greatly. Thanks Guys.

This is a sticky area. I personally would figure out the man hours to generate a template based on their work (or templates) apply a margin to cover revisions if needed. then If they are going to jump ship when they get the files ... what would you normally charge for an IP release ... then...

He isn't getting paid now ... a bonus doesn't mean dink if he's not getting paid.

-sigh- I love Corel (have both painter and draw) ... but man ... they really do make you not want to upgrade for a few versions ... bought draw 12 ... next upgrade was x5. I'm going to say it now ... if they want to charge $20 a month ... adobe wins. If I used more than Illustrator and...

1. Six shops in 8 years is not a lot. You never need to justify that unless it's a job application ... and that is what the "reason for leaving" category is. And considering in the last 10 years my reason for leaving shops has been: sold company, relocated, shop closed, shop closed save for...

I already thought of that. The half tone is a 'fake' half tone (as its oversized halftone) for screen printing (the intended printing method) but It is actually not combined yet. Right now not including the text (which I agree with you guys ... but I didn't have the time to fully hunt down a...

After a few long weeks of revector this, and slap some text here, and fix this 'print ready' art there ... I finally got a fun design. I convinced a group to update their 'logo' ... really it was such tiny art no matter how i re-vectored it would be different ... So I convinced them of an...