Illustrator plasma tutorial

6. June 2011, 06:17 Tutorials, Illustrator

Few weeks ago I published some „plasma fibres“ illustrations on Forst and Dribbble and promised that I will also publish a simple tutorial, how to do it. So now the tutorial for Adobe Illustrator is finally here!

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Graphic Leftovers (short review)

2. March 2011, 05:20 Selling graphics, Stock sites

Graphic Leftovers is one of the smaller microstock agencies, but offer few pleasant surprises. I started there in September 2010, because I wanted to utilize my illustrations on iSyndica (which was closed few days later, R.I.P. iSyndica). Next month I was really surprised by my earnings on this agency!

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I'm back! Site will be updated soon...

2. March 2011, 04:58 General info

Sorry for the delay (7 months), but now this site should be updated more often (I really want to work on it).

There were several reasons for this delay. The main one was, that I didn't have enough time, because of moving from flat to house (we are still working on adjustment of our new house), new baby in family (lovely Anna, now she will have 10 months). So I spent more day time with family and night time with Adobe Illustrator (I have to feed the microstock beast more, because I need money for my mortgage).

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Microstock earnings report - May 2010

2. June 2010, 07:02 Selling graphics

It looks like that microstock season is here – the sales at the end of May were similar to sales before Christmas! Especially sales on Shutterstock were nice – I had there my best month ever and another BME was on BigStock.

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Books about microstock and making money from images

18. April 2010, 23:51 Selling graphics

Microstock is here for more than 10 years! Now everyone can sell own photos in agencies like iStockphoto, Shutterstock, Dreamstime, Fotolia. Everyone can make money from own photos, vector illustrations, footage. There is innumerable websites with articles, instuctions and tips, how to do it (for example my sellinggraphics site). But did you know, that there are also paper books about it?

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April discount code for iSyndica

1. April 2010, 04:07 Selling graphics

If you want to get 30% off pay-per-use credits on a great tool iSyndica
(which will help you with uploads to various microstock agencies), then try this code: NOJOKE

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Microstock earnings report - March 2010

1. April 2010, 04:04 Selling graphics

Spring is already here and the earnings from my microstock portfolio is slowly growing like a flower. Shutterstock (my favourite agency) is doing well, within 2–3 months I will get on the same level as I was in the 2009 autumn season. This month only iStockphoto earnings reach the BME (best month ever) level, but BigStockPhoto and 123RF were quite close too.

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What is the best vector image size for selling in microstock? [UPDATED]

30. March 2010, 06:42 Selling graphics

Few months ago I wrote an article about preparing vector illustration for sale in microstock and there I wrote, that 16 Megapixels should be the ideal size for the JPG preview. But now I made a small research and found, that 16 Megapixels is not enough!. Now – after the closing of StockXpert microstock agency site – the situation is a bit different and 15 Megapixels is enough

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Microstock earnings report - February 2010

3. March 2010, 04:39 Selling graphics

The biggest painful incident in February was closing of one of the best microstock sites – Stockxpert. It has quite a big impact on my microstock earnings. Most of the buyers from Stockxpert were moved to iStockphoto, so maybe that's the reason why I had the BME (Best Month Ever) on iStock.

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Free vector social media sticker set

17. February 2010, 00:30 Freebies

I just created and released a free social media vector set – 8 labels, that you can use for your site, design, application. There is a high quality JPG version and scalable vector EPS file in the zip, that you can download.

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