I'm feeling a little breakthrough with my quest nourishing my curious creative soul. I am now drawing quicker, a little less pensive, a little less tentative with my strokes. I am working hard to match what's in my head, to let curiosities get the best of me, to reclaim some skills (yo) and to let discoveries pan out to completion. Part of this of course is having a similarly, amazingly, naturally, creative husband whom to share a quest with. A little sappy, yes.

So on a whim, after taking a little breather on a drawing, I tried LiveSurface. LiveSurface is pretty much this application that you can use that goes with Photoshop and Illustrator to help create that professional looking mock up. And it considers lighting, shadowing, and perspective giving that realistic look. I played with vanishing points, gradient overlay, and some embossing to use on a typography design that I did (which you can better see on the second box). Ignore random words on the box, I picked some from the many jumbled words in my head that very minute.

I tried 1. going for shiny black foil (looks more like felt?) 2. no techniques, just placement 3. mirrored foil 4. pop up card look ... Do you get that feel when you look at it? How can I make it better? Well goodnight!

does one get critiques for projects in here?

http://www.threadless.com/critique/21753/Kaleidoscope

The critiques page seems works by time posted or one with most currently commented. Is that right? Help?

Okay, muffin time.

and lately been a little tough drifting off because of all the design ideas looping in my head. It seems like new ideas materialize all the time with the old ones nagging because they have not made it on paper just quite yet. The ones making on paper/scanner/tablet demanding that you pay attention to details you never saw coming. And the procastination! A constant battle needing to be overcome. And when everything is right... mind, heart and hand aligned to do the one thing you want done right, it is one hell of a sweet moment.
What an adventure getting thoughts on paper.

And threadless, wow, changed quite a bit. This critique page is incredible and will probably have to be used one of these days.