Mark Forrester - Independent digital designer and online entrepreneur

Whilst most of you in South Africa were enjoying a public holiday yesterday, I was sitting in London, minus a VPN connection. An error had occurred and no one was in the Cape Town office to re-connect me. Which meant no work. Damn. So I spent a bit of time playing with a combination of Photoshop and Freehand.

I know most people think “playing” with Photoshop and Freehand sounds like the epitomy of boredom. But unfortunately the truth is I get a bit of a kick out of it. What a loser!

I actually sourced the T-Rex sketch on the internet, vectorized it in Freehand, and added a bit of colour. I’m quite pleased with the end result.

Anyways, if you like the graphic and want it is a desktop wallpaper, just click here to grab it from my Flickr account.

Download it here (1024 X 768)

I haven’t posted any digital art for a while now, so I thought I would post a couple of photos that I took up in Kruger that I thought came out quite nicely. The one of the vultures has been manipulated, I used an aerial shot of some vultures flying and a shot of them perched on a tree. The sunset shot has not been edited whatsoever. Man I wish I was still there. See more of my photos at flickr.

I haven’t posted much digital art for a while now, so I thought I would submit our Christmas wallpaper I recently designed. It’s amazing what you can achieve with a few photoshop filters. Feel free to download the 1280X1024 Wallpaper here to decorate your PC and get into the Christmas mood.