Artwork

King’s Cathedral & Chapels Bulletin Cover

by Danny Cruz| Follow Danny @sixstringsensei on Twitter HERE

King's Cathedral & ChapelsBack in 2003, while in Hawaii, I designed the bulletin shells for First Assembly King’s Cathedral & Chapels in Maui.  This church has a large number of churches that spread across the Pacific Rim.  These bulletins were handed out as a formal way of announcing future events and other news related to the chain of congregations.

There are a number of things I really like about this project.  Given that I’ve been designing for a long time, I can see how trends come and go.  For example, the heavy use of glows and shadows, clearly depict the design trends of the time.  These are techniques that I mostly avoid these days.  When used tastefully however, they can still work to your advantage.

King's Cathedral & Chapels Bulletin

Happy New Year Free Vector Art

December 29, 2010
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Based on the success of the Thanksgiving vector art a few months ago, I’ve created another piece for the New Year!  This one features a bunch of complex gradients and transparencies.  Lately, I’ve been designing on Adobe Illustrator CS5, or CS3 but this design I created while vacationing in the Caribbean and here I only [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving Vector Artwork

November 25, 2010

Happy Thanksgiving everybody! It’s been a while since I’ve posted free vector artwork.  So here it goes!  A fun, comic-like Thanksgiving logo vector art piece for all your turkey day needs!  You’ll need Adobe Illustrator for this one.  I have a lot to be thankful for this year and I’m posting this to celebrate the [...]

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Rip Curl Pro Search 2010 in Puerto Rico!

October 14, 2010

Update November 7, 2010: This event ended up being one of the greatest events of the year and the best Puerto Rico has seen in decades. It was specially historical at both ends of the spectrum, the good and the bad. The fact that Kelly Slater not only won the event, but clenched his 10th [...]

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Solid Surfboard Artwork – The Newman

May 31, 2010

I just finished creating an artwork piece for a board that will be built by talented shaper Dan O’Hara from Solid Surf Co.  The model is “The Newman” which Dan himself describes as a board “for boosting airs.” This is just a preview of the preliminary design.  I ended up making some mods for the [...]

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How I Created the Art Wave for the Surf Theme

May 2, 2010

I just updated my site’s style switcher and added the first of 3 styles.  This one is for the surf theme.  I’ve got 2 more coming…  Dirt and snow.  You might be wondering how I created the wave that sits below the header.  It was a small sketch I drew this morning.  I then scanned [...]

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Summer Sessions Kids Windsurfing Camp Artwork

March 29, 2010
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Just finished this artwork for a buddy of mine. This dude hosts an awesome windsurfing camp for kids every summer in Puerto Rico. I’ve been doing the artwork for this program for the last 6 years. I just finished creating the artwork for the 2010 camp T-shirt. This was mostly done in Adobe Illustrator piecing [...]

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Quick Post: Old Kiteboarding Site

March 19, 2010
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I’m going straight to the point here so the only warm up sentence is this one.  I’m writing this post for 2 reasons: 1. To remind you that you can still visit my old kiteboarding site 2. To test my site photo lightbox display. For some reason, the lightbox didn’t want to work on my [...]

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Cool Glossy Vector Bar Buttons for your Blog

March 17, 2010
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After the success of my recent Bubble-Button vectors I decided to create a set of rectangular bar buttons. These are high-quality and original vectors. I included a multitude of colors to choose from. You can likely get as creative as you want and hack them apart in Adobe Illustrator to get whatever color combination you [...]

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Vector Bubble-Butt ons for your Site

January 14, 2010
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I just created this cool set of glossy vector port-hole bubble buttons.  These would be great for your website or as a gimmie in a flyer or sale campaign.  They are high-quality, original and perfectly done.  I’m posting them up for free.  The only thing I ask is that you respect the license and if [...]

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