Click here to download free vector silhouette of cricket players, designed by Web Design Creatives.
Last year I designed this seamless pattern for one of my projects. This pattern was required as a background pattern for an Indian web-page. Unfortunately that project ended with nothing so I am giving this seamless pattern for free download. I designed a custom font for this pattern with some other elements. Manually traced after scanning. You are free to use this pattern as a personal or commercial use. Below are few examples where you can use this pattern besides you design projects. Apparel & other designs are made possible by www.zazzle.com
Click here to download the pattern files. Zip file contains .jpg and .eps files.
Few weeks back Smashingmagazine called designers to participate in HR contest. I submitted two designs out of which one got selected in the 25 finalist hoorrrrrrrrray!! You can see the entire final selected entries here and remember don’t forget to vote for your favourite design: The No. 22 
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As I mentioned in my earlier post that Corel’s Pen tool is quite different from the one we have in Illustrator or Photoshop. Still, I challenged my-self to do a manual trace of above sketch which is one of my friend and telling you the truth that Corel’s Pen tool is very fast in handling, good at rendering and fun to use 
but yes you have to find your own way to work with it. I am in middle of this digital illustration and I will share my process and complete illustration with you in my next post.
In India, its result time, as 10th and 12th standard’s results are being declared. Congratulations!! to all the students. Above illustration I just finished in illustrator, dedicated to these students & ‘School Chale Hum’ song—its inspirational & nostalgic to me reminds me the days when I used to go school.
About the song:
192 million children between 6-14 years of age across 1.1 million places in India are not going to school. This film for Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (Universilisation of Elementary Education) addresses the needs of these children. The film catches the moment when children all across India from Kashmir to Kerala wake up in the morning and run to go to school.
To Download this illustration in high resolution click here. See the sketch here:
In 2003, just after completing my diploma I started to draw cartoons, I sent few of them to my cartoonist friend ‘Alok Sharma’ whom I met through internet. Few days later, I got a reply saying that he liked them a lot and he had sent to ‘Triambak Sharma’ founder & editor of Cartoon Watch. After three days the editor himself sent me a mail, which wasn’t too long but shot enough to make me feel good. It was like this:
Hi Sandeep,
I received you cartoons through Alok Sharma. I like your style and sense of humor very much, which is more like western cartoonists. I am publishing them in our next edition.
~Triambak Sharma
For me it was like a dream come true to see your cartoons in a magazine. I also met him once when he was in Delhi along with his family. I continued my contribution in Cartoon Watch for next 6 months but then got so much busy in job and couldn’t continue. Below are the most appreciated cartoons, these were done directly in Flash:
And now I am planning do at least one cartoon in a week and designerscroller will be the right place to publish them .
I am a big fan of illustrations, especially vector illustrations. Whenever, there is nothing much to do, I try to horn my skills with illustrations. There are masters and here is a newbie—I know CorelDraw well enough but there are some technical problem associated with the software, don’t know whether you also have faced same problems like: Software gets crashed while working with big sized files (that’s why it has default ‘Auto Backup’), Pen tool is quite hard to handle.
However, this could be one side story of coin, its also has some good features to proud of: Gradient Tool is much better then Adobe Illustrator, Its works faster then Illustrator. But when it comes to safety of your file, all good points get vanished. Looking at this I am trying to switch over to Illustrator.
Although, Illustrator is almost like Photoshop, one has to understand the basic differences between these two softwares, especially when he comes from a Corel background. So Guys, today I am sharing this manual trace of a known bollywood personality: Amitabh Bachchan.
What I learned by tracing: The pen tool, How to handle the layers, Clipping path, Advanced rotation. Below are the steps:
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