I’ve always had difficulties with color…not to say I don’t use it, nor use it well. But it’s always been a detail in my own artwork that I’ve had to consciously push…otherwise, I end up with end-products that are always just in red, black, and white. Now both in teaching students and talking to clients, I find myself...
Read More40 Photoshop Lighting Tutorials
Here’s a cool collection of 40 photoshop lighting effects that I had bookmarked for a few months intending to post at some point. While I’ve been quite eager to use one or two of these techniques at some point in time, I haven’t really found any commercial uses for them….yet. But they’re really easy ways to elicit some...
Read MoreHe’s home.
Kingston is back home again. Aside from the big gash across the top of his head and the weak hand that he has to work on….he looks as if he no worse off for wear. It’s a pretty surreal feeling for me….having seen him just 26 days ago lying on a giant adult sized ICU bed with IVs on every limb and a breathing tube stuffed down his throat....
Read MoreThe 10 Most Important Business Lessons I’ve Learned
Found this great little article, “The 10 most important business lessons I’ve learned”. I think the biggest thing I’ll take away from that writing is that you must work with, or hire, people that are better than you at their jobs. I still have that dream in my head where I want this business to be….now if only I can tackle the...
Read MoreDay 25
Just a quick update for anybody out there following Kingston’s recovery. He’s actually doing amazingly well for a boy who literally had to be resuscitated on the surgery table to where he is today. All his tubes has been pulled out (well, he ended up pulling out his own tube the other day) with the exception of just one last IV in one arm that...
Read MoreAbout Me
LoweStudio Inc was founded by me, Raphael Lowe, a Honolulu based illustrator and web designer. I presently design and manage a few dozen commercial websites, but my main focus these days is acting as the head developer for Kapiolani Community College and teaching New Media Arts.