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 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 MoreIllustration demo….via Photoshop?
This sketch work/scribble caught my attention the other day. At first glance it truly looks like just a bunch of random doodling (which is cool enough it its own right) but once you see the process, there was an amazing amount of detail, time, and attention put into this thing. And all done with Photoshop none-the-less. (OwaikeO via Abduzeedo)
Read MoreTen Laws to Design By
Here’s a collection of some great design rules that should be considered when doing web-design. But a few of these are good rules for any artwork in general. A few of these we’re even going to cover in class… (via 3.7 Designs)
Read MoreAdvice to design students
Today’s 1st day of instruction went well. I dusted off a year’s worth of teaching absence and got through it relatively unscathed. There were some false starts in the early part of my first class but got rolling fairly well after the 1st hour. I think by the end of my 2nd class I started to feel my voice start leaving me… I think...
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.