We Love Brisbane – Website Design

We’ve seen some great gadgets and equipment for designers. So many cool stuff, that we could actually assemble infinite perfect office spaces! Every week we’ll assemble a perfect office, and we’d like you to help us. What equipment would the perfect office have?

Check out the super stylish bamboo calculator, to add a natural feel to your desk. Also, there’s the extend bookend to amaze anyone who visits your office. For anyone who enjoys good sound quality, there’s the JBL charge, a bluetooth speaker for all your music needs. Pretty awesome! There’s also the new Philips 29″ Monitors with stunning contrast. Check em out! Don’t forget that you may suggest via twitter: @paulogabriel – I hope you enjoy these! Cheers. 😉

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Bamboo Calculator

Now you can add up numbers without adding to your carbon footprint when you use this environmentally friendly bamboo calculator. It will easily match your ultra-modern bamboo office floors and your modern, eco-chic sense of style. (at This is why i’m broke)

Extend Bookend

A bookend on which books can be placed in the air as an extension of a desk. It can be fixed to a tabletop by a clamp and the length can be adjusted as you like. It is formed by bending 2 mm steel plate in order to make it strong enough to hold books. (at The Gadget Flow)

USB Utility Charge Tool

This little charger is equipped with a multi-use micro USB phone plug, mini USB plug, and iPhone plug. Just plug it into your computer’s USB drive, attach your gadgets, and charge away. (at Like Cool)

True 7800mAh External Battery Pack

This is true 7800mAh external battery pack with High Capacity for many mobile devices. (at 7 Gadgets)

JBL Charge Portable Wireless Bluetooth Speaker

The JBL Charge delivers unsurpassed portable audio performance from your mobile devices and tablets. It provides more than 12 hours of playback time from its built-in, high-capacity and it can even charge your other mobile devices on the go via its built-in USB port. It provides exceptional bass. It also wirelessly streams audio from any Bluetooth-equipped smartphone or tablet. The JBL Charge wireless speaker is a portable audio powerhouse for any environment. (at 7 Gadgets)

Philips 29 Inch Monitors

Philips has announced the launch of two new 29 inch (21:9 ratio) monitors. Together with a dynamic contrast ratio of 20,000,000:1 and a response time of 7 ms. Other features of the new AH-IPS Philips monitors include DisplayPort, a Dual-link DVI port and two HDMI ports. (at Geeky Gadgets)

Hi everyone, following the worldwide launch of Tomb Raider game, today we’re going to present a case study of this illustration by the digital artist Marcelo Bastos. Marcelo is a artist based in Fortaleza, Brazil with a focus on speed painting and character design.

You can see more artworks from Marcelo at his Behance and at his Facebook page.

The main idea for this illustration was the launching of Tomb Raider’s new game, a series that I’m a complete fan. So I decided to try out my version of Lara Croft based on the one from this game.

Processo 1

After I made the pose for the illustration, it’s time to square the shapes on the composition. Always trying to make soft lines in order to shape the image and also thinking about the lightning e shading (that’s why I started it out on grayscale).

Processo 2

Here we start to see some details popping out like the hair and eyes, but I keep the focus on the general image. On the beginning I never worry about the final details of the image, because you end up wasting too much time giving attention to a specific part.

Processo 3

I changed a bit Lara’s face as it wasn’t with correct simmetry, I wanted her to look straight and strong. Here I used the hair to give some focus on the face, so it act like frame.

Processo 4

As the focal point of the image is the face, I worked on details surrounding this area. I used rain brushes and textures for the background of the image, I also used the liquify tool to make some adjustments on the head and face.

Final

After I defined all the lightning, shadow and shapes on grayscale, I created a layer and set a overlay blending mode to apply the colors I selected previously for this project. After I defined the areas with the correct colors, than I just merge down all layers e start the refining process, always duplicating the layer after I make any change.