Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License. I have always wanted to learn a 3d program to extend my capabilities and a little 3D in our designs can take your designs to another level. There is no harm in learning something new so I will list a few good tutorials that I will use to learn my way through blender.

In this tutorial we will learn how to create a quick, smooth and glossy a web2.0 icon. Even though the beauty of design lies in detail, we will try to make an icon in 10 steps.

A free set of 16 high resolution (2080×1544) stone textures from Arbenting. Available for both personal and commercial use.

The next lesson is about how is it possible to get the effect of Tilt-shift camera lens to your photos

Learn how to create your own Christmas tree wallpaper with these tutorial

In this tutorial, I will describe tips about how I made the Dolphins wallpaper.

In this lesson I’ll tell in detail how to draw burning candle. The flame is in general complex enough theme, and there is a set of ways to draw it

Kerem Beyit is a digital painter from Turkey. Besides the usual werewolves or the dragons from his drawings done in Photoshop you will also see interesting and mystical characters. The quality of his drawings made him receive awards and recognition from the computer graphics communities like CgSociety, CgChannel, CgGallery, 3DTotal and CgArena.

Hand-drawing websites are very popular on today’s design. CSSBuilt.com collects 40+ hand-drawn websites for your inspiration. Be inspired and enjoy!

Come join and share your work with the rest of us.

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A little bit late for this article but had to be here. It’s some kind of selection “best of the best” if you want. You’ll see in the following list articles that’ll teach you how to work your magic with Adobe Photoshop in illustrations, digital drawing, photomanipulation, typography and even on a blog design.

The latest installment of Arbenting's inspiration in color series. Inspiration in Blue focuses on images of a blue theme.

A lot of startup freelancers ask me how to get more clients - it’s the question that’s on everyone’s mind. Whilst marketing and spreading the word about your services yourself is a good way to go about this, nothing beats getting others to spread the word about your services - here's how you get other people talking about your freelance service.

We’d like to let you know about people we think are doing great work. And this time we present the works of five professional matte painters who have the colossal experience in film industry. They are: Dylan Cole, Frederic St-Arnaud, Yanick Dusseault, David Luong and Chris Thunig.

Practical tips for working with a committee while still retaining creative control.

It's very important to keep up with forever-changing design community - this profession requires regular learning, if You don't want to fall back. And that's why I am presenting this list article.

In no. 25 of this section you’ll see some Photoshop illustration tutorials as well as some web design ones with some buttons and menus but also an icon design tutorial and more.

Does natural talent exist? If so, does it even matter? Thoughts from other designers are welcomed.

Nathan Beck discusses some of the pros and cons of buying and selling blogs, whilst examining the blog buying market in more detail.