Today, I am releasing yet another set of high quality Illustrator Paint brushes. There aren't many brushes included in this set but what this set lacks in quantity, it makes up for in quality. Set 2 contains 7 high quality Illustrator paint brushes in varying widths. What I like about this set is how fat some of the brush strokes are. A lot of brushes I've seen are a little too scrawny to be used in large point sizes. The larger you make the stroke, the more the stroke distorts. Since these are a little fatter than normal you'll be able to make them a little fatter than you can with some other brushes. Don't get too crazy with them and use a 30 pt stroke. These brushes aren't that big. You will, however have a little more room to work with.
I have to say, that in my time as a designer I've had a lot of difficult clients to work with but the worst client I've ever had is myself. You might be surprised, but one of the hardest parts about being a designer and owning your own business is creating a logo. Just think of it this way, if you had all the money in the world, you'd want everything right? It's the same with being a designer. I want everything and I'm constantly finding new inspiration and thinking "maybe I could do that with my logo?"
Needless to say, my business has had quite a few logos in its short time but I think I have finally got one that I'd like to stick with. You may have seen a version of this logo being splashed around on the website lately but I was finally able to put the finishing touches on it last night. I designed this logo in low resolution, which kind of stinks because at some point I'll have to go back and design it again for high resolution for business cards, etc. Fortunately for me, I don't use very many business cards right now and it's not a priority.
When I take my camera out to grab some shots of textures I usually come home with literally hundreds of images. The really amazing ones, I release in the Colorburned Shop. The good ones get released as freebies and the others get held over just in case. The other day I was looking through some of my old sand images and I realized that some of them, while not technically textures, were good enough to be released as freebies on my site. When I go through my images I try to distinguish between what's a texture and what's a photo. In my mind a texture is any kind of image that you can skin a 3D model with. A photo is just about everything else.Included in this set are 21 high resolution textures of the sand and ocean from a trip I recently took to the beach.
Also, thanks to Fabio and Paulo over at Abduzeedo.com for helping me promote the Colorburned Shop on their website. I was blown away at how much traffic his site pushed my way. His site is a true graphic design monster!
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Today, I am releasing Set 1 of the Illustrator brushes that I first began posting last week. Set 1 includes 18 high quality Illustrator brushes in Adobe Illustrator CS format. Enjoy! 
I was working on a project not too long ago where I needed to replicate the look of a signature for a logo that I was working on. I spent a lot of time going through my collection of Illustrator brushes trying to find one that I liked but none of the brushes I had really excited me. So instead of using a brush I was only mildly satisfied with I decided to make my own. I ended up creating quite a few sets of brushes and I was pleased with how they all turned out; so pleased in fact that I decided to release them all to my readers for free.
