I made a minimalist promo badge for International Cephalopod Awareness Days. Tentacles are one of those things that seem theoretically easy to draw but prove to be a practical challenge. For this image I started out in Illustrator and basically just laid down a series of circles, adding and deleting anchor points and then played around with the curves. Touch up, text and resizing was done in Photoshop. Nothing fancy, just something quick and simple.
Promo submissions
Artists and entrepreneurs: get free Cephalopod Day promotional space by submitting your own Cephalopod Day badge. If you create one, it will be included on the commemorative page and include a link back to your wares. It just needs to adhere to the following guidelines:
- 200x200px in jpg or png format.
- Incorporate an image of something cephalopodal, be it octopus, squid, fossil or cuttlefish. As long as it has all or part of a cephalopod in it, that’s OK. Can be a drawing, photo, sketch, painting, CGI, etc
- The URL of your emporium/shop/site.
- Keep the promo image PG, family-friendly. Your site can be whatever you like, but we will make a note if it goes to a site that is randy or violent (in our editorial opinion).
- You must have the rights to use the image and give us the right to post it here.
- You must allow others the right to repost your image for the purposes of promoting Cephalopod Awareness Days
- Visibly include the words “cephalopodday.org” somewhere in the image.
- No animations.
- Submit it to us by 10/8 to be relevant.
Send your submissions to pulpodcast at gmail . com
Wrack Lines is a recurring series on this blog, featuring some of the artwork and designs I’ve created in Illustrator and Photoshop. In real life, a wrack line is the strand of seaweed and other debris washed up along the beach and usually indicates the high tide mark. But here it also refers to the vector-based lines of programs that I seem to be racking my brains against. I am a recreational graphic designer and amateur photographer. If you have constructive criticism, questions about techniques or additional resources you’d like to share, please contact me or leave a comment below.