Freebie Wednesday: 80 Seamless Hand Drawn Patterns and Textures.
Freebie Wednesday:
The Hungry JPEG has a massive 5 year celebration extravaganza going on with lots of heavy discounts and freebies so be sure to check out their deals!
80 Hand Drawn Patterns and Textures by Qilli is a vector background bundle, retro style. These textures can be used in a variety of projects such as posters, postcards, flyers, t-shirts, typography and etc.
Included in this set:
• 80 Layered .EPS10 (vector) files
• 80 .PNG files on transparent background (5000 x 5000 px)
• 2 .AI files
Software compatibility: Adobe Illustrator CS or newer. .EPS files will work with a variety of programs such as Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator, Sketch, InkScape, Affinity, Corel Draw, etc. .PNG files will work with most graphic software.
This product comes with a complete commercial license.
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Rainbow Connection: Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours.
Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours
First published in 1814, Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours is a taxonomic guide to the colors of the natural world that has been cherished by artists and scientists for more than two centuries. The beautiful pocket-size facsimile (available on Amazon) is certain to delight and inform a new generation of artists and scientists. Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours is a charming artifact from the golden age of natural history and global exploration.
In the late eighteenth century, mineralogist Abraham Gottlob Werner devised a standardized color scheme that allowed him to describe even the subtlest of chromatic differences with consistent terminology. His scheme was then adapted by an Edinburgh flower painter, Patrick Syme, who used the actual minerals described by Werner to create the color charts in the book, enhancing them with examples from flora and fauna.
In the pre-photographic age, almost all visual details had to be captured via the written word, and scientific observers could not afford ambiguity in their descriptions. Werner’s handbook became an invaluable resource for naturalists and anthropologists, including Charles Darwin, who used it to identify colors in nature during his seminal voyage on the HMS Beagle. Werner’s terminology lent both precision and lyricism to Darwin’s pioneering writings, enabling his readers to envision a world they would never see.
Also visit Nicholas Rougeux‘s site to see a recreation of the original color guidebook with new cross references, photographic examples, and posters.
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Nuts and Bolts: Give Your Low to No Sellers a Facelift III
I updated the above pid. I cleaned up the image and added more contrast and stronger lines so it would print better, at least I think it will. I changed the inside too. Could you please take a look and see if this is acceptable? This cover image is on two other cards, if this is okay I would like to change the cover on the other two as well.
GCU Community Manager
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Wanted New Cards: Holidays for Librarian
We’d like you to create at least one card for these categories using the Stock Cards function (Bigstock) or your own graphic designs.
Remember, when you’re submitting your new card, add a little note about the intended category in your Notes to Reviewers. Be inventive, be clever, be creative. Go for it!
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Freebie Wednesday: Rustic Station
Freebie Wednesday:
Rustic Station (designed by Maulana Creative) is this weeks free font on offer at The Hungry JPEG. Don’t wait too long, the offer expires in 6 days!
This product comes with a complete commercial license.
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Rainbow Connection: Pantone Posts
Hard to believe, the harvest season is already on top of us as we enter the last Big Stock Challenge of 2018! Let’s have some fun and put on our creative hats …
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Theme: New Year’s Resolutions
Requirements:
- ONLY Big Stock cards will be accepted in this challenge.
- This challenge is category specific: Holidays > New Year’s Cards > Resolutions
- Write your own verse, be creative with a message that ties the image you choose, the recipient and the category together – this will be extremely important in this challenge.
- The judges will be looking for professional quality text layout, typography placement and font combinations in addition to a unique and captivating message that tells the story of the stock image you choose. Your added value needs to wow the judges!
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Entry Deadline: Wednesday, October 31st
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How to Enter: Post the PID (card number) and the URL (public storefront link – please WAIT for the card to be available in the public marketplace, please DO NOT post a link to your Manage Cards area) as a post in the challenge blog. We’ll forward your entry to the jury.
NOTE: Submissions will appear immediately in your Private gallery as they await review. If approved, the reviewer will move them to the public gallery – they will then become ‘live’ in the marketplace within 24-hours or so just like regular submissions. Be patient and wait.
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CATEGORY SPECIFIC CHALLENGE:
Holidays > New Year’s Cards > Resolutions
Note: Utilize the Notes to Reviewer field to include any helpful notes to the reviewer AND to indicate your intended category since you cannot select a category during submission.
Tip: Choose and work with an image that you feel a) fits with your vision and b) will meet GCU’s Submission Guidelines and c) is as good as or better than what’s being offered in the category of submission.
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Rules:
- Submission must meet GCU’s Submission Guidelines and be Approved through the usual Review Cycle. Big Stock creations are automatically identified as Fast Track – please add in the Notes to Reviewer: October Design Challenge Submission here is the link to the blog post: (include THIS blog post URL)
- Only ONE card per artist per challenge.
- Submissions must be NEW, no existing designs.
- Your entry must meet the Challenge Requirements and Theme or it will not be included in the challenge.
- Big Stock Card Creations ONLY will be accepted.
- Your designs should differ from those already offered in the categories above to offer shoppers a variety of choices, not more of the same.
- No BLANK cards will be accepted.
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BLIND Judging: We hope each of you enters every month! Entries are submitted anonymously for judging by the GCU Challenge Jury which means that before and during the challenge, judges do not have any way of knowing what artist is behind each entry. This eliminates any and all concerns with ‘favoritism’. Results will post on the Community Blog. The jury will judge the entries on the following criteria:
- How well the card meets the Challenge Requirements and Theme.
- How well the card speaks to the Category the artist chooses for the card submission.
- Creativity, Execution and Marketability. Your overall ‘added value’ determines this.
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Winners: 1st Place:
- The winning designer’s card and store will be featured on the GCU Public Blog – the blog which customers view and follow.
- As well as featured on the GCU Public Facebook Page – nearly 46,000 followers, now THAT’S exposure!
- The winning card will be Design of the Day following the announcement of the winners (within 48-hours).
- The winning card will be added to the Greeting Card Universe Design Challenge Winners Pinterest Board – currently GCU’s Pinterest Page followers: 2K!
- Winning card will be included in a marketing email to over 100,000 customers!
- GCU will create a Meet the Team board for the winning artist under the Pinterest GCU account where the winning artist will be able to pin and promote her own storefront and all that makes them a unique card designer and one of GCU’s artistic community team member.
- Winning card will be posted on GCU’s Instagram with 2,000 followers and counting!
2nd Place:
- Your submission will be Design of the Day the following week of announcing the Challenge winners (within 7-days).
- Your card will be added to the Greeting Card Universe Design Challenge Winners Pinterest Board.
- Winning card will be included in a marketing email to over 100,000 customers!
- Winning card will be posted on GCU’s Instagram with 2,000 followers and counting!
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Tips:
Visit all the available tips, tricks and guidelines offered on the Big Stock Creation blog page!
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Nuts and Bolts: Artist Interview Tam Moody
GCU Community Manager
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Wanted New Cards: Wedding Welcome Bag
We’d like you to create at least one card for these categories using the Stock Cards function (Bigstock) or your own graphic designs.
Remember, when you’re submitting your new card, add a little note about the intended category in your Notes to Reviewers. Be inventive, be clever, be creative. Go for it!
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Freebie Wednesday: The October Free Font Bundle
Freebie Wednesday:
The Hungry JPEG has an amazing free font bundle with 11 font families for you (available this week only!)
This product comes with a complete commercial license.
GCU Community 