Dan Netherton - Digital Creative

Dribbble and Artflakes.com

Dan — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 22:29:04 +0000

Today has been a good day!

I have received invites for both Dribbble and also ArtFlakes

Feel free to go and check out my Dribbble profile or my Artflakes shop

Oh and here is another version of the cheeky octopus for your viewing pleasure.

The Octopus! (Another short Illustrator session)

Dan — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:04:46 +0000

As the title suggests a roughly 45minute session with one of my doodles for reference produced this creature. He is glorious!

Illustrator is back!

Dan — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 20:00:56 +0000

After an unfortunate period featuring a dead hard drive and losing EVERYTHING on my machine I finally got Illustrator back on and got straight into it! Below are the outcomes!

Big Dave:

Zombie:

Wooden Navigation Design

Dan — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 19:52:22 +0000

When browsing Subtle Patterns, I loved the new wooden pattern and decided to try and use it somewhere and ended up going for a wooden style navigation menu.

This is what I came out with!

Venn Diagram

Dan — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 16:35:18 +0000

I Came across some Venn Diagrams whilst in a Wikipedia spiral and decided to get into Photoshop and knock one up for my skill set. Nice and simple using three key words.

Wood pattern obtained from Subtle Patterns.

Get the pattern!

Work in Progress : Dark & Sexy WordPress Theme

Dan — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 23:02:15 +0000

Loaded up Photoshop this evening and started work on designing a brand spankin’ new WordPress theme from the ground up. Hopefully besides looking good this new theme will allow me to learn some more of the inner workings of the WordPress CMS.

Currently called it Dark & Sexy as I couldn’t think of anything else.

Freebie: 6 jQuery Effects

Dan — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 13:57:17 +0000

Recently I have been learning jQuery and have put together this small resource of 6 effects from what I have learned so far.

The purpose of the demo and free files is for all the other beginners out there to examine the code and adapt it for your own projects!

View the Demo

Development tools: CSS3.me

Dan — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 21:12:30 +0000

I use quite a few online development tools to speed up my coding time but CSS3.me has to be one of the very best.

You can use the interface on CSS3.me to create a snippet of code which can add border-radius, box-shadow, background gradients & opacity!

P.S On a sidenote if all you are after is the border-radius then the border-radius.com website is pretty awesome.

Visit CSS3.me

iPad responsivness

Dan — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:37:07 +0000

Without changing the code or css since the way the layout is set on the iPad is not bad at all. It seems to cope well when switching between orientations and has no real big issues. Also on a side note the HTC Desire which I use also does the site justice :D

Letter-pressed Disc

Dan — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 23:25:24 +0000

Continuing on from the speech bubble post previously I have experimented with an indented almost letter pressed effect on the discs.

The blue and white combined with some Noise looks like its working for me! More to come soon!