bittbox.com - This site has some brilliant Illustrator tutorials, brushes and vector sets. Keep up the good work.
Anyway, here's some pictures I did with Illustrator:
(here's the tutorial)
Here's a poster... selling CD's (it's in french because the concert was in France)
And finally, a background made using brushes in photoshop this time.
Castres, le Sidobre and a lake in La Montagne Noire.
This is the view from le Saut de la Truite
Same place but further down the mountain
Simon
Mountain Lake
this is Herne
And a few of Castres
Stage 12 of the Tour de France, Montpellier to Castres.
Making his second win so far, Tom Boonen was first to cross the finish line. Anyway, here's some photos I took.
The first helicopters had flown into sight. Soon after, 4 more flew into view. The excitement was starting to build. After 3/4 of an hour waiting, the cyclists were going to arrive.
Yeah...well, the helicopters were early. I don't suppose it really mattered to these guys, who probably arrived long before us. They even brought their own picnic table^^.
They didn't get better places than us anyway.
After all the sponsors had gone past, the police rolled by, warning everyone to stand back.
After what seemed like hours of waiting, they finally shot past. All that waiting for about 20 seconds of action. It was worth it though.
We were on live TV ^^ Smile!
Spare wheels!
Everyone had raced past. We thought we had seen everybody. Then in the distance, we saw this guy approaching, with his own mini police force.
But he wasn't the last. Another group shortly arrived (and their mini police force).
And last of all, this group came waltzing by. They weren't exactly bothered about going fast.
The two at the front were having a nice chat^^
Spare bikes anyone?
This house has been in the Du Gres family for 500 years now. Located right in the middle of the Sidobre, their garden is full of huge granite boulders. They even have some trembling rocks. Quite literally. Not far from this house, there's another trembling rock, it's quite a sight when an old granny suddenly comes out of her farm house, then starts moving a huge boulder weighing a couple of hundred tonnes. Afterwards, she walks around holding out her little basket, until everyone has put some money in.
Here's a snapshot of their back garden (about 300 hectares), although I'm not sure if these rocks tremble.
This is a typical French sausage, called a saucisse de Toulouse. It's now on the barbecue, but it took a bit of struggling to get up all wound up.
After it had been cooked:
Nice shoes!
My brother, my sister, my dad and me on yet another granite boulder
I just wondered why they decided to build a door there of all places. Normally doors are on the ground floor, that way there's no drop. ^^
Their house:
This is the same photo as the one a few before, but guess what's missing.
Herne having a siesta after having eaten a big lunch. He even sleeps with his football ^^
A couple of farm houses somewhere in their garden.
2 ferrets:
Nothing wrong with this card? Well , look closely - all the information is wrong! Fax doesn't even exist anymore. So we needed to print a new one. So after touching it up on photoshop (otherwise it would have been a bad quality, crooked image which looks like it's been scanned on to the card^^), and rewriting the address, we set out to find a website to print our new card. Last time we went to the printing shop in town, they were rubbish! When you don't know how to work the software used in the shop, you're not going to get very far...
Anyway, the site we found was VistaPrint. A site that actually delivered to France... Very useful. Unfortunately their cards aren't the same dimensions as our original (our dimensions were better) and there's all this crap about bleed lines, safe area, trim lines etc. to avoid the design having a white border or half of the design cut off. After fiddling around with the text position, and changing the dimensions, we got a non-stretched design which seemed to fit into the safe area, trim lines, etc..
Enough talking, here's what we ended up with. It doesn't actually look that different after all that effort I put into it.
We got the cards now, and thankfully we're not missing half the design. Phew...
Mind you, on the screen, it shows a light green and the actual card is a dark green. Anyone got an explanation?
