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I am so excited when I stumble upon these creative inspiration videos featuring Tokidoki designer Simone Legno. There are 3 free videos on site and I especially like the one where “Lynda sits down with Simone”, talking about his background, how he started sketching and the branding of Tokidoki, advices for people who want to get into design industry and more. The next video will bring you into Simone’s Sketchbook where he sketches one of his famous character "Sandy". I am really tempted to signup at Lynda.com in order to view the rest of the online exclusive videos as they are only available for the paying subscribers.

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Attention to all fans of cute characters design: here is another wonderful and unique illustration site from Meomi which featured the works done by Vicki Wong (Vancouver) and Michael Murphy (LA).

There are free download of the cool desktop wallpapers and icons. Also there is an online store that sell their art prints, mini posters, cute buttons, vinyl toys and many more..

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As I am browsing the net today, I stumble upon this inspiring digital artist from Austria, Teodoru Badiu. He uses the assemblage technique in which he collects a group of objects using his camera and assembles them to create fantastic sculpture arts in photoshop and 3D program.

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My all time passion and love for pixel art illustration and graphics is always strong but yet to find some time to hand on it. Pixel art as the name implied, are graphics that are created pixel by pixel, at the same size that they are seen on screen. Sometimes when I am in need to design some isometric landscapes, I will use illustrator CS2′s 3D tools to design some quick buildings and skyscrapers.

But for those who really keen in learning, I would suggest to spend some quality time, start afresh to learn the isometric drawing skill from some really great pixel art sites. I have compiled a list of them here, let’s start exploring..

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Article Tags: CS2, inspiration, pixel art