Those of you who religiously stalk my Facebook and Twitter profiles, will have noticed that I have recently upgraded my profile pics to a a vector version of my real self. So for the two of you, this won’t be news. The rest of Planet Internet might need to be told about the above mentioned fact for the first time.
You might want to pop over to my Facebook and Twitter profiles to see what I am talking about. If you are reading this post in 2019, odds are that I look much different than I do now, in good old 2012. So just for you future dwellers, here’s the picture I’m ranting on about:
The Vector Version
The Original Photo
As you can see, I look much better in the edited version.
The lady responsible for creating this awesome artistic masterpiece (yes, it is one. I’m in it) is Chantelle Breedt. Here’s a bit more about her (just so that you know, and can later tell people at the braai all about my new avatar. Coz that’s what you generally would do. isn’t it?)
Purple Chilli Design & Photography is my freelance business. Alisha Opperman works with me on some projects. We do any type of design (graphic that is) and photography that you might need.
Well I studied multimedia design for 3 years at T.U.T. in Pretoria where I got my National Diploma in 2009. Since then I’ve been designing everyday.
Programs I use on a daily basis include Photoshop, InDesign, CorelDraw, Quark Express (the list goes on). For the vector illustrations I do, I use Illustrator (my favourite program, other than Photoshop).
Here’s Cantelle
“Why can’t you do it for me for free?” Uhm yeah, didn’t study for 3 years to work for free. It’s my job. I make a living out of what I do and if there’s nothing in it for me, I don’t do it. Do you work for free?
Make use of tutorials. They’re all over the web. that’s how you learn the finer tricks. And practice practice practice! I always use my friends as guinea pigs for my designs and photography.
There you go, now you know more than you did 5 minutes ago, how cool is that?
Why not let Chantelle do something equally awesome for you? Or even as her some design related questions. She’s very nice, so I’m sure she’ll gladly provide you with some answers or links to useful tutorials.
