Graphic Design - cerkit.com

New Artwork for my Music

I've been working a lot on the artwork for my music lately. I've created the artwork for a few albums and singles this week. The artwork for the singles displays on the Now Playing screen when you're using the Bandcamp app. Here are just a few of the pieces of art.

Graphic Design

Some Experimental Graphics

I played around with the blend tool in Illustrator. I then brought the image into Photoshop to apply clouds. Here are the results.

Programming

25th Anniversary of cerkit.com

2020 marks the 25th anniversary of my website cerkit.com. It's been a great asset and a personal liability (there were a few weeks where I posted inappropriate things to my blog that got me into a lot of trouble). It has slowed down lately because I'm not really sure

Electronics

Custom Fritzing part for Mojo v3

There is a great tool called Fritzing that allows you to create a breadboard view of circuits that you can use for documentation. I really wanted to use it to document the breadboard for my post on setting up a reversible counter, but no one had created a part for

Graphic Design

More Illustrator and Lightroom Goodness - Image Trace

I really like the image trace functionality in the new Illustrator CC. I took a photo of Laurie and did some alterations in Adobe Lightroom to increase the contrast and make it a better candidate for image trace. I then loaded it in Illustrator and applied the image trace to

Graphic Design

First project with Adobe Illustrator CC

Laurie’s new job has her teaching preschool at the Jewish Educational Alliance here in Savannah. As part of her teaching, she needed a wheel that would let her students know what the day’s activity would be. I decided to create it for her using Adobe’s new Illustrator