My name is Cannon Pearson. I was not named after a Japanese imaging equipment manufacturer.

4th January 2011

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Trying out some newly acquired patterns from the book Drip. Dot. Swirl.

Trying out some newly acquired patterns from the book Drip. Dot. Swirl.

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17th December 2010

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Design Accident

Design Accident

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4th November 2010

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Poster for Horse Opera and The Stumblers at the Highland Inn Ballroom.

Poster for Horse Opera and The Stumblers at the Highland Inn Ballroom.

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16th September 2010

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Cruisin’

Cruisin’

Riding the mean streets of the ATL. I’ve never been that interested in cars, but a ‘64 Buick Riviera is a pretty cool ride.

Here are some detail shots for inspection.

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26th August 2010

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Alien Color Test

This is a color test for a recent CD project. The final pieces were tighter, and the design changed. I like the loose feel of this, though.

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6th May 2010

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Water Soluble Graphite Brushes

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Here are some Photoshop brushes that I made from washing water over scribbles done with Prismacolor Water Soluble Graphite Pencils. With some angle, scattering, and opacity jitter set in the Brushes panel, they are good for building up smudgy textures.

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The brushes can be downloaded here: cp_graphite_brushes.zip

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6th April 2010

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Bloom

Spring

Spring would give Fall a good run for best time of year in Georgia if it wasn’t for the yellow blizzard of pollen.

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20th March 2010

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Cracked House Paint Brushes

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Here is a set of brushes made from photos of cracked house paint. The first five are more graphic, high contrast versions. The second five are made from the same photos, but I left some tone in them for a more realistic feel.

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You can download the brushes here: cp_cracks_brushes.zip

Enjoy.

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17th March 2010

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Pencil Brushes

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Here are a couple of Photoshop brush sets that I made from pencil marks which are good for building up grungy textures. The first set was made from hard scribble marks.

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I like to turn the Size Jitter off and set the Angle Jitter to Pen Pressure control around 30% in the Shape Dynamics settings. I set the Scatter to 100% with Pen Pressure control and the Count to 2. With these brushes I like to set the Opacity(under Other Dynamics) to Pen Control so that I can vary the density of the brush with my Wacom tablet. They can be downloaded here: cp_pencil_scribble.zip

The second set was made with softer leads on textured paper. I like to turn off the shape dynamics so that the texture stays consistent. Interesting effects can be had by playing with the Shape Dynamics options, though.

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These brushes can be downloaded here: cp_pencil_texture.zip

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17th March 2010

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Stippling Brushes

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Here’s a small set of Photoshop brushes that I made for creating a stippling effect. I used .25mm, .35mm, .5mm, and 1mm rapidographs to make them.

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I like to turn off the size and roundness jitters and set the scattering to a low value or turn it off as well. If you aren’t interested in an authentic stippled look, you might play around with some of those settings and see what you can come up with.

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A zip file of the brushes can be downloaded here.

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