Author: Paul Yeatman

Microbiologist with >15 years in the pharmaceutical industry with such responsibilities as trainer, team leader, auditor, technical writer, validator, quality assurance and control, viable environmental monitoring and more. I've dabbled with computers since the 80's and am fairly IT savvy, acting as a help desk for my immediate and extended family. After toying with visual design since high school, I qualified as a graphic designer in 2012. For leisure I ride and race my many bicycles, create websites, mange my cycling club's social media and am passionate about increasing everyone's knowledge.

Off to a flying start

December 15, 2010 By Paul Yeatman

Last night I received my first submission back. The grading is either incompetent or competent. I am competent. Along with the official grading, a slip accompanied the folio indicating how good each work is on a scale from poor to excellent. All of my work was excellent (though I consider some slapdash). Not sure how […]

Quiet on the front

December 7, 2010 By Paul Yeatman

Not much this week (and last).  Painted some colours, in gradients from 100% white to 100% black, then started with a  colour and tinted it one way and hued it the other (added white to the left and black to the right). Began working on a colour wheel. Last night I worked on my layers […]

More of the hot redhead

November 29, 2010 By Paul Yeatman

After faffing around last week and most of this week working on a portait of my gf (which I have ditched for another photo), I scrapped last week’s classroom work and began anew.  What I got up to in three hours is below.  All that is left is to fix up some of the hair and […]

Vectorize This!

November 23, 2010 By Paul Yeatman

To start of, tonight we had to whip up some color wheels in illustrator using the pathfinder feature and some use of the swatches.  Following that, the fun stuff began.  We have three weeks to produce an A3 sized vector image of a head of whoever we choose as long as they are human.  I […]