Time to get cosmic again! ✨

July 01, 2020

I've expanded the collection of crystal diagrams with an additional series of seventy-three elements, to create the crystal diagrams, volume two. The assets have been meticulously recreated using the pen tool in Illustrator, sourced fr...

Introducing the particle cardboard collection!

June 23, 2020

Paper, and cardboard, come in many different forms. One of these is the type of stock used for small boxes: cereal boxes, household items, beer cartons... It's a fascinating material: one side smooth, with bright print, the other usually...

I dug, and found these gems ✨

May 04, 2020

It's time to introduce a new series of vector assets: the crystal diagrams, volume one. These two hundred assets (200) have been carefully drawn with the pen tool in Illustrator, sourced from old mineralogy/gemology books. They come in...

Weathered grime textures

March 26, 2020

Destruction is an act of creation (that's a paraphrase from Pablo Picasso). In our context, it means that when that house got destroyed in my Cleveland neighborhood, I got access to a lot of cool things to use as the basis of new texture...

Painted wood textures

March 26, 2020

When something is demolished to make room for something new, you sometimes get to see the parts of the old taken away. That was the case for a house being demolished a few years back in my neighborhood. After the blue rusted metal textur...

Extreme scratched metal textures

March 25, 2020

You'll never now when good textures are at hand. Turns out, houses being torn down are a great place to look for them. After the blue rusted metal textures, and the brick textures, here come the extreme scratched metal textures, from the...

The brick textures

March 23, 2020

Houses being torn down are an amazing source of textures. The hidden becomes visible, the behind the scene becomes from and center. After the blue rusted metal textures, here come the brick textures, from the same house. The set featur...

The blue rusted metal textures

March 09, 2020

You know what's a great place to capture textures? Houses being torn down. Back in July of 2014, an old condemned building was being demolished in the Cleveland neighborhood I was living in. The first set of textures born out of this c...

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