KalaaLog

Regular reader would have noticed that there are no new posts in the Clipart section.

For past couple of month, Chazlynne Deguair and I have been working on creating a website/blog dedicated to clipart. The drive for this was the great feedback and traffic driven at KalaaLog.com through searches containing “clipart” in them.

Chazlynne and I have been posting there regularly and it has more than 50 new clipart, available for download, free for personal and non-commercial uses.

Head over to ClipArtLog.com and do subscribe to its feeds. (You can subscribe for an email update too).

2008 © Subrose

The plant clipart has been used once again. Unlike the earlier case, Subrose wanted to use it in cover design of custom books for her clients. Hence, I licensed the use of image for this purpose to her.

She does all kinds of custom order, and sells her product over at Etsy. You can head over to her page on Etsy and browse.

Image above is copyright of Subrose. More Images: (1) (2) (3)

I have been on some reorganizing tasks here at KalaaLog.com. Most of it revolves around the tutorials posted here.

Top tutorials

Checking the site statistics, it looks like there are two tutorials that have a lot of visits, mostly due to other sites linking to the tutorials. The top tutorial posts have been in both the vector as well as digital painting topics.

1. Illustrate Hibiscus Flower
2. Painting A Peacock

Most notable site is the Inkscape Tutorials blog, that regularly links to vector or illustration related tutorials here. Thanks Ryan, for the link love. I urge those interested in Inkscape to have a look at that blog - it regularly posts links to great Inkscape related tutorials.

Tutorial Index

The tutorial index page (the link the navigation bar above), has been updated to link to all the different tutorials posted here. I have tried to organize it under broad categories like illustration, painting and general sketching tutorials. From the last update, 40 new links have been added to the lists.

Tags

As can be seen on the tutorials page, the number of tutorials has grown quite large. It might soon be harder to search for a specific set of tutorials. This is the reason, and also due to reader request, I went through each and every tutorial posted here and tagged them as either ‘vector’ or ‘painting’, and also as either ‘beginner’, ‘intermediate’, or ‘advanced’. You can browse the tutorials using the tag cloud (on the right hand sidebar), or by directly putting in /tag at the end of http://kalaalog.com URL. If you are adventurous, then you can use plus (+) and comma (-) to apply AND or OR respectively.

Here are some examples:

• http://kalaalog.com/tag/advanced/ - This lists all the tutorials tagged as ‘advanced’
• http://kalaalog.com/tag/vector/ - This lists all the tutorials tagged as ‘vector’
• http://kalaalog.com/tag/video+intermediate+painting/ - List of intermediate level painting video tutorials

The tags, categories and the search should make it easier to zero in on a particular tutorial. But I am still trying to find some easier way to explore the tutorials. It may involve making use of external tagging/bookmarking services like del.icio.us or ma.gnolia.com so that readers can themselves tag it as they see fit.

Any suggestions are welcome - use the comment area below!

Regular visitors to KalaaLog would have noticed that the blog is wearing a new theme. As with the earlier theme, I have tried to maintain a clean look with this one. Some of the changes you would notice now is the centered layout and some of the blocks in the sidebar has been pushed down into the handy footer.

I have been knocking around a bit with this for a while, and that was the reason you are not seeing any posting earlier today on Sunday, as I had declared about a year back regarding frequency of posts. Of course, when I started this blog, I was thinking of updating it only once a week. But somewhere along the line, I enjoyed it so much that I have been posting regularly on Thursday and Sunday 12:00 GMT. This would continue to be so, in spite of this break in schedule this week.

Please do not hesitate to use the comment form below to indicate anything wrong you might see here. And do not hesitate to put other comments either.