The images in this post are all images I created from scratch except the first one that I downloaded from an out-of-print book and cleaned up.
I thought I would share them, freely, as they are not the type of thing I can easily sell outside of a virtual world but they are occasionally of use for background images for blogs and such. Plus I like to give away stuff just for fun. Good karma you know. Enjoy.
If a link back to this site is provided by you, I would greatly appreciate it. I can use the link juice, as they call it these days.
In the next few days I will make these available as a set free for download as a test for a “gift shop” I will be adding to this site. Can’t wait! In the meanwhile, feel free to download and use as you see fit. Acknowledgment and/or a link back would be nice if you choose to use. Thanks!
GBE2: Week #105 Mentoring
I mentored myself, and sought out mentors, in Second Life® to learn how to “build” and create graphics in 2006 and 2007. I will never know their real names because we were all “avatars” with assumed identities due to the rules of participation in the Virtual world.
Old Book Images
I love ’em. What can I say? It reminds me of pouring over printed pages and illustrations from old books that my parents stored away. They were textbooks and pulp novels from the late 19th Century through the early 20th. Even if I did not want to read the book cover to cover, I would scan each page looking at typography, although I didn’t know about the subject, I just loved the form of the letters. And old illustrations. I loved the compounding of message with the use of just the right image. That this could be done with just a few lines of ink amazed me. I loved being amazed.
This widget from Old Book Illustrations is my new favorite find, click on the image to go there.
So instead of an app of the week this is a widget of the week that will give you different images from the site for decoration on your site, if you are in search of such a thing. You can select among various sub-categories of images such as plants, people, buildings.
The site also offers some freebie graphic downloads with no strings attached and some fee for service offerings.