This logo was created for a hair salon in North Carolina by the name of “W Salon”. The salon owner asked that I create something fresh, modern, and stylish. Their current logo consisted of nothing more than a [..]

I was approached by Michael Stephanides, a plastic surgeon out of Nashville Tennessee. Michael wanted a new logo identity for a collaborative business combining his plastic surgery with dermatologist Carla Retief’s [..]

I was approached by Nashville based attorney Adam Hill who wanted a fresh new logo for his law practice. Adam wanted his new identity to be traditional and solid, but also something modern and unique. [..]

Sure Fire Music is one of the oldest music recording studios in Nashville Tennessee. They have written and recorded songs for some of country music’s biggest stars. My job was to re-design their existing logo and [..]

When designing logos there are certain things that tend to work and certain things that typically don’t. Here is a list of 30 “do’s” and “do not’s” that should [..]

This tutorial/walk-through will show you how to turn a photograph into a highly detailed and almost realistic digital painting. I will mostly be covering [..]

DesignBuddy.com is my new home for graphic design. If you were a visitor of my old site “DerekKimball.com”, you may be familiar with the free downloads, [..]

This piece along with my digital painting of Sara Underwood were published in the 48th issue of “Advanced Photoshop” magazine. This is an international publication featuring professional tutorials, interviews, and artwork [..]

This image is a combination of original artwork and images. Basically it started as an original sketch which was scanned and imported into Photoshop. Using a Wacom drawing tablet, I began adding paint to my drawing [..]