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My name is Sergio Ordoñez, a 28 years old spanish designer based in Málaga (Spain) and I´m the responsible of all what you see here. A selection of my work is included at Sosfactory, you can read a bit more about me here.
The goal of Sosnewbie is building a basic manual to help newbies to break into the digital art industry... I will try to explain things I might see interesting for you, from designing a logo or website with photoshop to the search of your first paid job or any legal issue. Of course all this from my limited knowledgement of the business and hoping you being a important part of the site.
I hope this blog will be useful for you :)
Sharing what you know is risky. Someone could steal your ideas or your techniques. It’s even a little unfair! Why share what you learned by yourself, with so much effort and without help from anyone else? And what do you get in exchange? Isn’t it a risk for your business? Is it worth the effort?
Sharing your knowledge is good for everybody, you included… and I’m going to give you 9 reasons why
As you surely have already noticed, the blog is a bit abandoned lately. Please don’t panic, I have no intention of leaving my beloved blog.
Hello guys, I was hired again by PSDTuts to write another tutorial, this time completelly FREE.
In this article Im going to talk about my workflow used to design mascots for websites. This process in this article was described in real time as I created the designs. Let’s look at this more closely.
Hello buddies, I have fresh news for you, I have created a Youtube channel where you can visit the SOSNewbie tutorials. I have just a couple of them yet, but I will be uploading more as soon as possible.
I dont need to say all construtive critics, suggestions or new ideas to make good tutorials are welcome 
Hello buddies, looks like I was really busy during the last month, as you noticed I dont post too much latelly, but its because I was working in the biggest and more detailed tutorial I have ever write, PSDTuts hired me to write a tutorial about mascot design in Photoshop.
After long time of hesitation, I finally decided to buy a Wacom Cintiq!!!
For those who don’t know much about it, the Wacom Cintiq is a monitor on which you can paint directly on the screen, sensitive to 1024 pressure levels, just like Intuos tablets. It’s the dream of an illustrator, the material dreams are made of!!!
You have a lot of talent, quality designs saved in your hard disk, you are good, nice and cheap, but you do not have clients. Something is going wrong. It is time to rethink your marketing strategy. Here I leave you some suggestions for your first professional portfolio.
Sean Hodge editor of PSDTUTS contacted me through the tutorial I did for Smashing Magazine (he is regular writer there too) to interview me. I hope you like it
With Supericon V3 you can preview the thumbnails of your PSD, Al, EPS and also TIF files. It is a small self installing utility, which works great.
Hello buddies, Im in need of a spanish to english translator, its a paid work, of course. As you can see my english is not too good and Im very busy with my work at
Searching in my old CDs and Hard Drives, i found some mascot designs. I made this ones to practice when i started designing; i never sold them… so here they are in case anyone wants to use them .
I will add more designs time to time, whenever a order from SOSFactory fails, I will upload the design for free download.
I have recieved many comments about this topic, even recieved emails blaming me of degrading the design industry… “your work is great, WHY ARE YOUR SERVICES SO CHEAP?”
Hello Newbies!! You already noticed SOSNewbie is not updated latelly, the main reason is because my workload (Im sleeping 5h per day one week ago) but there is another one… I was working the most complex tutorial about mascot and logo design I never did, I spent lot of time doing this tutorial like […]
This article is dedicated to the Newbies, we’ll see what is a graphics tablet, what are they for and how to choose the tablet that fit your needs.
2007, a year full of emotions in the professional and personal. I didn’t have much luck in the first part of the year, i lost a client that guaranteed me about 6.000US$ per month; and also one of my designers abandoned me… luckily, in the 6 remaining months i recovered my clients and even exceeded the ammount, and i discovered that i’m good enough in my work to depend on someone. If you want to know how i did it, here’s my year summary!
This post is just to say I wish you a Mery Xmas and a Happy New Year!
If you’ve been following this blog, you should know how important it is to have an online portfolio if you want to live from your art. While you don’t have a website you simply don’t exist, and of course, people who don’t exist work very little.
Sometimes Im really amazed on how the luck (good or bad) become so important in life. Linerider project was the weirdest project I never worked on from SOSFactory. Go ahead if you want to know more about this designs.
Everybody know that Windows use a default icon for AI files (Illustrator file format), it is really disturbing when you have a lot of Illustrator files because you cant choice the one you like just looking at the thumbnails.
To inaugurate this section i’ve chosen TheSkinsFactory, a company from the USA that i’ve been foloowing for a while. They stand out mainly in user inteface for softwares like Nero, Windows Media and lots of gadgets for companies like Microsoft, Yahoo, Panasonic, MSN, HP, Disney, Warner Bros, Sony, EA… and a lot more.
