March 3rd, 2009
How to do PayPal “Mass Pay” payments and avoid fees
by Sergio Ordonez at 12:10 pm on Freelancing
If you are dedicated to graphic design or any other online business, you probably already know what Paypal is, the most important online bank, and the most used all over the net. Also, you surely know that Paypal charges 4% of any payment you receive, while sending money is free.
December 24th, 2008
SOSNewbie wish you a Merry Xmas
by Sergio Ordonez at 1:23 am on Uncategorized
This post is just to say I wish you a Mery Xmas and a Happy New Year!
December 3rd, 2008
Digital Drawing and Inking in Photoshop
by Sergio Ordonez at 8:30 am on Photoshop, videotutorials, Drawing, Compilations
I think it´s a good idea to create some master posts to gather all the information I have about some specific topics. I will update them from time to time. Here we go with the first compilation about Photoshop drawing, I hope you will find it useful.
November 7th, 2008
The most powerful marketing tool: Altruism
by Sergio Ordonez at 7:50 am on Freelancing
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
October 31st, 2008
Health problems in SOSNewbie
by Sergio Ordonez at 6:53 am on Events
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.
September 15th, 2008
Mascot Design In Real Time Order - PSDTuts
by Sergio Ordonez at 4:16 pm on Mascot design, videotutorials, Drawing, Freelancing
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.
September 8th, 2008
New Youtube Channel for SOSNewbie
by Sergio Ordonez at 2:23 pm on videotutorials, Events
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 
August 20th, 2008
Mascot design tutorial for PSDTuts
by Sergio Ordonez at 7:15 am on Mascot design
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.
June 18th, 2008
Wacom Cintiq Review
by Sergio Ordonez at 7:26 am on Resources
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!!!
May 14th, 2008
How to create a portfolio to sale
by Sergio Ordonez at 12:05 pm on Freelancing
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.
April 28th, 2008
Sergio Ordoñez Interviewed by PSDTUTS
by Sergio Ordonez at 7:54 pm on Inspiration
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
April 25th, 2008
SuperIcon V3: Thumbnails for Photoshop and Illustrator files
by Sergio Ordonez at 11:11 am on Illustrator
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.
April 5th, 2008
SOSNewbie is looking for Spanish-English translators
by Sergio Ordonez at 9:12 pm on Job offers
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
March 10th, 2008
Free mascot design (new mascot added)
by Sergio Ordonez at 1:23 pm on Mascot design, Resources
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.
March 1st, 2008
Why do you charge so cheap?
by Sergio Ordonez at 12:54 pm on Freelancing
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?”
February 13th, 2008
Drunken Monkey Photoshop tutorial
by Sergio Ordonez at 12:21 pm on Mascot design, Logotypes
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 […]
January 23rd, 2008
Manual to choose your first graphics tablet
by Sergio Ordonez at 8:03 pm on Resources
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.
January 17th, 2008
12 freelancing lessons for 2008
by Sergio Ordonez at 3:51 pm on Freelancing
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!
December 1st, 2007
How to publish your first website
by Sergio Ordonez at 1:02 pm on webdesign
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.
November 29th, 2007
Linerider mascot design, the true story
by Sergio Ordonez at 12:25 am on Mascot design
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.