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 23rd, 2007
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 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.
November 10th, 2007
Thumbnails for Illustrator files in Windows
by Sergio Ordonez at 11:04 am on Illustrator
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.
November 4th, 2007
The Skins Factory
by Sergio Ordonez at 9:35 am on Inspiration
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.
November 2nd, 2007
Habits to increase your creativity
by Sergio Ordonez at 8:42 pm on Freelancing
I’ve seen this topic from the point of view of a designer in thousands of blogs, but almost always they forget something, the psicological point of view. As you may know, appart from designer i’m licensed in Psicology, so i’ll talk about both points of view: the designer’s and psicologist.
October 27th, 2007
Thumbnails for Photoshop files in Windows
by Sergio Ordonez at 10:46 am on Photoshop
Everybody know that Windows use a default icon for PSD files, it is really disturbing when you have a lot of Photoshop files because you cant choice the one you like just looking at the thumbnails.
October 6th, 2007
Vectorial illustration with Illustrator
by Sergio Ordonez at 7:42 am on Mascot design, Drawing, Illustrator
It’s time to write a tutorial about vectorial illustration. In this post i’ll explain the process i followed at the time of designing by order (from SOSFactory) the mascot in vector format of Twisted Monkey Studios, producers of horror films.
October 4th, 2007
8 top questions for newbie designers
by Sergio Ordonez at 7:26 am on Freelancing
A couple of days ago our friend Andreu, SOSNewbie reader, sent me an email with a serie of questions; it’s not the first time that that someone asks them, so i thought in writing this post.
October 1st, 2007
Vectorizing with Silhouette
by Sergio Ordonez at 3:34 pm on Resources
Here i bring you another of my essentials, Silhouette is a very useful Illustrator plugin to vectorize bitmaps.
September 30th, 2007
Madrid 2016 logo winner
by Sergio Ordonez at 3:34 pm on Logotypes
At last, after so many controversy of plagiarism and interested members of the jury panel, the candidature of Madrid for the Olimpic Games 2016 has a winner, which is only an anecdote because it’s well know that after London 2012 the IOC wont choose another european city… the politicians have to justify expenses.
September 24th, 2007
Free: Vectors, Icons, logos…
by Sergio Ordonez at 8:33 am on Resources
Here is a bunch of resources, free stuff to add that “Wow” effect to your designs. Please read the license of every file before using them, some are free for even commercial use, other just for personal use.