In late 2007, Andrew O'Neil asked himself, “What if there were better ways for landscape designers and architects who struggle artistically to produce great graphics digitally?” Out of this question Graphic sketchbook was born. O'Neil has created an awesome resource for graphic gurus and beginners alike. Graphic Sketchbook is the largest community on the internet dedicated exclusively to traditional free hand crop art. Combining traditional and digital rendering techniques this site is a limitless resource for professional illustrators and designers.

Graphic Sketchbook is a store front for you to sell your work and talk graphics with other members. The goal is to help you achieve your graphic goals by providing excellent resources that are designed to instruct and grow confidence in your personal style and abilities.

Within the first week of its launch in early October 2008, Graphic Sketchbook gained over 100 members with a global reach including Bogota Columbia, Bosnia, and Guangzhou China. Targeting primarily landscape architects, Graphic Sketchbook provides tools and resources for designers across multiple industries.

Their goal is to become the ultimate graphic resource for all design professionals. These clip art images of trees, people, car, and furniture allow a non artist to build “hand drawn” sections, perspectives, and plan view images with ease. All entourage elements are available in file formats suitable for use in adobe photoshop, google sketchup, and informatix Piranesi. The site has free content in the gallery that you can try before you buy.

Graphic Sketchbook hosts monthly architectural rendering contests with cash prizes. In these contests community members are given the opportunity to submit renderings, have their work reviewed by real clients, build their portfolio, and the winning entry receives the cash prize put up by the contest holder.

There are four simple ways to get involved with Graphic Sketchbook.
1) Create your profile: It is 100% free and takes just a few minutes
2) Upload your images: all members are given the opportunity to upload art and sell it in the gallery.
3) Sell your graphics: once posted in the gallery all member art is available for sale and use by others. All members receive 35% on the dollar of sales of their images.
4) Contribute to the community: participate in group discussions within the community forums, submit entries to the rendering contests on site for the chance to win cash and prizes!!

To learn more, visit www.graphicsketchbook.com or email info@graphicsketchbook.com

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