Schools and universities have been keeping all our members a tad busy with their studies, so even our projects during the last month have not really taken off as well as they usually do. Anyhow, let’s get around to updating you with the latest news.

Our Collaboration project, unfortunately, is on hold now because of the reason I mentioned above. Not to fret though! We always have our Monthly Duties to look forward to! For October, the theme is shapes and numbers. We’ll post the best creations as soon as we get them. The deadline isn’t up yet~

For now however you can have Cloud stock images by Psychicmind!

Totally, there are 12 3000×4000 pixel images and they’re completely free to use!

You can download it by clicking on the image above. It will take you straight to his deviantART page. He does have his Terms of Use that he would require users to comply with though.

That’s it for now! We’ll try to be regular with the updates. ‘Til next time!

Hence, we have some catching up to do. The three pictures below were from the prior months.

The first one spawned from the mind of Mira Kaiba. After receiving the most of votes for the month of March with the theme “Spring“, it was chosen to stand for that month.

The second was created by Karuto, also in the theme of “Spring“. After the votes had been counted in the month of April, hers was the one to be featured here.

The third came forth from Inked+, after the May’s monthly duties had been completed. The theme was “Typography“.

For the remaining autumn, we have a lot of things planned in the same line of thought. More monthly works will be featured and further updates will be posted. See you then.

This is also uploaded in the wallpaper gallery of yinyanganime.com. If you wish to download it from there, and even mark it as a favorite if you’re a registered member of our affiliate site, just click on here.

If you have any wallpaper request or suggestion for iGFX, feel free to leave us a comment or message. We’ll be happy to hear from you.

Well then, enjoy the wallpaper. Let’s all have a great month ahead of us! :3

The Mechanics

At the front page of yinyanganime.com, there is a widget that displays 5 random images from the site’s gallery. The challenge: use one of those images to create a signature. No refreshing and refreshing until you get an image you like. That’d be cheating, and that’s a definite no-no! But if you got a nice image as you first loaded the page, well, lucky you! If not, well, that’s the challenge right there!

It’s not a contest against other gfx artists, but a challenge against one’s own skills. To learn one of the important gfx skills: making use of limited resources to make something great ;D

The project ran from April 11-19, 2009. And here are the artists that braved the randomness of the image selection and made their awesome gfx creations:

Jose 101

dotmyztick

Lovebeat

Jagan Eye

KuroTan

Unli

AtomicoX

Mira Kaiba

Balance

SSDynamite

Equanimity

Congratulations to everyone of you! Give yourselves a nice pat on the back for a challenge well met!

Until next challenge… keep on your gfx toes! =D

Jaggy Brushes

Charming set of 12 brushes containing swirls, cloud, flowers, leaves, rocks, balloons and even an octopus!

Hand Drawn Dango Brushes

Sketchy looking set of 18 brushes containing the various family members of the Dango Daikazoku and Friends. Also comes with dango eyes and a Kamina Dango!

Please do not upload these resources elsewhere without the permission of the owners. If you’d like to share the brushes, just put in a link back to this page.

In fact, we’d appreciate a link to your work where you used them so we can check them out and toast to your art with a nice cold frappuccino. <3

Well, enjoy the brushes and have a wonderful day ahead!

This is part of the 2nd Weekly Project of IGFX from March 16 – 22, 2009.