Many thanks to Chris Spooner of blog.spoongraphics for taking the time to answer some of my questions. Chris is the creative and unique mind behind blog.spoongraphics. His site is renowned in the design community for having high quality tutorials, freebies and articles.

I’d like to start by thanking Grant Friedman of Colorburned.com for taking time out of his day to answer these questions. Grant is the talented and creative individual behind Colorburned; a portfolio and resource site for his graphic art. On the site you can see his portfolio of work, learn from tutorials, download free textures, and much more.