To celebrate the coming colorful month, I made this FREE downloadable wallpaper for your phone. Enjoy!
Summer wallpaper DOWNLOAD
To thank you for being a newsletter subscriber, here’s a happy summer sun to add some brightness and cheer to your mobile phone. From your desktop, you can right-click then “Save Image as…” - OR - from your phone, you can touch-old to save it to your photos on the iPhone.
Coloring Pages
Here’s another coloring page to help you pass the time while stuck at home. Perfect for kids OR grownups! Use markers, pens, crayons, sharpies, or whatever you’ve got. I’m thinking of making more of these. Stay tuned!
Click to download the Crown Hill PDF.
2019 Holiday Gift Guide
Perfect presents for practically everyone!
Looking for a unique gift for that friend or family member who appreciates whimsical art? Then you’ve come to the right place. Here, you’ll find everything from t-shirts to Christmas cards to enamel pins. I’ve got links galore, so please explore.
For even more designs, you might want to visit my little Threadless shop. These designs can be printed on everything from shirts to stickers.
In addition to printed merch, I’ve also got some handmade stuff over on Etsy. The linocut cards are always a hit every year. And my new Washington Whale print is my current favorite.
And here’s another store that sells every kind of printable product you can imagine.
Don’t want any more stuff, but still want to support my art? Caffeine helps me keep the creativity flowing. At the link below, you can…
Thank you for your support. Please share the links with a friend if you want to help even more!
Email Design Tip
Do you make email newsletters for yourself or your company? If you use Mailchimp, you can use my free GIF animations in your designs! It’s simple: Insert a graphic block. Then click the Giphy button in the menu on the left. Type “phillustrations” in the search box to see all my illustrations. Scroll through your options and choose a GIF.
Want something custom? Drop me a line and we’ll collaborate.
September Wallpaper
I made some new wallpapers for my iPhone and wanted to share them with my subscribers. Download them here and save to your lock screen or home screen. There are two to choose from:
Try my GIFs & Stickers
You can now search and share my free GIF animations and stickers with GIPHY. My GIFs have over 1 billion views so far and they’re built into the social media tools you’re already using! There are lots of different ways to share them with friends. Visit my channel on giphy.com to share directly from the site. Or download the GIPHY app to search and share from your phone. There are two types of animations on GIPHY: regular GIFs, and stickers. Technically, they’re all GIFs. But, the stickers have a transparent background - which is used for overlaying them on photos in Instagram. See below for more details.
Simple Sharing thru Social Media!
My GIFs and stickers are built into all the social media channels. Here’s how you can add them to your posts:
When composing a new Tweet, click the “GIF” button and type “phillustrations” in the search box. Scroll through and choose your favorite.
Facebook Posts
To add my GIFs to your Facebook post, click the button with the three dots under where it says “What’s on your mind?”
Next, click the GIF button. Then, click in the search box and type “phillustrations.”
Instagram Stories / Facebook Stories
In the Stories feature of Instagram and Facebook, the GIFs are called “stickers.” This makes it easiest to add the animations on top of photos and video.
First, tap the story button. Take a picture or video, or add one from your camera roll. Next, tap the sticker icon.
Then, tap the GIF button. And type “phillustrations” in the search box. Tap a sticker to add it to your story. You can also reposition, rotate, or scale the animation by pinching and dragging with two fingers. Repeat the steps to add more stickers to the same story!
You can also add my GIFs with other popular web tools. If you use Slack, Pinterest, MailChimp, or WordPress, you’ll find a GIPHY connection there! I’m always adding new GIFs. So, keep checking back to see what’s cookin’! Tag me (@phillustrations) in your tweets and stories so I can see how you’re using them.
If you or your company would like to commission me to create some custom animated lettering or animations for you, drop me a line! I’d love to create something fun to help you get your message out. phil@phillustrations.com
May the Fourth Be With Y'all!
What's your favorite scifi movie? This month, I'm celebrating Star Wars day (May The Fourth) by giving my newsletter readers an exclusive free download. I illustrated this Millennium Falcon island that can be saved and used as your desktop wallpaper. [Mac or PC!]
Just right-click one of the two links below and choose "Save link as...". (Or single-button Mac users can Ctrl-click to bring up the save option.) Available in two sizes:
Click to download PDF
Marching Forth!
Here are my March freebies, just for readers of Phillustrations news. First, I've got another coloring page download. Kids love these (and adults do too). Download the sheet! »
I've also made a wallpaper background for iPhone. Download »
And finally, I've been playing around with some Apple Watch faces. If you download these and save them to your 'favorites' in your phone's photo app, you can use them as your watch face! Three to choose from:
Download Face 1 »
Download Face 2 »
Download Face 3 »
Valentine Coloring Page
Here's a fun heart-themed coloring page - for artists young and old! Print out the PDF and fill in all the shapes. (You don't have to be an artist. Coloring is a fun and relaxing way to stimulate your brain!) Click here to download the file.
February Freebie
To thank you for being a Phillustrations Newsletter subscriber, I want to give you a little gift. Below, you can download a Valentine illustration to use as lock screen wallpaper on your phone! There are two designs: the nerd heart, and the cool heart.
If viewing on your iPhone, you can touch-hold an image below to save it. From your desktop, right-click the image to save -
