Recently I had the opportunity to interview Richard Roberts, who in my opinion is a fantastic illustrator and a great art director. I first came across his works on deviantART and was immediately drawn into them.

In this interview, Richard shares his experience as a digital illustrator, his own unique approach to digital art, creative process and tips and tricks for attracting clients as a freelancer. Make sure you check out this interview, and hopefully you would find it interesting and useful.

In this tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to Design a Dawn of War Style Concrete Text Effect in Photoshop. I try to break this tutorial down into some fine details and hopefully will give beginners some ideas of how to apply textures to font, plus masking and image adjustments. Have a try!