After weeks of research reviewing the most popular themes on D.O and many group discussions, I finally began the design and development of my first theme to be released to the Drupal community.

Most non-customized Drupal themes come with basic gradients or stale background colors, and for good reason. The idea behind themes is to provide a somewhat generic design for the masses - providing a basic layout and canvas from which designers can improve.

Here are a list of Photoshop Brushes and Patterns that can help spice up your bland Drupal theme. If you’re not familiar with adding Brushes or Patterns to Photoshop, there are step-by-step instructions on the web or you can follow the instructions below:

1. Download Brush or Pattern and save it to your computer.

Hello, my name is Tom Nelson. I was hired recently by Levelten as a front end developer/themer and am getting settled in.

I'm originally a native of Texas, but have only lived here for seven years after living in the midwest and west coast for most of my life. I was a music major in college before switching to IT and have been working as a web developer for the last three years.

As an Art Director and long-time web designer I must admit I never really had a consistent way of creating concepts that were easily transferable from wireframes to concepts, then to final markup…until now.