Create an Organic Spring Lettering Illustration – Vector Plus Tutorial
Mar 11, 2010 General, Inspiration, Tutorials
We have another great Vector Premium tutorial available exclusively for Premium members today. If you want to learn how to create organic lettering, with digitally drawn lettering, then we have an awesome tutorial for you. This tutorial covers all the techniques in creating this lettering illustration and gives advanced coloring and compositional tips. This Tutorial is Filled with Creative Techniques Warm up your illustration skills with this spring-inspired tutorial for creating organic letters.
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How to Make an Attractive Vector Butterfly
Mar 9, 2010 General, Inspiration, Tutorials
In this tutorial I will show you how to make a vector butterfly using the blending mode from transparency box and the gradient mesh. The techniques shown in this tutorial will help you make shades on objects and liquid transition of colors. Believe me it is very easy. Step 1 Let’s start with creating a butterfly wing.
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30 Fashionable T-shirt Designs
Mar 9, 2010 General, Inspiration, Tutorials
File Type: AI, EPS, and CDR License: Free for Personal and Commercial Use This set of professional T-shirt designs can be used in a variety of ways, with 30 different emblems to choose from you’ll be sure to find something for your next project.
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Draw a Glowing, Vector Pocket Watch – Front and Back
Mar 8, 2010 General, Inspiration, Tutorials
In this tutorial you will learn how to draw the front and the back side of a pocket watch from scratch. This tutorial is detailed and by the end you will know how to draw all kinds of shapes, like cog-wheels and small screws. You’ll learn to create the scatter brushes used for the designs on the watch and how to use some of the existing patterns and gradients in Illustrator’s library to your advantage. Part 1 – Draw the Front Side of the Pocket Watch Step 1 Open a new web document.
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Interview with Dacosta!
Mar 7, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials, Video Tutorials
Dacosta is an independent artist currently based in Vancouver and is the founder of Chocolate Soop, Inc. He specializes in vector graphics and character design. This self-taught designer has over 10 years of professional experience. He’s influenced by Japanese culture, graffiti and industrial design.
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How to Create a Shiny Vector Strawberry – Vector Premium Tutorial
Mar 5, 2010 General, Inspiration, Tutorials
We have another great Vector Plus tutorial available exclusively for Plus members today. If you want to learn how to control the lighting in your illustrations while creating a juicy strawberry, then we have an awesome tutorial for you. This Tutorial is Filled with Creative Techniques In this tutorial we will learn how to create a vector strawberry. We’ll use Illustrator tools, such as: the Blend Tool, Envelope Distort, Pathfinder, and Gradient Fill.
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Redesign and Other Tuts News
Mar 5, 2010 General, Inspiration, Tutorials
Over the last three days we’ve been steadily rolling out a new Tuts+ theme across all 8 sites. The new design is a refinement more than a big change, with lots of little improvements in usability and more suited to big screens. Read on to learn more about the redesign and lots of news about Plus! 1 The Plus Project As you may know we have some pretty big plans for these Tuts+ sites. While today they are humble little tutorial blogs, we’ve thought for some time that it would be cool to build an entire platform for education.
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Create Character Driven Book Cover Art Using Illustrator and Photoshop – Part 1
Mar 4, 2010 General, Inspiration, Tutorials
In this two part tutorial on creating the “Let’s Go To Monster School!” book cover, I’ll show you a complete process from initial sketch to the final artwork, using an Illustrator to Photoshop integrated workflow. In Part 1 we will employ Illustrator to trace our hand drawn sketch, lay down the shapes and define the basic colors. In Part 2 , available on Psdtuts+, we’ll take the vector drawing into Photoshop, where we will refine the shading, add some textures and complete the book cover with the appropriate typography. Let’s get started with Part 1.
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How To Create a Reusable, Dynamic Badge Effect in Illustrator CS4
Mar 2, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
In this tutorial I will explain how to make a Shamrock Badge for St. Patrick’s Day using the Appearance Palette in combination with some simple effects. The result will be a reusable dynamic badge effect. You are welcome to try this with any shape or colors.
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Quick Tip: How to Make Pop Art with Live Trace
Feb 19, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
Use Adobe Illustrator’s Live Trace feature to turn photos into pop art! In this screencast, we review tracing options, using various color palettes, and other Live Trace settings to create groovy art rapidly. Subscribe to the Vectortuts+ RSS Feed to stay up to date with the latest vector tutorials and articles.
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