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Playing with Vectors in Illustrator

Posted on 13. Mar, 2010 by admin.

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Last week I decided to spend some time playing with Illustrator and trying to come up with a cool black and white artwork. My inspiration came from some skateboard deck designs which have this sort of 3D effect without using gradients or anything, and not exactly a woodcut effect either. After a few hours I [...]

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Use Photo Manipulation and 3D Layers to Design a Surreal Cover Art Illustration

Posted on 13. Mar, 2010 by admin.

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My clients often ask me to create impossible scenarios, weird landscapes and surreal images for their projects; images that wouldn’t be possible in real life. It’s situations like these where photo manipulation becomes a powerful design tool. In today’s tutorial I will show you how to design a CD cover using several photo manipulation techniques, [...]

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How to Create a Highly Detailed Hi-Tech Power Button – Basix

Posted on 12. Mar, 2010 by admin.

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With this tutorial we will create a hi-tech style button that can be used in splash pages, applications or Powerpoint presentations. We will use Illustrator to create complex vectors and Photoshop to develop realistic effects. Read more

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Create 3D Effects With the Stardust Particle Engine

Posted on 11. Mar, 2010 by admin.

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In my previous tutorial Shoot Out Stars with the Stardust Particle Engine, I explained the basic workflow of Stardust. This time, we’ll take things further and examine a couple of techniques for creating true 3D particle effects! Introduction We’ll begin with a demonstration of how to use the Stardust’s native 3D engine. Then, I’ll show you how [...]

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Henning’s 101: Colour

Posted on 08. Mar, 2010 by admin.

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In the ranking of the most important art principles, you’ll find colour theory in  a solid second place, beaten only by values. Of all of the different aspects of art studies, colour studies are probably the most commonly undertaken, and they’re probably also  the hardest to master. Getting to grips with and successfully applying the most [...]

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How to create a fairy using photos

Posted on 07. Mar, 2010 by admin.

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Here is a tutorial showing how you can create a fairy out of a human, as shown below. The psd file for this tutorial can be found at the bottom of this post. Read more

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Create Typographic Art using Illustrator and Photoshop

Posted on 07. Mar, 2010 by admin.

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Final Image Preview This image is inspired from the cover of LAYOUT, dasar & penerapannya, a graphic design book by Surianto Rustan published by Gramedia in Indonesia. Before starting this tutorial, see the result below. Click here to see the image at a higher resolution. The Illustrator and Photoshop files can be found at the bottom [...]

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How To Design a 3D Glass Icon in Photoshop

Posted on 05. Mar, 2010 by admin.

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Learn How To Design a translucent 3D Frosted Glass Box based on the Safari Icon in Adobe Photoshop Read more

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Painting Avatar Jack Sully

Posted on 05. Mar, 2010 by admin.

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When I saw the James Cameron ‘Avatar’ movie for the first time I was very surprised. I’ve seen it 2 more times. The visual effects are amazing. So I decide to pay a small tribute and began to make a fan art of its protagonist, Jake Sully. Step 1 – This time I started doing two [...]

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Making Of Cliffside

Posted on 02. Mar, 2010 by admin.

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Software Used : ZBrush, Photoshop & Google SketchUp Usually I start working by experimenting with the idea in different forms, lines and colors until I decide how the image should be. Obviously while working on the painting, the image is transforming and the final one might be very different from the original. In this case everything started [...]