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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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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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Create a Colorful, Vector Carnival Mask

Posted on 16. Feb, 2010 by admin.

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This tutorial is about how to draw a colorful, jolly, full-face, carnival mask in Illustrator. I explained how every part was made like: the jolly hat, the border seam brush, the bells, the small mask on the face, the glitter symbols and the other decorations on the face. Hope you enjoy it. Read more

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shakespeare text illustration tutorial

Posted on 16. Feb, 2010 by admin.

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I created this text illustration of the ‘Bard’ as an ironic play on the idea of making pictures out of words. Something Shakespeare is one of the best at. Files that might help: Shakespeare reference picture – istockphoto Ink Blot Vectors – I have provided these for download in an earlier post. Il Shake Fest Font – DaFont Shakespeare Quotes [...]

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Learn gorgeous new shading skills

Posted on 12. Feb, 2010 by admin.

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One of the hardest parts of Photoshop art – or indeed much other art – is creating subtle, detailed shading. However, layer masks make the process much easier, allowing you to select and modify certain areas without affecting the rest of your canvas. In this tutorial, Yuta Onoda shows how you can transform a pencil sketch [...]

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How to Design a Cheeky Koala Mascot Head

Posted on 11. Feb, 2010 by admin.

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We’re going to put those vector eyes you learned how to make not long ago to some good use! This tutorial will show you how to combine basic shapes with some clever coloring and blending to make a fantastic looking koala character. We’ll use some opacity masks, brushes, gradients and effects, in addition to an easy [...]

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Cafe Style Coffee Art in Adobe Illustrator

Posted on 01. Feb, 2010 by admin.

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In this Illustrator tutorial I’ll explain step by step how I created the “Delicious Coffee” illustration which was published in “1000 Restaurant, bar & café graphics” by Rockport Publishing. Read more

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Three Ways to Create Celtic Knots in Illustrator

Posted on 27. Jan, 2010 by admin.

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In this tutorial, we’ll explain how to create magical Celtic knots. Ornaments accompanied Celts in life and in death. Ornaments decorated clothes, books, furniture, ware, weapons, and gravestones. I’ll show you three ways to create Celtic knots in vector – from simple to the difficult. The last techniques allows one to create knots of any [...]

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How to Make Super-Sharp, Vector Swords

Posted on 24. Jan, 2010 by admin.

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In this tutorial I’ll show you how to draw a sword in Illustrator, using the Rectangle Tool, gradients, and other Illustrator tools. Actually the tutorial isn’t very hard, let’s see the final result that is our goal first! Read more

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How to Create Typeface Characters

Posted on 11. Jan, 2010 by admin.

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I started a character design project that merges typefaces into unique monsters, cute animals, and various other font inspired character creations. The method is simple, I take different sections of the characters of a specific font and I put them together, giving birth to different kinds of creatures. The interesting thing about Typefaces is that each [...]