How to Draw Animals: Crocodiles, Alligators, Caimans and Gharials
What You'll Be CreatingAlthough crocodiles aren't the closest extant relatives of dinosaurs, they surely don't look much different than them. Big, scaly, ferocious, with huge jaws full of sharp...
View ArticleCreate a Bellydance Music Playlist Cover in Adobe Illustrator
What You'll Be CreatingBellydance has a long history in Middle Eastern culture, and according to some experts it should be considered a dance of celebration, performance art or folk dance rather than...
View ArticleNew Course: Advanced Retouching Techniques for Advertisements
Creative advertising is what drives brands and makes them relevant to the modern world. In Advanced Retouching Techniques for Advertisements, you’ll learn how to use compositing and retouching in Adobe...
View ArticleHow to Create a Detailed Pencils Illustration in Adobe Illustrator
What You'll Be CreatingIn the following steps you will learn how to create a detailed illustration of pencils in Adobe Illustrator. For starters you will learn how to set up a simple grid and how to...
View ArticleQuick Tip: Painting With Hard vs. Soft Brushes in Adobe Photoshop
To know digital painting at any level, you need to know the best workflow while using the software. In today's quick tip, we'll tackle Hard vs. Soft Brushes in Adobe Photoshop. I'll show you the...
View ArticleTypography in Action: Design Simple & Effective Type Logos
What You'll Be CreatingTypography plays a huge part in the way brands are perceived, and how successful brands become with consumers. A wise choice of type can make a logo more memorable, more...
View ArticleTuts+ Community Challenge: Created by You, February Round
Welcome to our monthly feature of fantastic tutorial results created by you, the Tuts+ community! Every day visitors like you take the time to not only read our tutorials but try them out. This is an...
View ArticleHarness the Elements: Paint Liquid Water in All Its Forms
What You'll Be CreatingWater is a complicated structure. It is transparent, and despite it being so clear, we can see it somehow. And even in its most "normal" state, liquid, water has many forms, so...
View ArticleTo the Point: Interview With Monika Zagrobelna
In this installment of our interview series, I had the distinct pleasure of asking one of our own Tuts+ instructors, Monika Zagrobelna, questions about her artwork, process, and experiences as an...
View ArticleTwo-Layer Color Pencil Technique
What You'll Be CreatingColored pencils may seem like a childish medium, but in this tutorial I'm going to show you the two-layer technique. By layering two disparate colors, you can create a...
View ArticleHow to Create Custom Water Splash Brushes in Adobe Photoshop
What You'll Be CreatingWater splashes are a beautiful phenomenon. The randomness of liquid physics ensures that every splash is unique. The result is a natural struggle of the fluid as an external...
View Article55 Time-Saving, Productive Workflow Tips for Designers
Want to save time on your design work? Yes! Great, then let's dig in.This article is overflowing with time-saving tips that will not only have you working more proficiently, but get you punching above...
View ArticleQuick Tip: Working With Adobe Illustrator Vectors in InDesign
What You'll Be CreatingAdobe InDesign is a fantastic layout design program, but it isn’t usually the software of choice for editing images. Instead, Illustrator and Photoshop have traditionally been...
View ArticleHow to Create a Stylized Captain's Portrait in Adobe Illustrator
What You'll Be CreatingAhoy, mateys! In this tutorial we will learn how to draw a stylized flat portrait of a funny captain, using basic shapes, warp effects and some custom brushes and textures. Get...
View ArticleNew Course: Icon Design in Sketch
The process of icon design may seem intimidating at first. However, once you've learned the basic ideas and techniques, you can apply the skill of icon design to create beautiful graphics to represent...
View ArticleLearn to Paint Beautiful Realistic Lips in Adobe Photoshop
What You'll Be CreatingLips in humans are instruments of emotion. Not because we speak with them, but also because of the infinite amount of feelings they can convey. As an artist who paints a still...
View ArticleHow to Create the Definitive Designer's Essential Pack in Adobe Illustrator
What You'll Be CreatingBecause I believe that all designers have their own secret essentials pack, I decided to show you how to build a small yet cute set of illustrations that you can use however you...
View ArticleCelebrate Adobe Photoshop's 25th Birthday With 25 Inspiring Resources on Tuts+
This year, Adobe Photoshop turns 25! Let's celebrate this iconic software's birthday by sharing with you some of the awesome resources here on Tuts+. Not only that, but for the next month, one of our...
View ArticleDesign a Search Bar and Image Display Interface in Adobe Photoshop
What You'll Be CreatingAdobe Photoshop is famous not only for its image editing feature, but also for its capabilities to design user interfaces. In this tutorial we are going to design a...
View ArticleDraw Your Mind Out: How to Create Without Thinking
What You'll Be CreatingArtists are usually pictured as spontaneous, slightly crazy individuals. When they get inspired, they forget about everything and just... create. However, when you're merely a...
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