Celebrate Children's Day in Mexico With a Colorful Postcard!
What You'll Be CreatingA globally recognized festival, Children’s Day celebrates children and their well-being. Children’s Day is celebrated in a number of different countries, but since 1925 the event...
View ArticleHow to Create a Drinking Straw Text Effect in Adobe Illustrator
What You'll Be CreatingFor starters you will learn how to set up a simple grid and how to create the set of shapes that will make up a first pattern brush. You'll learn how to easily create pixel...
View ArticleSo You Want to Be an Animator?
Artwork by Erika Worthylake.Artists within animation have a variety of roles. Often when we think of the art team assembled for an animated show or feature, we focus solely on the animators themselves;...
View ArticleHow to Draw Realistic Metallic Effects With Pencil
What You'll Be CreatingCars can be a form of art in themselves, and many artists have created beautiful drawings of them over the years, yet chrome and metal can be difficult to draw and render with...
View ArticleCreate a Detailed Flour Text Effect in Adobe Photoshop
What You'll Be CreatingModifying the various brush settings in Photoshop can help achieve different effects and textures. This tutorial will show you how to play around with brush settings, as well as...
View ArticleDesign a Fold-Out City Guide in Adobe InDesign
What You'll Be CreatingDesigning a print document that’s going to be folded can be tricky, but in this tutorial we look at how you can make it ultra simple... and fun! In this tutorial suitable for...
View ArticleCreate a Lebanese Inspired, Printable Placemat for Kids in Adobe Illustrator
What You'll Be CreatingMealtime should be a fun time for the young, whether they are in a restaurant, at home, or any place they are eating. So what better way to entertain them than by creating a...
View ArticleTuts+ and Global Influences
Being able to deliver quality, creative, educational content to our readers is our top priority here at Tuts+. In fact, it's part of our parent company, Envato's mission: "To help people learn and earn...
View ArticleHarness the Elements: Paint Earth in All Its Forms
What You'll Be CreatingEarth and rocks are a very important part of complex scenes. They seem very easy, but at the same time it's hard to render them in a believable way. A texture will not do on its...
View ArticleHow to Create a Traditional Romanian Folk Inspired Pattern in Adobe Illustrator
What You'll Be CreatingToday’s tutorial is a little bit special, as I am going to show you how to build something based on a traditional hand-sewed Romanian decorative pattern. The tutorial itself will...
View ArticleImprove Your Portraits With This Subtle Skin Shading Technique
What You'll Be CreatingSkin shading is probably the most time-consuming part of creating a vector portrait. Viewers rarely focus on it, but if it's done badly, it'll bring the overall quality of your...
View ArticleTuts+ Community Challenge: Created by You, April 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 also try them out. This is...
View ArticleHow to Create a Cute Monster Character in Adobe Illustrator
What You'll Be CreatingIn the following steps you will learn how to create a detailed monster character in Adobe Illustrator. For starters you will learn how to set up a simple grid and how to create...
View Article10 Basic Mistakes in Digital Painting and How to Fix Them
Digital painting is quite tricky. You get the proper software and that's it, you can start painting. Every tool, even the most powerful one, is within your reach. All the colors are ready to be used,...
View ArticleLearn How to Paint a Realistic Nose in Adobe Photoshop
What You'll Be CreatingMany people find noses to be quite difficult, but in fact they are pretty simple: just a cone shape with two holes!Okay, maybe not that simple, but you get the gist of it. Let's...
View ArticleCreate an Isometric Pixel Art Coffee Shop in Adobe Photoshop
What You'll Be CreatingIf you are making a pixel art town illustration, or even if you only want to do a simple isometric pixel art piece, a coffee shop or restaurant will be a good thing to add.We'll...
View ArticleUsing Numeral Styles
When you type, you probably don’t pay much attention to the numerals. In fact, you’d probably think that there's only one set of numerals per font, and that the form and size differences between the...
View ArticleCreate a Taylor Swift "Style" Inspired Double Exposure Effect in...
What You'll Be CreatingIf you haven't seen Taylor Swift's video for her hit song, Style, then do yourself a favor and check it out! Not surprisingly it's a "stylistic" video, and it contains some...
View ArticleCreate a Pen Tool Free Swan Silhouette Swamp Scene in Adobe Illustrator
What You'll Be CreatingIf you follow my tutorials on a regular basis, you'll know that I'm no stranger to a silhouette scene. I love creating them, as they're easy to do and you can learn some new...
View ArticleCreative Arabic Calligraphy: Designing the Letters
What You'll Be CreatingIn previous lessons we have picked up clues as to what makes up the consistency of a script. We learned the anatomy of the letterforms, and how they relate to each other. We also...
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