How to Create a Set of Mini Pirate Icons in Adobe Illustrator
What You'll Be CreatingToday’s tutorial will show you how to create a set of pirate-themed icons with the help of Adobe Illustrator. The process will be mainly based on the use of basic shapes, with a...
View ArticleMeet Tuts+ Reader Philippe Rivard
Name: Philippe RivardLocation: Montreal, QuebecTopics of Interest: Web Hosting, Cloud, SaaS, Billing SoftwareOccupation: EntrepreneurIn our series of Tuts+ community stories so far, you've met South...
View ArticleHow to Create and Use a Set of Brushes for Digital Painting in Adobe Photoshop
What You'll Be CreatingThe Brush Tool is the most important tool for a digital artist, but it's also one of the trickiest ones. When you're just starting, you get this feeling that you need a separate...
View ArticleHow to Rescue Under-Exposed JPEG Images with Adobe Photoshop
In an ideal world, we would have beautiful, correctly exposed RAW images to work with all the time. What we have in reality, for a variety of reasons, is often an incorrectly exposed JPEG. In this...
View ArticleCreate a Radiant Owl iPhone Case Template in Adobe Illustrator
What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial we’ll go through the process of creating a stylish smartphone case with a colorful, detailed owl. We’ll work with gradients to create a vivid color palette, use...
View ArticleCreate a French Movie Poster in Adobe InDesign
What You'll Be CreatingGiving a nod to the golden era of French cinema, this New Wave-inspired poster picks up on the graphic elements and je-ne-sais-quoi charm of 1960s independent film. C’est...
View ArticleNew Course: Character Design & Animation for Games
Ever wondered how to create and animate characters for video games? In Character Design & Animation for Games, concept artist and animator Jonathan Lam will take you through a step-by-step process,...
View ArticleHow to Create a Barbed Wire Text Effect in Adobe Illustrator
What You'll Be CreatingIn the following steps you will learn how to create a detailed barbed-wire pattern brush and use it to create a nice text effect in Adobe Illustrator.You will learn how to set up...
View ArticleCreate a Marvelously British Scone Text Effect in Adobe Photoshop
What You'll Be CreatingUsing different brushes, textures, and layer styles can be a great way of building up a detailed text effect. This tutorial will show you how to use those three elements, along...
View ArticleTeam Awesome: From Hand-Lettered Logotype to Vector in Adobe Illustrator
What You'll Be CreatingHave you ever wanted to create a typographic logo for you or your team? It’s not as difficult as it seems! Many people say they can't paint or draw, but typography is part of our...
View ArticleCreate a Cute Deer Illustration in Adobe Illustrator
What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial we're going to take a cute character from starting sketch to finished product using Adobe Illustrator. We'll be focusing on how to achieve an efficient workflow...
View ArticleUse Ink Liners to Create a Skull and Roses Drawing
What You'll Be CreatingIn today's tutorial I'm going to show you how to create a skull with a flower crown using ink liners. A liner is similar to a gel or capillary pen, but whereas pens are roughly...
View ArticleCreate a Plastic Balls Text Effect in Adobe Illustrator
What You'll Be CreatingIn the following steps you will learn how to create a colorful plastic balls text effect in Adobe Illustrator. For starters you will learn how to set up a simple grid and how to...
View ArticleCreate a Multi-Character Pirate Illustration for Young Children in Adobe...
What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial I'll give a walkthrough of creating a fun, bright multi-character pirate ship aimed at three- to six-year-olds! In this tutorial we will be looking at how to...
View ArticleTuts+ Community Journal Project: Mustache Doodles
What You'll Be CreatingWe've been filling in journal and sketchbook pages with fun challenges around here lately. Here's another chance to join in with our ongoing project.Gather up some markers, pens,...
View ArticleCreative Arabic Calligraphy: Ornamentation and Symmetry
What You'll Be CreatingCertain forms of Kufic, grouped under the broad appellation of "ornamental Kufic", strike the eye with their intricacy and profusion of ornamental forms that all but obscure the...
View ArticleDigital Drawing vs. Digital Painting: What the Difference Is and Why You...
If you dream about being good at drawing, but you don't have much experience, most likely you associate it with a pencil. But what you really want is to bring your ideas out from your mind, and a mere...
View ArticleCreate a Colorful Wooden Artist's Palette in Adobe Illustrator
What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial we’ll be creating a semi-realistic wooden palette for painting. We’ll use some basic shapes along with simple freehand drawing, and then we'll add spectacular...
View ArticleCreate a City Destruction Scene Photo Manipulation in Adobe Photoshop
What You'll Be Creating​​​​​​​​​​​​​​In this tutorial I'll show you how to create a city destruction scene. You'll learn how to destroy a city by adding broken, damaged elements and blending them using...
View ArticleNew Course: Design Print-Ready Calendars
Why buy calendars each year, when you can learn to make your own? In Design Print-Ready Calendars, you’ll use Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign to create two print-ready calendars: a compact...
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