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What You'll Be CreatingWhen browsing the tutorials here in the Design & Illustration section, you'll find a huge base of educational content written by many authors from all over the world. Some of...
View ArticleWhat You Can Learn From Some of the Web's Most Creative People
Sometimes we all need a little inspiration. There are days when everything seems too hard, the to-do list seems too long, and the goal we're working towards seems to have disappeared beyond the...
View ArticleHow to Create a Detailed Lighthouse Flat Icon in Affinity Designer
What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial we’ll go through the process of creating a lighthouse icon in a trendy flat style using Affinity Designer. We’ll be using simple shapes, such as rectangles and...
View ArticleHit the Bullseye With This Dart Icon Quick Tip in Adobe Illustrator
What You'll Be CreatingIn the following steps you will learn how to create a simple darts arrow illustration in Adobe Illustrator. For starters you will learn how to set up a simple grid and how to...
View ArticleQuick Tip: the Magic of Photoshop's Blend If
What You'll Be CreatingThe opacity or transparency of a layer is usually seen as a kind of gradient—the layer can be fully opaque, fully transparent, or somewhere in between. But did you know that you...
View ArticleTuts+ is Hiring Visual Design Course Instructors
Are you a skilled visual designer? Have you considered sharing your knowledge through teaching online video courses? We're growing our visual design course topics here at Tuts+, expanding deeper into...
View ArticleHow to Create a Set of Graffiti-Inspired Line Icons Using Adobe Illustrator
What You'll Be CreatingToday I've got something special prepped in a form of a quick tip tutorial. In the following minutes we are going to look at how we can create a set of smooth graffiti-inspired...
View ArticleQuick Tip: Create Dynamic Poses Using Gesture Drawing
What You'll Be CreatingCharacters looking stiff? Illustrations repeating the same old poses? Animation looking boring? Fret not, I have a cure! Dynamic gesture drawing is a great way to really loosen...
View ArticleQuick Tip: How to Fill Text With an Image in Adobe InDesign
What You'll Be CreatingPlacing an image inside a single character can give your layouts a super-professional, design-forward look. And it’s really simple to achieve!In this Quick Tip tutorial, you’ll...
View ArticleDigital Painting 101: A Beginner's Guide to Photo References
Paint a dog. From scratch. Without using Google.Doesn't seem so easy now, does it?Without referring to a photograph, illustrating anything seems impossible for most artists. So today we'll cover the...
View ArticleNew Course: Create Product Mock-Ups in Adobe Photoshop
When pitching a design, the presentation can be crucial to convincing the client to go with a concept. In Create Product Mock-Ups in Adobe Photoshop, you’ll get a better understanding of how to create...
View ArticleCreate Peonies the Quick and Easy Way in Adobe Illustrator
What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial, you will learn a quick, easy way create peonies. We will use the Warp Tool and the Pucker Tool.1. Drawing a PetalStep 1After creating a new document (600 px...
View ArticleCreate an Isometric Pixel Art Billboard in Adobe Photoshop
What You'll Be CreatingAdvertising is everywhere, and it's possible that it will need to crop up in your pixel art world. So today we're going to find out how to turn a regular image into its isometric...
View ArticleHow to Tile Large Documents for Printing in Adobe Illustrator
Print tiling comes in handy if you need to make a poster-sized proof, print, or any other over-sized output. Rather than taking the file to a printing company or service bureau, you can print the image...
View ArticleHow to Shade Black and White Realistically in Digital Painting
What You'll Be CreatingShading with colors is not an easy thing. All those hues with different saturations and brightnesses can make you dizzy! Black and white, in this case, should be much less...
View Article3D Print a Custom Cut-Out Case for Your Mobile Phone
What You'll Be CreatingFollowing from last month's article summing up 3D printing, this month I'm going to get a bit more practical. I'm going to show you an easy way to make your first 3D printed...
View ArticleAdobe Creative Cloud 2015: New Features for Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign,...
It's everyone's favorite time of year: Adobe Creative Cloud update time! Check out all of the new features of your favorite illustration and design programs plus new features to Adobe's mobile app line...
View ArticleHow to Create a Hot Concrete Text Effect in Adobe Photoshop
What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial, you'll learn how to create a hot concrete text effect using two layers to get a central vanishing point in Adobe Photoshop. Let's get started!Tutorial...
View ArticleCreate a Summer Portrait From a Stock Image in Adobe Illustrator
What You'll Be CreatingIf you live in the Northern Hemisphere, it's coming towards summer! In celebration of the hopefully milder, warmer weather, I'm going to show you how to create a portrait from a...
View ArticleJoin the Tuts+ Community Journal Project: Pixel Art Character!
What You'll Be CreatingAt some point in our lives, every artist keeps a sketchbook. Whether you're more of a doodler or have a knack for fabulous detail, journals are a great resource to get out all...
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