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Creating a Personalized Pet Portrait in Illustrator CS5 – Vector Premium...
Today, we have another Vector Premium tutorial exclusively available to Premium members. If you want to learn how to create a personalized pet portrait for your client, then we have an awesome...
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Vectortuts+ Assignment: Create a Vector Silhouette
This week the assignment is to draw a silhouette. This is a simple drawing exercise, which has a long tradition. It’s a great way to learn to see larger shapes, poses, and more. You can grab your last...
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Quick Tip: Create High Tech Style HUD Rings in Illustrator
This Quick Tip tutorial will show you how to make high tech style HUD rings in Illustrator. The same effect can be easily achieved in Photoshop with "Polar Coordinate". However, "Polar Coordinate" is...
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Make an iPod Nano Using Illustrator’s 3D Effects
While Illustrator is not a true 3D application, you can still achieve sophisticated results with a few simple shapes. Both parts of this video tutorial are included in this post. In Part 1 of this...
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Quick Tip: How to Set Illustrator Actions
Actions are a type of recording that, when played, can perform repetitive tasks, on a single file or an entire batch. Take a little time to set up some Actions, and let the computer do the boring work...
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Make an Anti-counterfeit Ticket with Blend Modes and a UV Varnish
Create your own anti-counterfeit raffle ticket from scratch in Illustrator. You will learn how to use various blending modes to create a complex design and also how to prepare your file for printing...
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Quick Tip: Create a Colorful Sliced Sphere to use as a Logo Design
Colorful and vibrant logos are extremely trendy recently. In this Quick Tip we will take a look at how you can easily create an appealing colored sphere which will make a great foundation for a...
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Create Cartoon Packaging with Colorful Characters – Vector Premium Tutorial
Today, we have another Vector Premium tutorial exclusively available to Premium members. If you want to learn how to create a colorful character packaging branded with cartoon charters, then we have...
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Review: Introducing Xara Designer Pro 6
Xara Designer is a powerful program for creating professional graphics using both vector and bitmap images. Using this program you can create graphics for a variety of purposes including web graphics,...
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Assignment: Draw a Character from a Flickr Photo
This week the assignment is to draw a character from a photo reference on Flickr. There is a vast collection of people photos just waiting for you to turn them into vector characters. It’s not easy to...
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Creating a Maneater Vector Girl through Collaboration
In this tutorial you’ll see a collaboration between two vector artists. Ashley S. Benson will be responsible for the initial composition layout and coloring while Sharon Milne (me) will be refining...
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Interview with Minkee
Minkee has to be one of the brightest Illustrators you will ever come across, not just for her colorful creations, but also for her cheery outlook on life, her career and living with a “furry and...
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Tuts+ Marketplace Tutorial Competition: $1500 Cash and Additional Prizes
Want to know how you could win more than $1,000 worth of prizes for having your tutorial accepted on the Tuts+ Marketplace? We’re looking for marketplace author submitted content showing us how you...
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Community: Totem Project 2
After the fantastic response to Vectortuts+ Totem Collection 1, I’m happy to present Vectortuts+ Totem Collection 2! Part two has some great pieces to look at, including a few submissions from our...
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Open the Door into the Science of Color Theory
Color theory is a vast and complicated sphere of knowledge. It consists of different scientific elements, such as: optics, spectroscopy, human anatomy and physiology, psychology, art history and...
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Quick Tip: How to Use 3D Revolve to Make Sports Balls in Adobe Illustrator
Creating a sphere is super easy with Illustrator’s 3D Revolve effect. Understanding how artwork is mapped to a 3D object will allow you to create a variety of items for different sports.
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Premium Vector Pack – World Landmarks
We have a new set of vector illustrations available exclusively for Vector Premium members. Crafted by Iaroslav Lazunov, there are numerous high quality vector illustrations of world renowned...
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Assignment: Create a Contour Line Drawing
This week the assignment is to work on a contour line drawing. Line is one of the fundamental drawing techniques, both traditionally, and for the vector artist. This assignment will teach you to see...
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Quick Tip: Automatic Formatting using GREP Styles in Adobe InDesign
InDesign’s GREP styles are the magic of automatic formatting. In this Quick Tip we will explain how to set up GREP styles and how you can use them to for a consistent and efficient design. Step 1:...
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Create a Vector, CD/MP3 Car Stereo
In this tutorial I’ll show you how to create your own subwoofer and a CD/MP3 player for a car by using Ellipse Tool, Rectangle Tool, Pen Tool and Gradients. Step 1 Open a new document, pick the...
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