New Course: Mastering Animal Anatomy in Digital Painting
What You'll Be CreatingConcept artists need to have a solid understanding of animal anatomy, including all different kinds of animals, like mammals, birds, reptiles, fish and insects. Learning animal...
View ArticleEat Your Veggies! Create a Vegetable Pattern in Adobe Illustrator
What You'll Be CreatingGet those sweet vitamins and minerals with this cute vegetable pattern in Adobe Illustrator CC. We'll use simple shapes to create each item, repeating basic styles, and creating...
View ArticleGeometric Design: A Celtic Grid
What You'll Be CreatingWe have worked with several grids so far, all of which shared a certain logic as, whether Islamic or Christian, they share a common origin in the Ancient world. Today we're...
View ArticleIllustrator Errors: Fixing the Disappearing Pencil Tool Preview
The Pencil Tool (N) gives users the freedom of its namesake in sketching or drawing out paths. Whether stroked or filled, the objects created with the Pencil Tool can be as freely formed as those in...
View ArticleHow to Create a Surreal Underwater Scene With Adobe Photoshop
What You'll Be CreatingTutorial AssetsThe following assets were used during the production of this tutorial:Sky Underwater Scene Sea Shoe Cat Birds 1 Bird 2 Bubble Brushes 1. Add the Underwater...
View ArticleCreate a Colorful Cartoon Hot-Dog Van in Adobe Illustrator
What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial we’ll be creating a colorful cartoon hot-dog van, going down the road and bringing yummy snacks! We’ll be using basic shapes and playing around with Blending...
View ArticleQuick Tip: Troubleshooting Font Problems in Adobe InDesign
What You'll Be CreatingGetting creative with fonts is one of the most fun and rewarding aspects of using InDesign, but every once in a while you encounter font-related problems that make you want to...
View ArticleQuick Tip: Advantages of Using the Clipping Mask Over the Pathfinder Panel
What You'll Be CreatingIn today’s quick tip, I will shed some light on a tool that often gets ignored due to the complexity that most associate with the way it behaves. That tool is none other than the...
View ArticlePhotoshop in 60 Seconds: How to Save Your Images Correctly
What You'll Be CreatingWelcome to our new series, Photoshop in 60 Seconds, in which you can learn a Photoshop skill, feature, or technique in just a minute!Save for WebSaving images for online use is...
View ArticleHow to Draw Different Kinds of Texture With Ink and Nib
What You'll Be CreatingSometimes we have limited options in the choice of art supplies at hand. It might be only a bottle of ink and one thin nib for a highly-detailed drawing with a variety of lines....
View ArticlePhotoshop Errors: How to Fix Text Glitches
Any time you run into problems in Photoshop, you'll experience a significant delay trying to return things back to normal. Text can be particularly tricky, so it's definitely recommended that you get...
View ArticleReady to Learn Some Advanced Photoshop Techniques?
Are you looking to take your Adobe Photoshop skills up a notch? Do you struggle with translating your vision to the digital canvas? Our Advanced Adobe Photoshop Techniques course is designed to help!...
View ArticleSo You Want to Be a Game Artist?
Artwork by James Wolf StrehleGames of all sorts are a part of everyday entertainment for many of us. The artists involved in the creation of video games, card games, mobile games and more are an...
View ArticleHow to Draw, Ink and Colour a Cartoon Car in Adobe Photoshop
What You'll Be CreatingCreating cartoon versions of real-life objects can allow people to do the craziest things with perhaps the most basic designs, while exploring their creativity to no end! Cars...
View ArticleMaster Adjustment Layers in Adobe Photoshop
Adjustment Layers are wondrous things in Photoshop. They combine the editing power of the Image > Adjustments menu features with all the flexibility of Layers. Once you master using Adjustment...
View ArticleCreate an Autumn Girl Illustration in Affinity Designer
What You'll Be CreatingEvery season of the year has its own enchanting beauty! Autumn is one of my favorites: red and golden leaves, blue sky reflecting in the puddles, people walking in the rain with...
View ArticleCreate Your Own Rust Brushes From Scratch in Adobe Photoshop
What You'll Be CreatingRust. That beautifully terrible oxidation of iron elements. It's a fact of life in our world filled with metal and machines. Time and moisture take their toll, and even our most...
View ArticleHow to Create a Set of Flat Animal Icons in Adobe Illustrator
What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial we’ll create six different animal portraits from one and the same circle! Let’s have fun making a set of trendy flat elements using basic shapes, the Shape...
View ArticleHow to Create a Brand Guidelines Document in Adobe InDesign
What You'll Be CreatingBranding is the visual glue that holds a company or organization together. Once you’ve developed the brand for a client or for your own business, you should tie all of the...
View ArticleDrawing for Kids: Draw a Cute Baby Fox
What You'll Be CreatingYou can find a lot of "draw something step by step" tutorials on the Internet, but this one will be a bit different. I'll show you a couple of great techniques you can use later...
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