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How to Create an Isometric Pixel Art Christmas Tree in Adobe Photoshop
What You'll Be CreatingLet's get a little festive with our pixel art. We'll make Christmas's #1 decoration: a Christmas tree! The tree itself will be reusable for natural environments (sans the...
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How to Learn to Draw: Stage Four, Style
What You'll Be CreatingDrawing has many faces. On the one hand, we admire realistic representations of the world around us, and on the other we seem to enjoy distortions of it. At least, certain kinds...
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How to Create a Flat Winter Scene in Adobe Illustrator
What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial we’ll be creating a cozy winter forest scene in a trendy flat style. We’ll be using various basic shapes and Pathfinder operations of Adobe Illustrator, building...
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So You Want to Be a Children's Illustrator?
Illustration by Lucy Fleming.The power of a good children's illustrator can stay with us well into adulthood and is often something shared from parent to child. Children's illustrators work in a...
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How to Create a Raindrops Text Effect in Adobe Photoshop
What You'll Be CreatingUsing Photoshop's filters and alpha channels is a great way to create and play around with selections. This tutorial will show you how to use a simple technique to create...
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How to Use and Edit Vector Stock Patterns in Adobe Illustrator
What You'll Be CreatingNo matter why you're using a stock vector pattern, you may want to know how to install, use, and edit it within Adobe Illustrator CC. In this quick tip tutorial we'll run through...
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A Beginners Guide to Paint Tool SAI
Paint Tool SAI is a lightweight, Japanese digital painting program which is very popular among artists due to its simplicity and vast range of tools. This tutorial is a basic guide which will be useful...
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How to Create a Quick Firework Scene in Adobe Photoshop
What You'll Be CreatingIt's that time of year where there are many fireworks displays for events such as Hogmanay (Scottish New Year). In this tutorial I will teach you how to install pre-made firework...
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How to Create a Holiday-Themed Vector Pattern in Adobe Illustrator
What You'll Be CreatingWe all know that this time of the year includes lots of presents. Most of the time we have to wrap them, and searching for the perfect paper for the occasion can be a hassle. In...
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The Top 40 Design & Illustration Posts of 2015
Seems like only yesterday I was putting together the Top 40 Design & Illustration Posts of 2014. How time flies... it's 2016 already! This year, we've seen a few new things worth mentioning before...
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Illustration Course: Advanced Manga Studio Techniques
What You'll Be CreatingManga Studio is a fantastic tool, with many features that can drastically speed up and improve any illustrator’s workflow. In our new course, Advanced Manga Studio Techniques,...
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How to Create a Digital Painting Portrait in Paint Tool SAI
What You'll Be CreatingDo you want to have some fun and learn new tricks? In this tutorial, I will explain how to use Paint Tool SAI’s vector tools to create clean and smooth contours, and use its...
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Make Your New Year's Resolution to Start Your Freelance Design Career
It's that time of year when you start to make New Year's Resolutions and promise yourself this year you'll keep this one. One of the resolutions you should take seriously is what I'm going to help you...
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How to Create an Animated Work-in-Progress Action in Adobe Photoshop
What You'll Be CreatingHow do you make your art? We would love to see! In this quick tip, I'll show you how to create an animated GIF in Adobe Photoshop to show the evolution of your digital work.Show...
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How to Create Flat Profession Avatars in Adobe Illustrator
What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial we’ll be making a set of flat-style portraits, depicting people of different professions and occupations. Such images can be used as avatars for social networks...
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How to Color in a Traditionally Inked Comic in Adobe Illustrator
What You'll Be CreatingLearn how to turn a traditionally inked comic page into a warmly lit night scene in vector. With live paint, global process colors, gradients and different layer transparency...
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9 Creative Resume Design Tips (With Template Examples)
What You'll Be CreatingIf you’re hunting for that dream role at a creative company you’re going to want to dust off your old resume and give it a modern refresh. But how can you make sure that—out of...
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How to Paint Realistic Hair in Adobe Photoshop: Short Hair & Beards
What You'll Be CreatingNo portrait is complete without painting a beautiful hairstyle. In this tutorial, I'll show you how to digitally paint realistic facial hair and two short hairstyles using Adobe...
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Illustrator in 60 Seconds: The Pathfinder Panel
Welcome to our Illustrator in 60 Seconds series, in which you can learn an Illustrator skill, feature, or technique in just a minute!The Pathfinder PanelHaving trouble figuring out how to use the...
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10 Top Tips for Creating Your Own EPUBs and eMagazines
What You'll Be CreatingBooks and magazines are continuing to flourish in the digital age by adapting to EPUB and eMagazine formats. This exciting new medium presents both new opportunities and new...
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