How to Create the X-Men Character Gambit in Adobe Illustrator
What You'll Be CreatingAlthough I'm not a cosplayer myself, I do enjoy browsing inspiring cosplay creations. One of my favourite forms of cosplaying is when people alter the gender or gender identity...
View ArticleHow to Use Adobe Fuse to Create a Superhero Reference
What You'll Be CreatingWhen you have an awesome idea for a character, you can feel how great it would be to see it on paper. But what if you don't have "talent"? Or maybe you can draw, but humans are...
View ArticleHow to Create the X-Men Logo in Adobe Illustrator
What You'll Be CreatingIn the following steps you will learn how to create a neat X-Men logo in Adobe Illustrator. For starters you will learn how to set up a simple grid and how to create the main...
View ArticleHow to Create an Apocalypse-Inspired Photo Manipulation in Adobe Photoshop
What You'll Be CreatingEvery superhero movie needs a villain. In the new X-men Apocalypse, that villain is none other than the fierce En Sabah Nur... aka Apocalypse.Today I'll teach you how to create...
View ArticleHow to Relight Portraits in Post With These 6 Dramatic Photoshop Actions
Relighting is a post-production technique that takes a base image and alters the appearance of the lighting sources, or even adds the appearance of new lighting sources altogether, to improve the...
View ArticleHow to Create a "Website Under Construction" Illustration
What You'll Be CreatingToday I'm going to show you how easy it is to create your own “Website Under Construction” illustration using Adobe Illustrator. Hopefully this quick tutorial will inspire you to...
View ArticlePhotoshop in 60 Seconds: What Are Artboards?
Interface Design on Envato MarketWelcome to our Photoshop in 60 Seconds series, in which you can learn a Photoshop skill, feature, or technique in just a minute!Artboards in PhotoshopArtboards are a...
View ArticleHow to Create a Detailed Chocolate Chip Cookie in Adobe Illustrator
What You'll Be CreatingFollow this tutorial and learn how to draw a pretty detailed chocolate chip cookie in vector form. First, you'll create the whole cookie and after that, you'll learn to create...
View ArticleHow to Create Your Own 3D Materials With Filter Forge 5 and Adobe Photoshop
What You'll Be CreatingFilter Forge 5 is an Adobe Photoshop plugin and stand-alone software that gives you the ability to create your own complex filters and textures. Its node-based Filter Editor is...
View ArticleHow to Create Nature-Inspired, Decorative Arrows in Adobe Illustrator
What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial, you will learn how to create fancy, decorated arrows. We will use basic shapes and then apply Warp, Roughen, and Zig-Zag effects. You will also learn how to...
View ArticleTake Our New Course on Dynamic Gesture Drawing
What You'll Be CreatingWant to improve your drawing technique? In our new course, Dynamic Gesture Drawing, digital artist Brian Lee will teach you the fundamentals of gesture drawing step by step. You...
View ArticleDecode Graphic Design Jargon: Part 1
Graphic designers can be a confusing bunch—sometimes it feels as if they’re speaking a completely different language. If you’re at the receiving end of ‘agency speak’, you might feel a little...
View ArticleHow to Add Texture to a Flat Illustration in Adobe Photoshop
What You'll Be CreatingSummer heat is a perfect time to have a cold glass of fresh homemade lemonade to detox and refresh ourselves. In this tutorial you’ll learn how to make a trendy flat-style...
View Article20 Magazine Templates With Creative Print Layout Designs
In this era of inbound marketing, one could be forgiven for thinking that print is dead. After all, landing pages, social media, emails and websites are a core part of any successful small businesses’...
View ArticleHow to Draw Creatively Using Photo References
What You'll Be CreatingDrawing from imagination sounds cool, but we rarely know enough about the subject to draw it perfectly. You could try and guess, just to impress others with your guessing skills,...
View ArticleHow to Create a Digital Portrait Using Adobe Fuse and Photoshop
What You'll Be CreatingPortraits are not easy to paint from imagination. They're not only about anatomy, but about the spirit of the person hidden in the facial features and the expression. If you also...
View ArticleInternational Artist Feature: Italy
For this article in the international artist series, we turn to Italy, featuring six artists who create fantastic work, from illustration to graphic design and more! I asked each artist how their...
View ArticleHow to Quickly Create a Cute Phone Character in Adobe Illustrator
What You'll Be CreatingIn today’s tutorial I'm going to show you how to create a cute character illustration, using some of Illustrator’s most basic shapes and tools, combined with the power of...
View ArticleAnimation for Beginners: How to Animate Squash and Stretch
What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial, I will be taking you through the steps of how to animate a squash and stretch. Incorporating squash and stretch into animation of a character or even an object...
View Article10 Influential People of Color Throughout Art History
In continuing with our art history features, I’ve collected some fantastic people of color in art. So very often, when influential artists are discussed, it’s the usual suspects (Da Vinci, Monet, etc.)...
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