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Make a Headphones Icon Using Adobe Illustrator
In this tutorial you will learn how to create a realistic image of headphones using simple and understandable techniques. It turns out that to get a good result there is no need to do it in a complex...
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Quick Tip: How to Make 3D Ribbons in Adobe Illustrator
In today’s Quick Tip, you will learn how to map a simple Symbol to a 3D cylinder to make curly vector ribbons.
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Careers in Vector Illustration and Design
Want vector to pay your bills or an extra piece of income with your vector illustration and design skills? Then you’re in the same boat as me, as I want to know more about careers in vector too! Check...
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Quick Tip: How to Make a Nature Illustration with the Opacity Mask
In this tutorial you will learn how to make an illustration for a magazine cover and learn how to use the opacity mask ,the gradient tool and the pen tool to make some leaves with water drops on them...
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Creating Hero Versus Villain Character Archetypes – Vector Premium Tutorial
Today, we have another Vector Premium tutorial exclusively available to Premium members. If you want to learn how to create great heros and devious villains, then we have an awesome tutorial for you....
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Quick Tip: How to Create a Smooth Navigation Menu in Adobe Illustrator
In the following tutorial you will learn to create a nice navigation menu. This is particularly useful for people who want to make perfectly aligned rollover states for websites and applications. Step...
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Tuts+ Quiz: Winners Announced!
From the bottom of our creative little hearts, we want to thank you all for making the Tuts+ Quiz so much fun! We had over 1,500 entries, and 27 prizes. We’re sorry you can’t all win a prize, but we...
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Fantastic InDesign Tuts from Vectortuts+
At Vectortuts+ we love your feedback, it helps us bring you the very best tutorials and articles about the things that you want to learn. Once request that’s been coming though loud and clear has been...
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David Carson on Design + Discovery
Just because you missed that awesome conference, doesn’t mean that you can’t still watch the lectures! This weekend, we feature an inspiring talk that David Carson did at TED. He walks through a...
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Quick Tip: How to Replace the Spine in Illustrator Blends
In this Quick Tip you will learn some practical and creative uses for Replacing the Spine in an Illustrator Blend. From mathematically placing elements, to making decorative ornaments, you’ll find a...
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Free Resources for Adobe Illustrator on DeviantART
DeviantART released their group’s platform this time last year. It’s spawned 1,000′s of groups ranging from digital art groups to fan art groups. Let me introduce you to the only Adobe Illustrator...
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Community: Totem Project 4
Today I am excited to bring you Totem 4! This very special totem is made entirely made from Vectortuts Flickr Group submissions! This is the last Totem in the series, but it doesn’t mean the end of...
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How To Create a Jeweled Butterfly In Inkscape
Today we’ll create a sparkling jeweled butterfly that will shine without using any gradients. We’ll use various path operations and the powerful extension “pattern along path” to reproduce shimmering...
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Quick Tip: Importing Graphics using InDesign CS5
InDesign can handle a variety of graphics including jpg, eps, pdf, tiff, psd and most Adobe formats to name a few. InDesign doesn’t actually place the graphic into the document. Instead it makes a...
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Smoothly Shift Winter Colors, While Creating an Icy, Vector Landscape
A few times a each month we revisit some of our reader’s favorite posts from throughout the history of Vectortuts+. This tutorial by Jonathan was first published on November 25th 2009. Handle color...
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Quick Tip: How to Draw Atmospheric Perspective
In this Quick Tip you will learn how to apply the principles of Atmospheric Perspective within Illustrator. Using Transparency Masks, simple Linear Gradients and the Hue Saturation Balance color...
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Create a Painterly Landscape with the Blob Brush Tool
Illustrator’s Blob Brush is an intuitive and versatile tool. When used with a graphics tablet, you can create loose, painterly images that venture far from the sharp, clean lines usually associated...
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Stefan Sagmeister Shares Happy Design
Just because you missed that awesome conference, doesn’t mean that you can’t still watch the lectures! This weekend, we feature an inspiring talk that graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister did at TED. He...
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Introduction: Creative Session on Poster Design
Successful poster designs communicate a clear message, makes you halt and look, then draw you into the finer details. As poster design connoisseurs we appreciate an illustrative style that is designed...
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25 Inspirational Posters from 5 Outstanding Vector Artists
Having the skill to create a great piece of vector art is one talent, but being able to combine this into creating a captivating poster design is another. Consider the elements of the poster… being...
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