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Quick Tip – How To Make Grunge Text Using a Digital Tablet
Sometimes you have to break out of the design box and go crazy! In this vector quick tip you will learn how to create a grungy text effect without ending up with a complete mess. Using a digital...
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Inspiration: Hot Vector Vehicles
They say that any self-respecting illustrator should be able to draw a realistic person, flower and car. Why? Because all these things have something in common, they have to be drawn perfectly in...
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Take the Tuts+ Survey, Win a $250 Amazon Gift Voucher
In three years Tuts+ has grown from one site to nine and continues to offer some of the best tutorials on the web. Now we want to know how we can make it better. It will take less than three minutes...
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Quick Tip – Using Raster Effects to Stylize an Artwork
Adobe Illustrator contains a number of Raster Effects such as the Drop Shadow, Feather and Glow. Application of these effects greatly accelerates the creation of your artwork. However, sometimes the...
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Exclusive Freebie Pack – Cartoon Interiors
We have a new set of vector illustrations available exclusively from Vectortuts+ as freebie for anyone to download. This pack is created by Anastasiia Kucherenko. There are numerous cartoon interiors,...
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Create your own Calendar with Illustrator & InDesign – Vector Premium Tutorial
We have another great Vector Premium tutorial available exclusively for Premium members today. If you want to learn how to use Adobe Illustrator and InDesign to make an attractive type based calendar,...
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Create a Detailed, Vector-based iPhone Illustration, Part 1
In this tutorial you will learn how to create a photo-realistic iPhone illustration and every single icon you can find on the iPhone touch screen. That’s 18 icons! With so many fantastic tips and...
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Create a Detailed, Vector-based iPhone Illustration, Part 2
In ‘Create a Detailed, Vector-based iPhone Illustration, Part 1‘, we made our iPhone and the first five icons. Now we will finish the remainder of the icons and add the final touches to the iPhone....
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How to Draw a Glossy Yo-Yo Icon using Adobe Illustrator
Entertain yourself with this tutorial on creating a glossy yo-yo icon. You will learn how to combine different gradient and object effects to make a hyper realistic and shiny plastic surface. The...
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Inspiration: 35 Amazing Vector Landscapes
Landscapes aren’t necessarily the first thing that come to mind when one thinks of vector artwork. After all, landscapes are often very nuanced and hold a wide variety of shapes, colors, and patterns...
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Illustrating a Chili Pepper with Illustrator’s Envelope Distort Tool
Illustrator’s Envelope Distort is an editing tool that not only creates distortions in an object or image, it can also be used for modeling interesting forms, like this pepper. Beginners will get to...
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From Sketch to Vector, Simple Illustration That’s Not So Simple – Basix
Simplified, clean and minimalist illustration is becoming popular again. This style of illustration is interesting, not only visually but also technically. Successfully achieving this style is less...
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Quick Tip: How to Make a Glossy Web Style Rounded Button
Have you ever wondered how to make a glossy web button? In this Quick Tip you will learn how to create a simple button with recessed text, in just 11 easy steps. The best thing is, once you’ve made...
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Inspiration: 75 Superb Examples of Bottle Packaging
Packaging design is a specialized area of graphic design, one that carries its own guidelines and best practices. The goal of a package is to make the product stand out among its competition, and...
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Software Assisted Illustration in the Form of Information Visualization
Thinking about illustration inevitably calls to mind images of pencils and sketchpads and an analog, old-school creative process. There’s a certain charm to hand-drawn images, an intimate bridge...
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Create an Ominous Jar of Purple Ooze
Beef up your Illustrator skills while creating an ominous jar of purple ooze. In this tut you will find handy tips and techniques for illustrating glass, chrome and toxic ooze. Step 1 Start by using...
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How to Create a Medieval Paper Scroll
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a medieval paper scroll with the 3D Extrude & Revolve tool. Using texture, you will also learn how to make an object look old and how to map artwork...
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Quick Tip: Additive Graphic Syles
Illustrator’s built–in Additive Graphic Styles are a quick way to add transform effects to objects. This little known little known feature can be used in many ways, from improving work-flow to adding...
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From A Childs View: 30+ Creative Children’s Book Covers
This inspirational post is all about showing you a great selection of different ways the digital medium is put to use in the modern day world to create illustrations for children’s book covers: from...
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Create an Elegant Theater Interior with Illustrator
The keys to this richly-appointed theater interior are simple Gradient Meshes and a few well-placed gradient fills. Once you’ve created the basic building blocks, it’s easy to re-purpose them for...
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