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Presenting Your Work in a Vintage Polaroid Frame
In today’s beginner tutorial, I’m going to show you how to create a vector Polaroid, with minimal use of the Pen Tool. I’ll then show you how you can use it in combination with another illustration to...
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Discussion: How Can a Vector Designer Protect Their Author’s Rights?
This question is very topical. It is often discussed on vector forums and between different vector designers. In this discussion I want to show you some different ways to protect your author’s rights...
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How to Create a Snowman in Adobe Illustrator
Although we should get ready for the spring arrival and nice weather, half of the world is still covered with snow. For those who already have a nice weather and are not able to create a Snowman with...
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Community Project: Custom Skateboard Jam, Round 1
Vectortuts+ loves Illustration and discovering new talent, so today we are proud to be showcasing Round 1 of the Customized Name Tag Project. The best thing is, you can be a part of it! Find out how...
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Create a Simple Clipboard Icon in Illustrator
In the following tutorial you will learn how to create a simple clipboard icon. Use a complete Illustrator CS5 workflow, vector shape building techniques, and vector effects to design this icon. Let’s...
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Quick Tip: Create an ASCII Inspired Text-based Image with Illustrator
In this tutorial you will learn how to create an ASCII inspired Text-based Image. This technique will allow you to create images more interesting than you could create with mono-spaced fonts and...
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Tuts+ Premium Pack – Linear Faces
Today we have a unique Tuts+ Premium Pack, which is created in Illustrator by Von Glitschka. It’s filled with 12 illustrated linear faces. Each is completely vector, available in AI and EPS formats....
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Quick Tip: Create a Coat of Arms Logo with a Texture Background
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create an organic, natural looking confectionary logo by adding a textured background. Major techniques covered in the tutorial include outline, swirls, warp...
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Vectortuts+ Workshop #9
Vectortuts+ is all about helping people turbo charge their skills, and today we have another special community post that will help our readers take their images to the next level. The best thing is,...
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Shilo Shiv Suleman: Using Tech to Enable Dreaming
Just because you missed that awesome conference, doesn’t mean that you can’t still watch the lectures! This weekend we’re sharing an inspiring talk by Young artist Shilo Shiv Suleman at INK...
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Changing Hair and Makeup to Create a Retro Style in Vector Portraits
By making simple changes to hair and make up, you can alter a vector portrait to create a retro or vintage style. In today’s tutorial I show you how to recreate a 20s and 60s style on a vector...
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Quick Tip: How to Use Typography to Create a 3D Text Effect
Follow this quick tip and learn how to use typography to create a 3D text effect. It may seem complicated but it takes only a few fonts, the 3D options and some extra adjustments at the end. Let’s...
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Community Project: Custom Skateboard Jam, Round 2
Vectortuts+ loves Illustration and discovering new talent, so today we are proud to be showcasing Round 2 of the Custom Skateboard Jam. The best thing is, you can be a part of it! Find out how to get...
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Create a Beautiful Lily Pad Using Adobe Illustrator
In this tutorial we will learn how to create a beautiful lily pad in Adobe Illustrator. We will use basic drawing tools: like the Rectangle Tool, Ellipse Tool, and Pen Tool for drawing. For coloring...
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How to Create a Tractor Illustration in Illustrator – Tuts+ Premium Tutorial
In this Tuts+ Premium tutorial, you will learn how to create a tractor illustration. Learn how to build pixel perfect graphics in Adobe Illustrator CS5. We’ll use multiple tools too build basic...
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Quick Tip: How to Quickly Recolor Complex Objects with the Appearance Panel
Vector designers often faced with a problem when they need to change the colors in their work. The usage of the Recolor Artwork function is not very effective sometimes, and some of the changes can’t...
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Create a Stylish Switch Button in Illustrator
In the following tutorial you will learn how to create a simple switch button in Adobe Illustrator. We’ll build the witch button using pixel perfect alignment, quality vector shape building...
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Quick Tip: Create a Set of Glowing Buttons in Adobe Illustrator
In the following steps you will learn how to create a simple set of glowing buttons. It’s another tutorial that focuses on the Appearance panel as the entire button is created using only one shape...
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Create an Inspirational Vector Political Poster
This tutorial is inspired by Sheppard Fairey’s famous political poster series for the Obama campaign in the US. We’ll be showing you how to create this style of design. We’ll start with basic image...
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Kelli Anderson: Design to Challenge Reality
Just because you missed that awesome conference, doesn’t mean that you can’t still watch the lectures! This weekend we’re sharing an inspiring talk by designer Kelli Anderson at TEDx Phoenix. Kelli...
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