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Creating a Queen of Hearts Playing Card Through Collaboration – Tuts+ Premium
In this Tuts+ Premium tutorial, you will learn the step by step process of how to create this Queen of Hearts illustration in a playing card composition, via collaboration. If you are looking to take...
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How to Create a Vector Cross Stitch Effect in Adobe Illustrator
In today’s tutorial, I’m going to show you how to create a cross stitch effect using Adobe Illustrator CS6. I’ll be using the Appearance panel and patterns in order to create the design and then show...
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Quick Tip: Create a 3D Bullet in Adobe Illustrator CS6
In this Quick Tip you will learn how create a 3D bullet icon using shapes and 3D settings in Adobe Illustrator. This tutorial is great for beginners and will teach you some skills that will help you...
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How to Create a Marker Board in Adobe Illustrator
In the following tutorial, we’ll show you how to create a marker board illustration using basic shapes, the Pathfinder and Appearance panel within Adobe Illustrator. This is a great tutorial for those...
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How to Create a Colorful Parrot using Gradients in Adobe Illustrator
You’ll learn how to create volume in vector illustrations using a few colors per object. I’ll be bringing a sketch of a beautiful tropical bird (macaw) to life using vectors and then start the coloring...
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Our Top 20 Vector Tutorials and Articles of 2013!
As 2013 is under full swing, we’re looking back at 2012 and showing you our Top 20 favourite and most popular vector tutorials and articles of the year. You may have missed something or you may just be...
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How to Create Fireworks Rockets in Adobe Illustrator
Today we will be creating a neat icon of Fireworks Rockets. 3D Effect is a convenient tool for creating this kind of illustration, but we have to be aware of the fact that 3D effects can mess up our...
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Quick Tip: How to Create a Wicker Seamless Pattern in Adobe Illustrator
In the following tutorial I’m going to show you how to create a wicker seamless pattern in Adobe Illustrator using the Gradient Tool, Blending Modes and the Transform Effect.Step 1Create a New document...
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Tuts+ Premium Pack – Year of the Snake
Today we have a unique Tuts+ Premium Pack, which is created in Illustrator by Anastasiia Kucherenko. It’s filled with 22 year of the snake illustration. Each is completely vector, available in AI and...
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The Best of Crafttuts+
We launched Crafttuts+ back in November and it’s now full of awesome tutorials! It’s definitely time to take another look at the newest member of the Tuts+ network. They’ve got a huge collection of...
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Workshop: Vector Critique #28
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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How to Create a Hollow Die in Adobe Illustrator
In this tutorial we will be learning how to create a stylized hollow 3D die. Instead of having usual dots on its surface we will create holes. Well not actual holes, but we will certainly make them...
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Quick Tip: How to Use the Align Panel in Adobe InDesign
The Align panel is a simple feature within Adobe InDesign. It gives total control to the user over objects contained within a document. This tutorial is written with InDesign novices in mind and will...
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Tuts+ Workshop: Alphabet Design Challenge, Round Two, Final Round!
Our latest Tuts+ Workshop asked you to create an illustrative letter in our Alphabet Design Challenge based on whatever theme you wish! We received several designs over on the Vectortuts+ Facebook page...
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How to Illustrate a Screw-bolt and a Nut with 3D Effects in Illustrator
In today’s tutorial, I’m going to show you how to create a screw-bolt and a nut in Adobe Illustrator. Open the Illustrator program, create there the new document and let’s begin…Step 1Take the Polygon...
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Kickstart Guide to Breaking into Freelance Illustration
A career in Freelance Illustration is much more than drawing pretty pictures. As much as you’d like to spend the entire day sitting in front of Illustrator, you’ll also need to learn about selling...
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Quick Tip: How to Create Sketchy Weather Icons in Illustrator
In today’s tutorial we’ll draw sketchy weather icons on a paper note with a clip. First we’ll illustrate a background with the Appearance panel. Then I’ll show you how to create weather symbols and a...
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Quick Tip: How to Create a Comet with the Blend Tool and Blurs
Learn how to create a comet or shooting star by using the Blend Tool, combined with a Blur effect in Adobe Illustrator. We’ll finish the quick illustration off with the not often used Flare Tool.
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A Freelance Graphic Designer’s Guide to Marketing on Pinterest
Freelance graphic designers often have to get creative with their marketing efforts. Sometimes the budget simply does not allow for outsourcing.Even more so, freelance graphic designers simply do not...
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How to Create an Open and Closed Zipper in Adobe Illustrator
In the following tutorial you will learn how to create a simple zipper illustration in Adobe Illustrator. We’ll be creating the starting shapes using the Rectangle Tool, the Pathfinder panel and some...
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