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Papercut aesthetics with vectors. Software Illustrator and Photoshop CS3 or laterTime needed 3-4 hoursSkills-Understand how to layer an image-Use basic layer effects-Increase relevance with colour I’ve always been drawn towards craft-led techniques, and like to find ways to recreate them in a digital environment.

Papercut aesthetics with vectors

I often add some traditional airbrushing into my shading work with Photoshop and a Wacom tablet, for instance. Creating Road Maps in Adobe Illustrator. This post was originally published in 2007 The tips and techniques explained may be outdated.

Creating Road Maps in Adobe Illustrator

Sooner or later every designer comes across the exciting job of producing a map, whether it’s on a leaflet or website the overall aim is to visually document a particular area of land to allow for people to find their way to a place of business or event. An important factor is the amount of detail required for the map, for most situations the map should be basic enough to provide a recognisable road structure without too much intricate detailing. How to Make a Map in Illustrator. Every time I start thinking of a tutorial to write, I try to show techniques that I use in my job as a designer.

How to Make a Map in Illustrator

For example, today I will be showing you how to make a nice little map. Creating seamless patterns in Illustrator. One of the frequest questions I get from readers is how you create seamless patterns in Illustrator.

Creating seamless patterns in Illustrator

Today I’ll explain how I create such patterns and how you can scale and rotate them using different settings in the Scale tool options. Draw your pattern First we start by drawing a square. 100 Best Illustrator Tutorials of All Time (From Newbie to Pro) Adobe Illustrator is the most powerful vector software on the planet, and whether you’re using it alone, or in a workflow with other tools such as a 3D program, Photoshop, InDesign, or something else, it can be a great asset to any designer’s arsenal.

100 Best Illustrator Tutorials of All Time (From Newbie to Pro)

However, Illustrator is also one of the most daunting programs to learn how to use, with a vast array of tools and features at your fingertips. Some high quality tutorials will go a long way to easing the process, and get you up and going on your own vector creations. Create shapes faster in Illustrator. Every illustrator will have experienced the pressures of a last-minute job – the one that comes in at the end of a Friday afternoon and is due to be signed-off first thing Monday morning.

Create shapes faster in Illustrator

It’s at times like these where you really need to be aware of all the tools at your disposal in Illustrator that can help save you time. In this walkthrough we’ll be using a recent promotional poster that I created for Ford, looking at how the Pathfinder panel played a key part in speeding up my workflow, giving me more time to incorporate client feedback and amendments. The Pathfinder panel is the quickest and most efficient way of manipulating paths and shapes, providing you are clear as to the outcomes of each action. Mastering the tools on offer can make creating the most complex shapes almost instantaneous.

PSD. Tutoriais Photoshop. Free Photoshop Brushes. Livebrush & the Livebrush Project. Get Photoshop Brushes. PS Brushes.net - Photoshop Brushes, Your Number one source for Photoshop Brushes. Free Photoshop Brushes. Free Photoshop Brushes at Brusheezy! Photoshop training, Adobe tutorials and learning for photographers and designers. Selecting Hair with Refine Edge in Photoshop CS5. Step 1: Draw A Rough Selection Outline Around Your Subject I'm going to begin by drawing a fairly rough selection outline around the woman in the photo.

Selecting Hair with Refine Edge in Photoshop CS5

There's no need for any fancy or advanced selection tools here. Photoshop's standard Lasso Tool will work fine, and the Polygonal Lasso Tool will work even better because it's faster and easier to use. I'll grab the Polygonal Lasso Tool from the Tools panel by clicking and holding on the Lasso Tool, then selecting the Polygonal Lasso Tool from the fly-out menu: Selecting the Polygonal Lasso Tool. Tutorial9 - The Best Resources for Designers, Every Day. Original Photoshop tutorials and resources. S complete list of Photoshop tutorials.

Seamless Textures With Photoshop. Photoshop Tutorials, Flash Tutorials and More! P2L Tutorial Search. Good-Tutorials - Newest Tutorials. BUBURU RESOURCES BLOG. Gimp - seamless textures. Changing Background Color 2. Text and images Copyright (C) 2002 Francisco Bustamante Hempe and may not be used without permission of the author.

Changing Background Color 2

Intention. Learn the Basics of Photoshop: The Complete Guide. How to draw fabric. How to Draw Fabric Folds Tutorial by Barbara Bradley. Look for Several Types of Folds Five of the seven fold types--pipe, half-lock, diaper, drop and inert--appear in the abundant cloth of this Roman's toga.

How to Draw Fabric Folds Tutorial by Barbara Bradley

The more fabric there is, the more types of folds you'll see. TYPES OF FOLDS - An Illustrated Tutorial from "Drawing People: How to Portray the Clothed Figure" by Barbara Bradley 1927-2008 - Recognized as one of the best and most inspiring teachers of drawing in the country. She was an award winning illustrator, instructor, and painter.

Drawing Fabric - Part 1. The folds and wrinkles of fabric are endlessly fascinating and can be overwhelming in their shifting complexity. Some simple observations to help us: Just as we study the forms of the skeleton so that its masses are always understood to be within the body we draw, so the body itself (and the skeleton within it) are understood to be within the clothing of the person we're drawing. The folds and draping shapes of clothing are thus defined by the body the clothes cover, enfold, surround, and hang from. How to Draw Lips. For a video version of this tutorial visit www.proko.com/how-to-draw-lips-anatomy-and-structure This tutorial is a continuation of How to Draw the Head from Any Angle.

How to Draw Lips

I will cover the basic forms of the mouth, some anatomical information, and the key information about the minor planes. At the end, I will show a step by step drawing of the lips. Basic Forms. Figure & Gesture Drawing Practice ToolFigure. Drawing Lessons - How to Draw the Portrait - Drawing Figure - Drawing Still Life. How To Draw Hands Tutorials. So everybody knows that the hands and the fingers are one of the hardest things to draw. So here is a personal collection of different hand references, hope to enjoy it and never stop practice. Hogarth hand poses from Iron Giant (middle of page) Mickey Mouse Hand Model Sheet by Les Clark ca. 1932 Merlin hand poses via Deja View Hand drawing tut by uchuucacahuate on deviantart.

Excellent hand tutorial by alexds1 on deviantart.com Mr. Quick hand-legs-foot tutorial by `Hellobaby on deviantART. How To Draw A Wave. This art tutorial, kindly donated by surfing comic strip illustrator and surf artist Bob Penuelas covers how to draw a wave the Wilbur Kookmeyer way! If you're like me, then you've probably spent a lot of time in high school class daydreaming and doodling a thousand perfect cartoon waves in your notebook. It's safe to say that ninety percent of us surfers have a habit of scribbling perfect waves whenever a pencil is in our hands. Hopefully the following pointers will help you change your throw-away wave doodles into actual compelling artwork that you want to keep forever.

Remember, there are millions of ways to draw a wave and hopefully with these simple pointers you'll find a million more. So, have fun. Lackadaisy Expressions. Boy, I didn't know what I was getting myself into when I started this. I've had requests for some sort of expressions tutorial dating back a while now, so I figured, "Sure!

I can explain expression drawing...and it'll be way better than all those tutorials out there that are nothing but charts of generic expressions. Yeah! Just give me a day or two to whip something up... " Um. Drawing Lessons. In 1988, an extraordinary thing happened in the world of animation. The film "Who Framed Roger Rabbit? "( Directed by Robert Zemekis, animation directed by Richard Williams) was released.

The film gleefully celebrated the kind of imaginative slapstick cartoon violence that was the staple of the most popular short cartoon classics that were made during the period from around 1940 till the decline in the year that the film takes place,1947. Cartoon lover's eyes popped like Tex Avery wolves all over the world for this caliber of animation hadn't been seen since...well, 1947. The drawings of Leonardo da Vinci. Original Photoshop tutorials and resources. How to vectorize an image Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator cs5. Create a Vector Tree with Custom Brushes and the Gradient Mesh Tool. Illustrator Tutorial: Chinese Bamboo. Prev • Tutorials • Next Do you like the bamboo scene on my old Flash site? Well, here is a quick tutorial to draw bamboo with the Illustrator Symbol Sprayer and Mesh Tool. Download Source File. Create A Brushed Metal Texture In Illustrator. The second texture up for Vectips Texture Week is brushed metal.

Like the previous Water Texture Tutorial, this brushed metal technique also utilizes Illustrator’s Effects. Again this tutorial is pretty simplistic when you break it down, and easy to replicate numerous times. You can use the brushed metal texture in almost anything, but I find myself using it in icons, logos, and interfaces quite a bit. Create A Wood Grain Texture In Illustrator. Last up for Vectip’s Texture Week is wood grain.

Using Illustrator's Mesh Tool as Nature Intended. You’re probably thinking this is some new ecological way of using Adobe Illustrator. Sorry! Wood Grain. Drawing vector wood grain effect is pretty simple in Adobe Illustrator. Spraying Symbols in Adobe Illustrator. Say, you want to draw a tree in full Spring, a very green one. Not just an outline you want details too so that you actually see the leafs. Creating an Environmentally Friendly Green Type Treatment. 4 Vintage Floral Ornament Pack 04. Parchment texture - Adobe Photoshop tutorial. Subscribe Added: Jun 6th, 2005Level: EasyAuthor: itsjusthenProgram version: 7.0Reads: 52,394Description: This is a tutorial on how to make a parchment like texture for Adobe Photoshop.