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Vintage Badge in Illustrator and Photoshop. It's been more than two weeks since I've finally moved permanently to California, USA. Before the big move I was playing with Illustrator and Photoshop to create a vintage look badge. After a few hours trying different typefaces I got a nice result and published it on my Dribbble profile. I have received quite a few emails since I published that asking me how I did the effect, so in this tutorial I will show you how to create a vintage look badge using Illustrator and Photoshop Step 1 Open Illustrator and create a new document.

Then with the Start Tool create a star in red. Step 2 Go to Effect>Stylize>Round Corner. Step 3 Duplicate the star with round corners and then rotate it like the image below. Step 4 Select the cyan start with round corners and then go to Window>Transparency. Step 5 For the typography I used Carnivalee Freakshow for the words California, 2011 and here I come.

Step 6 Step 7 Step 8 Do the same thing but now for the text that goes on top, which is ABDUZEEDO. Step 9 Step 10. 50 ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR RETRO AND VINTAGE TUTORIALS. 25+ Illustrator Tutorials: Vintage Graphics & Retro Illustration. Creating a Manipulative Cat Illustration in Adobe Illustrator CS5 « Adobe Illustrator blog. Introduction In today’s tutorial I’m going to show you how I created a manipulative cat illustration using Adobe® Illustrator® CS5. If you’ve lived with cats before, you’ll know they are masters of manipulation and can turn a little scratch into a major incident! I know this from recent experience with my own cat, who felt sorry for herself for two weeks while healing from a “broken nail,” which is very common with cats. Don’t worry; she’s completely fine and fully recovered! In this tutorial I’ll show you some interesting things with Art Brushes, as well as exploring Color Guides, sketching in Illustrator, and how I render fur in vector.

Step 1 First create a New Document. Double click on “Layer 1″ and rename it to “Reference & Sketch” and click on Ok. Go to Image > Place to put your reference image onto the canvas, and use the Free Transform Tool (E) to rescale it. Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Unlock the layer folder and then Select All (Ctrl + A). Step 5 Step 6 Step 7 Step 8 Step 9 Step 10 Step 11 Step 12. Create a clean retro badge in Adobe Illustrator. In this tutorial we are going to create a clean retro-looking badge/burst in Adobe Illustrator. These are great for adding to a website, advertisement, etc to help the text stand out. Step 1 First off we are going to open up a 1200x1200px document in Adobe Illustrator. Type out “AWESOME TUTORIALS BY DENIS DESIGNS” in black for now. Change the font so “AWESOME” and “BY DENIS DESIGNS” is in Adelle, and “TUTORIALS” is in League Gothic.

“AWESOME”, “TUTORIALS”, and “BY DENIS DESIGNS” should all be in separate text boxes. Step 2 Change the font size of “TUTORIALS” to 250pt, “AWESOME” to 60pt, and “BY DENIS DESIGNS” to 35pt. Step 3 Now we are going to start adding some shapes to our burst. Step 4 Click on Type>Create Outlines, this will make our text into lines and points, which will be easier to deal with. Step 5 Go to View, and make sure Smart Guides is checked. Select the Ellipse tool (L) and while holding Shift and Alt, make a circle starting at the center of the box. Step 6 Step 7 Step 8 Step 9. [tutoriel] Comment faire du pixel art sur Illustrator ?

Quick tip: Make a Worm on Illustrator. Hi everyone, today I'm going to show you some quick tips on how to make a simple but effective vector illustration inspired on the classic video game, Worms. If you are from the 80's or 90's you probably heard of it or had the chance to play it, it is "the predecessor of Angry Birds" in the words of my mate Mike Austin. On this quick tip I will have a more tradicional illustration approach, focusing less on tools and more on drawing and logic, hope you guys appreciate it and show your version on the comments, have a good time. Sketch Sometime ago I thought that movement lines, geometric shapes and croquis were totally bullshit, but the thing is you can't make a proportional and equilibrated illustration without a appropriate sketch of it. I opened Photoshop to draw the sketch, I divided the body in a circle that would be the head, neck, breast, belly and limbs (or sort of).

On the following I made a outline to have a better Idea of the silhoutte. The Worm Same thing for the mouth hole. Create Sonic The Hedgehog Opening on Illustrator. The other day while I was cleaning up some stuff in my bedroom I've found my Sega Genesis - Mega Drive in Brazil, one of the first 16 bit consoles released in the 90s. I remember most of my friends were more into Mario Bros because they had a SuperNES. I played Mario Bros years later, but at that time my eyes were focused only on playing frenetically Sonic The Hedgehog almost everyday. So, continuing our "nostalgic tutorials" series this one will be about this classic game opening, sure this will probably give you some really good memories so let's do it.

Just a warning before we can proceed: this is an more advanced and step forward tutorial, so a previous knowledge of the software and the character will be really helpful. Also, this can all be solved with a mouse, althought using a tablet will make it way more fast. Tunnel Let's add some stars, first click on the start tool to create specifi star with the parameters bellow.

Make another one inside of it. Wings Ribbon Sonic Final Result. Illustrator CS6 : Vectorisation d'une image | Formations vidéo pour créatifs.