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Vectips - Illustrator tips, tricks, and tutorials
This blog post was previously published on our blog in 2009, and since it was so popular with our readers, we wanted to be sure the instructions were up-to-date. So we’ve updated this tutorial to be current with the most recent versions of Illustrator. Hope you enjoy revisiting this helpful tutorial in Illustrator CS6 & CC style. Want to see other articles revamped? Let us know by leaving a comment below. Here are some popular sketch fonts available that are great for grungy and hand-drawn designs and illustrations.

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50 Illustrator Tutorials Every Designer Should See Adobe Illustrator can be a little tricky to get your head around, particularly after getting used to the workflow of applications such as Photoshop. The differences between layer use and the creation of objects and shapes can be really strange at first hand. Luckily there’s a range of help available for free online in the form of tutorials. PSG Art tutorial Foreword I believe there is logic behind why a picture works or not. I also believe that humans are meat machines, and that one day computers will be able to emulate humans and what we do. Since logic can be formulated into rules, guidelines and theories, these can be shared. I will attempt to do so here. Note that I have just empirically deduced the theories I present here, and that I'm a highly fallible meat machine.

How to set illustration's color mode to RGB 29. April 2009, 02:42 Tutorials Sometimes Shutterstock rejects some of my illustration with this message: Color Profiles – Your image contains both RGB and CMYK color profiles. Please resubmit your vector with only 1 color profile.

Create A Grisly Zombie Illustration With A Pen Tablet In Illustrator Halloween is almost here, and I’m sure some of you need to do some last minute graphics for a client project or maybe so graphics for your Halloween party. So in this intermediate tutorial you will learn how to create a zombie illustration with a pen tablet from a photo. Have fun utilizing the Blob Brush and Eraser tool in recreating this tutorial or apply these techniques to other ghoulish illustrations! Final Image Below is the final zombie illustration we will be working towards. Tutorial Details

Steps to becoming a front-end web developer There are a few things you have to know in order to be a front-end web developer. Where to start and what to learn. This guide will take you through the steps of becoming a front-end web developer. First things first Before we start seeing stuff on the screen, we have to make something out of nothing. Online Course: Adobe Photoshop 101 - Learn Photoshop Today 1.0 CEUs :: 10 Contact Hours :: Self-Paced :: Instructor Support :: 6 Month Subscription This course will teach you everything you need to know to make full use of the world's most popular graphics editing program -- Adobe Photoshop. Adobe Photoshop is a complex graphics and image editing software and paint program. It has become a mainstay with graphics designers, professional photographers, and even hobbyists to edit graphics as well as create and manipulate images.

Digital Painting 101: Mixing Paint @mihai.birsan Yes, Photoshop CS5 do have this feature, but its now really that easy to use comprare to ArtRage, Corel Painter or Paint Tool SAI etc. The article above are the most essential way to do color mixing/ Blending by yourself, and useable across many painting application too. Sometimes it is good to get away from the gradient tool and selections. I find that when I am using the brush tool I get a rougher/gritty feel. It adds to some of my projects. 30 Masculine Fonts & Artatm - Creative Art Magazine Sometimes men just need to be men. This can be quite the challenge when translating masculinity into a language recognized visually. Lucky for you, we’ve put together a list of type-faces that amplify manly attributes. These type-faces can be used for any project you may send to an online printing company, and many are even @font-face compatible for web design. What is “masculine”, anyway? For the purposes of this roundup, we looked for fonts in three general categories: Slab serif, Western/Stencil, and Distressed fonts.

Photographer captures daily life inside the lonely legal brothels of rural Nevada By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 07:22 GMT, 24 January 2013 | Updated: 13:17 GMT, 24 January 2013 Photographer Marc McAndrews spent five years documenting life inside the legal brothels of rural Nevada. His project, 'Nevada Rose,' shares an intimate look at the only places in America where it's not against the law to pay for sex. McAndrews pays special attention to the women who work inside the brothels, capturing unguarded moments with the women working the 'world's oldest profession.' How To Build A WordPress CMS Theme – Part 1: Theme Basics I’ve had several requests lately for books, blogs and how-tos on how to build a WordPress theme, specifically one that has no blog or is mainly needed for a large multi-sectioned website. I love WordPress, and although I hate writing tutorials, especially really really long ones, I thought this would be a great opportunity to not only help WordPress beginners out, but to also show everyone else why I think WordPress really is the best platform out there – for everything but eCommerce. This tutorial is going to be split over several weeks, in several parts, and several chapters.

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How to make birds fly good 10. Put some effort in Now we have gone some way to creating a realistic cycle, but what if we have to show our character flying under strain? Perhaps carrying something heavy. In this situation there is a temptation to revert to the up/down ratio problem I showed before, with the wings rotating faster down than up. Would this happen?

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