26 Most Recent Adobe Illustrator Tutorials It’s been such a long time since we have posted an article on Adobe Illustrator Tutorials. So, in today’s post, we’d like to share with you these step-by-step tutorials that were released since January of this year to give you a dose of new ideas when trying to design so that you’ll achieve a more beautiful and creative artwork. We’ve handpicked these tutorials because Adobe illustrator offers a variety of advanced tools to smooth out any design, optimize structure proportions and emphasize some beautiful details. Here are the 26 Most Recent Adobe Illustrator Tutorials that we’ve found around the web which are helpful in learning new techniques in brushing up your vector design skills. Create a Lava Island Scenario in Illustrator In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a Tiki and Maori culture inspired lava island scenario in Illustrator. Create a Hellboy Poster in Illustrator In this tutorial, you’ll apply pen tool and blending modes to make a cool hellboy poster in illustrator.
Welcome to AzarGrammar.com The Hidden Power of the Average Command: Creating Swirly Type In this tutorial we will explore the "Average" command in Adobe Illustrator, and learn how to use it in rather unusual way. In this case, we'll create abstract swirls using relatively simple methods and apply it to type. Let's get started! Want access to the full Vector Source files and downloadable copies of every tutorial, including this one? 1. Most of you are probably familiar with the Average command in Adobe Illustrator. 2. Let's spend some time on the theoretical part first. Step 1 When do we usually use the Average command and what does it do? For example, I have few open paths that I want to unite in one single shape, but they don't exactly touch each other (for those who want to repeat the shape: create a rounded rectangle and delete the two bottom points. In this case I cannot just move 5 shapes towards each other and join (Command + J), as the symmetry will be lost - but the petals of this flower has to be perfectly equal, composing the exact angle. Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Step 5
44 Grunge Photoshop Tutorials What’s up today? We’ve actually compiled a whole array of creative grunge tutorials so you can infuse staggering grungy styles into your artworks using Photoshop. Lately the grunge effect is known to be an enormously popular trend in web design, and basically it doesn’t seem to be going anywhere any time soon. So if you want to really wild on your grunge designs, you may now explore different techniques in Photoshop that can give your artwork some textured, aged and uneven looks with rusting metal signs, dirty spots, grunge patterns, scorched borders, or overall distressed accents. Head blow off effect Designing a typographic concept poster Distressed effects in Photoshop The new way to create 3D text Create a rough woody text effect with wood splinters texture in Photoshop How to design an impressive graphic tee in Photoshop How to make a worn vintage beach ad in Photoshop Design an awesome geometric shaped typography with grungy background in Photoshop Creating a retro grunge poster
Adobe Illustrator Toolbox - Web Design Blog – DesignM.ag Get the FlatPix UI Kit for only $7 - Learn More or Buy Now If you’re interested in improving your skills with Adobe Illustrator or finding resources that can make you more effective and efficient with your time in Illustrator, this is the collection for you. Articles: For getting started and learning more about Illustrator, here are some helpful articles. 7 Things You Didn’t Know Illustrator Could Do – Attitude Design Journal Illustrator’s Pen Tool: The Comprehensive Guide – VECTORTUTS Illustrator Pen Tool Exercises – Veerle Maintaining Rhythm and Flow in Vector Character Design – VECTORTUTS Seven Helpful Techniques for Illustrator – VECTORTUTS Best Sites for Illustrator Tutorials: For continual learning of Illustrator, these 9 sites produce excellent tutorials that will help you in your development. Vectips Veerle’s Blog Blog.SpoonGraphics GoMediaZine AiVault Bittbox N. Vectordiary Collections of Tutorials: Adobe Illustrator Tutorials – Smashing Magazine Illustrator Tutorials – Designer Today Vectors:
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Creating Halftone Effects in Illustrator It used to be a time consuming process to create a halftone. First, I would open a picture in Photoshop, convert it to grayscale, apply a halftone effect, open it up in illustrator, trace it, and if didn’t get messed up somewhere in the process, I would use the halftone in Illustrator. In Illustrator CS3 it is quite a bit easier to create halftones without leaving Illustrator. Notes This tutorial was created with Illustrator CS3. I suggest having the Raster Effects at 300 ppi. Halftones I don’t want to ramble on here, but it is helpful to learn a little about halftones before getting started. Color is also important to note when dealing with halftones. If any of this doesn’t make sense, just use black as the dark color and white as the light color in your gradients, blends and gradient meshes. Halftones from Gradients, Blends and Gradient Meshes With your gradient, blend, or gradient mesh selected, go Effects > Pixelate > Color Halftone. Now you can trace the image to create vector art.
200++ Photoshop Photo Effects EmailEmail Have you ever wonder where is that photo effect tutorial you saw the other day and start searching all over the internet but couldn’t find what you saw initially? Honestly, i have. That is why i throw them all into this article instead. Create a Powerful Mental Wave Explosion Effect Photo to Pencil Sketch Effect Sin City Style Effect How To Make Your Own Vector Portraits Tutorial: Good and Evil Photo Effect The Making of Mystic Effect Transform A Person Into An Alien Effect Reflective Bubbles Effect Crack and Peel Effect Expressive Lighting Effect Displacement Effect Vector Composite Effect from a Photo Easy Watercolor Painting Effect Twins Effect Apple Style Portrait Effect Compositing Effect Dimension Effect Blue Glow Dreamy Effect Ink Drops in Your Digital Compositions Effect Super Slick Dusky Lighting Effect Electrifying Energy Beams Effect Eery-Eye Photo Effect Fairy Night Eye Effect Fairy tale Effect Make your image look awesome with a few light effects Fire Lines Effect Make Perfume Commercial
Adobe Illustrator Tutorials – Best Of - Smashing Magazine Advertisement Over years Adobe Illustrator has become the standard application when it comes to illustration design. Artists, illustrators and graphic designers use Illustrator to create vector-based graphics which — contrary to raster-based editors such as Adobe Photoshop — can be easily rescaled without the loss of quality. E.g., Illustrator is often used to quickly transform hand-drawn sketches on a sheet of paper into lively and colorful digital images. However, to master Adobe Illustrator isn’t easy; and the creating process of professional illustrations requires both time and patience. In this post we present a collection of excellent Adobe Illustrator tutorials for beginners and advanced designers. Please notice that we’ve selected only those tutorials which haven’t been featured last year or were released after the article was published.you might also be interested in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials – Best Of we’ve presented few weeks ago. Illustrator Tutorials Sources and Resources
100 sex positions | Kamasutra sex positions The Kamasutra is the bible of sex positions. It was written in India between 400 BC and 200 BC. Originally it wasn't just a sex positions manual but a whole way of life! However, if it's sex positions you're after then you've come to the right place! The Kamasutra contains very detailed instructions to different sex positions and we've come up with handy little illustrations to help you get to grips with them! "The erotic V" This position demands certain acrobatic capacities! Now she braces herself by putting her arms around his neck, pulls first the right, then the left leg up onto his shoulders. 10 Minute Crystal Explosion Illustrator, unlike Photoshop, does not have many functions allowing you to randomize elements of your design. However, those that it has, can be just as powerful. We will use just these tools to create a simple, yet appealing, T-shirt or wallpaper design. Step 1 Let's start by launching Illustrator and creating a new document (Control +N). Note: You can follow my guidelines and set precisely the same dimensions and later use the same values that I will be using, but feel free to experiment and not stick precisely to all the values. Step 2 Let's go ahead and establish the center of our artwork first. Step 3 Create a new layer and call it "artwork." Step 4 Copy the circle (Control + C), paste it in front (Control + F) and scale it down to 85%. Step 5 OK, the exterior ring is ready, now let's break it into pieces. Eventually we are going to use the grid to cut the ring into little pieces, but for the time being it looks too uniform, so let's roughen it up! Step 6 Step 7 Step 8 Step 9 Step 10