20 Basic Illustrator Tutorials Every Beginner Should See Learning a new software application can be a daunting task, especially when tackling an application that’s as deep as Adobe Illustrator! Thankfully there’s a colection of Illustrator veterans who are generous enough to take the time to document the basics, allowing new users to grasp the initial workings and gain a know-how of the tools and core techniques. This collection of hand-picked tutorials cover various tools, and provide plenty of useful hints and tips. Together they form a super handy resource for any beginner looking to get their brains wrapped around Adobe Illustrator. Learn Illustrator CS3 in 30 Days This in-depth 30 day course from Vector Diary is one of the most useful courses out there. Illustrator Beginner’s Series IllustrationInfo’s Illustrator beginner’s series covers the most common tools with insights into their uses. Adobe Illustrator Guides and Tutorials The collection of tutorials and guides from klethegr8 include various hints and tips for all kinds of tools.
Playing with Displace Filter in Photoshop I have been playing a lot with the Displace filter in Photoshop and I still get impressed with how powerful it is. Even though I have written some tutorials using it, I decided to try to recreate a different effect that I saw in one of the images submitted for the Daily Inspiration. It was a brick wall deformed like it was made of cloth. So in this tutorial, or a quick-tips I will show you how to create a curtain made of bricks or how to deform a brick wall as it was a curtain. Step 1 Open Photoshop and create a new document. Step 2 Let's import another image, now of a girl opening the curtains. Step 3 With the Lasso Tool (L) or the Pen Tool (P) select the empty white. Step 5 Now select the hands/arms of the girl and the curtains. Step 6 Move the brick wall layer so it will be in front of the girl layer. Step 7 Go to Layer>Layer Mask>Hide Selection. Step 8 Duplicate the girl layer and delete the girl using the mask of the bricks wall for reference. Step 9 Step 10 Step 11 Step 12 Step 13 Step 14
Create a Realistic Wine Bottle Illustration From Scratch Delay This tutorial took me a day longer than I anticipated to write (you’ll see why from the number of steps), but I hope you enjoy it! Final Image As always, this is the final image that we’ll be creating: Step 1 Open up a new document and go to view>show>grid. Step 2 Create a new layer called ‘bottle shape’. Step 3 Then go to layer blending options for this merged layer and apply a gradient overlay ranging from black to 110202 back to black. Step 4 Now select your rounded rectangle shape tool (radius 30px) and create a large white rounded rectangle running down the left side of your bottle. Step 5 Go to filter>blur>gaussian blur and apply a blur of 14px. Step 6 Now create a new layer called ‘wine label 1′. Then apply a gradient overlay. Step 7 Now create a new layer called ‘wine label 2′ and create a thin rectangular selection beneath your white label shape. Step 8 Now create a new layer called ‘wine label 3′. Step 9 Step 10 Step 11 Step 12 Step 13 Step 14 Step 15 Step 16 Step 17 Step 18 Step 19 Step 20
Digital Photography Tutorials Learn how to take and edit digital photographs using visual tutorials that emphasize concept over procedure, independent of specific digital camera or lens. This is a complete listing of all tutorials on this site; click the drop-down links in the top menu to see particular topics. Photography is going through an exciting transition period as many film photographers are beginning to explore the new capabilities of digital cameras. While the fundamentals have remained similar, other aspects are markedly different. This is a great time to get involved with digital photography. These tutorials are rarely influenced by changes in image editing software and camera equipment — due to their unique concept-based approach. View in other languages: Português Русский Deutsch Français Italiano
100+ Maya 3D Tutorials For Beginners, Intermediate and Advanced Users When it comes to high-end 3d computer graphics and 3d modeling software package, Autodesk Maya is always one of application to be considered. Maya plays an important role in the 3d visualization and animation industry and they are top choices for many designers on large or small-scale production. Pin it If you are looking to picking up Maya to design your 3d models, this article is for you. We’ve collected more than 100 useful Maya 3D tutorials, ranging from beginner level to intermediate and advanced users. Full list after jump. For Beginners Flying Butterfly Animation – Tutorial for BeginnersThis tutorial will teach you to make a simple butterfly and animate it. Animate a Logo Forming from Particles in MayaIn this tutorial Abed Ibrahim will walk you through the process of creating an animated logo using particles in Maya, and then reverse the rendered animation in any video editing software of your choice. Flying Arrows This tutorial will teach you how to create flying arrows.
The hand The hands are a notorious source of frustration. This section won't concentrate on the muscle structure, since the hand is very complex in this regard, and knowing this won't help much in drawing them. Instead, we'll look at proportions, range of motion, and possible simplifications. Structure and proportions Figure 2.20. There is a very easy and surprisingly accurate way to remember the proportions of an adult's hand. The palm of the hand houses the metacarpal bones. The palm of the hand can be simplified to a box. Figure 2.21. Notice that the box does not line up with the contour of the fingers. The two black arrows in the previous figure show how the little finger can move up and down. Figure 2.22. Take a look at some examples of how to use this model: Figure 2.23. The first one is a relaxed pose. This is certainly not the only way to draw a hand.
abcteach -- Free Printables, Interactives, Custom Documents, Clip Art, and Games Celebrate With Kate {Baby Landers Gender Reveal Party} | Layla Grayce Backroom Blog Make Way For Our Little Duckling Kate Landers here again, this time to share with you a personal event–the baby gender reveal party my husband and I hosted for our first little one arriving this fall! I find gender reveal parties to be an excellent creative outlet for all those mamas-to-be who want to design and plan an event to celebrate their very special upcoming arrival. Whether you choose to keep it intimate with just immediate family or large with everyone you know, it is a wonderful time to share your joy with others. We had a most memorable celebration, revealing to our families that we will be welcoming a little BOY into our lives! Selecting A Theme & Color Scheme A wonderful source of inspiration for your baby gender reveal party is your favorite children’s book. A couple “lessons learned”: Don’t hire a new photographer last minute–be prepared with a back up plan. Also: mistakes happen, even to those of us who do this for a career–allow for them.
Blender Open Material Repository - download blender materials/shaders for free! Wake WAKE is a very personal piece for me. During the creation I was going through some pretty messed up personal matters that got infused into the concept and angle I was going for. I also went through some personal growth while creating it. The chapter theme (MIRROR) really hit me hard. A group of vultures is referred to as a “wake” which is where the title of this piece comes from. One of the best things about being in Depthcore is the workshopping that goes on behind the scenes, where artists can critique other artist’s work and help them find their way. K-MODDL & Tutorials & Reuleaux Triangle - StumbleUpon If an enormously heavy object has to be moved from one spot to another, it may not be practical to move it on wheels. Instead the object is placed on a flat platform that in turn rests on cylindrical rollers (Figure 1). As the platform is pushed forward, the rollers left behind are picked up and put down in front. An object moved this way over a flat horizontal surface does not bob up and down as it rolls along. The reason is that cylindrical rollers have a circular cross section, and a circle is closed curve "with constant width." Is a circle the only curve with constant width? How to construct a Reuleaux triangle To construct a Reuleaux triangle begin with an equilateral triangle of side s, and then replace each side by a circular arc with the other two original sides as radii (Figure 4). The corners of a Reuleaux triangle are the sharpest possible on a curve with constant width. Here is another really surprising method of constructing curves with constant width:
Create a Retro Text Effect and Character Illustration Designers often create line art in Illustrator and then bring it into Photoshop to add color and effects. In this tutorial we will use Photoshop to create a retro text effect and character illustration with some pre-existing artwork that you can down with the tutorial source files. Let's get started! Step 1 Open the 'psdtut_BASE.psd'. Step 2 Select the 'Background' layer and press Command/Ctrl + I to invert it. Step 3 Create a group folder above the'darks' layer and move the cannon_lines layer in that group. Step 4 Let's commence with the coloring starting with the cadet figure. Step 5 We are going to repeat the Clip Masked Gradient Map technique for a bit. Step 6 #290a59, #528dcf Step 7 #470070, #0075a0 Step 8 #5000a1, #087bb6 Step 9 #250031, #fe0675 Step 10 Now we'll do the same for the cannon layer. #0a3559, #e3fff9 Step 11 #290085, #1d81ab Step 12 #0a3f6b, #7d1ad0 Step 13 *Note* Remember to stay organized! Step 14 Create a clip masked Color Fill Adjustment Layer to the 'darks' layer. Step 15 Step 16 Step 17