35 (More) Adobe Illustrator Cartoon Character Tutorials With competitions growing on day by day, companies are striving to keep their brands on top of the food chain in order to gain themselves more exposure and making it easier for people to remember their existence. One brilliant way of doing that is to have a mascot for your brand and we’ve seen a lot of companies like Twitter have implemented this successfully. Now, you may think, sure it’s great but I do not have the budget for a custom-made mascot. Well, how about picking up some basic Adobe Illustrator skills and create one yourself? So fire up your Adobe Illustrator, affirm to yourself that you can do it, go on and try to follow a few of the tutorials. Character MascotHow to create a vector character mascot from a sketch in Adobe Illustrator CS4. Cute and Simple HippoSimple Illustrator tutorial to creating simple hippo face with Ellipse tools, rectangular tools and the rounded rectangular tools. Twitter Bird CharacterLearn how to create a cute cartoon Twitter bird with Illustrator.
34 Photoshop Tutorials That Will Leave You Looking Like A Pro Design This time we are bringing you a lot of Photoshop tutorials on all sorts of topics. It's meant to be a good collection for those who aren't quite pro yet, but want to be. These tutorials are some of the best and varied out there. Great and Interesting Photoshop Tutorials Photo Strip The warp tool is used to create a twisting effect (you need Photoshop CS2 or above). Create a Hellacious Flaming Skull This tutorial goes through all the steps of creating a flaming skull in Photoshop. Customized Product And Label Pay close attention when you do this tutorial. Print-Ready Business Card Design up a simple business card in Photoshop and get it ready for print with crop marks and bleed. Awesome Digital Bokeh Effect Learn how to create a digital bokeh effect. Retro Cosmic Design Create a retro cosmic rainbow with techniques that can be used in combination with any shape and color. 10 steps in total. Glass Ball This Photoshop tutorial takes you through 9 major steps to create a glass ball.
100 Must-have Free Fonts for Commercial and Personal Use Each time a designer starts work on a new design, there is always a big problem: a lack of high-quality materials, such as fonts, icons, images etc. Of course, you can create a font that will properly fit the design you created, but it’s not a good idea since font creation takes a lot of time, which is never enough when you have to work within a deadline. The solution is simple: you can use ready-made free fonts. There are tons of them all over the web, and we have but collected a small group of 100 free fronts you can download here. There are elegant and unusual fonts, serif and slab serif, rigorous and handwritten fonts and more in the showcase. If you want more do check out our previous round-up of abstract and grunge free fonts. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67.
CSS Tutorials - Photoshop Tutorials - PHP Tutorials 30 Excellent Pixel Art Tutorials For Pixel Lovers If you’re born in 90s, I am sure that you have witnessed the glorious age of the pixel art. It exists on the old-school gaming platform, mobile phone and other digital devices. It’s one of the greatest technological inventions that dominate the digital world for several years, and now it rises again as a definitive art form within the artist community. Doing the pixel art could mean that you’re striving for perfection, as you even need to manually craft out the shading, dithering and even anti-aliasing. That means you have to draw the artwork pixel by pixel! Therefore it’s called pixel art. Today, with the aim to provide you a solid understanding of the pixel art and its essential techniques, we want to showcase to you 30 detailed and inspiring tutorials by talented pixel artists to help you carve out possibly one of the most detailed works in your life. Try on them and you’ll know, full list of tutorials after jump! Recommended Reading: 50 Beautiful and Creative Pixel Arts Textures Tree
57 Simple Sys Admin Mistakes that Someday You’ll Regret When it comes to IT, simple mistakes can cost you big time. Whether that is immediately or not depends on a number of factors, and sometimes, when something has gone incredibly wrong, you won’t even realize that the root cause was a snap decision or simple oversight you made months ago. If you parse this list, you might just avoid a costly mistake sometime in the future; or, you may see something that makes you realize you weren’t the only one who had that happen. Networking There are tons of simple mistakes, oversights, omissions, and bad ideas that can bite you in the networking realm. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Other networking issues 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. User accounts and passwords 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. Speaking of Email… 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. Active Directory 37. 38. 39. 40. Antivirus 41. 42. 43. Teach your Users well 44. 45. Other 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. Have any other tips or experiences you’d like to share?
A Beginner's Guide to Spriting Assuming that you are working within a 2D framework, the most common graphical pitfall is the process of spriting; a tedious and initially unrewarding craft, it can be very frustrating for the average game artist, and one of the prime reasons why games never get finished.Know What You’re Getting Into One of the worst facts of game development is how little the art in a game is appreciated, how much time and energy is needed to produce it, and how ineffectual it is in keeping the player’s attention if the game itself is poorly conceived. With the exception of games such as Madworld or Okami, where the art style is brought to the forefront of attention, graphics are usually peripheral, and accredited to the capabilities of the engine instead of the artist. This is not a credit against the field, but a caution to be aware of what you commit yourself to. The programmer has also recruited other artists, lightening your workload but making you disposable. Case Studies: You Will Not Have Fun
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tutorials > graphics > lotusware's pixel art tutorial Start by placing a rectangle in the dimensions that you want your tree to fill (this is mainly to ensure that you don't go beyond the tile co-ordinates by a few pixels). Now, you take the large brush if you're using MS Paint, if not...then make sure your brush is about 7 pixels wide or so. You then draw out the shape of the tree in a dark color but not the darkest swatch in your palette, because you'll need that later. Then, with the same brush, add lighter areas here and there. At this point, you have to take into account the shape of your tree, because you'll need to leave little bits of the darker color underneath to give the tree some layers. Based on your determined direction of lighting, you then add more of the highlights on the side that the light is hitting, leaving both the dark green and mid green from the previous steps. To hit a higher level of realism with your tree, you now have to dither. You then do the same with the mid green and dither into the light green.
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. But i also use these article to gain inspiration on what to do with my photo image. 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 Magic Book
Les Forges Pixel Art Course Translator's Notes This massive pixel art tutorial is written by Fil Razorback from LesForges.org. You can find the original tutorials here. A big thank you to Fil Razorback for allowing OpenGameArt.org to translate these tutorials and archive them here! Preface There are many definitions of the pixel-art, but here we will just one: an image is pixel-art if it is created entirely by hand and that he had control of the color and position of each pixel which composes. However, this isn't to say that pixel-art or non-pixel-art graphics are more or less beautiful. So here you will learn the technical part of pixel-art. I also want to point out that only some of the images used in these tutorials are "zoomed". So, let's return to the heart of the matter. Chapter 1: The Right Tools ›
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So you want to be a pixel artist? - Photoshop tutorials and Pixelart tutorials, smiles and pixelart Part 1: The Almighty Grass Tile Ah yes, the grass tile...Generally the first tile anyone does, because hey, if you're making an RPG, and you plan to have it take place on a world, you're probably going to need grass. It's a good way to warm up and get into drawing the tiles, so let's start with it. Let's cover some different methods of making grass. These aren't all the methods, of course, but these are some popular ones. So then we come to the more "complex" grass tiles...The ones that have tons of dots in them. Another method is to simply paintstakingly draw in the blades, going from shade to shade. Now you can use whatever method you like, and there are a lot of different ones...Just remember that grass shouldn't look totally flat, and using the same tile and just changing the shades looks horrible: Do not, I repeat do NOT do this. Contents: Author of this page had got the permission to host this tutorial here.