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I recently came across a neat design on Pinterest which featured a cool background pattern made of distorted lines, which inspired me to experiment with some similar abstract stripe effects of my own. The result is this collection of 10 graphics that you can use as backgrounds for your artwork and designs. Each one features a busy composition of wavy lines, much like the distortion from a photocopier or scanner. The files come in vector and PNG format, so you can use them in all kinds of design applications.
Access All Areas members have an extensive collection of Illustrator Brushes to download this week, courtesy of Jeremy Child from The Artifex Forge. These vector marker pen brushes really capture the smear and swipe of the real thing, allowing you to create convincing marker pen artwork in Adobe Illustrator or Affinity Designer with ease. Over 300 real brush stroke samples were created and only the best ones were selected for this pack. Hours were spent testing different markers on varied surfaces to get the look just right, and the result is the most realistic looking vector marker set available.
Access All Areas members have a variety of outdoors themed logo and t-shirt graphics to download this week, courtesy of Evgen Radchenko from JeksonGraphics. Inspired by nature, these adventure graphics feature mountains, trees and campfires amongst other outdoors themed imagery. The 9 ready-made designs can be used to easily create t-shirts, mugs, posters and other merchandise, or the individual elements are supplied so you can build custom designs.
Access All Areas have a really useful collection of Art Brushes for Adobe Illustrator to download this week, courtesy of Freepik. This Art Brushes Collection contains 36 Illustrator brushes with a variety of stroke styles, ranging from realistic pen nib effects to detailed patterns. Use them to add cool hand drawn effects to your illustrations to turn your clean and precise artwork into fun doodled sketches.
Hot foil stamping is a special finish that gives printed material such as business cards or packaging a feeling of quality and luxury. Common foils include silver, gold and the more psychedelic holographic foils that reflect a full spectrum of colours. These extravagant foils are applied at the print stage by industrial machines, but designers are starting to simulate the appearance in their digital artwork to add artificial foil effects to designs that are viewed on screens. I’ve been busy creating a set of textures that you can use to produce holographic foil effects in your own designs. Use them with Clipping Masks to give your text and other design elements a vivid, shimmering, iridescent appearance.
Access All Areas members have a useful set of textures to download this week, courtesy of Heather Noll Design. This Grunge Halftone pack includes 14 high resolution 4000x6000px Bitmap files that can be used individually, or blended for different effects. There’s a variety of surface textures to choose from, including stains, heavy dirt and ornate patterns.
