Tutorials
Creating cartoon characters in Adobe Illustrator is always lots of fun! You don’t even need great drawing skills. Making illustrations out of basic shapes not only simplifies the process, it also produces a stylised appearance that adds to the cute factor. In today’s tutorial I’ll take you through the step by step process of creating a vector dinosaur. It’s only made from rectangles and circles, but the clever tools within Illustrator make it easy to construct a recognisable character design.
In today’s Adobe Illustrator tutorial we’re going to create a vector polygon style logo graphic that’s made up of numerous shapes, each with a gradient fill which gives it a faceted diamond kind of appearance. I’m using the image of a wolf’s head in this tutorial, but the same process can be used to create all kinds of abstract graphics.
In today’s tutorial we’re going to play around in Adobe Photoshop and have fun creating a faceless man with a window to his soooouuuul! We’ll use some simple photo manipulation techniques to digitally cut away the face and tidy up the edges, then we’ll place a vibrant cosmic space image inside the head and finish it all off with some refinements, lighting effects and a complementary quote to produce a surreal piece of artwork.
In today’s Adobe Illustrator tutorial I’m going to take you through the entire process of designing a business card, from the initial print file setup through to receiving the freshly printed business card product. Using this live project for Treck Dog Walking as an example, I’ll show you what to look out for when creating your designs and explain how your digital design is converted into a physical CMYK print.
In today’s Adobe Photoshop video tutorial I’m going to show you how to make this Eco text effect, which is made up of loads of tiny leaves, along with vines and water droplets. This text style is originally from a logo I created for BioThemes back in 2010, but I recently came across it in my archives and figured it would make a great topic for a tutorial. It’s a great example of how patience is the key ingredient to creating cool artwork. It doesn’t make use of any complicated tools or techniques, but the result is a really complex.
A fun personal project designers and illustrators often take part in is ’36 Days of Type’, or equivalent challenges like ‘Daily Drop Cap’ where artists express their style on a new letter or number every day. Initials have received decorative treatment throughout history, with examples dating as far back as early biblical texts. In today’s tutorial I’ll take you through the process of decorating a letter in Adobe Illustrator with a range of vector embellishments. We’ll make use of some really useful techniques that you’ll be able to make use of in all kinds of illustration projects in the future.
