Category Archives: Drawing

Quick Tip: How to Create an Eye Catching Upload Button in Adobe Illustrator

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This Tutorial takes you step by step through the process of creating an upload web button. You will learn how to use just a few simple, yet effective, tools and techniques to create this eye-catching design.

Creating trees in Illustrator

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As a child, no doubt a tree was one of the first things you drew, with a brown rectangular block for the trunk and a big green scribble for the leaves. But with companies increasingly keen to shout about their ecological credentials, now’s a good time to learn how to create a tree with a computer instead of crayons.

Create a Detailed Colourful Heart Illustration

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In Tutorial, how to Create a Detailed Colourful Heart Illustration

How to Illustrate a Tomato Using Adobe Illustrator

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You will use Meshes, Gradients and Blends for creating the resulted picture. The skills you will learn here can easily be transferred to creating various objects. So let’s get started!

Create a Jar Illustration and Splashy, Purple Text Effect

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In the following Tutorial you will learn how to create a jar illustration and splashy, purple text effect. We’ll craft this with numerous, layered shapes and with various opacities. We’ll work with paths and the Pathfinder tools to enhance our text, give it dimension, and style. Let’s get started!

Create an Underwater, Vector-Style Illustration in Photoshop

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Photoshop isn’t the first application that we think of when some one mentions vector-style illustrations. That’s because we have Illustrator to easily produce vector artwork. While Photoshop wasn’t originally designed to create these types of illustrations, it does have the capability to produce illustrations that can meet or exceed that of Illustrator. In this Tutorial we will demonstrate how to create a fun, underwater, vector-style illustration using Photoshop. Let’s get started!

Create a vector male portrait from a photo

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Learn how to create a Vector Male Portrait from a Photo Reference in Illustrator and create a sky background in Photoshop to finish.

Choose the image you would like to turn into a Vector Portrait and follow the steps below. I won’t be showing any colour codes in this Tutorial as it will be different to your photo.

Create a Stylish Rifle on Illustrator

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I advise you guys to at least take a look at my Gas Mask Tutorial before proceeding on this one, because most of the techniques here are pretty advanced, most in terms of drawing, not so much on software. But even If you’re a beginner, this lesson may give you some great insights regarding black and white illustration.

How to Create a Vector Snake Using Adobe Illustrator CS5 and Mesh Tormentor

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In this Tutorial we will learn how to create a vector snake using the Mesh Tormentor – Free Gradient Mesh plugin, which will make your work with the gradient mesh simple and enjoyable. I was trying to describe the creation of a complex object in order to reveal more features of this wonderful plugin, but believe me, it can do much more than I managed to describe. The matter depends on your imagination.