Create lush, glossy vector images
associate vectors with flat shapes – but creating Illustrator images with real depth needn’t be a headache. In this tutorial, Thomas Burden (who works under the name ...There Will Be Unicorns) shows how you can create striking, vibrant work in Illustrator using a simple colour palette and basic blur effects – particularly Illustrator’s built-in Gaussian Blur effects. Along the way, you’ll also learn how to bring simple shapes to life, and how to create charming characters and elements, using only basic Illustrator and Photoshop.
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May 10, 2010 Illustrator Logos, Photoshop | Hits: 4450
50 Free High Quality Professional Icon sets for Download
Icons sets play an important role in web design and for your desktop. Web Designers instead of investing their valuable time in making these icons sets to use in their web applications and in web designs, they search for icon sets on web which are available for free but they all the icons sets are not present in one place. They have to search every website so we decided to post all of these wonderful high quality and professional icon sets for web developers.
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Create quirky repeating patterns
However, unlike in an official map, Imakethings uses bright colours and adds a few creatures here and there to create a whimsical, magical landscape. The map tiles to make a recurring image that could be applied to any number of surfaces.
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May 10, 2010 Complete Guides, Photoshop | Hits: 2883
650+ Ultimate Twitter Icons Collection For Web designers
Twitter is a micro-blogging social networking site which has grown so fast in recent years. Now twitter is playing an important part in promoting blogs. That’s why one can find almost all popular blogger out there in twitter. In twitter , users can send and read messages in the form of tweets. Twitter is being ranked 15 in Alexa’s web traffic analysis and is considered to be the fastest growing social networking site of the year. So it’s important for blogger and designers to start using twitter if they haven’t yet started.
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Design a character for a T-shirt print
Character creation is a personal thing. Anyone can doodle stick drawings and scrappy characters, but armed with an insider’s knowledge of cracking character design, you can breathe life into any design. Characters can be created in any application – from 2D pixels to 3D models – but vector-based artwork holds a special place in any creative’s mind. And vector-based characters can make the jump from screen to screen-print with ease.
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How to paint using the Gradient Mesh tool
If you’re reasonably familiar with Illustrator’s Pen tool and other path-drawing, selection, and colour tools, you can use the Gradient Mesh feature to add realistic colouring, lighting, and 3D characteristics to a flat vector object. Ultimately, gradient mesh can give you the effect of photo-realistic painting with all the benefits and freedom of resolution-independent vector artwork.
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Design for vinyl wall stickers
You’ll learn how to design for a specific wall and how to make sure that your finished piece works beautifully in its environment. There’s also advice on how to get your artwork printed, and everything you need to know to make sure your hard work doesn’t go to waste when it comes to installing your new design.
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Design self-promotional postcards
As a tool that regularly reminds clients that you’re alive and available for work, creative postcards are a great solution. Cheap to produce, these mini canvases provide a snapshot of your latest work in miniature. And if the style appeals, you’ll find many creative directors pinning promo cards to their studio walls, ready to pick up and commission when that style is needed.
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Learn gorgeous new shading skills
In this tutorial, Yuta Onoda shows how you can transform a pencil sketch into a gorgeous, textured digital artwork using layer masks and blending modes. You’ll also learn how to add realism to your artwork by faking print offsets and paint spatters.
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Learn Illustrator Gradients
This tutorial will teach you how to use Adobe Illustrators Gradients.
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Feb 15, 2010 Basics, Illustrator | Hits: 1158
