Painter tutorial: Draw and shade with digital pencils for a comic-book look
Take inspiration from graphic novels and recreate the roughed-up look adopted by comic artists using Corel Painter and your computer.
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Photoshop tutorial: Design repeating T-shirt motifs
Get stuck on repeat with a selection of great tips from Ollie Munden; helping you design T-Shirt motifs.
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Photoshop tutorial: Put a cutting edge spin on the lens flare effect
Learn how to present exciting variations on an old theme through changing the position of the lens flares and creative use of the blending modes, brush tools and colour.
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Illustration tutorial: Creating convincing characters
Illustrator maestro Alexis West demonstrates how to magic up appealing characters using a pencil, a computer and bags of imagination.
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Photoshop tutorial: Create a stunning pin-up collage
Create a vibrant illustration that puts a modern spin on the classic pin-up style.
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Photoshop tutorial: Create amazing psychedelic art
Rob Carissimo reveals how to use Photoshop to create a hazy, dreamlike effect that’s straight from 60s California.
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Photoshop tutorial: Paint 80's airbrush effects
In this tutorial, design duo KittoZutto show you how to create beautiful, dreamlike, paintings full of subtle detail but boasting an 80s colour scheme.
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Illustration tutorial: Create beautiful repeating patterns
Patterns are everywhere. Look around and you’ll probably see one right now. It might be a pattern on a tie, pants, a shirt… the list goes on and on.
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Photoshop tutorial: Pendulum's Immersion album cover art step-by-step
Discover how Polish artist Valp composited this stunning artwork for the cover of the Pendulum’s recent Number 1 album
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Adobe Illustrator tutorial: Give personality to character art
Learn how to create character art from scratch; taking inspiration from Aaron Miller and his food-themed delights
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Photoshop tutorial: Paint with fire
Transform a simple model shot into a spitting, crackling, beacon of fire by following Neville D'Souza's practical tutorial and making the most of Photoshop's Adjustment Layers and Blending tools.
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Photoshop tutorial: Cut & paste cool background textures
Take cut-&-paste further by compositing elements onto textured, colour backgrounds. Brian Grant shows you how…
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Illustration tutorial: Create a portfolio slideshow in Apple Aperture 3
Apple's Aperture 3 features some seriously beefed-up slideshow tools. Here we show you how to take advantage of them to show off your creative portfolio in the best possible way.
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Create an iconic T-Shirt artwork
Joshua Smith, aka Hydro74, takes you through how he created his latest work, based around his regular motifs of skulls and swirls mixed with this spring/summer’s illustration icon, the owl.
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Photoshop tutorial: Create retro posterized illustration effects
Photoshop’s Posterized tool is shamefully underused. Here, artist Baz Pringle shows you how to rediscover its potential…
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Urban type art
London is hip again, and in this tutorial Holland-based designer Bram Vanhaeren shows you how he created a new piece that draws on all that’s great about the city – taking inspiration from the Olympics, underground club scenes and the city vista from up high.
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Photoshop tutorial: High-end photo compositing techniques
Kevin Roodhorst illustrates how to composite seemingly disparate elements in a cohesive way through the use of textures and lighting effects.
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Dreamweaver tutorial: Create a portfolio blog in eight steps -- without coding
In this tutorial, web designer Craig Grannell shows you how to make edits to your portfolio blog using a remote WordPress install.
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After Effects tutorial: Animate a 'falling-to-earth' zoom effect
Use Google Earth with Adobe After Effects to make thrilling ‘falling-from-space' sequences.
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Adobe Illustrator tutorial: Discover tattoo illustration techniques
With his stunning tattoo-style designs, digital illustrator and ‘part-time thrasher’ Chris Parks shows you had to master line art and shading.