Photoshop tutorial: Smarter ways to use colour in your art
Bringing digital colour to hand-drawn art is a common task – and Jessica Fortner has some neat tricks to get the job done
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Illustration tutorial: Print techniques
Laura Snoad hears the experts’ tips for getting more from the printed page
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Photoshop tutorial: Digital tricks for 'hand-drawn' colour
Gabz shows how easy it can be to brighten up a pencil artwork
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Photoshop tutorial: Create semi-transparent artwork
Man-Tsun shows how plastic can be a great medium for creativity
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Illustration tutorial: Problem-solving tricks
Laura Snoad hears the experts’ tips for solving those creative problems
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Create a garden of sinful pleasure
Illustration supremo Phil Wheeler ‘gets wicked’ with different textures and approaches in a poster-sized image
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Organic texture and shape effects
French illustrator François Leroy explains how he created the textured organic shapes in his Isolation composition
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After Effects tutorial: Top 5 After Effects tutorials of 2011
From motion type to character animation, we take you through our reader's favourite After Effects tutorials from 2011
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Photoshop tutorial: Create retro poster effects
Ollie Munden and Harriet Seed get shipshape with techniques for tattoo-style art, based on 50s rockabilly and navy motifs
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Adobe Illustrator tutorial: Top 10 Illustrator tutorials of 2011
In 2011, we showed you how to create a myriad of artistic styles in Adobe's vector art tool. Here are the ones you've loved most.
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Photoshop tutorial: Top 10 Photoshop tutorials of 2011
From cosmic effects and beautiful lighting to digital painting tricks and emotionally affecting portraits, we bring you the 10 most popular Photoshop tutorials of last year.
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Master Illustrator's Blend tool
Radim Malinic has a recipe for success to help you create great type art using Illustrator’s little-used Blending tool
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Photoshop tutorial: Turn a city into a dinosaur illustration
Andy Council has made a name for himself transforming street scenes into prehistoric monsters – here’s how the illustrator does it
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Photoshop tutorial: Smarten up your fashion drawings
You may have toyed with sketches of haute couture models – now it’s time to give them a touch of class, as Abby Wright explains
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Digital Mixed-media techniques
Simon Brader reveals how handmade textures, Illustrator curves and Photoshop effects all went into the creation of The Donor Trail
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Photoshop tutorial: Paint a multilayered surreal portrait
Rob Shields walks you through the creation of an inspirational artwork that also reveals much about composition and lighting
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Photoshop tutorial: Eroded fashion portraits
Pete Harrison radically reworks a fashion shot till the whole look begins to unravel before your eyes
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Colourful type art
Blend objects in Illustrator, then fuse them with type and colour in Photoshop, says Michael Kammerer – the results are fascinating
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Adobe Illustrator tutorial: The secrets of beautiful caricatures
Drawing people is not the most obvious application of vector imagery, but Stanley Chow shows it can deliver brilliant results
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After Effects tutorial: Animate a picture book
The key to producing simple but effective animation is to grasp the basic principles, as Lesley Barnes and Bruce Cameron explain