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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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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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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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.
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Adobe Illustrator & InDesign tutorial: Design a geometric op-art poster
This tutorial explains how to create one of Simon C Page’s seemingly complicated posters via some nifty tricks in Illustrator and InDesign CS5.
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Composite photos and vectors for an 80s photo style
Recreating colourful, 1980s-style graphics isn’t hard – the tricky bit is updating them for the 21st century. Here, Karan Singh shows how to add an 80s twist to model shots.
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Adobe Illustrator tutorial: Design symmetrical character art
In this tutorial, creative duo LouLou & Tummie show you how to use Illustrator to create a symmetrical, character-filled banner. You’ll hone your use of the Pathfinder tool to build new shapes, and tweak lines to give them a sense of flow.
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Adobe Illustrator tutorial: Create summery poster artwork using Illustrator CS5
Adobe's Creative Suite 5 has recently arrived, and with it comes a new version of Illustrator, featuring some exciting tools. To give you a flavour of them, we asked Ben the Illustrator to put Illustrator CS5 to the test. He uses it to create a summery poster, as given free with the June issue of Digital Arts.
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Add vector flair to model shots
Camilo Bejarano shows you how to hand-draw elements before scanning them in and transforming them into dramatic, colourful designs that interact neatly with the photograph.
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Adobe Illustrator tutorial: Master dynamic gradient techniques
Learn the hidden secrets of the gradient tool within Adobe Illustrator; particularly how to use it to create effective and complimentary colour schemes.
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Adobe Illustrator tutorial: Create lush, glossy vector images
It’s easy to associate vectors with flat shapes – but creating Illustrator images with real depth needn’t be a headache. In this tutorial, Thomas Burden 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.
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Adobe Illustrator tutorial: Create quirky repeating patterns
In this tutorial, Imakethings (known to his mum as Andrew Groves) shows you how to make a repeat pattern based on map-like imagery. He uses simple shapes and icons to illustrate geographical features from a bird’s-eye point of view similar to those used in OS maps.
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Master Photoshop's Liquify filter
Tim Burton’s retelling of Alice in Wonderland is full of dreamlike, grotesquely distorted characters. In this tutorial, Fabio Sasso shows you how to hone your use of the Liquify filter to make an image inspired by the film’s sinister Cheshire Cat.
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Get started with type art
Pomme Chan shows how to take your first steps in letter-based illustration using Photoshop and Illustrator.
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Adobe Illustrator tutorial: How to paint using the Gradient Mesh tool
Illustrator's Gradient Mesh is a grid-based painting technique that enables advanced colouring of vector objects with smooth and malleable colour transitions.
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Create striking photo and vector mash-ups
Neil Duerden shows how to jazz up straightforward model shots with help from stock photography, Photoshop and Illustrator.
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Explore new-folk illustration styles
Jonny Wan’s distinctive, fresh illustrations manage to seem both mechanical and handmade: their characters are composed of intricate, symmetrical vector shapes so that they seem almost clockwork, yet the finishes he applies remind us of woodcuts.
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Create retro poster art
The retro aesthetic of the 1950s and 1960s is currently back in vogue and it’s set to be a great trend for 2010. It’s not hard to see why retro design is so enduringly popular: the bold, blocky colours, simple imagery and vivid typography make this a striking era of design.
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Design a graffiti-style screenprint artwork
Learn how to create scorching posters or T-shirts with hands-on tips from screen-printing experts Waste.
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Create mile-high type art
Use Fabio Sasso’s tips to perfect your Photoshop texturing skills and create this image of an abandoned princess.