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38 Icon Design Tips
Top illustrators and designers share their techniques for creating eye-catching and meaningful icons and badges.
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24 brilliant tips for drawing from life
12 leading illustrators tell us their favourite techniques for observational drawing.
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How to draw birds: 18 tips for both hand-drawn and vector illustration
Leading illustrators reveal their favourite techniques for drawing birds by hand or using vectors.
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10 tips for drawing with coloured pencils
Sonja Stangl tells us her 10 favourite coloured pencil techniques – to help artists currently using the medium and inspire those who haven't picked up a coloured pencil since childhood.
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34 tips for turning your art and graphics into amazing animated GIFs
6 illustrators reveal how to turn artworks into fun, charming, powerful or hilarious animated GIFs in Illustrator, Photoshop or After Effects.
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38 tips for creating stunning black-&-white art
Super-useful advice and techniques from 10 illustrators for creating black-and-white artworks – using pens, paints or digital tools.
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31 Repeating Pattern Design Tips
Leading illustrators and designers discuss their techniques for creating beautiful patterns using your choice of Photoshop, Illustrator, pens, paints or pencils.
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28 creative lettering and type tips for artists
Leading illustrators including Inkymole, Supermundane, Melita Berg, Daisy Emerson and Alex Fowkes reveal their techniques for creating lettering in your illustrations and designs.
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24 brush lettering tips and techniques
Five leading illustrators on how to create brilliant brush stroke lettering - including what brushes to use, where to find inspiration, dry eraser and acrylic paint techniques, and how to paint onto an object.
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27 tips for drawing flowers and plants
Artists including Johanna Basford and Kristjana S Williams reveal techniques and approaches for producing beautiful, powerful drawings of the natural world.
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25 book design and illustration tips
Discover how leading book illustrators and designers produce their best covers and illustrations.
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12 geometric vector art tips
Leading illustrators share their tips for perfecting artworks and patterns based on geometric shapes.
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How to draw food - 20 tips from leading illustrators
Top food illustrators reveal how they produce fresh and mouth-watering artworks.
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Tigz Rice’s 13 Best Photoshop Tips
Most of us spend a lot of time in Photoshop, here’s a list of Tigz Rice’s 13 favourite shortcuts to help you speed up your work – whether you’re a photographer and retoucher like Tigz, or an artist or designer.