Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Use Illustrator's Live Trace to create a vector pattern illustration
Learn to create an editorial illustration that represents a thriving Internet-driven digital business.
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Adobe Illustrator tutorial: Design an isometric infographic
Tim Smith from ustwo shows how to use Adobe Illustrator to create precise isometric scenes.
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Adobe Illustrator tutorial: Use the Kuler iPhone app to develop a colour scheme for use in Illustrator CC
How to snap a photo, then use the Kuler app to map its colour scheme – and use the resulting palette to colour an artwork.
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Adobe Illustrator tutorial: Design a vector animal mascot
How to produce an illustrated mascot to serve as part of a larger branding concept – a lion whose pose and demeanour represents nobility, pride, aspiration and achievement.
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Be bold with Photoshop effects
How to create a psychedelic artwork using a mix of adjustment layers, effects and vector elements.
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Adobe Illustrator & Maxon Cinema 4D tutorial: Create decorative 3D type & swirls
How to create colourful typography that appears to made from parts of children’s toys and cut paper.
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Adobe Illustrator tutorial: Bold pattern design
How the graphic designer and illustrator brings the cities he visits to life in an abstract fashion.
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Design abstract book art
Nicolas Monin-Baroille explains the different Photoshop and Illustrator techniques he used to create this abstract artwork
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Create 3D type with paint drips
Learn how how to create a stylish 3D typographic illustration using only Illustrator and Photoshop.
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Adobe Illustrator tutorial: How to create x-ray effect in Illustrator
Evert Martin explains how to animate a piece of line art
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Adobe Illustrator tutorial: Master Illustrator CS6's new Pattern tool
Alex Mathers explains how you can use Illustrator CS6’s new Pattern tool to build repeating objects within vector scenes
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Create a retro vector look
Miss Swanne explains how she balanced vector techniques with retro themes to create the poolside-based The Sound of Silence
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Adobe Illustrator tutorial: Create cool infographics
Translate abstract data into a 3D, easy-to-understand illustration with these tips from Wendy Ding.
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Use gradients to make character designs pop
How to combines vector, 3D and scanned elements in order to create a mixed-media character illustration.
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Adobe Illustrator tutorial: Create a retro-style comic
Using an image from an ongoing project, Toby Leigh explains how he turns an initial sketch into a polished piece of art
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Design amazing mosaic effects
Create a cool look using Illustrator’s Symbols and Global Colors.
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Adobe Illustrator tutorial: Create a textured vector cityscape
Phil Ashcroft looks at contrasting hard lines with organic textures
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Texture effects for vector portraits
Charles Williams traces a face using vectors to capture our addiction to the world of microblogging and hashtags
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Adobe Illustrator tutorial: Create Art Deco type art
It’s much easier to create immaculate type than you might think, as Adam Pointer demonstrates – with an art deco twist
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Adobe Illustrator tutorial: Create promotional artwork that sells you to new clients
Ben the Illustrator shows how to excite new clients with your work
