Adobe Illustrator tutorial: Create seamless repeating patterns using Illustrator CS6's new tools
Explore how to quickly create beautiful patterns using Illustrator CS6.
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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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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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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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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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Adobe Illustrator tutorial: Create vector halftone effects
One of the hardest things to accomplish in vector illustration is a halftone. Here we show you how to create one in only four steps.
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Adobe Illustrator tutorial: Woodcut effects for type art
It’s easy and quick to produce vector art with a vintage woodcut feel, as Karan Singh shows – and custom brushes are the key
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Adobe Illustrator tutorial: Master composition in vector art
Great art doesn’t have to be complicated, as Petros Afshar proves by conjuring up a bird graphic out of basic building blocks
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Find success with type and CG
This tutorial is about using simple random shapes to create a stunning composition which revolves around typography. You will build elements in Illustrator, Photoshop and a 3D application – in this case Cinema 4D, though similar software can be used too – and then combine them with type and effects back in Photoshop.
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Adobe Illustrator tutorial: Design a magazine infographic
Paul Butt has created an infographic about Doctor Who's most feared enemy – the Daleks – and reveals techniques on how to produce stylish and intelligible infographics.
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Add depth to vector art using shadows and glows
Jonny Wan shows how to keep your compositions fresh
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Create a summery photomontage
Jennifer Cirpici explains how to add gradients, blurs and adjustments to combine vectors and photos for realistic results
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Design hip music art
Gordon Reid shows you a slick psychedelic-influenced cover by adding a unique twist on a few simple filters.
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Digital type art techniques
Jorge Restrepo explains here how to modify characters in your own work to create a type-based illustration for an editorial layout
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Build a vibrant, pattern-based isometric cityscape
You can easily combine isometrically drawn objects with repeat tiling to create a complex cityscape, as 2xanadu demonstrates
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Put a low-poly spin on music cover art
Here Damien Vignaux -- aka elroy -- shows you how he created an artwork for his band The Escapists – a techno act comprised of Damien and Leonizer records boss Léonard De Léonard.
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Adobe Illustrator tutorial: Add motion to an illustration using lines
Eric Van Den Boom reveals how simple lines and patterns can give an old-school sporty artwork the illusion of movement
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Give your art that cosmic look
James White shows you how the clever use of blends can yield ethereal colour effects
