In this tutorial, I will show you how I made this parrot illustration. You will learn how to use the standard Illustrator brushes and make your own brushes to add more detail to your illustrations, for example the feathers on the parrot. You will also learn how to make a thick outline around your subject and how to make a soft focus background with the Mesh Tool.
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So you just spent 10 or more hours creating a crazy t-shirt design and your client has officially signed off…so what now?
You may have created stellar photo-realistic mockups and used tons of really cool colors- but none of this means ANYTHING if your screen printer can’t clearly interpret your vision!
I find that many of my clients have had bad experiences with low-budget designers in the past who have been able to create great art, but don’t know the first thing about how to put it on apparel. This can end up costing the client a lot of time, stress, and additional set-up fees at the printer. Over the years, I’ve found that a client truly appreciates the fact that my designs come ready to hand-over to the screen printer that very same day – with no questions asked.
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30 Illustrator Videos To turn You Into An Expert. A collection of great video tutorials which you can learn the basics and also advanced illustrator techniques. If you want to learn the necessary skills to becoming an expert then this is perfect post for you. The post contains range of video tutorials covering the best aspects of illustrator.
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Get ready for spring with this colorful custom letting tutorial. You’ll learn how to manipulate text to create a more customized look and combine it with other vector graphics to create a seamless design.
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The world of vector graphics opened it’s door for me after I discovered the royalty-free micro-stock community and the business possibilities for a start-up digital artist. It’s been more than a year since my first vector uploaded to Shutterstock and then iStockphoto.
During this time I’ve collected some knowledge of how to prepare vector illustrations for sale on micro-stock websites and I would like to share it with you in this tutorial. Now I sell my vector illustrations royalty-free exclusively at iStockphoto, but I’ll tell you some tips for Shutterstock as well.
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This tutorial is based on an advertisement that uses patterns and shapes to create a unique design effect. Corey recreates the effect using Adobe Illustrator.
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Adobe Illustrator is an essential tool in a designer’s kit. In this tutorial we are going to produce a self-promotional poster using Adobe Illustrator CS3. Focusing on using type in Illustrator to create a bold, eye-catching message, we are going to use a ?type as image’ style of typography. This style is both popular and effective for communicating strong messages visually. To start with, we will create a grid as the basis of our design, which will give it structure and balance. Then we will create and modify our headline text – our headline will be large so we can be creative with how we alter it. Next, we’ll build up some depth and texture with various techniques in Illustrator CS3 to create our typographic poster. [......]
Perhaps one of the most underutilized features in Illustrator is Live Trace, which can convert any photograph into vector art in just a few clicks. In this tutorial, we’re going to use Live Trace to vectorize a photo for a logo design. Now, of course, all images are different, so depending on the final effect you want to achieve, you’ll need to experiment with the settings that we’ll be using here.
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The previous tutorial shows you how to make Photoshop splash graphic, this Illustrator tutorial will show you how to make Illustrator CS2 splash graphic using the simple gradient and Multiply Blending mode.
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Simple and elegant. Apple mouse. Is there anyone, who doesn’t want graphic like that? Let’s have a look at creating this mouse in Adobe Photoshop.
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