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75+ Illustrator Brush Sets for Download
May 17th
Illustrator's brushes are all vectors and can be completely modified to suit your needs by changing most of their characteristics like e.g stroke width, weight, colors, and more. The power of Illustrator brushes is often … Illustrator Brush Tutorials . Create Illustrator Art Brushes. Excellent tutorial showing how to make use of brushes in illustrator to paint a beautiful women character. Create Illustrator Art Brushes. Vector Eyes Tutorial . This is an advance tutorial , tools used …
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Create a Dark Vintage Style Motorcycle Poster Design
May 14th
My absolute favourite style of motorcycle is the custom “bobber”. I love the stripped down appearance and the raw vintage styling. It’s my plan to chop up a bike of my own one day, but for now I have to settle with designing custom motorcycle posters instead. Follow this step by step Photoshop and Illustrator tutorial to combine photography and typography and create a dark vintage style motorcycle poster design. The final poster design is based on custom motorcycle shop Brass Balls Bobber’s award winning “Tattoo” bike, thanks to a Creative Commons photo by Brett Jordan . The poster combines the motorcycle photography with some vintage style typography and grungy asphalt textures to relate to the hardcore characteristics of the custom motorcycle scene. View the dark vintage motorcycle poster design The basis of our motorcycle poster is this fantastic photograph by Brett Jordan . Brett has generously licensed this shot under Creative Commons on his Flickr profile, which allows us to create our own derivative works based on a professional quality…
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Illustrator Tutorial 131 – Feather Brush and Wings
May 5th
Today we bring you another well written tutorial from the folks over at vector .tutsplus.com that will show you how to create your very own feather brush and a set of wings with Illustrator . You will first start off by creating your very own feather art brush by illustrating a simple feather, then you will use the art brush to create a set of angel wings, which will look great in your next fantasy vector illustration. This tutorial has roughly 18 detailed steps and should take you …
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Fix Overlapping Custom Art Brush Strokes
Mar 22nd
I like scanning a bunch of different brush strokes to create custom Illustrator Art Brushes. When I create these brushes from the outlined scanned artwork I sometimes get this weird overlapping effect that’s really annoying. I’ve been hunting around for a solution and finally found one. To be honest, I’m not really sure I understand why it works, but it does, so I guess that’s fine. The Problem Take a look at the image below from a scanned custom Art Brush I made. See were the path overlaps and you seen the reversed effect? That’s what I don’t want to happen. The Fix The fix is pretty easily, but again, I’m not complete sure what Illustrator is doing or what these functions mean. Select the artwork you’re
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How to create a Lion inspired vector logo design in Illustrator …
Mar 12th
How to create a Lion inspired vector logo design in Illustrator
How to Illustrate a Sausage with Ketchup
Feb 28th
What can one say about sausage? A sausage is an appetizing food that allows any person to feel the strength returning after hunger. And if you want to increase your vector illustration skills, then learn how to draw a sausage with ketchup in Illustrator. Let’s get started! Step 1 First, illustrate the following path using the Pen Tool (P). Then increase the Stroke Weight to about 100 pixels, and change the Cap option to Round Cap in the Stroke palette. Go to Object > Expand, and then Object > Ungroup. Step 2 Now illustrate the following (green) path and lock it in the Layers palette. It must be bigger than the first (brown) path. See the diagram below. Take …
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How To Create A Set Of PS Brushes From A Single Texture Photo
Feb 2nd
Creating Photoshop brushes is rather easy. But, I often find that brush sets lack consistency and are often created form various textures or sources. I like consistency. I think a great set of brushes isn’t just a matter of throwing a bunch of brushes that kinda look similar together in a set, but rather create a set where each brush complements each other—this way if one of the brushes doesn’t work for what you’re trying to achieve, another brush in the set might since they’re created from the same source. Start With A Photo First of all we’ll need a high-resolution image. I find it works best with a photo of a texture rather than something like a landscape or portrait, for obvious reasons. For the purpose of this tutorial I’ve used one of my own photos taken with a Nikon D90. Your image should be as big as possible – this one is 4288
How to Create Smoky Brushes and Type In Illustrator CS4
Jan 23rd
I’ve always been fascinated by smoke, and have experimented a lot with it. So in this tutorial, I explain how to create realistic smoke, make it into a brush and use it for type. Let’s light up our vector cigarettes and get started smokin’! October of 2009 Step 1 Create a new document (Command + N) for print in A3 (297mm by 420mm). Step 2 Make a rectangle with the Rectangle Tool (M) that covers the whole artboard and make it black. While the rectangle is selected go to Object > Lock > Selection (Command + 2), which will lock the object so that you can’t select it. Take your Pen Tool (P) and make a vertical stroke (click to make a start point, then click somewhere over or under the start point while holding Shift to make a vertical stroke). Make the stroke white and the fill blank. Set the weight of the stroke to 0,05mm. If your units are set to something else, like points or inches, make sure that you type in “mm” behind 0,05, or hit Command + K. Choose units and display …
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Upturn Adobe Illustrator Skills through 30 Helping Tutorials | Tutorial …
Jan 12th
How to Create a Happy Drummer Using Adobe Illustrator and VectorScribe Plugin. In this tutorial we will learn how to create a vector character using the Pen Tool, linear and radial gradients, Art Brush, Pattern Brush and Blend Tool. …
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Create a Jellyfish with Brushes in Adobe Illustrator CS5
Jan 3rd
In today’s tutorial, I’m going to show you how to create a stylized jellyfish using blends and brushes within Adobe Illustrator CS5. Being as I’m not an expert on the anatomy of a jellyfish, please forgive my lack of terminology on naming the parts correctly. This jellyfish is just a sparkling critter from the deep sea depths! So let’s get right into it. Step 1 To start off our jellyfish, I’m going to draw a Rectangle (M) across the canvas and fill it with a black to dark blue (C=100, M=100, Y=25, K=25) radial gradient. Use the Gradient Tool (G) to modify the circle ratio of the gradient and for scaling (as shown below). Step 2 To create the initial shapes of the jellyfish body, I’m going to use the Pen Tool (P) to draw the distorted round shape as shown and use a black fill. Then go to Effects > Stylize > Inner Glow and use the options below. Now set the shape to Blending Mode Color Dodge. This will create a translucent effect for the main body. Step 3 Copy (Command + C) and Paste in Front (Command + F) the body shape and then use the Free Transform Tool (E) to decrease the size. Go into the Appearance panel and click on the “fx” button at the bottom, then go to Stylize > Outer Glow. Use the settings below and then set the shape to Blending Mode Color Dodge, with Opacity 50%. Step 4 I’m going to add glowing and sparkling elements to our jellyfish, to give the impression it is one of those deep sea jellyfishes …
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