Learning is a process which continues throughout the life of an artist, graphic designer, and illustrator. Along the way, designers find the task of mastering Adobe Illustrator a large obstacle which requires practice and experience in using the vector-based application. Practice comes in the form of tutorials, which offer tips, tricks, and artistic styles from other designers who have mastered certain techniques based on their experience.
We’ve got some awesome tuts from across the net for learning and improving your Gradient Mesh skills with. It’s a great tool to work with to achieve vector realism. It takes a little practice to get the feel for working with it, but it’s worth the effort.
We’ve released quite a few tutorials for learning and mastering the Gradient Mesh Tool. There are lots of dedicated tuts on this tool on Vectortuts+ and across the web listed here. Also check out some inspirational links at the end of this post as well. And now it’s time to get our vector realism on!
I have collected 20 extremely creative illustration advertisement images. Check out these advertisements from behance network.
A logo is a graphical element that, together with its logotype (a uniquely set and arranged typeface) form a trademark or commercial brand. Typically, a logo’s design is forimmediate recognition. The logo is one aspect of a company’s commercial brand, or economic or academic entity, and its shapes, colors, fonts, and images usually are different from others in a similar market. Logos are also used to identify organizations and other non-commercial entities.
Gathered from different sources, I’m giving you collection of Awesome Logos full of Colors for your Inspiration. Hope you enjoy them !
In this tutorial I am going to show how I use a reference photo to create a realistic yet stylized illustration. There are a tons of different ways that people use reference images in their illustrations. Below I’ll show you how I go about it. Let’s get started!
Finding Illustrator tutorials online can be a mission, but luckily there’s a handyful of websites and blogs offering top class Illustrator tutorials, tips and techniques. This post rounds up the best places online to find high quality tutorials and articles to help you learn Illustrator like a pro.
Grant Friedman of Colorburned contacted me last week to create a Tweet This icon for the wonderful site redesign of Colorburned. In turn, Grant created an exclusive set of Illustrator multi-colored paint brushes for Vectips! Download the set and have some fun playing aroung with them. I also suggest checking all of Grant’s awesome brushes at Colorburned.
As we said in our previous post, 45 Creative Logo Designs for Inspiration, logos have a big impact on how others view your blog or company. Logo design is one of the hardest parts to execute as it is of great importance in creating brand identity and consistency with your design.
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Illustrator’s built in Symbol Sprayer can be a highly useful tool for quickly creating awesome pattern graphics. Let’s look at creating a few vector skull graphics, then combine them into an intricate pattern design to customise a skateboard deck.
Illustrated cartoon characters within web design has taken a surge in popularity recently, a most welcome trend. Those very effective cute, odd or even nasty characters will always stay in your memory a lot longer than the actual web sites content and even a sites logo, they have that effect on you.
