August 20th, 2010

30 Amazing Vector illustrations!

Vector style…ahhh vector style…it’s so damn good for the eyes! Vector style is used mainly for the making of designs!

Being myself a designer i could tell you that is pretty hard to make a vector artwork! So today i gathered 30 Amazing vector illustrations from deviantart

Enjoy!!

June 30th, 2010

35 Mouth Watering Photo Illustrations

With photo illustrations, and manipulations, you can express yourself in a unique way.  Letting your imagination run wild and putting your creatively in digital artwork.  In this post, I will share with you 35 mouth watering photo illustrations that will be sure to impress even the experienced artist.

June 4th, 2010

Beautiful and Inspirational Vector Portrait Art and Tutorials

While most artists may use similar techniques for vector art and portraits, individual artists develop wildly differing styles in the images they create. Some produce photo-realistic images, while others opt for cute cartoon graphics or far-out sci-fi and psychedelic aesthetics.

This post brings together 18 of the best examples of vector portraits, and at the bottom of the post you will find a selective collection of vector portrait tutorials.

May 22nd, 2010

40 Excellent Adobe Illustrator Icon Tutorials

Icon freebies is one of the common item that a website mostly offers. Designers are given the option to download the icon of their choice. This freebie is great since it would not require work to the designer. Hence, it will provide available resources for the design.

As a “level-up” offer, we here have decided to collect some cool adobe illustrator tutorials for icon-making. This will be a great treat for all icon-lovers out there who wants to make their own icons for everyone to see… Check out our 40 Excellent Adobe Illustrator Icon Tutorials that you can learn for expanding of knowledge!!! Enjoy!

May 15th, 2010

An Introduction to Illustrator’s Color Tools

You may know about RGB and CMYK, but how about LAB or HSB? With all these color choices and ways to use them it’s often easy to get confused. In this introduction to Illustrators color tools you will learn about the different color spaces, how they work and what tools you can use to get the most out of them. Let’s get familiar with the powerful color tools that Illustrator offers!

April 27th, 2010

Amazing Examples of Vexel Artwork

Vexel is a neologism for an entirely pixel-based form of raster art that imitates the visual appearance of vector graphics technique (i.e. sharp-edged lines and areas of flat colour or smooth gradient fills). The main difference is that vexels are created using raster layers while vectors are created using vector layers. The word itself is a portmanteau derived from a combination of “vector” and “pixel.

April 13th, 2010

Top 100 New Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

I must be some kind of a mind reader because you were thinking of a single place were you would find the best Illustrator tutorials and here it is. Alongside the previous article you got yourselves a massive tutorial collection here on Design your way which, I believe, you will appreciate. I’m not saying anything else, I’m just going to leave you here with these tutorials, tips and techniques that will help you improve your Adobe Illustrator skills.

March 25th, 2010

How to Create a Stylish Retro Illustration

This tutorial, will show you how to create a beautiful and colorful retro illustration using Photoshop and 3ds Max for this purpose. You’ll learn some simple but effective techniques that will allow you to create a cool and stylish image.

Step 1: Open up your 3ds Max (or your favourite 3D application that you’re familiar with). Create lots of boxes like me by going to ‘Create -> Standard Primitives -> Box’. Their placement is random but they are quite close to each other. Each one has 154mm length and 10mm width. Their height is different for each box but they are all high.

March 13th, 2010

40 Brilliantly Illustrated Web Designs

Adding visual elements to your website design can often make the difference between a good and a great site. While illustrations can often take a lot of time and talent to produce, the result is often a stunning website design that can really make an impact with your readers. The following showcase includes 40 examples of brilliantly illustrated web designs to help inspire you for your next project.

February 11th, 2010

How to Design a Cheeky Koala Mascot Head

Design a Cheeky Koala Mascot Head

We’re going to put those vector eyes you learned how to make not long ago to some good use! This tutorial will show you how to combine basic shapes with some clever coloring and blending to make a fantastic looking koala character.

We’ll use some opacity masks, brushes, gradients and effects, in addition to an easy shading technique you’ll find yourself using in plenty of other projects. Get ready to tuck into this Aussie-flavored tut!

February 5th, 2010

How to Create an Elegant, Vector Pen in Illustrator

Create an Elegant, Vector Pen in Illustrator

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to draw a vector pen, in an elegant box using Illustrator. We’ll pull out the Pen Tool, Rectangle Tool, and gradients in this one. Let’s see the final result which is our goal