We have a new exclusive Vectortuts+ Social Cubes Pack available for free download. There are numerous high quality icons for you to use in your work. You may also want to review the process behind this style of icon design in the tutorial series: Create a Fun Icon of Frozen People on Ice – Part I and Part II. Learn more at the jump!

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GraphicRiver hosts a truckload of vector characters. In this post we’ve rounded up some of the most inspiring of them. They are all available for a reasonable price. Let’s check out some characters that have been created recently by numerous artists from GraphicRiver! Maybe one day you’ll see one of your characters featured on Vectortuts+.

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We have another great Vector Plus tutorial available exclusively for Plus members today. If you want to learn how to create professional photorealistic portraits in Illustrator, then we have an awesome tutorial for you. Learn proper workflow for working with Gradient Meshes on large projects. Learn more about this tutorial at the jump!

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Changes, changes, changes! As any designer/illustrator can attest to, changes from a client can be a huge headache and can cause major issues in the progress of the project. In this tutorial I will show you how I approach reworking an illustration after the client has change requests, without having to start over and re-draw every step of the illustration.

For the sake of fun and simplicity, I will be supplying a simple drawing of a hippie bus as a starting point. Simple enough, till the client comes back with CHANGES!

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Each month we round up some of the best vector content on the web and post it here for everyone to enjoy. Three is quite alot of awesome vector content this month. Take a moment and review some of the best vector content from around the web for the month of October.

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We have a new set of seamless vector patterns available exclusively for Vector Plus members. These are great for using in your creative projects, adding some texture to your designs, or to give your artwork a grungy feel. There are numerous seamless patterns in this set. Learn more at the jump!

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Helen Huang, a.k.a. CQcat is an illustrator from the US, who is originally born and raised in China. She is a full time designer at an interactive ad agency and has the passion for illustrations. Through her beautiful illustrations, she tries to capture every inspiration she has and shares her vision with the world.

Helen says, her heart always desired to be in a creative field which motivated her to change her career choice from being a lawyer to a designer. Read on this interview to know about her work, her future goals and how she enjoys creating art, learning new things and pushing her style forward.

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In this tutorial I’ll show you the process I use for creating a 3D floorplan from scratch, in 6 easy steps. This technique can be applied to infographics, such as escape-plans or to show the layout of a building that you normally wouldn’t be able to see. Let’s get started!

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In this Best of Tuts+ roundup you’ll learn how to simulate a sniper scope, design and code a flexible website, create an intense movie poster, create a golden vector compass, build a minigolf game with ActionScript 3.0, take sports photos like a pro, create a rocky video game terrain in Blender and get a useful introduction to home recording–among many other things! Let’s take a look.

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GoMedia Arsenal has launched another high quality set of unique vector graphics. One random commenter will be chosen to win a free set. We’ve also got a couple ape graphics from the set that everyone can download for free. To enter, all you’ve gotta do is comment! Too easy!

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