Community: Peer Review 06

Community: Peer Review 06

Vectortuts+ is all about helping people turbo charge their skills, and today we have another special community post that will help our readers take their images to the next level. The best thing is, you can be part of it too! Find out more at the jump.

Create a Stylized Performance Car in Illustrator CS5 – Tuts+ Premium Tutorial
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Create a Stylized Performance Car in Illustrator CS5 – Tuts+ Premium Tutorial

In this Tuts+ Premium tutorial, learn how to create a stylized performance car from a reference image using many gradients, custom art brushes, patterns, clipping masks and not a single gradient mesh or blur in sight! If you are looking to take your skills to the next level then Log in or Join Now to get started!

Quick Tip: Quickly Create Recycled Paper Textures with Adobe Illustrator

Quick Tip: Quickly Create Recycled Paper Textures with Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial you will learn how to quickly create a series of recycled paper textures. You can use these to apply the effect of old paper over illustrations. The goal of this tutorial is to show you some shortcuts for aligning objects on the Artboard by using the Align Panel to your advantage. With this basic knowledge it will become very easy to create many patterns with many different looks in just minutes.

Create a Golden Shield Illustration with Ivy Text Effect – Tuts+ Premium Tutorial
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Create a Golden Shield Illustration with Ivy Text Effect – Tuts+ Premium Tutorial

In this Tuts+ Premium tutorial, you will learn how to create a golden shield illustration and an ivy text effect. We’ll use vector shape building techniques to construct the main structure of our work and then Illustrator’s 3D tools to add depth. Then discover how to add polish to the shield before we move onto constructing the ivy text effect. If you are looking to take your skills to the next level then Log in or Join Now to get started!

Quick Tip: How to Create a Love Heart Greeting Card for Valentine’s Day

Quick Tip: How to Create a Love Heart Greeting Card for Valentine’s Day

On Valentine’s Day, a holiday of people who are in love, everyone gives greeting cards to each other. This day is a good opportunity to show your feelings with an unusual gift. I’ll tell you how to create a vector-card for this holiday of love. This artwork was created by my student Eugene Nikandrov.

13 Important Resources for Learning How to Design Typefaces and Full Fonts

13 Important Resources for Learning How to Design Typefaces and Full Fonts

If you’re serious about creating a typeface design, then you’ll need some solid resources to get started. Learn effective typeface design workflows, how to take an initial spark of an idea from sketch, through Illustrator, into Fontlab, and then work your creation into a complete and custom font design. Here are multiple tutorials that show you how to create fonts in Illustrator and Fontlab, and you can also dive into articles that describe the foundation of quality type design with ample inspirational examples.

20 Fun & Lively Character Design Tutorials from Vectortuts+

20 Fun & Lively Character Design Tutorials from Vectortuts+

Mastering the art of character design is something that takes both a lively imagination and a good understanding of drawing techniques. Today we have have bundled together a collection fun and lively character design tutorials from the Vectortuts+ archives. Covering a variety of subjects from sketching to rendering there’s plenty of projects to help you imagine and create your own fantastic characters.

Create a 100% Vector, Painterly Illustration – Tuts+ Premium Tutorial
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Create a 100% Vector, Painterly Illustration – Tuts+ Premium Tutorial

In this Tuts+ Premium tutorial, we will use Adobe Illustrator to create a dynamic painterly textured illustration. This technique can be done using a mouse; however, a tablet will give you an extra level of control. We’ll cover the complete vector painting process from sketch to final illustration. If you are looking to take your skills to the next level then Log in or Join Now to get started!

Quick Tip: How to Create a Blueprint Illustration
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Quick Tip: How to Create a Blueprint Illustration

Have you always wanted to be an architect, but really just because you want to show people cool blueprints? Well‚ neither has Ryan, but he’ll certainly show you how to create a blueprint illustration in Adobe Illustrator. It all starts with a square filled with a gradient, and demonstrates techniques that will help you create almost any type of document.

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How to Create Smoky Brushes and Type In Illustrator CS4

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’!


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