We have another great Vector Plus tutorial available exclusively for Plus members today. If you want to learn every detail in how to create a rampaging robot made up of a mix of type and vectors, then we have an awesome tutorial for you. Learn more about this tutorial at the jump!
Making of “Robot Earth 3009″ Typographic Illustration – Vector Plus Tutorial
Oct 7th in News by Tom WhalenThis Vector Plus Tutorial is Filled with Creative Techniques
During this tutorial, I'll show you the process for creating one of my illustrated type posters. I love to work type into all of my illustrations for the balance and rhythm it provides to a layout, but I especially love creating images out of type itself...the graphic designer inside of me compels me to do it!
Tutorial Details
- Tools: Mechanical Pencil + Sketchbook
- Programs: Adobe Illustrator CS4 and Adobe Photoshop CS4
- Difficulty: Advanced
- Estimated Completion Time: 3-4 hours
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User Comments
( ADD YOURS )Dan October 7th
Wow this looks really good! I might have to pony up the cash for this tut!
( )margaret October 7th
ooOOOoo. Very nice. Definitely worth a run through!
( )devDsine October 7th
omg… i wanna be a plus member..!
( )Matthew Booth October 7th
ok… that’s it. I’m buying a plus membership for sure. Between the free brushes on psdtuts.com and the awesome plus tutorials on here it’s totally worth the $10 a month. And for people who say it isn’t just compare it to the cost of a community college class ($ per unit). I think you learn more useful things in these tutorials than in a class (at least from a technical perspective).
This tutorial looks awesome, I could see myself using the idea/techniques to print something to hang on my wall. THat’s when you know it’s good, when you want to put it in your own home!
( )Matthew Booth October 7th
oh and btw, I really liked the idea of the planes in the upper left corner in the original sketch.
( )Melody October 7th
love this!…it’s nice to see the original sketch too..
( )Mark Dijkstra October 7th
Pretty cool :d
( )clippingimages October 7th
Very attractive tutorial, Nicely explained and beautiful final touch. Thanks for sharing this nice tutorial.
( )aGS October 7th
Geil!
I’m going to try out the membership, but first I would like to know if there is a way to filter all the “Vector Plus” tutorials, I would like to see them all together and avoid the extra “fishing” for the old ones…
I tried “Searching” Vector Plus, but all the tutorials (Plus and none Plus) were listed.
Thanks in advance!
( )Karma Orange October 14th
Thqt’s really cooool
( )scott lawnduski October 20th
its pretty neat
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