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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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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To get in the Halloween evil spirit we’ve looked at loads of creepy vector illustrations. In the last two parts of this series we looked at over 100 vector illustrations of both Brain-Sucking Zombies and Bone-Crunching Skulls. If you need some quick inspiration for some super-evil, vector Halloween work, then don’t worry because we’ve got you covered!

Today we’ve let the evil, vector hoards loose. Now it’s time to burn your eyes with this assortment of vector Halloween horrors! Whoooahaha!

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Pasquale is an illustrator and animator raised in Australia and currently residing in Vancouver, Canada. He has training in animation and loads of experience illustrating. His work is often humorous and super-fun. He talks about his workflow, background, current creative projects, and more in this interview. Let’s have a chat with Pasquale D’Silva!

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Last week we released 50+ Brain-Sucking, Walking the Earth Dead, Vector Zombies to help get you in the spirit of Halloween. The holiday is fast approaching and you may need to bang out a skeletal illustration or just want to get your vector creep on. Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered!

Next week we’ll cap this series off with a big bag of vector Halloween horrors. Today let’s browse through a deadly mix of vector skulls and skeletal illustrations!

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Daniel Swartz is a vector illustrator from Indiana, USA. He’s a thoughtful creative professional with a passion for drawing and painting. He has a well established and thorough creative process, a good mix of formal focus and creative experimentation, and well-seasoned experience as an illustrator. He shares his hard-worked knowledge by teaching at the collegiate level, and gives us a great mix of creative and business advice in this interview!

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Halloween is on October 31st, and that day is fast approaching. You may have client requests for evil vector illustrations, a need to create a flier or poster for your raging Halloween party, or just want to jump in and create something creepy to get in the Halloween spirit! Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered!

For the next three weeks we’ll be releasing inspirational vector posts on various creepy Halloween related topics. Today we start off with some fresh from the grave, zombie vector illustrations!

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We recently rounded up Illustrator Gradient Mesh tutorials, which is an excellent tool for adding dimensionality to your work, but Illustrator also has built in 3D dedicated tools. Let’s dedicate some time to mastering those as well.

We have numerous tutorial here on Vectortuts+ for you to get started working with Illustrator’s 3D effects, practice those tools through multiple projects, and ultimately master them. Let’s run through these 3D dedicated Illustrator tutorials!

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We’ve assembled an army of overly-mechanized killer machines, truly nightmarish weaponized bots, ready to lay siege to the nearest city and take over the world as we know it, as a full-on, frontal vector assault! Take a look through this collection of killer machines and grab some inspiration. Infuse your next vector, robot illustration with overpowering, reckless abandon!

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Wireframing is a useful part of the website design process. It’s great to separate out this planning stage and have your page positioning, spacing, layout, and other elements like text size and tone works out before you jump into Photoshop to add color, texture, images, and effects to polish off your design.

Fireworks is a great tool for creating a wireframe and while it doesn’t work perfect with Photoshop, you can export over there and then build off your wireframe. We’ll cover the design process of creating a wireframe for an iPhone application website in Fireworks. For those of you not familiar with this program, it will be a good jumping off point for using it to wireframe your web design projects. This is a first part of a multi-part series and will be fun!

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