In this Tuts+ Premium course, illustrator Von Glitschka teaches you a professional workflow for Creating Vector Art. Over 12 lessons and 2.5 hours of total video, you’ll get tips and techniques for sketching, using helpful plugins, Von’s “Clockwork Method”, working with shapes, using the pathfinder, layering heirarchy, coloring and detailing. If you’re not yet a Tuts+ Premium member, now’s the perfect time to give it a try – every membership comes with a 100% money-back promise. Become a member now to access the course, or learn more about Creating Vector Art after the jump!

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We’re excited to announce that Tuts+ Premium members now have access to a new Rockable eBook and in-depth video course on DSLR Photography as part of their membership. The eBook is Rockstar Icon Designer (usually $24 USD), and the course is Introduction to DSLR Photography with professional photographer Kim Bultsma. If you own a DSLR but don’t fully understand how to get the most out of it, you’ll love this course. Keep reading to learn more, or become a Tuts+ Premium member.

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We’re pleased to announce our 7th in-depth course available to Tuts+ Premium members: Identity Design with Ben Gribbin. Over 18 lessons and nearly 3hrs of video training, you’ll learn all the foundational skills needed to start doing identity design work for clients.

Not a member? Not to worry! There are four public lessons available. Links after the jump.

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If you’ve ever wanted to learn how to build websites and web apps, HTML and CSS are the first skills you should learn. They are so fundamental that we believe everyone has the right to learn these skills for free.

We set ourselves the challenge of designing the most effective and enjoyable way to learn HTML and CSS in one month. The result is 30 Days to Learn HTML and CSS, a free Tuts+ Premium course. We’re really excited to share this with you today! (Plus, get a sneak peek at the new Tuts+ Premium.)

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We’re proud to announce that Envato is sponsoring the ‘Agency of the Year’ category as part of the 2nd Annual Design awards. The 2010 Awards were a resounding success and we’re excited to be involved again this year. Entries close on the 22nd of July 2011, so there’s still plenty of time to show the world your talent at www.annualdesignawards.com.

You can also save 30% off the price of entering by using our exclusive code, envato30. Don’t hang around, as there isn’t much time left to submit your entry!

We’ve just launched a free newsletter you can use to keep up to date with new tutorials and articles on Vectortuts+. At the end of each week you’ll get a digest of all the tutorials and articles published that week, mailed straight to your inbox. If there’s a big announcement coming, newsletter subscribers will often be the first to know.

And as a welcome for new newsletter subscribers, you’ll get immediate access to a secret tutorial we’ve never published anywhere on this site!

The newsletter is free to join and ad-free. Look for the ‘Join our newsletter!’ heading in the sidebar and join nearly 1,200 other subscribers (and counting). If you want to see a preview of the newsletter, read on!

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From the bottom of our creative little hearts, we want to thank you all for making the Tuts+ Quiz so much fun! We had over 1,500 entries, and 27 prizes. We’re sorry you can’t all win a prize, but we hope you had a lot of fun and got to know Tuts+ a little bit better! We certainly got to know you better, and we learned that Tuts+ readers are clever and good-looking.

Read on to see who won!

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It’s Day 8 of our stupendous Tuts+ Holiday Quiz competition. We’re on the home stretch now! Today, you’ll be tested on your knowledge of Vectortuts+. Read on to unlock the eighth part of the entry form URL!

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It’s the holiday season. And to celebrate, we’re launching something special: the Tuts+ Holiday Quiz. Each day for 10 days we’ll publish a quiz question on a different Tuts+ site. Together, the answers will form a secret URL string that will give you access to an equally secret entry form. The prizes we’ve assembled will blow you away!

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