This tutorial shows how to create a stained glass effect in Adobe Illustrator. The method is rather quick and simple, but the outcome looks very nice – especially when you use a beautiful image for reference. Let’s get started!
How to Create an Eagle Head Sticker
Nov 13th in Designing by Simona PfreundnerIn this tutorial, we'll explain how to create an eagle head from a photograph and make a sticker out of it. This is a fairly straight-forward process and is relatively simple to get good results with. Let’s get started!
How to Create a Climbing Rope Pattern Brush
Nov 10th in Designing, Tools & Tips by Mac KrebernikA simple 2-point-path can be transformed into a powerful Pattern Brush. The virtual Climbing Rope may not save your life, but the technique behind this tutorial may help save a lot of time. Let’s get started!
How to Create a Retro, Vector Invaders Illustration
Oct 2nd in Designing by WingnutsIn this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a retro ‘Space Invader’ style illustration using basic shapes and the Extrude & Bevel effect. This is relatively simple to create and loads of fun to make. It does require a little bit of planning for the composition and some other details. Let’s walk through how to create this design.
How to Create Vintage Vector Bottle Caps In Illustrator CS4
Sep 29th in Designing by Joshua BaderIn this tutorial I will show you how to create a vector bottle cap in Illustrator CS4 using some basic shapes, gradients, and effects. This tutorial is for beginners and is quite simple. It will demonstrate how the layering of shapes with different gradients applied to them can give you a nice sense of depth. Let’s get stared!
How to Create a Wide Range of Custom Color Swatches in Illustrator
Sep 15th in Designing, Tools & Tips by Saurabh SharmaSwatches are the life line of any artwork. There are a lot of color books available in Illustrator to discover a wide range of swatches. Most popular among them are the Pantone Color Books and default CMYK and RGB swatches.
In this tutorial, we will learn how to create a wide range of custom swatches using the color blending methods. In the end, we will learn how to organize these swatches into Color groups. Let’s get started!
How to Create a Coupon in InDesign
Aug 28th in Designing by Simona PfreundnerIn this tutorial, we'll explain how to create a coupon, double-sided in InDesign. This is a beginner level tutorial and by no means meant for print. It gives you a small intro into tabs, style sheets and glyphs. Let’s get stared.
How to Turn a Client Approved Snack Label into a 3D Looking Snack Pack
Aug 25th in Designing by Ferry IckhwanoOften after approving the final label’s design, clients will want to see the design mocked-up as a package. Starting with a final label design, we’ll use Illustrators mesh tools to simulate a 3D package design. Let’s go ahead and do that!
Super-Slick, Screen Printing Separations with Illustrator
Aug 3rd in Designing, Illustration by Chad HolmesFor today’s designer a versatile range of mediums exist to get your artwork seen. The problem with this versatile range of mediums is that they do not all exist on hi-res monitors.
In this tutorial, we will explore the process of taking your design from the screen to the shirt. Specifically, we’ll address one of the biggest headaches for a designer – separating your design for print. The steps in this tutorial will show you how to keep your clients looking good, and your screen-printers sane.
Creating a Stencil Bomb in Illustrator
Jul 22nd in Designing, Illustration by Cody WalkerThere are many different ways to approach making a stencil. Some artists use Photoshop to create their stencils, but this method usually involves manipulating existing images.
For this tutorial, I’m going to start from scratch and go through the process of creating a graphic illustration intended to become a stencil, designing bridges into the illustration so it can be cut out with out losing any structure, And generally creating a design that works well as a large graphic image.
