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Craft a Dramatic Vector Landscape Environment

This tutorial will show the intermediate Adobe Illustrator artist how to make a dramatic landscape environment. You should have a basic understanding of Adobe Illustrator tools before you begin this tutorial, as the tutorial moves at a rapid pace.

Quick Tip: How to Create a Vector Grass Text Effect

Quick Tip: How to Create a Vector Grass Text Effect

Follow this quick tip and learn how to create a simple grass text effect. We will use the Note Paper effect then with the help of the Live Trace options to obtain the vector shapes that we need. The Pucker & Bloat effect can be used successfully in this case to create a pretty realistic grass look. Let’s begin!

How to Illustrate a Sausage with Ketchup

How to Illustrate a Sausage with Ketchup

What can one say about sausage? A sausage is an appetizing food that allows any person to feel the strength returning after hunger. And if you want to increase your vector illustration skills, then learn how to draw a sausage with ketchup in Illustrator. Let’s get started!

Quick Tip: How to Create a Cute Cartoon Dinosaur

Quick Tip: How to Create a Cute Cartoon Dinosaur

This Quick Tip will show you how to create a cartoon dino using only basic shapes like rectangles and circles. This is a step-by-step tutorial for beginners. The icons from the inkscape toolbar are added to the images to make it easier to find the tool and function I am describing in the text. Let’s get started!

Create a Mosaic Portrait Using Adobe Illustrator and Scriptographer Plug-in

Create a Mosaic Portrait Using Adobe Illustrator and Scriptographer Plug-in

In today’s tutorial we will learn how to create a vector mosaic from a raster image using a Scriptographer plug-in, which allow us to widen the standard functions of Adobe Illustrator. To create a vector portrait we will use the scripts developed by Russian designer Vladimir Seregin.

Quick Tip: How to Create a Glossy Biohazard Icon

Quick Tip: How to Create a Glossy Biohazard Icon

In this tutorial you will learn a quick, easy and accurate way of creating your own basic biohazard icon. For this tutorial we’ll be focusing mainly on the use of the Ellipse and Rotate Tools. Let’s begin!

Create an Embroidered Patch Style with Adobe Illustrator – Tuts+ Premium Tutorial

Create an Embroidered Patch Style with Adobe Illustrator – Tuts+ Premium Tutorial

In this Tuts+ Premium tutorial, learn to bring a little bit of nostalgia to your designs with a set of embroidered patch style pictograms. In this tutorial you will learn how to layer fills, strokes and special effects in the Appearance Panel to create a complex embroidered patch image using just one circle and a few shapes. If you are looking to take your skills to the next level then Log in or Join Now to get started!

Quick Tip: Creating a Custom Brush Illustration with Sketchbook Pro and CocoaPoTrace
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Quick Tip: Creating a Custom Brush Illustration with Sketchbook Pro and CocoaPoTrace

In the following video tutorial, you will learn how to customize Autodesk Sketchbook Pro’s pencil tool to develop a nice, streamlined brush that you can use for digital inking. Next, we’ll take digital line art from a raster-based Photoshop file and quickly convert it into a vectorized format using the freely available CocoaPoTrace application.

Quick Tip: Create a Modern Volume Bar with Adobe Illustrator

Quick Tip: Create a Modern Volume Bar with Adobe Illustrator

In the following steps you will learn how to create a simple volume bar. It’s a pretty simple tutorial that will introduce you to the basic tools, effect and techniques used in Adobe Illustrator. You will start with a simple rectangle and circle then using multiple fills, strokes and several simple effects along with some nice blending and masking techniques you will create your own volume bar.

How to Illustrate Crocus Flowers in the Snow

How to Illustrate Crocus Flowers in the Snow

This work is a common project created together with Iaroslav Lazunov and Alexander Egupov. Do you love flowers? We think that nobody says: “No” in answer to this question. All of us like the tenderness and elegant beauty of a flowers’ leaves and buds. We love Roses and Daffodils, Daisies and Snowdrops, Water Lilies and Lilies of the Valley, and of course, Crocuses, which spring after the snowy and frosty winter. Learn how to create Crocuses in Illustrator.

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