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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: How to Create a Watercolor Background Using Adobe Illustrator

Quick Tip: How to Create a Watercolor Background Using Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial we will learn how to create Watercolor Background using a Gradient Mesh, tools of deformation and Blending Modes. The techniques which are described here allow the creation of complex textural backgrounds in a simple and effective way.

Quick Tip: Create a Moustache Using Custom Art Brushes
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Quick Tip: Create a Moustache Using Custom Art Brushes

Learn how to make custom Art brushes in Illustrator, then use them to create a hipster moustache. This is the perfect tutorial for a last minute costume, just print it out on some paper and you’re ready to go! Let’s get started.

Quick Tip: How to Make Painterly Picture Frames in Adobe Illustrator
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Quick Tip: How to Make Painterly Picture Frames in Adobe Illustrator

Use artistic brushes on an Opacity Mask to create painterly edges around a photo. With Illustrator, you can easily change the brush, effect and scale for infinite flexibility.