Create a Backlit, Elegant Female Portrait in Illustrator – Vector Premium Tutorial

I absolutely agree with you Calvin, I personally use Inkscape but for any Adobe Illustrator users out there, it is a very VERY smart idea to sign up. Put simply, this is one of the best(yes, the whole internet) sources for HQ tutorials, especially the premium ones. Now, for example, this piece is about as good as it gets, you will see very few – if any – pieces of art this good, one of the few artists I can think of that has the same quality and detail is CrisVector and he is essentially the pioneer for vector artists. But your not only getting to see an amazing piece of art, but you also get told EXACTLY how to make it. This is something that an AI artist should not pass up, Sharon Milne(aka ChewedKandi) is one of the great artists in the vector sector, this is not trying to suck up her arse either, these are the facts. I also agree though, that there are a few tutorials that really don’t deserve there premium status, but remember, its 9 dollars for future tutorials and a backlog of god knows how many tutorials, many of which are helpful. I wouldn’t disregard joining so quickly :D. Cheers

ps. I don’t work for envato or anything of the sort, but if you have the chance(and you use AI) then I genuinely think you should, anything that will help more artists be able to more capably release there creativity is A-OK with me :)

I agree with you Maxwell. I also checked ED’s website because I thought he/she might be one of those persons who already knows everything there is to know about AI, Photoshop, Photography or anything related to these fields… and well… it wasn’t the case. It was actually far from being that case…

ED, I really think some of the tutorials here would be very useful to you and to improve your skills that are far from being perfect… just like mine and those of many other readers out there who wish to learn from some guys who really don’t know what they are talking about.

I do not work for Envato or have anything to do with them. I didn’t even know about these sites just a few months ago… but since I found all this Tuts Network… i have stopped searching somewhere else for good resources or good tutorials. Most of the things I need I find them here and they are usually for free. And sometimes, you have to pay and it’s worth it, like I said in my first post.

And just like Sharon says below, when you see a premium tutorial you then realize how much effort, time and skills have been needed to create them. Just to think about capturing the computer screens, write the text, edit everything… that is a lot of hours.

So add to that the skill to create a tutorial like this and make them “reachable” for a lot of different readers with different skill levels on programs like AI… you got the idea?

Anyway. Just like I said, most of these tutorials are sure worth paying for.

Come on now…as a high school student I can clearly see plain as day that quite a few of these tutorials on the tutsplus sites are greatly lacking in the areas of design knowledge. What good are skills if you can’t use them properly? I check this website everyday and learned very, very little. Are there some spectacular tuts on here, yes, most definitely–especially some of the digital painting ones on the psdtutsplus site. I really do hope that vectortutsplus really does a much better job this year than last in that manner, and thus far they are.

As far as this tutorial goes, the final result is impressive, especially as a vector piece. Can’t say I’m a fan of the backlit part at all, but good work.