Premium Tutorial: Red Carpet & Glittering Star

This tutorial will take you through the process of creating a highly detailed red carpet background step by step. You will learn interesting techniques on how to achieve the stardust effect that surrounds the hovering star, create golden poles using gradient mesh and how to draw realistic soft shadows. Also, we’ll learn the process of creating reusable rope brushes and much more.

After this tutorial, you will gain an insight on drawing complex scenes and various techniques you can implement in your next vector concept art.

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Illustrator Tutorial: Rusty Metal Text Effect

Let’s learn how to create a vector text effect on the metal brushed background. We’ll take advantage of the Appearance Panel and Graphic Styles to speed up the process and keep the text fully editable. We will also cover a process on how to create a realistic metal brushed texture using simple techniques like the Sponge, Transform Each, Gradient, Reflect etc.

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Premium Tutorial: Digital Watch

This Adobe Illustrator tutorial will teach you how to draw a vector digital watch from scratch. It covers step by step on drawing the clock face, plastic watch strap, digital numbers and and glow in the dark effect. I will show you some simple and quick drawing techniques to achieve this final result. It will be an exciting tutorial for anyone who wants to master on drawing realistic objects in Illustrator.
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Premium Tutorial: Electric Guitar

Ever wonder how to draw your guitar using Adobe Illustrator? In this tutorial, I will teach you how to create a photorealistic electric guitar in illustrator. In a few easy steps, you will be able to create wood texture effects using film grain and distort effect. Also, I will go into the details of drawing the metallic bridge and nuts using gradients and blends.

Hope you enjoy this tutorial.

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