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Illustrator Tip #31: Brushed Metal Effect

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Brushed metal is a very nice effect you can use for interface design, icons and creating metal textures. This tutorial will show you how you can create brushed effect easily in Illustrator.

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Premium Tutorial: How to Create a Brochure in Illustrator

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In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a brochure in Illustrator. It focus on both layout and design elements so it is going to get very exciting. You will use plenty of brushes, create many types of arrows and grungy tags that will make your brochure look funky and modern and can be used as promotion materials. Let’s begin our brochure making!

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Illustrator Tutorial: Roller Blades

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In this Illustrator tutorial, you will learn how to draw a pair of high-detailed roller blades from scratch, new useful drawing techniques and you could consider it a great chance to practice your Pen Tool skills. So let’s get to work and hope you will enjoy it.
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Premium Tutorial: Vector Bike

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This tutorial will take you through the process of making a super bike illustration step by step. I’m going to show you my techniques and tricks to analyze your image, create your layers and make complicated objects with realistic shading without using Live Paint. After this tutorial, you will gain experience on making a complicated project and you can apply it to many other projects.

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Illustrator Tutorial: Futuristic Interface Design

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Follow this tutorial to learn how to draw a futuristic download player using only basic shapes. It is mainly created using the 3D effects tool because of the lighting/shading options and the Bevel shapes that can be easily created to obtain a futuristic look. This Adobe illustrator tutorial is good for learning more about interface designs in Illustrator. So leave a comment if you enjoyed this tutorial.
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Illustrator Tutorial: Circus Tent

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This is a short tutorial to teach you the basics of using warp effects to create a nice vector circus tent. You will learn all the features of using warp effect and how it can simplify your work and help you draw faster. A Illustrator tutorial suitable for beginners.
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Premium Tutorial: Red Carpet & Glittering Star

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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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