Archive for the ‘Illustrator’ Category
Illustrator Tutorial: Create A Snazzy Retro Badge
This tutorial will help you create a vector retro badge or emblem. Particularly, in this year, the number of websites using these as attention grabbers is increasing, and it is being touted as a design trend that is not very likely to cease anytime soon. So, it becomes very important as a designer to know how to create these badges. Having these in your arsenal is sure to grab some eyeballs! So what are we waiting for, let’s get started.
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Premium Tutorial: Purified Water
This tutorial will take you through the process of creating a purified water illustration step by step. Through these steps you will learn how to use a gradient mesh tool in creating realistic gradient effects and other techniques as well. Knowledge of using the Pen tool and creating fills can help. But it will still be easy even to those who didn’t have a first hand experience with Illustrator. Upon completing this tutorial, you will learn how to use the gradient, mesh tool and other techniques like wrap, blends and filters.
Illustrator Tutorial: Holland Tulip Field
This tutorial will show you how to create a beautiful Holland landscape filled full of colorful tulips and a traditional Dutch windmill. We will start by creating a red tulip flower with the Gradient Mesh tool and then make yellow and purple color variations of the tulips. Then we will create the windmill using simple gradients and solid fills and finally we will arrange all the elements to complete our landscape. I have included steps that are crucial to get the desired look assuming that the user is familiar with basic Illustrator drawing and coloring tools. So let’s start creating!
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Premium Tutorial: Draw a Banana
In this tutorial, you will learn lots about drawing a realistic looking banana. I will explain to you step by step on how to achieve this photo realistic effect using advanced gradient mesh techniques. You will begin by drawing the mesh of the banana and learn how to adjust and fill the mesh points to achieve this look.
Premium Tutorial: Phone Applications Concept
This tutorial will take you through the process of creating a concept art on Phone applications. It will teach you how to use the 3D tools in Illustrator, symbols, Illustrator scripts speed up the creation of this illustration. You will also learn to draw maps, social icons, calendar, clock, envelope in isometric style.
Illustrator Tip #32: Vector Bubble
This quick Illustrator tip will teach you how to create a nice vector bubble easily in Adobe. Illustrator. It is actually very easy to draw a bubble by using Feather and some layer transparency tricks. Let’s find out how to do it.
Illustrator Tutorial: Draw a Sunglass Using Gradient Mesh
This tutorial will show you how to draw a nice sunglass using gradient mesh in Adobe Illustrator. I have made it simple to follow so that you don’t need to be an expert to draw a sunglass like this. It can be done with a few tools and techniques. It is a very good tutorial on learning the complicated gradient mesh tool. Enough said, let’s find out how this is done.
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