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Olympic Logo Tutorial #3: Torino 2006

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Hello! Today it is time to learn new logo design techniques from our Olympic logo series. We’ll be creating a modern and technological piece of design – logo of winter Olympic games in Torino of 2006. According to my research, this logo is one of the favourite logos among designers all over the world due to its simplicity yet freshness and uniqueness. Let’s see how it is done in illustrator.
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Premium Tutorial: Frosty Christmas Window

Christmas is coming soon! In this premium tutorial, we’ll create a frosty Christmas window for this holiday season and try different backgrounds for it – starting from simple gradient, to vector landscape, to any winter photos. We’ll be using various effects, two types of brushes, pathfinder and transparency panels, and even one mesh object to create this wonderful holiday scene. You will also learn how to create realistic paper snowflakes from scratch!
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38 Inspiring Vexel Artworks & Tutorials

“Vexel” is a combination of the words vector and pixel, and it is used to describe a style of digital art which is entirely pixel-based, but looks like vector art. Vector uses mathematical equations to create lines and shapes in image whereas vexels are raster works in pixels.

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Illustrator Tutorial: Cosmetic Bottle Illustration

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In this Illustrator tutorial, you are going to learn how to draw a beautiful vector cosmetic product illustration. It is pretty easy and beginners can learn the basics of coloring and drawing. At the end, we are going to add some glitters to finish it. So let’s get started with drawing vector bottles!
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Premium Tutorial: 3D Volcano Infographics

Learn how to draw 3d infographics in this new premium tutorial. I will explain how I made this 3D volcano infographics in illustrator. This tutorial will cover on how to do the cutaway illustration effect . You will also learn the techniques of using effects such as Texturizer, Mezzotint, Smudge Stick to create the texture effects. Hope you like it and find it interesting.
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Olympic Logo Tutorial #2: Lillehammer 1994

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In this tutorial, we will continue the series of the best Olympic logos walkthrough. Today, we will recreate the emblem of Olympic Games in Lillehammer of 1994. This nice and simple-looking design requires some creativity as well as knowledge of basic Adobe Illustrator features. Let’s get started!
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Olympic Logo Tutorial #1: Munich 1972

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Perhaps every designer is interested in Olympic Games emblems – among the Olympic logos of past century there are many outstanding pieces of design. Although many of them are original and simple, some are not easy to reproduce. I decided to take a challenge and try to create some of the best and more complex Olympic logos of past hundred years.

Today, we’ll start the series with a unique op-art emblem of Munich 1972, one of the favourite designers’ logos of all times. This optical illusion is rather hard to create, but we’ll learn how to do it properly. Let’s get started!
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