Apr 19
Making Labels with Illustrator and PDF Templates
A comprehensive tutorial on designing labels with Adobe® Illustrator. This tutorial is based on address labels, however the techniques can be applied to CD Labels, Mailing labels, even business cards, name bagdes and other paper medium were duplication of the design is required.
Apr 1
Creating an icon "about company"
In this tutorial, you will learn to create an “about company” icon.
Feb 28
Imitating A Scanner Darkly
Using Illustrator's pencil tool and shapes of solid color, you can imitate the graphic novel styling of A Scanner Darkly. An animator from the film shows us how.
Nov 1
Creating graphs in Illustrator
Every now and then you may come into the situation that you have to present some sort of statistical data to your client. Of course you may use Excel’s graph tool to easily create a bunch of charts — but let’s face it, more or less all of those predefined designs suck. So you have [...]
Oct 24
Chinese Bamboo
This tutorial will show you how to illustrate Chinese bamboo with Illustrator Symbol Sprayer and the Mesh Tool.
Oct 20
Halloween Pumpkin
Learn how to draw a realistic Halloween pumpkin in Illustrator so you can attach to your ecard or email.
Oct 20
Creating a ribbon in Adobe Illustrator
This tutorial will show you how to create a ribbon in Adobe Illustrator.
Oct 16
Create this sexy MAC OS style wallpaper in Illustrator!
This tutorial shows you how to make hi-tech style abstract background with the Illustrator Blend Tool. Very cool and simple!
Sep 21
Creating a Quick and Easy Glass Bowl
With just a circle, a few ovals and the Inner Glow effect, you can create a quick and very useful glass bowl image in Illustrator.And once you master this technique, it can be easily adapted for many different uses.
Sep 21
Shape Shifting with Illustrator's 3D Effect
Experimentation is critical in learning any graphics software. I have learned much of what I know by asking the “How do I…” question of myself. Maybe you’ve seen something cool that you want to learn how they did that or you’ve dreamed up something yourself and now you have to figure out how to do [...]
Sep 14
Make Vector 3D Logo with Illustrator CS2
This tutorial will show you how to make 3D gradient logo in minutes. This technique is great for making 3D graphic objects and icons.
Sep 2
How to Trace/Draw People from Photo with Illustrator
Full detailed tutorial on how to draw and trace people from a photo. Learn how to create realistic illustration with just simple gradient fill. No massive Gradient Mesh!
Sep 1
Radial Gradients - Conforming gradients to the edges of an...
In Illustrator CS2, standard radial gradient fills won't automatically follow the edges of an object. They'll generally be circular and clipped by the bounding box of the object, rather than conformed to the object itself. However, with oval-shaped objects, there's a little trick to get the gradient to follow the edges of the object, rather [...]
Jul 31
Adobe Illustrator - Gradient Mesh Tutorial
This tutorial assumes you know a fair amount about Adobe Illustrator. It will show you how to use the gradient mesh tool to create a vector image from a raster image. The gradient mesh tool creates a more smooth look than the traditional methods. The tutorial was written for the Mac so some shortcuts will [...]