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Photoshop brushes are an important tool for creating textures and roughing up a design. This set of rough and grungy Photoshop brushes take on a drybrush effect, with plenty of detailed whispy lines and long strokes. Download them for free and use them in your personal and commercial designs!
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In this week’s roundup of creative goodness, we have an awesome design project insight; an excellent Illustrator pattern tutorial; a fantastic Illustrator tutorial making use of a pen tablet; an inspiring roundup of texture use in Web Design; and an Illustrator tutorial covering use of the Gradient Mesh tool. So basically if you’re an Illustrator fan you’re in for a treat!
Nick La from Web Designer Wall gave an absolutely awesome design process insight into his Koi Illustration project. Check it out for some serious design inspiration.
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Learn how to create a couple of cute and simple kids illustrations of a car and airplane using Adobe Illustrator’s basic shapes. Take inspiration from hand crafted artwork to give each graphic a plaid effect fabric texture and stitching effect.
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The non-professional photographers among us are often left with boring and flat shots from our cameras, the photos lack the flair and energy that is achieved with expert techniques and equipment. Photoshop Actions on the other hand, can help recreate some amazing photo effects, just by pressing a button! This post rounds up 20 of the best Photoshop Actions that allow you to easily spice up your photos with popular effects, including HDR, Soft Focus, Lomo, Velvia and more!
To test out each Photoshop Action, and to allow the action to be compared against other actions on the same shot I’ve downloaded this sample image, courtesy of SXC. Compare this shot with each of the following actions, which one is your favourite?
Recreate the popular photo effect originally created by using Fuji’s Velvia range of film, with this fab action from Pibweb.
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In this week’s roundup of creative goodness, we have an article giving tips on working with various types of clients; a cool article showcasing the fonts used in the logos of popular websites; an insight into some handy fonts you can use with SiFR or Cufon, a showcase of awesome print designs; and a roundup of fantastic clean website designs.
Any freelance designers out there will find a direct connection with this oldie from Freelance Switch. Pick up some handy tips on how to work with a range of typical client personas.
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The bright red Rolling Stones tongue and lips logo is a graphic design icon, and has been a pop culture fav for years! I don’t think you can beat it, so we’ll not create a direct copy of the original in this tut. Instead, let’s take a look at drawing our own Stones inspired tongue graphic, starting with a quick pencil sketch and finishing with a vector based graphic in Adobe Illustrator.
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Handle color changes and variations with ease by following this intermediate level tutorial. This is a special tutorial sponsored by Astute Graphics that incorporates the use of their high-quality Phantasm CS range Illustrator Pugins. We’ll work with Phantasm’s color shifting tools: Hue/Saturation and and Shift to Color, while we learn to contrast shapes when composing natural, vector scenes!
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Here is the illustration I’ll be creating. Click here to see the larger version. And keep in mind, while I’m using Phantasm CS Studio in this tutorial, the options we’ll be covering are available in any version of Phantasm CS.
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In this tutorial I’ll show you the process I use for creating a vector goldfish in six easy steps. The steps are a bit condensed so Intermediate Illustrator users will benefit greatly, though beginners will be able to get similar results, you’ll just need to experiment a bit more with these tools and techniques. The vector goldfish is created with the use of the Mesh, Blend and Symbol Tools. Let’s get started!
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Below is the final image we will be working towards.
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Did you doodle on your Converse or Vans when you were in grade school – back of the class putting those sharpies to work? Go ahead, take that creativity and transform it into a vector masterpiece, and with practice learn to draw your own vector shoes, and even take those doodles and compose with them to create real shoes.
You can wear your vector masterpiece on your feet and let your vector sneaks do the walking. Let’s take a look at a truckload of vector sneaker inspiration, from raw sketched vector shoes to professional sneakers lovingly crafted from illustrative vector elements!
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Each month we round rockstar vector content from around the web. This month we had a lot of fun identifying awesome vector tutorials, freebies, and inspirational articles!
Jump over to tutorials on creating happy monsters, seamless patterns, rocking tongues, and more. Download freebies like unique snowflakes and sketchy heraldry. And check out articles on various topics, such as big type, vector inspiration, and grunge design. Take a moment to review a bunch of super-yummy, vector content from around the web for November 2009!
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Create a Rolling Stones Inspired Tongue Illustration
The Rolling Stones are an iconic brand in music. Just about everyone immediately recognizes those shiny lips as the groups symbol. This fantastic tutorial from Spoon Graphics demonstrates how to illustrate a similar pair of lips in Illustrator.
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