Vector Freebies: 20 Web Icons
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Illustrator Tutorial: Corn
In the following steps, you will learn how to create a nice corn illustration. You’ll see how powerful blending can really be! First, we’ll be creating base shapes using the basic tools. Fill them with gradients and create the blended objects. (50gram.com.my) Finally, add the details using some cool effects and the Transparency Palette.
Illustrator Special Effects #7: Spiral Motion Abstract Background
Follow this quick tip and learn how to draw a black and white spiral cube abstract background. So, let’s get started!
Premium Tutorial: Wine Barrel
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a wine barrel using Adobe Illustrator. For beginners, you can create the main shapes using the basic tools along with vector shape building techniques. As you continue, you will learn how to add shades, highlights and subtle textures with the help of Transparency Palette, a bunch …
Illustrator Tutorial: Create a Summer Sunglasses
In this tutorial, you will learn to create a beautiful summer time icon. We will start with the retro-looking glasses and after you have drawn the shape you will learn some techniques for adding highlights using gradients, the Blend tool and brushes. We will then continue with the dreamy beach landscape that contains plenty of …
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Illustrator Special Effects #6: Bokeh Background
In this quick tip tutorial I’m going to show you how to create a quick and easy bokeh special effect. You will learn interesting techniques on how to use a very useful Scatter Brush, along with the basic shape tools, the Gaussian Blur effect and a little dose of gradients. So, let’s get started!
Premium Tutorial: Bank Vault
In this tutorial, we will show how to illustrate a bank vault. It consists of simple lines but the illustration of the door handle is a little difficult. The variety of colors is limited; therefore we will create color gradients to show the difference between the brightness and darkness. Let’s get started!
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30 Inspiring Floral Illustrations
There are many illustrations from different artists worldwide; the theme of the illustrations could be anything but the most popular one is floral illustration. You can find lots of illustrations with floral subject because it is one of the basic illustrations that can be easily visualized at the same time it is perfect for wide …
Illustrator Special Effects #5: Vector Lightning Background
This Illustrator tutorial go through some really basic and important Illustrator techniques while showing you how to create a fearsome lightning bolt from scratch. You will be using Roughen effect, tweak effect and much more to create the lightning effect.