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Tutorials

Nine Quick Steps to Create an Atmospheric, Misty Woodland Backdrop
Backgrounds in illustration are often solely responsible for supplying the mood, without detracting from the main point of focus. The following nine steps...
Ian Yates
6 Feb 2009
Design & Illustration
Illustrate and Animate a Bouncing Ball: Part 2 - Adobe Illustrator + Flash
This tutorial expands on techniques covered in Part 1 of the Illustrate and Animate a Bouncing Ball series. We'll be using Illustrator's 3D tools to improve...
Ian Yates
26 Jan 2009
Design & Illustration
Create a Traditional Japanese Koi Carp Illustration
Traditional Japanese paintings are instantly recognizable; their style, composition and colors are a dead give away. Even more so, the subject matter. Koi...
Ian Yates
19 Jan 2009
Design & Illustration
Create the First Page of a Fairy Tale Story Book, with a Hint of Kitsch
Once upon a time there was a tutorial. A tutorial which told of magical and enchanting ways to create Fairy Tale pages in Adobe Illustrator. Are you sitting...
Ian Yates
9 Jan 2009
Design & Illustration
Rendering a 2D Spark Plug Diagram from 3D Components in Illustrator
Often, the best way to be sure of your depth and angles is to render objects using Illustrators 3D tools. This tutorial will take you through building a 3D...
Ian Yates
29 Dec 2008
Design & Illustration
Illustrate and Animate a Bouncing Ball: Part 1 - Adobe Flash
Part 1 of this tutorial will take Flash novices through the fundamental principles behind drawing and animating vectors in Flash. We'll be drawing and...
Ian Yates
19 Dec 2008
Design & Illustration
Photoshop's Pen Tool: The Comprehensive Guide
The Pen Tool makes appearances across almost the entire Adobe product range. Its function and behavior varies depending on the application, but by mastering...
Ian Yates
16 Dec 2008
Design & Illustration
Preparing Multiple Instances of a Bumper Sticker for Print
Adobe Illustrator offers plenty of alternatives to good old Copy and Paste, depending on what you're doing at the time. In this quick tutorial we'll look at...
Ian Yates
2 Dec 2008
Design & Illustration
How to Turn a Sketch into a Fat Cat Vector Illustration
This tutorial aims to guide you from sketchbook to screen; a "Fat Cat" doodled with biro translated into a neat vector caricature. Intermediate knowledge of...
Ian Yates
20 Oct 2008
Design & Illustration
Publishing a Multiple Paged PDF Document Using Illustrator
One of Illustrator's lesser-known functions is it's ability to produce and publish multiple paged documents in PDF format. Why is it a lesser known...
Ian Yates
26 Sep 2008
Design & Illustration
Make an Aurora Borealis Design in Illustrator
To recreate the light patterns of the Aurora Borealis you'd probably turn to Photoshop's filters and effects. Use Illustrator however, and you'll not only...
Ian Yates
18 Sep 2008
Design & Illustration
Working with 3D Objects and Transparencies to Make a Vector Cola Bottle Design
VECTORTUTS has covered Illustrator's 3D effects a few times, so the basics should already be familiar to you. In this tutorial, we'll be taking those skills...
Ian Yates
14 Aug 2008
Design & Illustration