Illustrator Beginner’s Series 6: Creating Symmetrical Curves
This is the sixth tutorial in the Illustrator Beginner’s series. We’ve already covered placing sketches, using the Pen tool, tracing sketches with the Pen tool, making symmetrical vector files and...
View ArticleIllustrator Beginner’s Series 7: Turning Lines Into Shapes
This is the seventh tutorial in the Illustrator Beginner’s series. We’ve already covered placing sketches, using the Pen tool, tracing sketches with the Pen tool, making symmetrical vector files,...
View ArticleIllustrator Beginner’s Series 8: Using Offset Paths for Dynamic Lines
This is the eighth tutorial in the Illustrator Beginner’s series. Up to this point, you have mostly been learning to trace over sketches with the Pen Tool. If you missed any of those thrilling...
View ArticleResizing Images in Photoshop with Actions
Making images for microstock, I end up resizing a lot of Illustrator files. I use the Action palette in Photoshop to help save some time doing the tedious operation of resizing files. With that said,...
View ArticleDoodle Style Tutorial in Adobe Illustrator
This a tutorial for making cartoon doodle illustrations in Adobe Illustrator. For this tutorial, you’ll need an additional plug-in (it’s free) for Illustrator. It’s a tool that let’s you find Open...
View ArticleCreating Vector Faces Using Simple Shapes
I know the internet is a strange and confusing place, but I’m here with another "Around the Web" post to help you navigate it. I know this forces you to leave the safe confines of Illustration Info,...
View ArticleMixing Colors in Adobe Illustrator
I’ve seen a lot of beginner work lately that could use a brush up on its color theory, so I thought I’d write a tutorial that deals with colors. For this tutorial, I wanted to focus on the overuse of...
View ArticleFaux Watercolor Vector Style
I haven’t done an "around the web" in a while, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t stuff happening on the internet. Anyway, I’ve been meaning to work on a faux watercolor style in Illustrator, and I...
View ArticleAdobe Illustrator Tutorials on myStockVectors.com
I’ve written a couple tutorials on my stock art site, myStockVectors.com. They both involve the cartoon bird above. One is a basic Illustrator technique. You can check it out here. The other involves...
View ArticleVector Halftone Tutorial at myStockVectors.com
I put up a new halftone tutorial at myStockVectors.com called 3 Ways to Make a Vector Halftone in Adobe Illustrator. Check it out here.
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