Tips for Creating Icons with Multiple Style Variations
Icon sets with multiple styles included are becoming more popular. They are a great way of utilising multiple icon styles within a project, whilst still maintaining a consistent overall visual style. This tutorial will show how the process of creating solid, outlined an...Read more
10 Awesome Hand Letterers that You Need to Follow
In recent years it seems that hand crafted design work that is actually crafted BY HAND is becoming more and more of a trend. After such a long period of designers relying on computers as the go to tool for designing, it's a breath of fresh air to see more of a human to...Read more
Quick Tip: Creating Grunge Brushes in Adobe Illustrator
Adding grunge specs and scratches in Adobe Illustrator is essential in creating a hand made or roughened look to your vector artwork. Doing so is easier than you think when you incorporate custom scatter brushes into your work flow. Below I'll explain my process for cre...Read more
How to Create a Hand Drawn Label Design
Pencil and paper_ Every designer loves the idea of creating something by hand. And in recent years, it seems, the process of hand drawn design has seen a resurge in popularity and appreciation. This might leave some designers, who developed their digital skills over the...Read more
5 Ways to Tell if a New Client is the Right Client
Have you ever noticed that some clients fit you like an old pair of jeans, and then some clients are a struggle right out of the gate? What if I told you there was a simple method for determining if a new client is the right client. It's simply a matter of asking yourse...Read more
How to Create Vector Ooze With Illustrator
This tutorial will teach you how to make dripping, vector ooze using Adobe Illustrator. This effect is ideal for statement backgrounds and can be created very quickly from scratch....Read more
Quick Tip: How to Use the Blend Tool in Illustrator
There’s some phenomenal artwork out there right now that utilizes Adobe Illustrator’s blend tool in ways you might never have thought possible, especially when you’re just barely getting to know which tool does what in Illustrator’s Tools Palette....Read more
How to Create a Pet Cemetery Illustration for Halloween
It's October and we all know what that means, Halloween is just around the corner. But while you're getting ready to go out trick-or-treating spare a thought for your beloved long lost pets. What do they get up to on All Hallows' Eve? In honour of all those ghost dogs...Read more