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
How to Create a Flat Diamond Icon with Sketch App
With this tutorial you will be guided through the process of creating a flat style diamond icon, using vector tools and layer styles in Sketch 3 by Bohemian Coding....Read more
Quick Tip: How to Give Your Text a Hand Sketched Look in Illustrator
Giving your perfectly clean vector lines a more imperfect and hand made feel has been a trend lately. While some of us are gifted when it comes to a pencil and paper, some of us are more comfortable with mouse in hand. If that's the case for you, then fear not, creating...Read more