The Art & Design Inspiration fix pulls together a collection of my favourite graphical images that I’ve come across over the past week to give you a fix of creative inspiration. This week we have designs from Daren Newman, Linzie Hunter, Luca Molnar and André Beato.
It has been a while since I last posted a set of free Photoshop Brushes, so I thought it was about time I got busy creating a new pack. I always find the simple Photoshop brushes the most useful in my own project work, so I created this subtle grain pack to help add light textures to your artwork to achieve that tactile feel.
The subtle grain Photoshop brush pack includes six high resolution (2500px) brushes containing various grainy or light grunge textures to distress your designs.
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Caleb from the amazing texture resource website LostandTaken has kindly put together a special “Layered Grunge” texture pack especially for Access All Areas members. The pack includes six premium texture files that are all made up of multiple images overlaid to create a detailed, high contrast texture file perfect for …
October is here, which means designers and illustrators get that extra excuse to include skulls, zombies and monsters in their work with the arrival of Halloween. Follow this step by step Adobe Illustrator tutorial to create a hand-drawn zombie illustration. We’ll use a photograph as a basic reference then use our Wacom tablet along with Illustrator’s vector brush tools to draw up various gruesome elements on our zombie character.
The Art & Design Inspiration fix pulls together a collection of my favourite graphical images that I’ve come across over the past week to give you a fix of creative inspiration. This week we have designs from Atix Vector, Simon Alander, David Maclennan, Jose Luis Merino and El Toro.
As designers and illustrators there’s just something about skulls that we can’t resist. Maybe it’s the influence of our favourite metal bands or the creative inspiration we’re fed from tattoo culture. This post rounds up a collection of talented digital illustrators and artists and showcases their best skull based designs and artworks. Remember to follow the links through to each designer’s website, behind each artwork is a portfolio full of more amazing pieces.
The awesome people from WeGraphics have supplied yet another super cool design resource for Access All Areas members. This time we have a pack of vintage tattoo vector graphics, featuring 5 hand drawn tattoo style illustrations. Members can download this pack along with the previous WeGraphics resources of Illustrated Ornamental …
Follow this step by step tutorial to create a 1960′s style retro motorcycle ad for a modern café racer custom. We’ll mock up the ad design using inspiration from originalthe Read the rest of this entry »
Follow this step by step tutorial to create a retro style typographic poster design with distressed textures and a muted colour scheme. We’ll create a typographic layout based on the number ‘one’ using Illustrator’s easy manipulation tools, then switch over to Photoshop to lay out the poster design composition and grunge everything up with some textures to create that cool dated retro look.
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Follow this step by step Adobe Illustrator tutorial to create a simple vector penguin character. We’ll be using many of Illustrator’s basic shapes to create the structure of the character, which makes this tutorial great for beginners. We’ll then make use of various gradients to really bring the character to life with depth and dimension.
The popular American sports of Football, Baseball, Hockey, Basketball, etc all have a recognisable and unique approach to their graphic designs. Unlike your typical logo, the badges and emblems used by sports teams often include detailed illustrated elements, usually include a mascot or character and make use of perspective to create three dimensional effects. This showcase roundups over over 50 awesome examples of American sports themed logos from various designers.
In today’s tutorial we’re going to look at creating a colorful ribbon graphic. Despite being a typical logo style icon, we don’t have a live client for this particular design. The tutorial is aimed towards giving you insight into actually making the cool graphic as oppsed to the full logo design process. We’ll use various tools and techniques in Adobe Illustrator to create a great looking vector based design complete with subtle gradients and shading.
Looking to learn the basics of Adobe Illustrator? In this tutorial we’ll use various tools and techniques to create a simple vector robot character. With this robot being made of lots of basic shapes it makes for a great tutorial for beginners to get to grips with the Illustrator application.
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