Adobe Illustrator Drawing
How to Rotate the Bounding Box
More than once you’ve probably experienced a situation when the Bounding Box was located at “inconvenient” angles and you needed to change it to make a correct transformation of one or multiple objects. It is quite natural if you come up with a question: how to rotate the Bounding Box in Adobe Illustrator? If you were looking for an answer, you probably won’t have found it. Until now… where I recently discovered a new trick which I want to share it with you.
Creating a Vector Cozy Wooden House
In this tutorial, we will create a cozy looking wooden house surrounded by greenery and bright yellow wild flowers.
Illustrator Business Card and Character
I am going to show you how to design a business card in Adobe Illustrator.
Creating a CD Cover with VectorScribe, DrawScribe and Mesh Tormentor
In today’s tutorial, we’ll use the most advanced technology in the world of vector graphics. The methods described here will allow you to work faster and more efficiently. I bet in this tutorial you will discover information which you have not heard of before!
Vector Sunglass
This tutorial will show you how to draw a nice sunglass using gradient mesh in Adobe Illustrator. I have made it simple to follow so that you don’t need to be an expert to draw a sunglass like this. It can be done with a few tools and techniques. It is a very good tutorial on learning the complicated gradient mesh tool.
Colorful vector tulips and a traditional Dutch windmill
This tutorial will show you how to create a beautiful Holland landscape filled full of colorful tulips and a traditional Dutch windmill. We will start by creating a red tulip flower with the Gradient Mesh tool and then make yellow and purple color variations of the tulips. Then we will create the windmill using simple gradients and solid fills and finally we will arrange all the elements to complete our landscape.
Creating a Webcomic Robot with DrawScribe and VectorScribe
The mechanical, geometric nature of the robot character featured in this tutorial lends itself to vector artwork — Astute Graphics’ tools really help speed up your workflow in projects like this. Most of this tutorial will use the InkScribe Tool (part of the DrawScribe plugin for Adobe Illustrator) as well as some features from VectorScribe’s range of tools.
Star Shape Changing
Natalie Ulrich shares some very interesting tricks with us. Today we learn some peculiarities of Star Tool and Blend Tool (W) application. Learn at the jump!
Create Yummy Ice Cream Illustrations
In this tutorial, we will learn how to create yummy ice cream illustrations in Adobe Illustrator.
How to Combine the Dynamic Sketch Tool
In this article I'll tell you how to customize the Dynamic Sketch Tool for an improved workflow, and how to edit the created outline with the help of the Width Tool found in Illustrator CS5. Paths created with the help of the Dynamic Sketch Tool have not only dynamic properties, but can also be edited with the standard tools of Adobe Illustrator that shows the flexibility of this tool.
Sketching British Birds with the Dynamic Sketch tool
In this tutorial I will show you how you can create these vector drawn British birds, dynamically and easily with the Dynamic Sketch tool, part of the DrawScribe plugin for Adobe Illustrator. This step by step guide demonstrates how I took a handed-sketch drawing, redrew it in illustrator, and then dynamically edited my drawing to create this dynamic bird landscape.
How to Combine the Dynamic Sketch Tool
In this article I’ll tell you how to customize the Dynamic Sketch Tool for an improved workflow, and how to edit the created outline with the help of the Width Tool found in Illustrator CS5. Paths created with the help of the Dynamic Sketch Tool have not only dynamic properties, but can also be edited with the standard tools of Adobe Illustrator that shows the flexibility of this tool. Learn more at the jump!
How to Create Points at Tangencies with Dynamic Sketch Tool
I am sure that at all the early stages of learning Adobe Illustrator, each person came to the same question: “Where to place points when creating a path in order for the line to be smooth and easy to edit?”. Designers can do it intuitively based on years of experience, while others invent different methods and tricks. Is it possible to make this process automatic? I would say: “Yes”. In this article you will learn how to do it using the Dynamic Sketch Tool.
Outlining of Photo
Very often we need to outline the photo to create a vector artwork. A work with the creation of the outlining can be much easier if you place the picture into special template layer.
Creating a Simple Vector Light Bulb
If you want to utilize your own brand of light bulb for specific graphics in your website or even in your prints such as for flyer printing and catalog printing, it is typically better for you to compose one yourself.
How to Draw Straight Line Segments Using the Dynamic Sketch Tool
The Dynamic Sketch Tool, part of the DrawScribe plugin, is intended primarily for those who wish to draw more naturally in Illustrator. Especially those who use a graphics tablet, such as a Wacom device, in their work. With the help of the graphics tablet, you can easily create a dynamic path line, but creating straight line segments can be quite a challenge. Fortunately, the Dynamic Sketch Tool has a feature that makes this work simple. In this article I’ll tell you how to create straight-line segments using the Dynamic Sketch Tool
Drawing Vector Angry Birds
Ah, Angry Birds – one of the most popular online games for quite some time now. It seems that everyone has played this game at one point or another, including grandparents, teenagers, toddlers, and even executives.
Drawing a vector Roller Blades
In this Illustrator tutorial, you will learn how to draw a pair of high-detailed roller blades from scratch, new useful drawing techniques and you could consider it a great chance to practice your Pen Tool skills.
How to Create a Vector Roulette Wheel
Gambling illustrations are very popular. All over the internet you can see dices, poker chips, roulettes, coins, playing cards and other similar elements for gambling advertising. Well, today we will be learning how to create a nice vector illustration of the roulette wheel. Creation process is actually very simple. All we have to do is to use few basic Adobe Illustrator Tools and some nice colors and gradients in order to create an eye catchy illustration.
Drawing a 3D Vector Butterfly
A 3D illustration can really add a lot of depth to a design. Liven up your poster printing projects or website designs with a butterfly that jumps off the page using this 3D butterfly tutorial. Creating your butterfly in Illustrator is not only easy but also will give you a vector design that you can resize without losing any quality.