Drawing Adobe Flash Tutorials

How to make an awesome blue shining orb
Use bevels, filters and radial fills to create a stunning polished orb in Flash!.

Making gradient fills
Make gradient fills by using just a few lines of ActionScript code! Create nice effects that you can apply to your movies.

Creating simple color fills
Learn to fill your drawn shapes via ActionScript, or create them without any outlines. Check out this tutorial before exploring the gradient fills.

Basic drawing with ActionScript
Draw lines, curves, rectangles, all with just a few lines of code. Learn how to change their color, transparency, thickness.

Illustration Optimization
Many artists prefer using hand-drawn illustration techniques for their Flash graphics, but there's often a big hit on your file size when using these types of illustrations. In this tutorial, you'll learn why this is the case, and you'll also learn a couple of techniques for optimizing those illustrations in order to reduce file size.

Vectors and the Tracing Command in Flash
One of the greatest advantages of Flash over other web technologies is that it is vector based. In addition to the ability of flash to contain bitmap images, the Flash player can also hold vector images that look extremely sharp in comparison to their bitmap counterparts.

Displacement Map Filter & Animation
The Displacement Map Filter distorts the colors in one object based on the color of another object and gives you a warped effect. This tutorial will show you how to animate this deformation.

Drawing Triangles
Learn a very simple technique that will enable you to create triangles in just a few clicks.

Selection Tools
In this tutorial you will learn how to use the Selection and Lasso Tools. These tool enable you to edit your artwork. You will learn how to select and edit shapes, Fills and lines in your Flash file.

Re-Using Color
After mixing a color or a complex Gradient learn how to apply it to other Shapes. This tutorial shows you the tools & options available to achieve this. Learn to use the Eyedropper and other related tools.

Editing a Shape's Properties
In this tutorial you will learn how to change and edit a drawing through the use of the Properties Inspector and Tool Box attributes.

Drawing Object & Merge Models
Flash uses a Merge Drawing model however, in Flash 8, there is an alternative, the Drawing Object model. You can use both Merge and Drawing Object models in a single document and it is easy to switch between the two modes.

Paint Tool
Learn to paint with the Brush and set the options from the Tool Box & Property Inspector. This includes brush shape, size, colour and smoothness.

Pencil Tool
This tutorial will give you an introduction to the Pencil Tools as used in Flash. You will learn how to select different options and properties for the Pencil Tool. It will introduce you to the Tool Colour and Options section of the Tool box and introduce you to the Property Inspector. This Flash drawing tutorial is the first in a series of nine Flash drawing and painting tutorials that take you through all the necessary drawing tools available in Flash.

Simple mask appearance
In this tutorial, you will see how to create simple mask appearance in flash, using the action script a little. You will also learn how to import an image into a flash, how to mask it, how to apply flash filters on any object and more.

Tears
This tutorial will teach you how to create a tear using Color Mixer Panel. This tutorial is also introduction for following tutorial, in which I will show how to create a Human cry animation.

Love smiley drawing
This tutorial and see how to create love smiley in few steps on a simple way. This tutorial is also introduction for following tutorial in which I will show how to animate that smiley.

Mystical pyramid
This tutorial will teach you how to create mystical pyramid in flash 8 with very little scripting.

Tracing effect
See how to transform bitmap picture into a trace picture using the shape effect and Trace Bitmap options. You will also learn how to brake apart a picture and more.

Flash MX. Part III. Circle Design.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to align instances to the circle path using Movie Clip registration point.Sometimes, to create a nice preloader or an animated logo we need the circle with the custom outlines. Macromedia Flash allows us to use built-in stroke type in the custom stroke style dialog.