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  1. Create a Simple, Owl, Tote Design in Illustrator for Hot Foil Printing

    Create a Simple, Owl, Tote Design in Illustrator for Hot Foil Printing

    Tutorial • Intermediate

    Do you know what can make the grocery shopping more fun? A customized tote bag with your very own design! By owning a super-cool printed tote you are also...

  2. How to Create a Brightly Colored Beetle with Simple Shapes in Illustrator

    How to Create a Brightly Colored Beetle with Simple Shapes in Illustrator

    Tutorial • Beginner

    When you're fresh to Adobe Illustrator, the task of creating characters and designs within the program entirely can be quite daunting. Join me for fun with...

  3. Create a Simple Drawing Manikin with Gradient Mesh in Illustrator

    Create a Simple Drawing Manikin with Gradient Mesh in Illustrator

    Tutorial • Intermediate

    Drawing manikins are used to help us create a correct pose, but we never draw them as they really are. Maybe it's time to pay tribute to them, along with the...

  4. Playing With Isometric Projection in Inkscape to Make a Minecraft Scene

    Playing With Isometric Projection in Inkscape to Make a Minecraft Scene

    Tutorial • Intermediate

    Inkscape has a really neat grid feature to make isometric designs very easy to accomplish. It's called an axonometric grid, and we're going to use it to...

  5. How to Create a Neon, Stylized, 60's Inspired Portrait in Illustrator

    How to Create a Neon, Stylized, 60's Inspired Portrait in Illustrator

    Tutorial • Intermediate

    Turn out the lights and turn on the black light where neon shapes pop from fuzzy posters and the psychedelic fashion scene of the 1960's is alive once more....

  6. Create a Detailed, UFO Illustration in Adobe Illustrator

    Create a Detailed, UFO Illustration in Adobe Illustrator

    Tutorial • Beginner

    In the following steps you will learn how to create an UFO illustration in Adobe Illustrator. For starters you will learn how to setup a simple grid. Next,...

  7. Use Blender and Inkscape to Create a Titan's Atmosphere Infographic

    Use Blender and Inkscape to Create a Titan's Atmosphere Infographic

    Tutorial • Intermediate

    In this tutorial, we'll be creating an atmosphere diagram of Saturn's moon Titan, like the diagrams you see in textbooks. We will be going through how to...

  8. Create a Skating Girl With Basic Shapes in Adobe Illustrator

    Create a Skating Girl With Basic Shapes in Adobe Illustrator

    Tutorial • Beginner

    You don't need to be a cool artist to vector characters. In Adobe Illustrator you can create them just with basic shapes. To find out how, let's start!

  9. How to Draw Hair and Clothes for a Virtual Dress-Up Doll in Illustrator

    How to Draw Hair and Clothes for a Virtual Dress-Up Doll in Illustrator

    Tutorial • Intermediate

    This has always been my favorite part of playing with dolls: dressing them up! If you're playing along with the Community Challenge, this is where the base...

  10. How to Draw a Doll Base Body for a Dress-Up Game in Illustrator

    How to Draw a Doll Base Body for a Dress-Up Game in Illustrator

    Tutorial • Intermediate

    I grew up playing with paper dolls. It's not everyone's cup of tea, but with Adobe Illustrator, creating digital paper dolls can be a fun and easy project...

  11. Create a Glamorous Champagne-Inspired Illustration in Illustrator

    Create a Glamorous Champagne-Inspired Illustration in Illustrator

    Tutorial • Intermediate

    Bring in 2014 with this great champagne-inspired creation in Adobe Illustrator. In this tutorial you'll play with blends and gradients to achieve this...

  12. How to Vector Three Wise Teddy Bears Without the Pen Tool in Illustrator

    How to Vector Three Wise Teddy Bears Without the Pen Tool in Illustrator

    Tutorial • Intermediate

    Join me in Adobe Illustrator CC where we'll take on the classic concept of the "Three Wise Monkeys" with a teddy bear character design entirely from basic...

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