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  1. Duplicate a Vintage Drawing Style to Create a Spring Illustration

    Duplicate a Vintage Drawing Style to Create a Spring Illustration

    Tutorial • Intermediate

    How to create a cute, vintage print line art to celebrate spring, along with some art analysis to help you understand what features define different styles.

  2. Create an Art Nouveau-Inspired Robot Design in CorelDRAW

    Create an Art Nouveau-Inspired Robot Design in CorelDRAW

    Tutorial • Intermediate

    In this tutorial we'll manipulate basic shapes into an Art-Nouveau-inspired composition featuring my favorite robot friend, Bitty Love Bot. Learn how to...

  3. How to Create a Line Art Based Skateboarder Kit in Adobe Illustrator

    How to Create a Line Art Based Skateboarder Kit in Adobe Illustrator

    Tutorial • Beginner

    Skateboarding is one of those rare rebellious things that ended up changing the lives of thousands if not millions of kids around the world. It's something...

  4. Geometric Design: Working With 5 and 10

    Geometric Design: Working With 5 and 10

    Tutorial • Beginner

    In this lesson you will learn how to construct the remaining polygons, with not only five and ten, but also seven, nine and eleven sides, and explore the...

  5. Creating an Adorable Strawberry Tiger in Adobe Illustrator

    Creating an Adorable Strawberry Tiger in Adobe Illustrator

    Tutorial • Intermediate

    Are you a fan of tigers as much as I am? If so, you might have heard of the rare and appropriately named Golden Tabby Tiger, also known as a Strawberry...

  6. How to Create the Definitive Designer's Essential Pack in Adobe Illustrator

    How to Create the Definitive Designer's Essential Pack in Adobe Illustrator

    Tutorial • Beginner

    Because I believe that all designers have their own secret essentials pack, I decided to show you how to build a small yet cute set of illustrations that you...

  7. Geometric Design: Working With 6 and 12

    Geometric Design: Working With 6 and 12

    Tutorial • Beginner

    This third lesson covers six- and twelve-sided shapes and stars, the construction grids that go with them, and a slew of new basic and intermediate tiling...

  8. Create a Lisa Frank Inspired Colourful Pegasus in Adobe Illustrator

    Create a Lisa Frank Inspired Colourful Pegasus in Adobe Illustrator

    Tutorial • Intermediate

    Are you an avid lover of things that are chock full of color and assaulted with buckets of glitter? This tutorial will show the step by step process of...

  9. Create a Dimensional Raindrop Desktop Wallpaper Illustration in Adobe Illustrator

    Create a Dimensional Raindrop Desktop Wallpaper Illustration in Adobe Illustrator

    Tutorial • Beginner

    In this tutorial we'll use simple shapes and create cut-outs and gradients to generate depth and dimension within a widescreen-friendly desktop wallpaper....

  10. How to Create a Line Art Minimal Designer's Stamp in Adobe Illustrator

    How to Create a Line Art Minimal Designer's Stamp in Adobe Illustrator

    Tutorial • Beginner

    If you love Illustrator as much as I do, this tutorial is perfect for you, as it will teach you how to create an awesome little stamp in honor of the little...

  11. How to Create Stylish Flat Space Icons in Adobe Photoshop

    How to Create Stylish Flat Space Icons in Adobe Photoshop

    Tutorial • Intermediate

    Inspired by recent events in space exploration and discoveries, we’ll go through an exciting process and create trendy flat-style space icons with long...

  12. How to Create a Fantasy Game Background in Adobe Photoshop

    How to Create a Fantasy Game Background in Adobe Photoshop

    Tutorial • Intermediate

    Learn how to create a fantasy background for your characters, games, or any other art compositions you might have in mind!

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