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  1. Experiment With Color in Adobe Illustrator to Create an Abstract Rose Illustration

    Experiment With Color in Adobe Illustrator to Create an Abstract Rose Illustration

    Tutorial • Advanced

    This tutorial offers a few tricks and tips for experimenting with colors, gradients and transparency. Learn to draw an abstract flower composition in Adobe...

  2. Stay Golden With This Shiny Metallic Text Art Effect in Adobe Illustrator

    Stay Golden With This Shiny Metallic Text Art Effect in Adobe Illustrator

    Tutorial • Advanced

    In this tutorial, you will draw your own script font (or work off an existing one) and render it into a completed shiny, golden design. Create dimension in...

  3. How to Make a Neon Calavera Girl Vector Portrait in Adobe Illustrator

    How to Make a Neon Calavera Girl Vector Portrait in Adobe Illustrator

    Tutorial • Intermediate

    Celebrate Día de los Muertos in style with this vibrant, neon calavera girl portrait created in Adobe Illustrator. Manipulate basic shapes, render areas of...

  4. Create a Vintage Bloody Text Effect Wallpaper Design in Adobe Photoshop

    Create a Vintage Bloody Text Effect Wallpaper Design in Adobe Photoshop

    Tutorial • Beginner

    Create a blood-soaked text effect wallpaper design inspired by American Horror Story, using some textures, brushes, and adjustment layers in Adobe Photoshop.

  5. Fractal Art: Create a Tile Fractal in Apophysis

    Fractal Art: Create a Tile Fractal in Apophysis

    Tutorial • Intermediate

    Learn how to use the power fractal software Apophysis to create a fractal tile structure and some amazing artwork!

  6. Create "The Walking Dead" Inspired Grungy Text Effect in Adobe Photoshop

    Create "The Walking Dead" Inspired Grungy Text Effect in Adobe Photoshop

    Tutorial • Beginner

    Create a grungy text effect in Adobe Photoshop using a couple of textures, grunge brushes, layer styles, and blur filters. Layering textures and brushes can...

  7. Create Dimension With Gradients in This Abstract Poster Design

    Create Dimension With Gradients in This Abstract Poster Design

    Tutorial • Intermediate

    Let's play with Linear Gradients in this abstract poster design. Fire up Adobe Illustrator (I'll be using Illustrator CC 2014) and get ready to doodle out...

  8. Fractal Art: An Introduction to Apophysis

    Fractal Art: An Introduction to Apophysis

    Tutorial • Beginner

    Learn what a fractal is and how to create your own amazing works of mathematical art in this primer for the fractal generator Apophysis. With so many...

  9. How to Create an Exploding Planet in Adobe Photoshop

    How to Create an Exploding Planet in Adobe Photoshop

    Tutorial • Intermediate

    This tutorial will teach you how to create a cracked and exploding planet. All super villains wish for a weapon capable of destroying a planet. We have one...

  10. Live Perspective: A New Approach to Depth in Drawing

    Live Perspective: A New Approach to Depth in Drawing

    Tutorial • Beginner

    Perspective. The word freezes the blood in the veins of every aspiring artist (and even many of those who seem to be pretty good at what they do). Learn what...

  11. How to Crosshatch a Landscape from a Photograph

    How to Crosshatch a Landscape from a Photograph

    Tutorial • Intermediate

    Break out your pens and pencils and learn how to crosshatch a landscape. You'll start by making a value scale to learn how to use lines to create depth and...

  12. How to Create a Pixel Game UI in Adobe Photoshop

    How to Create a Pixel Game UI in Adobe Photoshop

    Tutorial • Beginner

    There's a lot you can do when creating a menu or one f the numerous interfaces that exist within a video game. In the case of this tutorial, we'll take the...

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