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Design & Illustration Learning Guides

Discover our selections of the best free design tutorials on a range of topics, all in one place. If you want to brush up your Photoshop skills or learn a new piece of software like Adobe XD, you’ll find learning guides here to help you do that. Or maybe you want something more specialised, like learning how to draw textures or how to paint hair. We’ve got guides to help you with that too.

Just browse through the list and click on a topic that interests you to discover more and to find links to our hand-picked selection of free tutorials, designed to teach you that new skill or software as easily and enjoyably as possible.

  1. Web and Interface Design With Vector

    27 Posts
    In this session, we'll look at creating a variety of web interface elements as well as looking at vector roles in web design. Join us with tutorials aimed at beginners all the way through to advanced users, we'll show you have to create some awesome multi purpose additions to your website design.
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  2. Christmas Illustration Content

    23 Posts
    It's coming up to Christmas! If you're looking for some joyful, festive, scalable content, this is the place to be. With a variety of tutorials and freebies, we've got you covered, regardless of your skill level.
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  3. Easy Character Design

    31 Posts
    If you're new to vector, one of the first projects you may wish to take on is creating a cute, character from scratch. These types of projects introduce you to fundamental drawing concepts of building characters from basic shapes, as well as the odd trick here and there, which you can bring into more advanced projects as you progress.
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  4. Vector Mobile App Design

    12 Posts
    We all know how strong of a role vector plays in a multitude of graphical ventures, from illustration to logo design. It plays such an instrumental part in creating amazing and inspiring user interface designs for mobile phone apps. Even more so with the advent of retina screens, vector is the go to medium in creating detailed and aesthetically pleasing UI's.
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  5. Caffeine Fuelled Vector

    12 Posts
    Designers and caffeine go hand in hand. Be it a morning pick me up or when you're working hard to hit that fast approaching deadline! It's this very love that we give you our "Caffeine Fuelled Vector" session. Tutorials and articles inspired by our love of coffee, tea and all things caffeine. From creating a logo for the imaginary Vector Coffee cafe to created 3D models and icons.
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