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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. Constructing a Strikingly Accurate Tattoo Gun in Maya

    9 Posts
    Over the course of this in-depth series, you’ll learn how to precision model hard surface objects, create professional UV’s, and how a combination of hand painting techniques and images can be used to create convincing textures. Once complete, you’ll have a good understanding of the workflow used by professional artists and be able to apply the techniques to future projects.
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  2. 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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  3. Stylized Snowman and Xpresso Driven Trees in Cinema 4D

    4 Posts
    In this series, you'll create a very cool stylized snowman and some Xpresso-based Christmas trees. First, you’ll go through the modeling process where you'll create the snowman and use some basic sculpting techniques to create his scarf and hat. You'll then take a look at adding materials and lighting, and finish up by building some customizable Xpresso based trees for the background.
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  4. 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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  5. Summer in Session!

    14 Posts
    It's often hard to get inspiration during those hot, stuffy months of Summer. Thankfully we're here with some great Summer themed vector tutorials and resources to help kick start your creative block or to give you a project to work on over the coming months. Keep checking back, because the Summer isn't over until those leaves start to fall!
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  6. World War II Willys Jeep in Modo

    10 Posts
    This ten part tutorial series, will teach you how to model and UV Map a Willys Jeep from WWII in Modo 601. This series of tutorials is for users new to modeling and mapping in Modo, and requires a basic knowledge in viewport navigation and Modo's user interface.
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