1. Design & Illustration

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. Building Thor's Hammer in Maya

    2 Posts
    In this two part tutorial, Chandan Kumar shows you how to model, uv map, texture, light and render, Thor’s hammer. In the first part, Chandan builds the hammer from scratch using various poly modeling tools and techniques, and then covers UVMapping and texture creation in part two.
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  2. Anime and Manga Illustration

    9 Posts
    In this session, we will be looking at exactly what makes a drawing "anime styled", the general theories behind drawing in this style, and why vector is a fantastic medium to work with when creating anime/manga styled artwork. We'll show you how to draw a basic manga character and hit up the popular elements such as the characteristic eyes and hair. We'll go in depth into clothing and even touch on creating a chibi! So let's get into learning how to create and draw manga in vector!
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  3. Product Modeling and Rendering in Cinema 4D

    2 Posts
    In this two part series, Aleksey Voznesenski takes you through the process of Modeling, Texturing, Lighting and Rendering a high poly lipstick container in C4D. Lessons include, box modeling, understanding Hypernurbs, creating and applying materials, setting up quick preview renders, and tweaking Global Illumination to achieve a high quality render.
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  4. Model, Texture and Render a Realistic Light Bulb

    2 Posts
    In this two part series, brothers Andrew and Stefan Surmabojov are teaming up to show you how to create an ultra-realistic light bulb. Utilizing a powerful combination of tools from both 3D Studio Max and Cinema 4D, this series will show you how the two programs can be used together to achieve fantastic results.
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