Filed under adobe illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Design, design tutorial, Graphic design, Illustrator, illustrator tutorial, photoshop, photoshop tutorial, poster, Tutorial, Tutorials by Chris Spooner
My absolute favourite style of motorcycle is the custom “bobber”. I love the stripped down appearance and the raw vintage styling. It’s my plan to chop up a bike of my own one day, but for now I have to settle with designing custom motorcycle posters instead. Follow this step by step Photoshop and Illustrator [...]
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One way to create an absolutely unique logo design is to craft the lettering by hand, as opposed to selecting an existing font. This allows the designer to create the perfect logo with their own custom ligatures, tails and loops. This post showcases 20 inspiring examples of custom lettering logos, each featuring the designer’s initial [...]
Continue Reading "Inspiring Examples of Custom Lettering Logo Designs"Filed under Abstract, adobe illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, design tutorial, Graphic design, guide, How to, illustration, illustrator tutorial, lines, photoshop tutorial, Tutorial, Tutorials, vibrant by Chris Spooner
Follow this step by step tutorial to create a cool abstract lines design with awesome vibrant lighting effects. We’ll use Illustrator’s easy tools to create the vector linework then add a range of glows, colours and effects in Photoshop to finish the design with a cool grainy but luminous style. It’s difficult to describe this [...]
Continue Reading "How To Create a Grainy Abstract Lines Poster Design"Filed under adobe illustrator, Brushes, designer resources, Freebies, Grunge, Resources, spraypaint, Textures, Vector, vector resources by Chris Spooner
I’ve posted loads of Photoshop brushes and textures over the years, but this is actually my first set of completely vector grungy design resources. This bumper pack contains a bunch of textures, brush strokes and spraypaint drips to distress and erode your designs whilst maintaining the scalability of vector artwork. The vector bumper pack contains [...]
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I’m sure we all remember painting with sponge (or potato!) stamps as a child, but back then we didn’t really appreciate the cool distressed effect the printing technique created. Today designers and illustrators strive to add that retro/vintage style to their work with textures, so in this tutorial we’ll cover the process of creating a [...]
Continue Reading "How To Create a Vector Sponge Art Effect in Illustrator"Filed under adobe illustrator, Design, design tutorial, Graphic design, illustration, Illustrator, illustrator tutorial, pattern, Tutorial, Tutorials by Chris Spooner
Follow this step by step Illustrator tutorial to create the popular retro style pattern design made up of lots of colourful squares and triangles. The process is pretty simple, making this a good tutorial for newcomers to Adobe Illustrator. We’ll be using tools to accurately align our elements, then see how the Pathfinder can easily [...]
Continue Reading "Create a Retro Triangular Pattern Design in Illustrator"Filed under adobe illustrator, Design, design tutorial, Graphic design, illustration, Illustrator, illustrator tutorial, pattern, Tutorial, Tutorials by Chris Spooner
Follow this step by step Illustrator tutorial to create the popular retro style pattern design made up of lots of colourful squares and triangles. The process is pretty simple, making this a good tutorial for newcomers to Adobe Illustrator. We’ll be using tools to accurately align our elements, then see how the Pathfinder can easily [...]
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In today’s tutorial we’re going to create a typographic blackletter layout full of character with dirty textures. We’ll begin by creating the layout in Illustrator before importing everything into Photoshop to bring the design to life with colour, tone and weathered textures. The typographic design we’re going to create is the quote ‘All Roads Lead [...]
Continue Reading "How To Create a Dirty Typographic Blackletter Design"Filed under adobe illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Art, Articles, Design, Graphic design, illustration, Inspiration, roundup, showcase, Vector, vector graphics, vexel, vextor by Chris Spooner
Vector and Vexel Art are two techniques of creating highly realistic images using Photoshop or Illustrator. As the name suggests, Vector Art is built entirely of vector graphics whereas Vexel art is pixel based, but the process is very similar in that layers and layers are drawn to form the overall portrait. The more layers, [...]
Continue Reading "35 Beautiful Examples of Vector & Vexel Art Portraits"Filed under adobe illustrator, cartoon, cartoon character, character, Design, design tutorial, Graphic design, illustration, illustration tips, Illustrator, illustrator tutorial, Tutorial, Tutorials, Vector, vector graphics by Chris Spooner
Follow this step by step Illustrator tutorial to create a cool vector Yeti character. We’ll use as many basic shapes as possible to achieve that quirky style of illustration, then bring the character to life with a palette of cold colours. Despite the use of basic shapes this tutorial includes a good spread of intermediate [...]
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Creating an illustration of a sparkling disco ball might seem very complicated, and with good reason. In this new Adobe Illustrator tutorial we will try make it simple. We will be creating a really nice, shiny disco ball using only AI and our good taste in color selection. Overall, the coloring will be a real challenge. So get ready to create a vector that will have you dancing in your chair.
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If you’re trying to learn a new application there’s nothing better than having an expert guide you through the various menus and tools. This post rounds up 30 of the most detailed Adobe Illustrator video tutorials and screencasts on the web. Each one features a mix of clear commentary and useful techniques that will help [...]
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Follow this step by step Illustrator and Photoshop tutorial to create a cool poster design of vibrant shard graphics. We’ll create the array of shapes with Illustrator’s vector tools before finishing off the poster with some subtle textures in Photoshop. The design we’re creating today features a range of sharp vector shard shapes each with [...]
Continue Reading "How To Create a Vibrant Abstract Shards Poster Design"Filed under adobe illustrator, Design, design tutorial, Graphic design, illustration, Illustrator, illustrator tutorial, photoshop, photoshop tutorial, Tutorial, Tutorials, Vector, vector graphics by Chris Spooner
Follow this step by step Illustrator and Photoshop tutorial to create a cool poster design of vibrant shard graphics. We’ll create the array of shapes with Illustrator’s vector tools before finishing off the poster with some subtle textures in Photoshop. The design we’re creating today features a range of sharp vector shard shapes each with [...]
Continue Reading "How To Create a Vibrant Abstract Shards Poster Design"Filed under 2011, adobe illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Articles, design tutorial, Graphic design, greatest hits, illustrator tutorial, links, photoshop tutorial, popular, posts, Tutorials by Chris Spooner
It’s that time of year when I reflect on another year’s worth of design tutorials here on Blog.SpoonGraphics and check over the stats to see which posts ended up proving the most popular. Here’s a roundup of the most popular tutorial posts from 2011 based on the number of StumbleUpon ‘thumbs up’ votes. If you [...]
Continue Reading "Blog.SpoonGraphics Design Tutorials: Greatest Hits 2011"Filed under adobe illustrator, Design, design resources, designer resources, free vectors, Freebies, Graphic design, illustration, Illustrator, Resources, Vector, vector graphics, vector resources by Chris Spooner
It’s now over four years since I posted my first set of vector snow flakes. I remember the original pack proving pretty useful for a bunch of designers so I thought I’d revisit the topic and produce another set of free snow flake vector graphics. Download this free vector pack of detailed snowflakes for use [...]
Continue Reading "8 Free Snowflake Vectors for Your Winter Designs"Filed under adobe illustrator, Design, design tutorial, Graphic design, illustration, illustration tips, Illustrator, illustrator tutorial, Logo, logo design, Tutorials, Vector, vector graphics by Chris Spooner
Follow this logo design process walkthrough to see the making of a cubist style logo design made up of lots of detailed vector facets. Not only will we be creating the actual design in Adobe Illustrator, but I’ll also be describing the whole logo design process in this tutorial, from the initial sketches right through [...]
Continue Reading "How To Create a Cubist Style Logo Design in Illustrator"Filed under adobe illustrator, cartoon, character, Design, design tutorial, illustration, illustration tips, Illustrator, illustrator tutorial, ninja, Tutorial, Tutorials, Vector, vector graphics by Chris Spooner
Follow this step by step Adobe Illustrator tutorial to create a simple vector ninja character. The design is made from basic shapes and uses Illustrator’s core tools, which makes this tutorial perfect for beginners. The ninja character we’ll be creating is made up of simple shapes to create a cute overall appearance. Despite being generally [...]
Continue Reading "Create a Simple Vector Ninja Character in Illustrator"Filed under adobe illustrator, Art, augmented reality, best of, blog design, Compilation, CSS, Google, interaction design, layouts, Marketing, minimalism, mobile, prototyping, task management, Twitter, Typography, ux, vector graphics, Web Design by Cameron
Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick and useful compilation of [...]
Continue Reading "Our favorite tweets of the week Nov 7-Nov 13, 2011"Filed under adobe illustrator, business card, Design, design tutorial, Graphic design, Illustrator, print, Tutorial, Tutorials, Vector, vector graphics by Chris Spooner
Need a new set of business cards? Follow this step by step tutorial to create a cool business card design in Adobe Illustrator. We’ll begin creating the vibrant pattern effect, then we’ll lay out the contact information and set up the final print ready file ready for sending off to your chosen print firm. The [...]
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