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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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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, cartoon character, character, Design, design tutorial, Graphic design, illustration, illustration tips, Illustrator, illustrator tutorial, screenprint, texture, Tutorial, Tutorials, Vector, vector graphics by Chris Spooner
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 Photoshop, Design, design tutorial, Graphic design, photoshop, photoshop tutorial, poster, skull, Tutorial, Tutorials, western by Chris Spooner
I recently watched the movie Tombstone (1993) on TV, which gave me the inspiration to try my hand at designing a wild west themed movie poster. Follow this step by step tutorial to create a grungy western poster design, see the whole design process from start to finish as the various stock resources are manipulated [...]
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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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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 [...]
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I’ve always loved browsing the insanely detailed and realistic artwork created by digitally painting in Photoshop, so this year I’m planning on setting aside some time to learn the basics myself. I’ve read through numerous online tutorials and have hand picked the best to share with you today. All the tutorials showcased in this post [...]
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Follow this step by step tutorial to create a realistic pewter style metal text effect in Photoshop. The best part is it’s really easy! Just a couple of Photoshop layer styles is all it takes to create the basic effect, with a subtle tweak or two to perfect the lighting to maximise the realism. This [...]
Continue Reading "Super Easy Pewter Style Metal Text Effect in Photoshop"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 [...]
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The post-processing stage of photography is definitely the most fun and creative. It’s where you can really transform your otherwise bland and boring photos into really intense images that draw in the viewer. In this tutorial we’ll cover the process of editing your landscape photos in Photoshop to give an epic, almost fantasy style appearance [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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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Follow this step by step Illustrator tutorial to create a cute vector monster character. We’ll create the character from basic shapes to give a cute and friendly appearance then we’ll bring the character to life with gradient colours and a detailed fur effect. The fantasy woodland monster we’ll be creating is made up of lots [...]
Continue Reading "How To Create a Cute Hairy Vector Monster Character"Filed under adobe illustrator, Design, design tutorial, Drawing, illustration, illustration tips, Illustrator, illustrator tutorial, Tutorial, Tutorials, Vector, vector graphics, wacom, zombie by Chris Spooner
October is here, which means designers and illustrators get that extra excuse to include skulls, zombies and monsters in their work with the arrival of Halloween. Follow this step by step Adobe Illustrator tutorial to create a hand-drawn zombie illustration. We’ll use a photograph as a basic reference then use our Wacom tablet along with [...]
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