When creating icons, many designers struggle to decide how much detail to include. Should the icon be simple or complex? In this tutorial, we’ll create a detailed 3D monkey icon using a photo of a toy monkey as a reference. In the process, we’ll add texture and lighting. For the best tutorials, Follow netglos @twitter and netglos.com   Tutorial Assets The following assets were used during the production of this tutorial. Toy Fur Custom Brush [...]

Final Product What You’ll Be Creating A few times a each month we revisit some of our reader’s favorite posts from throughout the history of Vectortuts+. This tutorial by Ryan Putnam of Vectips was first published in June 24th, 2008. This is one of the first tutorials we posted on the site and is a great way to get started with shape building in Illustrator to create cute, fun-lovin’ characters. If you haven’t done this [...]

Handle color changes and variations with ease by following this intermediate level tutorial. This is a special tutorial sponsored by Astute Graphics that incorporates the use of their high-quality Phantasm CS range Illustrator Pugins. We’ll work with Phantasm’s color shifting tools: Hue/Saturation and and Shift to Color, while we learn to contrast shapes when composing natural, vector scenes! Final Image Preview Tutorial Details Program: Adobe Illustrator CS4 and Phantasm CS range (Designer, Studio or Publisher) [...]

why not create a chocolate covered strawberry illustration for them? You can easily apply this illustration to your own greeting card, t-shirt, or anything else you can think of. Moreover, you can apply this tutorial to other illustrations and logos. Final Image Below is the final image we will working towards. Tutorial Detail Program: Adobe Illustrator CS4 Difficulty: Intermediate Topics Covered: Ellipse tool, Pencil tool, Pathfinder panel, Gradient panel, Custom Art Brush Estimated Completion Time: [...]

With a simple and direct methods described in this tutorial, you can create a female portrait easily. This process will have you creating anatomically correct human faces in no time. Tutorial Details Program: Adobe Illustrator CS 3 Difficulty: Intermediate Estimated Completion Time: 60 minutes Step 1 Let’s open a new document in Illustrator (File > New). Step 2 We start with the construction of the ideal female proportions of the head in full face. Create [...]

Preview: Click on the image for a full size preview Support Material Cadice font (Free) Step 1 Open a new document in Photoshop. Since I want to create a wallpaper, my size is 1920×1200 pixels, but you can set up to the size of your desktop. Resolution is 72 pixels/inch, which is perfect while working on a computer destined project. Step 2 Using the Candice font, write “Sweet” with the Horizontal Type tool (T). Font [...]

Good evening everybody welcome to another tutorial by HV-Designs. In today’s tutorial I’ll be showing you how to create a sleek web design company style web template. The Final Layout Once completed you should have something like this. Lets Get Started Start off by creating a new document with the following dimensions “1200 x 1400″, don’t worry if the document seems big as you can crop the canvas when finished. Select the rectangular marquee tool [...]

The tiger is one of the coolest animals in the earth. It’s a very powerful, dangerous, yet fascinating animal. In this tutorial, we will be drawing the tiger, but we will be doing it a little bit different. Instead of portraying the tiger as a savage and mean creature, I will teach you how to draw a cute little tiger that you will be able to use in your projects, as a desktop wallpaper, etc. [...]

Introduction 3D text effects are a growing and awesome design trend. They can add angles, lighting and interest that many 2D text effects can’t bring. Here is an awesome Showcase of 3D Typography that was put together a little while back by Angie Bowen. I’ve also been seen and been inspired by tutorials like 3D Text on Fire and this Fresh Text Effect. After some experimenting with what can be accomplished using Illustrator’s 3D capabilities [...]

In this tutorial we will learn to create abstract an compositions of dots. This will help you to create interesting effects for backgrounds. Let’s learn to simulate a surface of any complexity. Author: Lazunov Iaroslav My name is Lazunov Yaroslav, I am a graphic designer from Zhytomyr, Ukraine. I love Illustrator. Tutorial Details Program: Adobe Illustrator CS3 Difficulty: Beginner to Intermediate Estimated Completion Time: 30 minutes Step 1 Open a new document (800 by 800 [...]