Do you have a sketch lying around and want to bring it to life? If you’re inspired by mid-century art as much as Manuela Langella, you’ll love the process and end result of this tutorial. Today, Manuela will show you how to create a beautiful cover design inspired by the 1950s. Specifically, the cover will be for a children’s book, so you’re going to create a well-known character: Little Red Riding Hood. Dig out your sketch and fire up Illustrator to get started!
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Over the summer, Adobe XD released two great prototyping features: fixed elements and overlays. When you work with prototypes and want them to be more interactive, functions like these will be very helpful. In this article, Manuela Langella will show you how to set a menu bar as a fixed element and how to apply an overlay transition in a prototype, to simulate a menu opening from the click of a button. She’ll also include an Illustrator file with icons, which you can use to set up your examples quickly. Let’s get started!
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Have you tried drawing animals from circles? It can be quite a challenge, especially if you can only use a particular amount of circles. In this article, Dorota Pankowska explains how she created 13 animals with only 13 circles. The drawing challenge mostly consists of three Adobe applications: Photoshop, Illustrator and After Effects.
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In this article, Cameron McEfee will give you a taste of how GuideGuide can change the way you use guides in Photoshop and Illustrator. If you’re one of the many people who already use GuideGuide, you may discover some unconventional uses that are not immediately apparent. Cameron will provide an overview of the major features, and then give some examples of advanced and unusual ways it can be used to make you a more efficient designer.
While he’s going to focus this post on Illustrator, nearly everything is applicable to Photoshop as well.
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Illustration is a great way to boost many of your skills and to experiment with drawing techniques, colors and composition. In this article, Igor Izhik will show you how these skills will make you a better specialist in any creative field by sharing how he approaches all stages of the illustration process and providing general techniques for creating vector illustrations in Adobe Illustrator. Just remember that a solid illustration requires patience and is rarely done quickly. The good news is that it pays off. Let’s take a closer look at it and see how it was made.
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There is something magical about Halloween, surrounded by mystery, horror, scare and trick-or-treat candies for kids and adults alike. In this post, we feature artists around the world who have been creating wonderful illustrations dedicated to Halloween. We celebrate the creative side of Halloween with those of you who are also planning to celebrate with friends!
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In this article, Manuela Langella will teach you not only how to draw a cartoon in Adobe Illustrator, but also how to decide on character, place and situation in order to tell a story. Before grabbing your pencil or software tool, ask yourself, “What will be my topic?” How many characters you will use, and who will they be? What background will they move against? What era will they live in? In what scene will you put them? Through the steps in this tutorial, she will explain to you her own choices. Let’s begin!
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In this article, Manuela Langella will teach you how to work digitally on an image you draw by hand. You will be able to distinguish how Illustrator works with Live Trace and with the Pen Tool. Two different results from the same image, the first close to hand-drawing, the second more of a cartoon style. First you’ll need to know how to manage your drawing in Photoshop and which are the best ways to prepare it for Illustrator. If you are not comfortable drawing in Photoshop, don’t worry! You can download her drawing in high-resolution, skip the Photoshop step and go straight to step 2 to begin with Illustrator.
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As graphic designers, you’ll often have to work with off-the-shelf material created by others. Also, you’ll often have to follow the branding already developed by someone else, and that’s ok because it’s part of the job. But the part of a project that almost every graphic designer likes and is proud of the most is something that you can do from scratch. That’s why Anna Shuvalova loves illustration projects so much.
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Many designers and design teams make the mistake of thinking that their work is done once they’ve completed the visual design stage, and this is where Specctr can help. Specctr is a plugin for Adobe applications, which transitions a visual design to production by enabling you to specify form and function. It automatically generates a specification and creates a blueprint for the design, which saves a lot of time!
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