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How to Create The American Flag in Illustrator

| February 16, 2012 | 3 Comments

In this interesting tutorial we will be learning how to create an American flag in Adobe Illustrator. Basically, you can create any kind of flag using this technique.

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The creation process consists of a part where we create a symbol of the flag (in our case famous red and white stripes and 50 white stars on the blue rectangle) and a part where we create the waving flag by using the 3D effect Extrude & Bevel. To enhance the 3D effect we will make sure that both sides of the flag are visible. But let’s move from the words to deeds.

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How to Create an Alarm Clock in Adobe Illustrator

| November 11, 2011 | 3 Comments

Today we will be learning how to create a cute alarm clock in perspective in Adobe Illustrator. Some people tend to have problems with perspective, so if you are one of them, feel free to use a reference image if you need to.

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We will create few ellipses, arrange them and with some nice gradients we will make a nice looking alarm clock. There is just one thing about perspective we should keep on mind. The most important aspects of perspective are size and distance. If you increase the distance between you and the object you are observing, you need to decrease the size of that object. That way you can achieve a nice depth effect in you illustrations.

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Premium Social Media Vector Icon Pack

| August 24, 2011 | 2 Comments

Social media icons are one of the most used resources for any web designer, since they are one of the most essential components of any website. It helps to connect the website with its related profiles on these social networks. At the same time, the style of social media icons should match the global style of the website design.

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This requires the designer to have various styles of social media icons in order to find the suitable style for each website.

Vector social media icons are more useful and usable than the PSD based ones, because they are easy to edit in vector-based applications, such as Adobe Illustrator, as you will see in the following social media icon pack.

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Creating an Email Icon in Adobe Illustrator

| August 12, 2011 | 0 Comments

Today we will be learning how to create a neat email illustration with Adobe Illustrator. A combination of a white envelope and the @ (at) symbol can be a perfect combination for the website icon.

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All we have to do is use the 3D effect Extrude & Bevel, aPen Tool and some nice color gradients.

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How to Create a Vintage Floral Frame in Adobe Illustrator

| July 20, 2011 | 0 Comments

In today Illustrator tutorial, we will learn how to create a nice floral design that can be used in many different ways.

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We will use the Pen Tool and some additional tools, such as the Direct Selection Tool, Convert Anchor Point Tool, Blend Tool and some Pathfinder features. For skilled Pen Tool users creating floral elements is quite easy, but in this tutorial we will learn how to avoid the use of the Pen Tool and create the floral elements by combining regular shapes.

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Japanese Style Floral Illustrator Tutorial

| July 7, 2011 | 2 Comments

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In this tutorial, we will learn how to create Japanese style vector floral design in Adobe Illustrator. The tutorials will go step-by-step to show how to graduatly build the floral stem and add the background with the ability to change the background colors.

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How to Create a Hand-Drawn RSS Icon in Illustrator

| June 30, 2011 | 3 Comments

Even in the middle of the digital artwork era, no one can resist the beauty of the spontaneous hand-drawn doodles.

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So in this tutorial we will learn how to create our own hand-drawn RSS feed icons in Adobe Illustrator and we will apply the same concept to other icons as well.

How to Create a Trophy Cup in Adobe Illustrator

| June 20, 2011 | 0 Comments

Today we will be learning how to create a shiny Trophy cup in Adobe Illustrator.

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The process is very simple: all we have to do is combine a few basic shapes in the Pathfinder Panel and to apply some nice gradients that will allow us to create a realistic look of a Trophy cup.

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Fresh and Useful Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

| March 5, 2011 | 4 Comments

Fresh and useful Adobe Illustrator tutorials are too many on the web, definitely there are other competitors for Adobe Illustrator as a vector based design application such as Corel Draw. Adobe Illustrator provides not only powerful illustration features, but also integration with other design applications in the Adobe creative suite such as Photoshop, Flash and After Effects. Also, you can find many useful Illustrator tutorials on the web.

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Adobe Illustrator tutorials can help you learn more about what you can do with this application and provide better understanding to the Illustrators’ tools and how to use its tips and tricks to create different vector based designs such as illustrations, interfaces and web designs…etc.

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Illustrator Tutorial to Convert Drawing Sketch to Vector Cartoon

| January 14, 2011 | 0 Comments

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In this tutorial, we will see how to convert a drawing sketch or draft for cartoon character to vector cartoon in Adobe Illustrator. You can use any version of Illustrator as this tutorial is using the general drawing techniques in the program. The level for this tutorial is intermediate and requires to have a scanner to be able to scan the drawing and graphic tablet to be able to trace the lines easily.

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Adobe Illustrator Tutorials to Fuel Your Creative Vector Skills

| January 11, 2011 | 0 Comments

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While Adobe Photoshop is considered the most famous and important application in the bitmap graphics and photo editing. Illustrator is the pioneer in the vector graphic and illustrations. Not only because it is one of the most powerful tools in this field, but also it integrate with other Adobe applications such as Photoshop, Flash, After Effects…etc.

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