In this tutorial, we'll review a professional workflow for illustrating website header images in comic style, which are destined to integrate into Wordpress themes. This is a great way to make your blog stand out and get promoted on the top web design galleries. Let's get started!


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Logo Design Process and Walkthrough for Vivid Ways with Adobe Illustrator. Check out the final result! ;)

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It used to be a time consuming process to create a halftone. First, we would open a picture in Photoshop, convert it to grayscale, apply a halftone effect, open it up in illustrator, trace it, and if didn’t get messed up somewhere in the process, we would use the halftone in Illustrator. In Illustrator CS3 it is quite a bit easier to create halftones without leaving Illustrator.

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It's time to whip out the Pen Tool. We'll be using it almost exclusively in this Adobe Illustrator tutorial.

Learn how to transform your photo into your vector self portrait. We'll review techniques for tracing photos. We'll also discuss strategies you could use for this type of work. Deciding on the level of detail to include in this realistic illustration will drastically effect the style of your finished portrait.

A vector self portrait is a great way to brand yourself on your web site's about page or for use as Gravatars across the web.


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We were determined to find an a use for the Flare Tool in Illustrator (why is it there, anyway?). Here is what we came up with.

You will be making some interesting graphics using the Flare Tool and the Transform Effect.

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In this tutorial, we’ll teach you how to make a colorful and vivid abstract artwork completely from scratch with Illustrator. There will be no need of stock images. You can always make a small sketch how you’d like your composition to be. But that’s not completely necessary because we will be creating the composition while playing with shapes.


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Christmas is now just a few days away, so in this festival season we will show you how quickly make a Christmas light bulb in Adobe Illustrator. So lets move on to make it & decorate it with snowflakes & seasonal shinyness!!

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HOW TO… Create a halftone dot effect in Illustrator CS4


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Learn how to design and create your own fun flat pack toy in Adobe Illustrator.

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This tutorial will show you how to simulate a tackle twill look with Illustrator’s Appearance palette. I’ve found that most people don’t understand the Appearance palette and that’s unfortunate because it’s really powerful. When we’re done you will be able to apply this style to any text or shape within Illustrator.

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