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25 May 2016

Understanding vector graphics

Short and comprehensive tutorial on vector graphics versus bitmap

Illustration Tutorials

18 May 2016

The new Instagram logo

Designer Tobias van Schneider gives his thoughts after many people ventilated their opinion on Twitter on the new icon and Instagram design refinements. This is a quick video about this. Sums up my idea about it.

Talks Illustration Branding Graphic Design Video

28 Apr 2016

Bister Brushes

I was experimenting with scanned drawings in Illustrator, and this resulted in a new collection brushes I created. These can be used to add some bister borders to illustrations.
The brushes are made for vector border work, they have a bister, brown ink look. The brushes are great to use for strokes in elements in illustrations. This is a set Bister Brushes and all illustrations come with the brushes applied.

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01 Jul 2015

Creating Illustrations with Illustrator Draw

With the new version of Adobe Creative Cloud, it is now possible to create vector designs on the iPad or the iPhone with Adobe Illustrator Draw. You can connect with your content and upload your vectors to the community. Let's watch this video on how to start using Illustrator Draw

Tutorials Illustration Video

30 Mar 2015

18 Scatter Brushes

I was experimenting with scanned scribbles in Illustrator, and this resulted in a new collection brushes, this time these are scatter brushes. These can be used to add some texture in a flat background, like a sky or a sea.
The brushes are made for illustration work, they have a pencil, handmade feeling. The brushes are great to use for strokes in elements in illustrations. In the set are 18 vector Scatter Brushes and 5 illustrations in PNG with the brushes applied.

Illustration Graphic Design

10 Feb 2015

Handdrawn Ink Brushes

For some time now, I have been working on brushes to give a handdrawn pencil effect on vector drawn illustrations. I have created a bunch of brushes in Illustrator. In case you are looking for a handdrawn, ink brush, check out the brushes i created.

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08 Feb 2015

Wasco Brushes

I have been working on Wasco brushes to have an effect on vector drawn illustrations. I have created some wasco brushes in Illustrator. These brushes are meant to have a handdrawn look and feel on your illustrations.

Illustration Graphic Design

15 May 2014

Stitches, patterns and brushes

Lately i have been working on stitches for fashion design, patterns for summer clothing and pencil style illustrations. I have created a bunch of brush and pattern sets in Illustrator. I made a little shop on Creative Market, it's a super friendly community of people sharing their creative ideas in products for low prices. In case you are looking for a unique brush, action, pattern, label, picture, illustration, font, style, template or anything in particular for your creative production, the answer is probably on this market. I created a short summary of the products i sell on Creative Market, i'm in the middle of building my little shop, so come back regularly to discover more ...

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14 May 2014

The history of Adobe Illustrator

Back in time: the first time i created a logo (sort of) on a Mac with Adobe Illustrator was late in the nineties in a friend's studio. It was my first experience with Illustrator and since then it has captured me till today in my daily work. My friend had her own studio at that time and I was eager to learn how she made all these beautiful stuff so i asked her to introduce me to the basics of drawing on a computer. It took me some time to learn these drawing skills and i am still finding new ways to accomplish certain drawing tasks but it quickly became a tool that i use on a daily basis. In that period of time, i used Freehand and learned most of vector drawing in that tool, later on i switched to Illustrator. I was watching these wonderful short movieclips about the history of Illustrator and want to share them with you - i particularly like the story about the logo and the Botticelli "The Birth of Venus" painting in the Chapter 2.

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28 Apr 2014

Designing a splash screen for mobile

For Designmodo - a popular blog about design topics - I wrote a step-by-step tutorial on how to design a splash screen for mobile.

iOS-Mobile Tutorials Illustration Bene news

09 Apr 2014

Creating text effects in Photoshop

In this tutorial, i'm showing some text effects that can be applied using the effects panel in Photoshop. First, i'm giving some research tips and references, next i'll show the final result of the text effect and give step-by-step instructions on how to apply the text effects. Resources, fonts and textures that are showcased in the effects are listed at the end in References.

Typography Tutorials Illustration Graphic Design

21 Mar 2014

Tutorial on how to make your sketch an app icon

I wrote a step-by-step tutorial on how to convert your sketch to a full vector app icon.

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