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Vector Portraits for Beginners, Part 1 - Line Art Style Portrait

Based on Envato Tuts+ Course (paid subscription): Vector Portraits for Beginners

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Cartoon Creature Design: My first friendly monster

Cartoon Creature Design: 1st Monster

Based on Envato Tuts+ Course (paid subscription): Cartoon Creature Design

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Retro Illustration

Based on Envato Tuts+ Course (paid subscription): Creating a Retro Illustration in Adobe Illustrator

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Tasty Tuts - Illustration - Final Poster Design

Create a Vector Illustration

Based on tutorial "Create a Vector Illustration"

Tasty Tuts - Create a Vector Illustration - made by Diana Roald 07-15

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Create a Vector Illustration

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The complete course consists of 19 episodes (videos). It starts with an introduction consisting of the basics, like the interface and vector basics and moves on to practicing things like creating vector shapes, grouping vectors and compound vector shapes and drawing with the pen, brush and pencil tools. In the final section you start the project which is an illustration that can be used for a printed poster or T-shirt design. The course concludes with all the necessary steps to prepare your documents for print.

This is a very good course. It is easy to follow as there are a lot of detailed instructions. I finally finished the entire course, with the final products being a poster (left) and t-shirt design (right). The white areas in the t-shirt design will be the same color as the t-shirt.

Tasty Tuts - Create a Vector Illustration - Poster design made by Diana Roald 03-16Tasty Tuts - Create a Vector Illustration - T-shirt design made by Diana Roald 07-15

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Design Tutsplus Tut - Spring Garden made by Diana Roald 05-15

Spring Garden

Based on tutorial "Create a Garden Scene with Basic Shapes in Adobe Illustrator"

Create a Garden Scene with Basic Shapes in Adobe Illustrator - made by Diana Roald 07-15

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Spring Garden

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In this tutorial you use just basic shapes and the Pencil Tool in Adobe Illustrator. I was surprised how many different objects that could be created from a rectangle, ellipse and triangle. The tutorial was easy to follow.

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Diana Roald - Butterfly - Spring 2015

How to Make an Attractive Vector Butterfly

Based on tutorial "How to Make an Attractive Vector Butterfly"

 How to Make an Attractive Vector Butterfly - made by Diana Roald 05-15

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How to Make an Attractive Vector Butterfly

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In this tutorial you learn how to make a vector butterfly using the blending mode from transparency box and the gradient mesh. The techniques shown in this tutorial will help you make shades on objects and liquid transition of colors.

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