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

30 April 2016

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

Vector Portrait - Line Art, made by Diana Roald 04-16

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

This is part 1 of the course, where the goal is to make a line art style portrait. That is, all of the details are drawn either with the pen tool og brush tool. The only coloring is the background and eyes for contrast. In part 2, which I will soon start, the goal is to color this line drawing and add simple shading.

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Cartoon Creature Design: My first friendly monster

Cartoon Creature Design: 1st Monster

03 April 2016

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

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Cartoon Creature Design: 1st Monster

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As mentioned in an earlier post, I have a subscription at Envato Tuts+ (tutsplus.com) where there are a lot of really good tutorials and courses. The course “Cartoon Creature Design” consists of 11 videos that teach you how to create a set of fancy cartoon characters with various facial expressions and body shapes. This is my first first friendly monster after completing lesson 2.1 and 2.2.

The course continues by showing you how to create two new monsters, and then how to create new monsters from the faces and bodies created in the first lessons. Finally, the course gives some tips on recoloring the monsters. I will post my new monster in my blog. :)

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Retro Illustration

14 March 2016

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

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Retro Illustration

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I have a subscription at Envato Tuts+ (tutsplus.com), where there are a lot of really good tutorials and courses. The image above was the final product from the course “Creating a Retro Illustration in Illustrator”. The course consists of 7 videos showing you all the details for creating the image while teaching you important skills that can be used for creating other artwork.

This course has enough details so that you can easily follow along. As usual, I had to rewind a lot, but that’s how it is with video tutorials. Most of this course was a review of what I already knew, but I did learn about using the “roughen” effect (under “Distort & transform”) both when creating a brush and by applying it to existing strokes. The use of the roughen effect helps create a more organic look to your artwork.

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Tasty Tuts - Illustration - Final Poster Design

Create a Vector Illustration

01 July 2015

Based on tutorial "Create a Vector Illustration"

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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.

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Spring Garden

15 May 2015

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

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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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How to Make an Attractive Vector Butterfly

10 May 2015

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

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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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