Burning Up the Web - March Roundup
Tutorials
Bow the Knee
Another comprehensive tutorial from IllustrationClass.com. Learn how to create a vector illustration that starts with a staged photograph you shoot yourself.
Creating Halftone Effects
This tutorial covers creating a solid halftone effect in Illustrator CS3. Nice screenshots of the settings used to get the live trace vectorizing just right. Then the tut wraps up by showing it used on an attractive illustration.
Translucent IM Style Illustrator Icon Tutorial
Use the Ellipse Tool, Gradient Mesh, Pathfinder, and various Transparency settings to create this Web 2.0 Style Icon Set.
Illustrator Tutorial: Surprise Gift
This is a professional tutorial on creating a well lit gift box in Illustrator. The overall result jumps right off the screen. There was another good tutorial on Istockdiary as well. Check out The Perfect Diamond. Follow the link below for the Surprise Gift tut.
Using the Pathfinder and Align tool in Illustrator
Veerle covers the creation of a simple tools icon. The process of creation is set up to demonstrate the use of the Pathfinder and Align tools. If you need a refresher or a solid introduction to these tools then definitely visit this tutorial.
Brushed Metal Effect in Adobe Illustrator
This brushed effect is really easy to achieve. Check out this useful video tutorial.
Newspond menu on Fireworks
This is a tutorial series that in Part One shows you how to create a website layout design in Fireworks. The style is modern, sleek, and Web 2.0. Then in part two it covers exporting the graphics and coding the site.
Freebies
Vector Hardcover Journals
DaPino’s Blog is an awesome resource for free vector graphics. This month has seen a surge of available graphics. There is much more available than these Hardcover Journals.
Free Notebook Paper Vector
Some great vector torn notebook paper designs available for download. Add some vector grunge to your next design.
Vector Televisions
A bundle of retro television designs. They are put out by mmolai and available via Vecteezy, link below.
Your Design Forums: Website Icons
I designed a small vector web icon set for the members of the growing forum, Your Design Forumns. They are super easy to recolor for your website design needs.
Vector Ink and Paint Splatters
A nice set of vector brushes and splatters from Flamart. The drawing and painting tools are vectorized as well.
Winged Skull
Tony has been going "skull crazy" lately. "This is a little winged skull that I whipped together for you all to enjoy. It is fairly straight forward and hopefully will show you how to put one of these together."
Articles
12 Ways to Tap Into an Endless Well of Creativity
Find out how professionals keep that creativity going. "There is no reason to ever run out of ideas. The world, our minds, history, and the internet offer an infinite realm of artistic exploration. Consider the impact your habits, approach, organization, and internal rhythms have on your finished work."
Adobe Fireworks Tutorials and Downloads - Best of
Fireworks is a great tool for rapid website building. I put together a comprehensive resource on Fireworks. It covers articles, tutorials, and other tutorials. Fireworks has some great vector tools. I build website wireframes and sites in it all the time. Its really fast to work with to create quick clean designs.
12 Sources of Inspiration for Creating Your Own Lettering or Typeface Designs
I wrote another inspirational article over at GoMediaZine. This one is focused on Type and Lettering. "If you dream of painstakingly designing the next amazing Open Type Font, desire to craft beautiful Hand Drawn Lettering, or feel the urge to create original Typeface Designs then this article is for you."
Create a Killer Band Site in Drupal Part 6: Additional Functionality and Resources
This 6 Part Drupal series I wrote for GoMediaZine wrapped up last month. The tutorial series starts out by showing how to design a website layout in Illustrator. Here is the link for that Design it in Illustrator. The link below wraps up the best Drupal links I've found from the last year and a half I've been theming with that great CMS. Give it a Digg if your into theming CMS's.
Document Sizes and Crop Areas
Some practical advice on the Save for Web feature in Illustrator. There is an usual issue with Crop Area's and Document sizes that can occur. Its worth a read so that your aware of the issue.
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Such great links! thanks for
Such great links!
thanks for sharing!
Xavier
April 6th, 2008
Great Post
A great round up, thanks for this.
Anonymous
April 10th, 2008
Excellent round-up, great site
Am very pleased to have found your site. A great resource, one that I will be sure to visit often.
Funnily enough, your Illustrator/wireframe post from January has been of great interest to me for the last few weeks... am quite glad to know you have much more to offer. Keep it up!
davidpots
April 10th, 2008
nice
nice round up! looking forward to the next one!
D.A.T.
April 16th, 2008
Nice roundup
It's a great idea to roundup all the new tutorials every month. It gives me the idea that I should create a mailing list on my site and roundup all my tutorials, tips and news to keep my readers up to date on whats going on every month. Thanks for adding my Surprise Gift tutorial and I will continue to write more tutorials to share with others every month.
iStockdiary
April 18th, 2008
Great post
Thank you for this information. Great post, respect
Radder
May 4th, 2008
Very usefull
Thanks, this is great for all of us...!
marizmendi
May 14th, 2008
Thanks
I love vector images and you have a couple tutorials for them. Thanks.
Annie Maloney
May 25th, 2008
Cool, Free Graphics!
I'm always glad to get some free graphics that look good! And I'm glad you included some tutorials so I don't have to wonder how it's done.
Inky Dink
June 2nd, 2008
Fantastic
Thanks for sharing these amazing pics. You rock!
SEO Singapore
June 2nd, 2008
I've been looking for some
I've been looking for some solid vector graphics thank you for the killer links...
Don
July 27th, 2008
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