Archive for Illustration Resources

How to Create a Brushed Metal Texture in 3 Easy Steps!

How to Create a Brushed Metal Texture in Three Steps
By Melissa Scroggins, Shutterstock Submitter
In this tutorial, we’ll examine how to create a unique look that can be used in icons, backgrounds, and detailed vector illustrations using Adobe Illustrator. This is a great way to give the appearance of a metallic texture to a surface. [...]

Illustration Software

Illustration Software
Here are some excellent chices for someIllustration Software

NEW Anime Studio Pro 6 Illustration Software Win & Mac
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Hundreds of Adobe Photoshop Shapes & How to Use Them – AWESOME!

Great resource for Photoshop custom shapes and a good tutorial on how to use them and install them… enjoy!
…what are Photoshop Custom Shapes? Adobe introduced custom shapes along with Photoshop version 6. With custom shapes, you can do much more with vector graphics than you could before. For example, you can break a shape to [...]

Freelance Advice Article, 8 Great Freelancing Tips

Some great freelance tips & advice in question and answer format. Check the site link at the bottom to get the answers to the 8 common questions below, usually asked by beginning freelancers or someone thinking about starting a freelancing career.
This post is a direct follow-up to the open thread we ran last week where [...]

Free Icons – Free Icon Sets – Free Emoticons for Download

In web forums, instant messengers and online games, text emoticons are often automatically replaced with small corresponding images, which came to be called emoticons as well. Examples of widely known emoticons are the smiley face : ) and the frowny face : (.
We have selected the best 5 sets of emoticons we have found on [...]

Free Seamless Patterns – Over 500 Free Seamless Patterns

Seamless patterns are very useful as design elements, especially as background for websites. Adding a bright and interesting seamless pattern as background is a great way to lift the look of a website without much effort.
Here are more than 500 seamless tilable patterns that you can use for your web projects or even as background [...]

Awesome Vector Freebies – 25 Free Vector Art Files

Great collection of nice, high quality free vectors…
The amount of free vector art coming out each day is astonishing, most of which are created by professional freelance vector artists or design studios! Many designers and studios will give out free vector art as a way to showcase their talent and gain exposure. This is a [...]