Articles by TutsPlus - Design from May 2016

What You'll Be CreatingPainterly designs are a big trend for wedding invitations right now. Romantic without being overly feminine or floral, they have an effortlessly cool, beachy style which is perf...

What You'll Be CreatingIn the following steps you will learn how to create a green, slimy text effect in Adobe Illustrator. For starters, you will learn how to set up a simple grid and how to cre...

What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial I'll show you how to create a misty landscape with rocks, an arch bridge, flying birds, castles, and a medieval woman. You'll learn how to combine simple images...

There are so many tools and assets designers and artists can add to their virtual toolbox that it's hard to know where to begin! Stop the guessing game and check out this must-have list of fantastic a...

Silhouettes are fun, quick and easy projects to take on if you want to learn new tools and processes in any software. In our new course, Vector Silhouettes for Beginners, you'll learn how to...

Welcome to our Illustrator in 60 Seconds series, in which you can learn an Illustrator skill, feature, or technique in just a minute!The Snap to Pixel OptionEver wondered why sometimes you're shapes d...

Emails may be the standard means of written communication these days, but there are still occasions when only a printed letter will do. They feel particularly relevant now—in our digital-saturated a...

What You'll Be CreatingWhen you try to learn how to draw, the first chapter of the book is often about all these fancy tools you will need. This is quite scary—you have no idea if it's for you, but ...

What You'll Be CreatingIn the following steps you will learn how to create a blueprint text effect in Adobe Illustrator. For starters you will learn how to set up a simple grid and how to create ...

What You'll Be CreatingWelcome to our Photoshop in 60 Seconds series, in which you can learn a Photoshop skill, feature, or technique in just a minute! The Blur GalleryEver wanted to create thos...

What You'll Be CreatingFolk art is a great source of inspiration for creating graphic patterns thanks to its often simple, repeated shapes and motifs. In this tutorial, we’ll be basing our motifs on...

What You'll Be CreatingMusic videos are often on the cutting edge of a culture's creative expression, both in terms of music and visual effects. They also serve as an excellent source of creative insp...

What You'll Be CreatingTo celebrate Finding Dory, the upcoming sequel to the classic Finding Nemo, I'll show you how to create realistic fan art easily in Adobe Photoshop. Inspired by the movie, learn...

What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial we'll be stepping through the process of creating a realistic katana (Japanese sword) using Affinity Designer. Check out the file attached to this tutorial...

What You'll Be CreatingWant to learn a new Illustrator skill in just ten minutes?In our new Coffee Break Course, illustrator Simona Pfreundner will introduce you to Live Shapes in Adobe Illustrator C...

For this article in the international artist series, we turn to China, featuring seven artists who create fantastic work, from illustration to graphic design and more! I asked each artist how their co...

What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial we’ll go through the inspiring process of creating a set of funny cartoon zodiac icons. We’ll be using basic shapes as well as simple freehand drawing. In o...

You might think that brochures are an afterthought these days due to the penetration of digital marketing, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. Brochures help you get more customers by boos...

What You'll Be Creating In this Quick Tip tutorial, I'm going to show you how to create a simple and trendy geometrical pattern, the quick and easy way. First, we will create a special repeating sha...

Animated GIFs, more than any other digital image format, have become ingrained in online culture. JPEGs are more or less a continuation of traditional photography, but GIFs are something new and power...

What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial I'll show you how to create a floral portrait of a woman with flowers, leaves, branches and butterflies. We'll not only combine different images using standard ...

Welcome to our Illustrator in 60 Seconds series, in which you can learn an Illustrator skill, feature, or technique in just a minute!The Snap to Grid OptionCreating balanced artwork can sometimes beco...

Envato Elements is coming soon, and to celebrate, we're offering some fantastic freebies to help you with your creative projects. You can pick up some handcrafted fonts, a professional brochure templa...

Curves are powerful: they offer speed and efficiency in your post-production workflow like nothing else. For a novice, though, curves might even be a little too powerful. Fear not! Curves are not as ...

What You'll Be CreatingWhat is your least favorite body part to paint? For me, it's probably the hands. But one thing I've learned over time is that the best way to get better at anatomy is to simply ...

What You'll Be CreatingHello there, fellow cadets! Today we have a special mission in store for you: we’re going to send you where no one has gone before (well actually a few have gone but that does...

What You'll Be CreatingPhotoshop templates are a great way of transforming your images instantly into something more eye-catching and professional-looking. Creating a vintage-style collage? Using a vi...

What You'll Be CreatingSo far I’ve been making tutorials strictly by using vector shapes. But in this tutorial, I will show you how to create a fun digital collage in Adobe Illustrator by using phot...

“Tints”, “tones” and “shades” are terms you’ll hear used when discussing color. A “tint” is the result of mixing a color with white. A “shade” is the resultant mixture of a color...

Welcome to our monthly feature of fantastic tutorial results created by you, the Envato Tuts+ community! Every day, visitors like you take the time not only to read our tutorials but also to try them ...

What You'll Be CreatingHuman anatomy can be pretty intimidating. But you can conquer your fear by tackling different parts of the human body in small digital painting studies.In this quick tip, learn ...

Welcome to our Illustrator in 60 Seconds series, in which you can learn an Illustrator skill, feature, or technique in just a minute!The Width ToolCreating organic lines can be a tricky process, or at...

Recently Sketch released version 3.7 and with it a completely revised set of Symbol tools. In this quick tip, I’ll show you how to make the most of them!Watch Quick Tip Further ResourcesSketch 3....

What You'll Be CreatingWe're always used to seeing smooth skin. It's the paradigm of the digital art world. But what about all the other fascinating characteristics about skin that occur from things l...

What You'll Be Creating"According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way that a bee should be able to fly. Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground. The bee, of cour...

What You'll Be CreatingIn our new course, Designing and Building a Brand, you’ll learn how to create visual brands from scratch and develop your brand designs into professional, comprehensive b...

What You'll Be CreatingFor many of us, summer is the most exciting season. Hot sun, bright clothes, warm sea waves and vacations—these are what we’re waiting for with impatience! In this tutorial ...

Finding out your image or artwork has been used without your knowledge or say-so can be a punch in the gut. In this tutorial, we’ll look at positive action you can take to seek a fair outcome.I rece...

What You'll Be CreatingFloral typography is a design trend that combines nice floral elements with bold typography, to create some elegant designs. This tutorial will show you how to use a flower stoc...

In continuing with our art history features, I’ve collected some fantastic people of color in art. So very often, when influential artists are discussed, it’s the usual suspects (Da Vinci, Monet, ...

What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial, I will be taking you through the steps of how to animate a squash and stretch. Incorporating squash and stretch into animation of a character or even an object...

What You'll Be CreatingIn today’s tutorial I'm going to show you how to create a cute character illustration, using some of Illustrator’s most basic shapes and tools, combined with the power of Bl...

For this article in the international artist series, we turn to Italy, featuring six artists who create fantastic work, from illustration to graphic design and more! I asked each artist how their coun...

What You'll Be CreatingPortraits are not easy to paint from imagination. They're not only about anatomy, but about the spirit of the person hidden in the facial features and the expression. If you als...

What You'll Be CreatingDrawing from imagination sounds cool, but we rarely know enough about the subject to draw it perfectly. You could try and guess, just to impress others with your guessing skills...

In this era of inbound marketing, one could be forgiven for thinking that print is dead. After all, landing pages, social media, emails and websites are a core part of any successful small businesses�...

What You'll Be CreatingSummer heat is a perfect time to have a cold glass of fresh homemade lemonade to detox and refresh ourselves. In this tutorial you’ll learn how to make a trendy flat-style ill...

Graphic designers can be a confusing bunch—sometimes it feels as if they’re speaking a completely different language. If you’re at the receiving end of ‘agency speak’, you might feel a littl...

What You'll Be CreatingWant to improve your drawing technique? In our new course, Dynamic Gesture Drawing, digital artist Brian Lee will teach you the fundamentals of gesture drawing step by...

What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial, you will learn how to create fancy, decorated arrows. We will use basic shapes and then apply Warp, Roughen, and Zig-Zag effects. You will also learn how to ...

What You'll Be CreatingFilter Forge 5 is an Adobe Photoshop plugin and stand-alone software that gives you the ability to create your own complex filters and textures. Its node-based Filter Edito...

What You'll Be CreatingFollow this tutorial and learn how to draw a pretty detailed chocolate chip cookie in vector form. First, you'll create the whole cookie and after that, you'll learn to create t...

Interface Design on Envato MarketWelcome to our Photoshop in 60 Seconds series, in which you can learn a Photoshop skill, feature, or technique in just a minute!Artboards in PhotoshopArtboards are a w...

What You'll Be CreatingToday I'm going to show you how easy it is to create your own “Website Under Construction” illustration using Adobe Illustrator. Hopefully this quick tutorial will insp...