Articles by TutsPlus - Design from December 2016

What You'll Be CreatingDrawing fur from imagination can be very frustrating. You've seen it, you know what it is, but when you try drawing it, you end up with a bunch of straw. If this is your proble...

What You'll Be CreatingSome time ago, I posted a tutorial on creating a knitted pattern. It was a quick and easy tutorial. This time, I brought a bit more realistic looking pattern with decorations!...

Adobe Illustrator has many powerful tools and unique features. And one among them is Illustrator's Paintbrush Tool (B). The brushes can be applied to paths and strokes, they are great for creating st...

What You'll Be CreatingThis tutorial will show you how to use layer styles, with simple shapes and textures, to create an easy ice text effect.  This text effect was inspired by the many Layer S...

What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial you will learn how to create an amazing typography dispersion effect. First we are going to create and define a few patterns and brushes. Then we are going to c...

What You'll Be CreatingA hundred years ago in 1916, during WW1 on the battlefields of the Somme in Northern France, a revolution in armed conflict made its first appearance. This weapon was the tank! ...

What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial I'll show you how to create a winter rural scene. First we'll build the base scene using a sky image and two landscape images. After that we'll add the tre...

What You'll Be CreatingA new request from one of our readers—a unicorn illustration!As with all my tutorials, I want to show you that creating cute illustrations does not necessary require usage of...

Photo collages are a great way to present your photography, artwork, and designs. And you can make your very own collage easily by downloading a quick template. Check out this collection of 30 premium...

What You'll Be CreatingThis tutorial will show you how to use a bunch of filters, brushes, and adjustment layers to create a simple, colorful, watercolor inspired text effect. Let's get started! This...

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

What You'll Be CreatingDouble exposure is a classic photographic technique whose popularity has skyrocketed. Thanks to current software, you don't need to be a photographer to achieve spectacular and ...

What You'll Be CreatingThis tutorial will show you how to use Photoshop's 3D tools and settings, along with textures, patterns, brushes, filters, and layer styles, to create a sparkling, fun, Christma...

What You'll Be CreatingIf you're a lover of vintage cameras, this tutorial will bring you good memories. We'll create this retro camera with basic shapes and using flat colors to get a very cool resul...

What You'll Be CreatingSince the New Year is right around the corner, I thought it would be nice if we spent some quality time together creating a little celebration-themed icon pack using some of the...

Photoshop is clearly our favorite photo editing software. In this article, we have listed 50 photo effect tutorials that will show you how to perform a wide range of tasks including age progression, I...

What You'll Be CreatingBelieve it or not, Christmas is once again almost here, which means that as with every year, Santa is hard at work making preparations for one of the busiest nights of his life....

What You'll Be CreatingWinter is coming, and with it come all the winter holidays! Let's celebrate by drawing a few very simple illustrations that you can create without any previous experience. I wi...

What You'll Be CreatingIn today’s tutorial we're going to approach a somewhat different theme and learn how to create some social media icons, using some simple shapes such as the Rounded Rectangle ...

What You'll Be CreatingUnderstanding anatomy isn't enough to enable you to draw animals realistically. If you don't understand perspective, you're doomed to draw your creatures in dull poses, mainly i...

Are you a font lover with an appetite for serifs and sans-serifs? Sink your teeth into this amazing collection of 100 stunning fonts from Envato Elements!Get Unlimited Fonts With Envato Elements The r...

Welcome to our Illustrator in 60 Seconds series, in which you can learn an Illustrator skill, feature, or technique in just a minute!Illustrator in 60 Seconds: How to Install and Use a Custom Swatch P...

If you’ve created a design you’re especially proud of and want to hang it on your wall or share it with friends or family, you’re going to have to look into printing your artwork. Sometimes a st...

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!Photoshop in 60 Seconds: Oil Painting Effect Tra...

What You'll Be CreatingAdult coloring books are everywhere these days, but wouldn’t it be nice to be able to stay warm indoors and create your own? In this tutorial, I will show you just how fu...

What You'll Be CreatingThis tutorial will show you how to use selection and move tools to divide text into segments and fill them with parts of an image, creating a geometric collage text effect. Let'...

Welcome to our Photoshop in 60 Seconds series, in which you can learn a Photoshop skill, feature, or technique in just a minute!Photoshop in 60 Seconds: Customizing a Business Card A great way to imp...

In this quick tip I’ll explain how to use a Sketch plugin which makes it really easy to output all your social media visual assets. Let’s take a look!Watch Quick Tip Exporting Social Media Assets...

What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial I'll show you how to create an apocalypse scene with a dark angel. You'll learn how to create a decay/destruction scene by combining several stock images, make ...

What You'll Be CreatingTransparent glass is incredibly hard to draw from imagination. That's because we know it's "invisible", so what is there to draw? But the correct approach is to draw what we see...

What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial, you'll learn how to create a text effect based on the logo text for Luke Cage. Luke Cage is a superhero in the Marvel universe and now features in a series on ...

The Lunar New Year brings people together in celebration of ancient tradition. If you love this time of year and plan on having a celebration of your own, check out this collection of premium design a...

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 the...

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

What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial we'll create a dusty overlay texture from scanned paper, and I will show you how to apply this texture to your image.I created Dusty Textures Pack the same...

What You'll Be CreatingAre you ready for one of the most magical holidays of the year? Let’s feel this warm atmosphere of Christmas by creating a cozy scene depicting a flat fireplace decorated with...

What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial I'll show you how to create a flying owl artwork using simple photo manipulation techniques. We'll use three stock images: one for the background, one for ...

What You'll Be CreatingWould you like to work as a children's illustrator? Our new course, The Art of Children’s Illustration, will give you a head start in this very competitive but rewarding field...

What You'll Be CreatingPhoto effects are a great way to practice and harness your Photoshop skills. In this lesson, learn how to create a fun photo glitch effect using Marquee Tools, the Wave Filter, ...

What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial you will learn how to use the Mesh Tool and the Symbol Sprayer Tool, as well as how to make your images look better simply with some tweaks to Transparency sett...

What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial we’ll be creating a cozy winter forest scene in a trendy flat style. We’ll be using various basic shapes and Pathfinder operations of Adobe Illustrator, bui...

What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial we’ll be creating a cute cartoon Christmas deer and a full set of facial expressions. We’ll be modifying simple geometric shapes, working with the Arc Tool ...

What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial, I will show you how to create a realistic snow globe in Photoshop with a snowfall effect, using your own photos.This snow globe effect is part of my Anima...

Welcome back to our series on art history! From the lands of Ancient Rome, we now journey onward to experience the world of Byzantine and Islamic art. Let's see how history significantly affected the ...

Choosing the right WordPress theme can make it so much easier to make a polished site. Finding the right theme, however, can be daunting. But with ThemeForest now offering almost 8,000 premium WordPre...

What You'll Be CreatingThis tongue-in-cheek poster design will help keep your colleagues or friends motivated (or not!) to stick with their January resolutions this year. This fun design uses stylish ...

What You'll Be CreatingIn today’s tutorial we’re going to break away from the regular stuff that we've done in the past and tackle something different, even special you may say, since we’re goin...

What You'll Be CreatingIn this quick 60-second video, you'll learn how to use Adobe Photoshop to combine a portrait image and typography into an attractive portrait quote.How to Create a Portrait Quot...

What You'll Be CreatingWinter is cold and unpleasant, but it definitely creates beautiful landscapes. Mountains and tree branches covered with snow, lakes turned into ice... Even if there's no winter ...

What You'll Be CreatingWe're going Red for World AIDS Day 2016 with this 3D text effect. Use Photoshop's 3D tools and settings, along with adjustment layers and filters, to create a simple, 3D cylinde...

With Christmas just a few weeks away, chances are good that most designers will need to use some sort of Christmas-based graphics for their work or play this season. It's also likely that your time wi...

What You'll Be CreatingToday we’re going to get a little adventurous and learn how to create our very own camping icon set, using some of the most basic shapes and tools that you probably already wo...