Articles by Spoon Graphics from March 2016

The two most important types of design resources you need in your toolkit are those that are either too time consuming to create on demand, or those that require a skill that takes years to master. Fo...

Mockup templates of sketchbooks and notepads are useful tools to show off your artwork or design concepts in a much more presentable way than simply uploading a flat scan of your drawings. These free ...

This week, Access All Areas members have the opportunity to download a useful website PSD template from bigpsfan to quickly build themselves a stylish portfolio or resume website. This ready-made temp...

The kinds of tutorials I love creating are those that produce a really cool result from quite a simple tool or technique. The artwork I’ll be showing you how to create today fits right into that...

One of the classic Photoshop tutorial topics is the creation of a pencil drawing effect from a photograph. It’s one of those quick and simple techniques that produces a satisfying result, which ...

Thom Bouman of Fresh Design Elements is back with another premium design resource donation for Access All Areas members this week. These 6 curved wood backdrops provide an interesting environment for ...

Peripheral elements that form a design such as patterns, ornaments and textures can be tedious to produce on the fly and can often drain precious time from the project budget, but having a comprehensi...

Authentic linocut and woodcut illustrations require a variety of specialist tools, patience and skill, but there’s a way to have fun producing similar artwork styles but with the safety net of t...

Access All Areas members have a great new premium resource to download this week courtesy of Gearwright. Raconteur Lettering Press is a smart PSD that transforms your lettering & typography pieces...

Today’s Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop video tutorial is based on the metal text effect from the title artwork for the movie Fantastic Beasts. It’s a really nice shiny metal, almost chrom...

A beautiful design trend that has emerged recently is the combination of flowers and text to produce elegant floral typography layouts. These designs merge botanical photographs or illustrations with ...

This latest premium resource for Access All Areas members to download is a comprehensive kit for Adobe Illustrator from GuerillaCraft. It’s a unique combination of graphic styles, textures and a...

Have you been struggling to find the perfect typeface for your designs or are you becoming bored of using the same old go-to fonts? A great opportunity to extend your font library has just arisen with...

Today we’re going to have some fun mimicking the distortion effect of VHS tapes in Adobe Photoshop. This is quite an unusual topic, but hopefully it will come in handy for those rare projects wh...