Articles by Spoon Graphics from June 2017

In today’s video tutorial I’m going to show you how to create a vintage style marquee bulb letter sign in Adobe Photoshop. We’ll use Photoshop’s 3D feature to quickly build eac...

Fauxsaics are a newly emerging illustration style that is inspired by the classic tile mosaics found in hotel foyers, subway stations and public areas of some of the world’s most beautiful citie...

Access All Areas members have a huge collection of seamless brushes for Adobe Illustrator to download this week, courtesy of Tatiana Lapina from Creative Veila. These Romantic Dreams brushes are perfe...

A brilliant new deal has just gone live over at Design Cuts, which is full of incredibly useful vector tools. The Inspiring, Creative Vector Collection features a huge variety of tools that provide yo...

Download my new collection of grainy vignettes to add gritty effects to your artwork. These 10 free textures feature heavy speckling that gradually advances from the edges to produce a dirty vignette ...

Access All Areas members have a great new font to download this week, courtesy of freelance graphic designer Mark Richardson. Shapeshifter is an all-caps, gritty, hand-drawn font with rippled edges an...

In today’s Adobe Illustrator tutorial we’re going to play around with Illustrator’s type effects to build a vintage style logo design. Modern logo designs tend to be quite minimalist...

Paint drips and ink splatters are usually the side effects of producing lettering by hand with pens and paintbrushes, but these kinds of aesthetics are also incorporated into digital type designs to r...

Access All Areas members have a fantastic collection of illustration resources to download this week, courtesy of the talented Lisa Glanz. The Winter Woodland kit contains a whimsical set of cute anim...

Do you fancy getting your hands on the most popular typefaces from some of the biggest font foundries? This new collection from Design Cuts is a compilation of exceptional, best selling fonts across a...

It’s always fun to play around in Adobe Illustrator creating stylised illustrations of random objects. It’s also great practise, which helps you experiment with new tools and techniques th...

Over the past 10 years I’ve created all kinds of artwork solely for the purpose of explaining how it was made in a tutorial. Beyond that, the files have just been sat unused in my archives, so I...

I spent some time the other day experimenting with colorizing a black and white photograph. The image I worked on is a photo of my Grandad during WW2. The original has that washed out sepia look to it...