Articles by TutsPlus - Design from April 2015

What You'll Be CreatingEarth and rocks are a very important part of complex scenes. They seem very easy, but at the same time it's hard to render them in a believable way. A texture will not do on its...

Being able to deliver quality, creative, educational content to our readers is our top priority here at Tuts+. In fact, it's part of our parent company, Envato's mission: "To help people learn and ear...

What You'll Be CreatingMealtime should be a fun time for the young, whether they are in a restaurant, at home, or any place they are eating. So what better way to entertain them than by creating a pla...

What You'll Be CreatingDesigning a print document that’s going to be folded can be tricky, but in this tutorial we look at how you can make it ultra simple... and fun! In this tutorial suitable...

What You'll Be CreatingModifying the various brush settings in Photoshop can help achieve different effects and textures. This tutorial will show you how to play around with brush settings, as well as...

What You'll Be CreatingCars can be a form of art in themselves, and many artists have created beautiful drawings of them over the years, yet chrome and metal can be difficult to draw and render with j...

Artwork by Erika Worthylake.Artists within animation have a variety of roles. Often when we think of the art team assembled for an animated show or feature, we focus solely on the animators themselves...

What You'll Be CreatingFor starters you will learn how to set up a simple grid and how to create the set of shapes that will make up a first pattern brush. You'll learn how to easily create pixel perf...

What You'll Be CreatingA globally recognized festival, Children’s Day celebrates children and their well-being. Children’s Day is celebrated in a number of different countries, but since 1925 the ...

We wanted to make you aware of some changes to our Privacy Policy. We’re committed to ensuring that our Privacy Policy clearly sets out how we manage your identifying information (“personal inform...

What You'll Be CreatingGet your 30-day free trial now! You will be downloading a 30-day, fully functional trial version of CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X7. This trial is available in both 32-bit and 64-bi...

What You'll Be CreatingToday we're visiting Africa to learn about two unique species: the zebra and the giraffe. To draw them properly we need to understand that the zebra isn't just a striped horse, ...

What You'll Be CreatingMany people find noses to be quite difficult, but in fact they are pretty simple: just a cone shape with two holes!Okay, maybe not that simple, but you get the gist of it. ...

In our new course, Creative Lighting Effects in Adobe Photoshop, you will learn how to create powerful lighting effects using several techniques in Adobe Photoshop and the Flame Painter plug...

What You'll Be CreatingIn today’s tutorial I’m going to show you how to create a set of flat productivity icons that might come in handy in future projects.We'll be using Adobe Illustrator, and th...

What You'll Be CreatingUsing patterns with different glow and texture settings can make creating interesting, detailed effects a fun and simple job. This tutorial will show you how to use the duplicat...

To paint art realistically is to make it almost real. Hardly poetic, I know, but for many beginners the journey to realism is full of confusion and disappointment. Realism is the oxygen of digital art...

What You'll Be CreatingGet your 30-day free trial now! You will be downloading a 30-day, fully functional trial version of CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X7. This trial is available in both 32-bit and 64-bi...

Check out the amazing winners in our very first Envato Remix contest!Our Envato Remix contest is now over! We had over 100 incredible entries from our creative community across the...

Here’s the harsh reality: the job market is competitive. For any enticing position you apply for, you’ll be up against dozens of other highly qualified candidates.What makes it worse is that even ...

Recently I created a video course here on Tuts+ called Creative Vector Hair. It's an advanced course on how to render hair from scratch in vector. It will take you through five different projects...

This month's interview is with the extraordinarily talented illustrator Chad Sell. Delight in his depictions of RuPaul's Drag Race contestants, web comics like Manta‑Man and his autobiographical Vre...

What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial we'll create a set of truly adorable soda shop inspired food icons from scratch and assemble them into a dynamic all-over print, ready for use as a desktop back...

What You'll Be CreatingApophysis is well known for its ability to create amazingly intricate 2D and 3D flame fractals. In this tutorial you will learn how to create a 3D Julian fractal. I will be usi...