Articles by TutsPlus - Design from June 2015

What You'll Be CreatingAs a digital artist who tends to spend too many hours in front of my computer screen, I always enjoy finding a project where I can invite my kids to take part in a digital art a...

What You'll Be CreatingWhat an eventful month June 2015 has been. Not only is June seen as LGBTQI pride month (although this varies around the globe), but marriage equality has finally came to the USA...

What You'll Be CreatingIn the following steps you will learn how to create a set of detailed balloon pattern brushes and how to use them to create a neat text effect in Adobe Illustrator. For sta...

What You'll Be CreatingIf you haven't seen Taylor Swift's video for her hit song, Style, then do yourself a favor and check it out! Not surprisingly it's a "stylistic" video, and it contains some wo...

What You'll Be CreatingIn Mastering Sports Illustration & Design, commercial illustrator and graphic artist Simeon Elson will show you how to create an eye-catching sports poster using a...

What You'll Be CreatingIn the following steps you will learn how to create the S.H.I.E.L.D. logo in Adobe Illustrator. For starters you will learn how to set up a simple grid and how to create th...

What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial I will show you how to use a couple of layer styles, with a nice space texture and a flare brush tip, to create a Star Wars inspired text effect. Let's get star...

What You'll Be CreatingFan art is one of the most interesting subjects in the creative world for me today. It is very surprising how many great artists in recent years have gotten themselves noticed b...

What You'll Be CreatingThe Pathfinder panel is one of the most versatile features of Adobe Illustrator. It comes in handy on so many occasions, and in today’s quick tip I will show you how you can u...

What You'll Be CreatingThe Five Nights at Freddy's series has become a hit of the Internet. This simple game with scary, but very likeable characters, and a literally haunting story has won the hearts...

Name: Andrew GarciaLocation: Manila, PhilippinesTopics of Interest: PHP, WordPress, Laravel, Magento, MarketingOccupation: Web developerIn our series of Tuts+ community stories so ...

What You'll Be CreatingMathematical! Create three fantastic icon designs featuring the Adventure Time characters Jake, Finn, and Princess Bubblegum. We'll use simple shapes to bring each character to ...

What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial I'll show you how to create a Batman-inspired artwork using a variety of photo-manipulation techniques in Adobe Photoshop. We'll use sky and wall images to crea...

We recently launched Tuts+ Experts, your one-stop shop for individual training! Get your most pressing questions answered by your favorite Tuts+ instructors in a private hour-long session for jus...

What You'll Be CreatingAlternative movie posters are having a moment in the graphic design world. Designers and fans are creating their own quirky posters to advertise their favorite cult and indie mo...

What You'll Be CreatingAs I have a little daughter, I've become a fan of Strawberry Shortcake, Lillifee, My Little Pony, and of course, Hello Kitty. This tutorial will help you create a piece of fan ...

Sticker designs for Stickeroni and Hallmark Cards by Maria Sarria.Print design is a varied category of commercial art. Graphic designers in the industry of print design find themselves working on maga...

What You'll Be CreatingMost of us are familiar with the idea of a mascot. It can represent a place or idea that we feel needs a physical representation in order to convey our thoughts and emotions to ...

What You'll Be CreatingOne of my favorite things in the world is creating flowing, seamless patterns, but I’m not a very precise person by nature and I was always intimidated by all the math and car...

What You'll Be CreatingIn our latest course, Creating Animal-Inspired Fantasy Creatures, you'll learn how to use Adobe Photoshop to create two animal-inspired fantasy creatures. What Yo...

What You'll Be CreatingInterlaced strapwork, meaning knots and woven motifs, is the next level of complexity in Islamic geometric patterns, and was originally inspired by the abundance of Roman-era kn...

What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial we'll create a set of flat animals made from simple shapes in Adobe Illustrator CC. Using rectangles, triangles, circles, Live Corners, and a few squiggly lines...

What You'll Be CreatingAt some point in our lives, every artist keeps a sketchbook. Whether you're more of a doodler or have a knack for fabulous detail, journals are a great resource to get out all y...

What You'll Be CreatingIf you live in the Northern Hemisphere, it's coming towards summer! In celebration of the hopefully milder, warmer weather, I'm going to show you how to create a portrait from a...

What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial, you'll learn how to create a hot concrete text effect using two layers to get a central vanishing point in Adobe Photoshop. Let's get started! Tutorial Assets...

It's everyone's favorite time of year: Adobe Creative Cloud update time! Check out all of the new features of your favorite illustration and design programs plus new features to Adobe's mobile app lin...

What You'll Be CreatingFollowing from last month's article summing up 3D printing, this month I'm going to get a bit more practical. I'm going to show you an easy way to make your first 3D printed obj...

What You'll Be CreatingShading with colors is not an easy thing. All those hues with different saturations and brightnesses can make you dizzy! Black and white, in this case, should be much less compl...

What You'll Be CreatingIn the following steps you will learn how to create a detailed cigarette pattern brush and how to use it to make a neat text effect in Adobe Illustrator. For starters you w...

Becoming comfortable with digital post-production is all about having good flow. A good workflow lets you be fast and creative: committing keyboard shortcuts to memory is an important step in building...

Print tiling comes in handy if you need to make a poster-sized proof, print, or any other over-sized output. Rather than taking the file to a printing company or service bureau, you can print the imag...

What You'll Be CreatingAdvertising is everywhere, and it's possible that it will need to crop up in your pixel art world. So today we're going to find out how to turn a regular image into its isometri...

What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial, you will learn a quick, easy way create peonies. We will use the Warp Tool and the Pucker Tool.1. Drawing a PetalStep 1After creating a new document (600 px wi...

When pitching a design, the presentation can be crucial to convincing the client to go with a concept. In Create Product Mock-Ups in Adobe Photoshop, you’ll get a better understanding...

Paint a dog. From scratch. Without using Google.Doesn't seem so easy now, does it?Without referring to a photograph, illustrating anything seems impossible for most artists. So today we'll cover the d...

What You'll Be CreatingPlacing an image inside a single character can give your layouts a super-professional, design-forward look. And it’s really simple to achieve!In this Quick Tip tutorial, you�...

What You'll Be CreatingCharacters looking stiff? Illustrations repeating the same old poses? Animation looking boring? Fret not, I have a cure! Dynamic gesture drawing is a great way to really loosen ...

What You'll Be CreatingToday I've got something special prepped in a form of a quick tip tutorial. In the following minutes we are going to look at how we can create a set of smooth graffiti-inspired ...

Are you a skilled visual designer? Have you considered sharing your knowledge through teaching online video courses? We're growing our visual design course topics here at Tuts+, expanding deeper into ...

What You'll Be CreatingThe opacity or transparency of a layer is usually seen as a kind of gradient—the layer can be fully opaque, fully transparent, or somewhere in between. But did you know that y...

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

What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial we’ll go through the process of creating a lighthouse icon in a trendy flat style using Affinity Designer. We’ll be using simple shapes, such as rectangles ...

Sometimes we all need a little inspiration. There are days when everything seems too hard, the to-do list seems too long, and the goal we're working towards seems to have disappeared beyond the horizo...

What You'll Be CreatingWhen browsing the tutorials here in the Design & Illustration section, you'll find a huge base of educational content written by many authors from all over the world. Some o...

Why buy calendars each year, when you can learn to make your own? In Design Print-Ready Calendars, you’ll use Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign to create two print-ready calendars: a compact...

What You'll Be Creating​​​​​​​​​​​​​​In this tutorial I'll show you how to create a city destruction scene. You'll learn how to destroy a city by adding broken, damaged ele...

What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial we’ll be creating a semi-realistic wooden palette for painting. We’ll use some basic shapes along with simple freehand drawing, and then we'll add spectacul...

If you dream about being good at drawing, but you don't have much experience, most likely you associate it with a pencil. But what you really want is to bring your ideas out from your mind, and a mere...

What You'll Be CreatingCertain forms of Kufic, grouped under the broad appellation of "ornamental Kufic", strike the eye with their intricacy and profusion of ornamental forms that all but obscure the...

What You'll Be CreatingWe've been filling in journal and sketchbook pages with fun challenges around here lately. Here's another chance to join in with our ongoing project.Gather up some markers, pens...

What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial I'll give a walkthrough of creating a fun, bright multi-character pirate ship aimed at three- to six-year-olds! In this tutorial we will be looking at how to ro...

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

What You'll Be CreatingIn today's tutorial I'm going to show you how to create a skull with a flower crown using ink liners. A liner is similar to a gel or capillary pen, but whereas pens are roughly ...

What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial we're going to take a cute character from starting sketch to finished product using Adobe Illustrator. We'll be focusing on how to achieve an efficient workflow...