Articles by TutsPlus - Design from November 2015

Whether it's a web comic, comic book, or graphic novel, the artists of the comic world have a variety of roles within a comic's creation, and all of them are pretty fantastic.Jem and the Holograms art...

What You'll Be CreatingDo you like to play computer games? Have you ever wanted to become a game graphic artist? If you answered ‘yes’, this tutorial is exactly for you! Learn how to make simple y...

The ultimate Cyber Monday bundle is on sale today, featuring over 80 mock-ups, add-ons, actions, icons and more—all for just $29!We've picked a few of our favorite items from it.Laptop Mock-UpSandSt...

What You'll Be CreatingAdobe Photoshop is known as a great tool for artists, and not without reason. However, it doesn't work as magically as some people may think. It won't color and shade your pictu...

What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial you will learn how to create Latvian signs in Adobe Illustrator and animate them in Adobe After Effects. To make it more fun, I will show you the basics of how ...

What You'll Be CreatingPhotoshop Actions can be an amazing time-saving resource. They automate a sequence of steps in Photoshop so the program can perform those for you. Several Actions sold on Envato...

What You'll Be CreatingThe motif we are constructing today comes from a wall carving in Armenia, a culture whose artistic tradition is as ancient and intricate as any. The basis of it is simple e...

What You'll Be CreatingLogo templates have all sorts of uses: speeding up a project, inspiring a small business, or even being excellent for product mock-ups. Whatever your reason for downloading a lo...

Welcome to our Photoshop in 60 Seconds series, in which you can learn a Photoshop skill, feature, or technique in just a minute! This time around we're looking at Swatches. Whether you've got your ow...

What You'll Be CreatingThe publishing world has recently seen an explosion in popularity of clothbound books, which are stunning modern tributes to a centuries-old method of designing books. Houses li...

What You'll Be CreatingThe publishing world has recently seen an explosion in popularity of clothbound books, which are stunning modern tributes to a centuries-old method of designing books. Houses li...

What You'll Be CreatingEnvato Market is an excellent resource for stock photos, graphic templates and product mock-ups. These resources are a great way to produce high quality marketing shots in a ver...

What You'll Be CreatingDesigning wedding invitations can be scary—which style to choose? Which font to use? Go for pared-back elegance or flashy decadence? Vintage florals or modern minimalism? And ...

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

What You'll Be CreatingFallout 4 is here! We've decided to celebrate it by giving you a chance to draw your own Vault Boy. Step by step, you'll learn how to build a complex silhouette out of ovals and...

What You'll Be CreatingIf you follow this series of pixel art tutorials, you may already have in your possession a very nice car for your pixel art character in its pixel art world. Let's add another ...

For the second year in a row we'll be discounting all video courses to just $3 each for Cyber Monday (30 November).All 660+ courses on Envato Tuts+ will be reduced for 24 hours only. Don't miss your o...

What You'll Be CreatingIn Advanced Techniques in CorelDRAW, you'll explore a range of CorelDRAW's features in a very practical way, by creating a digital still-life scene from scratch.What You’ll Le...

What You'll Be CreatingLet's draw some fun cartoon icons in Adobe Illustrator CC! Download the sketch file to the right of this tutorial, or you can sketch out some portraits of your own and appl...

For this edition of our international artist feature, we turn to Brazil and feature a handful of illustrators and designers who create fantastic work from various graphic design work and illustrative ...

What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial we’ll go time travelling into the future and create a friendly, futuristic robot in Affinity Designer. We’ll be using simple shapes to create the base of ou...

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 t...

Perhaps a client has given you an unusual brief, or your boss wants a project completed ASAP, or you just want to dip a toe into designing something a bit different—and you’ve got no idea where to...

What You'll Be CreatingWhen you get a graphics tablet for the first time, it's hard to stop yourself from painting all these ideas out of your head. You try, they turn out worse than expected, but you...

What You'll Be CreatingAutumn is such a beautiful season, with its crisp weather and bright colors. This tutorial will show you how to use a couple of leaf images, textures, adjustment layers, and a l...

What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial we will observe different objects falling and then take note of what we saw. Then we will animate what we observed! Different objects fall at different speeds a...

What You'll Be CreatingDo you feel the crisp winter air? Yes—winter is approaching! During this time of the year, many birds migrate in search of warmer temperatures—except the sparrows, our lit...

What You'll Be CreatingRealism is tricky, but if you can master it you'll bring your art to a whole new level. In this tutorial, I'll be showing you how to paint four different hairstyles varying in t...

What You'll Be CreatingWhether you've downloaded stock actions from a site like GraphicRiver or have created your own in order to speed up your vector creation process, you may want to know or want to...

Today we're giving you a chance to look behind the scenes here at Envato Tuts+ and meet the editors who bring you all these tutorials and courses. We're a very 21st-century workforce: spread acro...

What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial you will create a swallow in three different positions. We will be using ink liners to create bold lines, typical of American traditional tattooing, and waterco...

For the first article in this series we turn to India, featuring a handful of illustrators and designers who create fantastic work from minimalist logo designs and branding to surreal and storybook st...

What You'll Be CreatingIn our latest free course at Envato Tuts+, you'll learn how to make digital images look as if they were produced using old-school colour film.The course, Give Your Digital Image...

What You'll Be CreatingGot a Minute?In this entry for our Photoshop in 60 Seconds series, we take a look at how to create a seamlessly repeating pattern in Photoshop. A Bit More DetailLearn more abo...

What You'll Be CreatingWhether you’re designing a book, a poster, a flyer or a magazine, you’ll no doubt come up against this common typographic problem. ‘Ragged’ paragraphs can make your type...

What You'll Be CreatingSchool started a while back, so let's get inspired and create three pencil characters in Adobe Illustrator. At the beginning, you will create the body of the pencil using b...

In this tutorial I will introduce you to acrylic paints, setting you on the path to using a very exciting medium.Why Acrylic Paints?I have used acrylics since the early 1980s, and have found them easi...

What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial I'll show you how to create an abstract artwork by combining several stock images with abstract elements in Adobe Photoshop. Besides standard blending technique...

What You'll Be CreatingBrushes can be a means to create complex designs more simply or speed up your design creation process. Often designers create their own brushes, but sometimes you just want to g...

What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial we’ll go through the process of drawing a simple autumn scene with a cartoon-style hunting dog. We’ll be using the versatile drawing tools of Adobe Illustra...

What You'll Be CreatingLast time we were drawing a realistic female warrior in a beautiful suit of armor. Today we're going to turn these lines into real, shiny metal. It's quite a complicated issue, ...

What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial I will show you, step by step, how to create a circular grid, align it perfectly and design a cute owl character. Hopefully, you’ll learn how to use circles t...

What You'll Be CreatingTraditionally, females didn't take a big part in medieval wars. They could be mothers, cooks, nurses, but as members of the "weaker sex" they wouldn't even think of fighting. To...

What You'll Be CreatingRecently we learned how to draw a pony, but it was only one, boring pose. Horses are famous for their speed, so we'll make our pony run in its full glory. This tutorial will be ...

High-quality textures are an integral part of creating digital artwork with depth, realism and visual interest. One of the best ways of creating good textures is to develop them yourself.But once...

What You'll Be CreatingFollow this tutorial and learn how to create a bagel sandwich icon in Adobe Illustrator. At the beginning you will create the two bagel pieces, and then you will draw all the in...

What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial I'll show you how to create a moonlight scene with a woman watching the flowers. We'll start this tutorial by adding the sky and landscape, and then add th...

What You'll Be CreatingComics as a medium are more than just the combination of text and pictures. A comic is a communication tool all of its own, and comes with specific languages and diale...

Do you understand Affinity Designer? Take our quiz and find out!Affinity Designer Quick StartAffinity Designer is an amazing new app for Mac which is taking the design world by storm. Designers everyw...

What You'll Be CreatingIf you're new to the world of logo design, one of the most important decisions for you to make is which software you should use for the job. In this series of Quick Tips we...

Welcome to our Photoshop in 60 Seconds series, in which you can learn a Photoshop skill, feature, or technique in just a minute!The Pen ToolEver wonder how to use that unwieldy Pen Tool in Photoshop?...

If you have used Photoshop for any extensive creative projects, you know that there are certain steps that you tend to do over and over again. This can be a tedious and time-consuming process, so what...

What You'll Be CreatingToday we will create an adorable raccoon. We'll use basic shapes and warp effects, as usual—nothing new if you are already my follower. You will learn how to create part of ...

What You'll Be CreatingDay of the Dead (Día de Muertos) is a Mexican holiday that celebrates the spirit and honors the memory of the friends and family members who have died. Marigold is the traditio...

What You'll Be CreatingDay of the Dead is very beautiful and inspiring Mexican holiday. We’ll create a female portrait using different methods and techniques for a great result. You can use this tut...