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Create a Bulletin Board With Realistic Shadows, Part…

Create a Bulletin Board With Realistic Shadows, Part 1

“Shadows and lights can make or break a composition. Bulletin boards (or corkboards) are popular types of graphics to use in web and print designs, but oftentimes they look unrealistic due to the way they are lit and shadowed. In this two part tutorial series we will demonstrate how to create a wooden texture and then how to create authentic-looking shadows and light using the still life objects that we will include on our board. Let’s get started by creating our bulletin board and placing our first element.”

This week’s featured item is vector parrot parakeet,…

This week’s featured item is vector parrot parakeet, graffiti by fet.

Creating Personal Character Designs with…

Creating Personal Character Designs with Precision

“Designing a character can apply to both personal and professional projects. The character can be a mascot that works in the context of a multi-national brand, or it can simply be inspired by a well-known character within pop culture. The later is usually referred to as “Fan Art.” The character “Mickey Rat” first appeared in the early 1970’s as a subversive underground comic that I enjoyed as a kid. Many artists over the years have taken their own approach with the character, and this article goes over my creation of this vectorized vermin.”

Tuesday Total Textures #16
“Tuesday Total Textures is post…

Tuesday Total Textures #16

“Tuesday Total Textures is post series that will bring a new life to your Tuesdays. Every week I’ll be posting some free hi resolution textures that you can use in your projects. Check out this week’s textures, download the ones you like and start making your texture collection.”

End of CS 1 – It’s a Wrap

End of CS 1 – It’s a Wrap:

“This session has seen a mix of character illustration articles that cover theory, techniques, and in depth case studies. You’ve learned how to come up with character concepts, develop a character’s backstory, sketch character ideas like a pro, the process of taking that sketch to a final solution, and more. While this session has posted mostly on Vectortuts+, future sessions will post on other Tuts+ sites and across our network. We’ll continue to expand with each session we release.”

Featured Author

This week’s featured author is fet, who has uploaded 35 items and made 53 sales.

Check out fet’s portfolio.

How to Create a Cubist Masterpiece in Illustrator
“Cubism…

How to Create a Cubist Masterpiece in Illustrator

“Cubism is one of the most outstanding movements in abstract art. Geometric shapes, vivid colors, simple figures, and textures are all distinctive features of this style. Let’s try to recreate the cubist painting in Illustrator inspired by works of Pablo Picasso – after learning some simple techniques you’ll be able to easily paint your own cubist composition.”

“This is a photo manip I did for my Church, Crossbridge…

“This is a photo manip I did for my Church, Crossbridge Christian Church.”

SHIFT – Photoshop – Creattica

Create a Sleek and Stylish MP3 Player in Photoshop
“One of…

Create a Sleek and Stylish MP3 Player in Photoshop

“One of the best ways to learn how to create amazing interfaces it to practice by creating electronic devices in Photoshop. These days just about everyone has some kind of MP3 device to play music. In this tutorial we will demonstrate how to create a sleek, stylish, and simple MP3 interface in Photoshop to play audio files for your Flash projects.”

Envato Community Podcast – Ep 1 – Get It Now!

Envato Community Podcast – Ep 1 – Get It Now!:

Hello Everybody,

Welcome to the launch of the Marketplace Community Podcast! We’re really excited to bring you the first episode of what we hope to be many in this series.

The Marketplace Community Podcast features all of the latest news from across the Marketplaces, direct from the Envato team. We’re starting to look at other ways we can reach out and connect with the greater community and we feel that this is a wonderful opportunity to do so. The show is co-hosted by Drew Douglass from Support and Jordan McNamara, the Support & Community Manager. We’re really, really excited to bring this to you and hope that you enjoy the podcast as much as we enjoyed making it for you.

Special thanks to Scott Wills, who edited this episode for us – his assistance has been invaluable and we are extremely appreciative of his time. Additionally we’d like to thank Jeffrey Way for being our fantastic first interviewee!

It’s worth noting that this episode is a pilot, depending on the reception and what you guys think of it we may or may not make more episodes, so please be sure to let us know if you enjoyed it! If we get a good response, we’ll go ahead and publish via iTunes next time and add all of the features you’ve come to expect from quality podcasts.

Web Pricing Tables + Premium Buttons by system32.
“These…

Web Pricing Tables + Premium Buttons by system32.

“These boxes are specially designed for the websites which are indeed of web 2.0 styled pricing tables boxes or featuring any tables or comparision tables on the websites and need of some cool graphics like download now or register now buttons, banners and signup buttons etc.”

Interview with Jesse Hora Dot Com

Interview with Jesse Hora Dot Com:

“Jesse Hora Dot Com is an illustrator and art director living in Chicago, IL. He has a true love for typography and lettering, a playful comedic voice, and a stark, stripped down vector style, which has caught the eye of Kanye West, and helped numerous high end clients. Jesse puts just as much passion, and careful crafting, into his commercial work as he does his constant creative explorations. Fans of Vectortuts+ will know Jesse’s artwork on first glance. He’s written quite a few tutorials for us. Get to know him better in this interview.”

Create a Detailed Vintage Television Icon in…

Create a Detailed Vintage Television Icon in Photoshop

“While Photoshop is a very powerful raster-based image editor, it also comes stocked with many powerful vector-based editing tools. In today’s tutorial, we will demonstrate how to create a detailed vintage television icon using Photoshop’s vector editing capabilities. This tutorial is an excellent example of how Photoshop’s vector tools can be combined with layer styles to produce an illustration that is not only editable but scalable as well.”

Creative Sessions Roundup

Creative Sessions Roundup:

“April has seen the commission of the latest Tuts+ site, Creative Sessions. There’s one session per topic per month, our first session is on Character Illustration. Sessions is aimed at taking you through the why rather than the how, and we’re also giving away this amazing wallpaper made by Ryan Putnam.”

40 Best Photoshop Tutorials for Creating Fantasy…

40 Best Photoshop Tutorials for Creating Fantasy Scenes

“With our unwavering imagination, we are able to create fantastic scenes that corresponds to our moods and feelings… As designers, of course, we are gifted with large amounts of imagination that helps us create cool and unique images. We tend to formulate meaningful images that expresses conscious and sub-conscious desires and wants. Equipped with useful gadgets, softwares,proper techniques and creativity, amazing results are created…

“This next post on 40 Photoshop Fantasy Scenes Tutorials will be able to provide you with cool techniques that will be helpful in your designs… Read through this cool tutorials and learn new ways of manipulating photos, creating awesome effects and many others with Photoshop. Enjoy reading!!!”