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It’s time for another sweet vector tutorial. And what would make a better subject than a Harley Davidson t-shirt design featuring a pin-up girl on a motorcycle? Well, not much. At least, not much in my book. So, let’s get right to it. Oh – quick warning; there will be a few gratuitous plugs for Arsenal products at the end, but it’s worth enduring.

The Swatches Palette in Illustrator can be a very powerful tool for someone who knows how to use it. Most of us already know that the Swatches Palette stores colors for us to use in our designs, but did you also know that the swatches palette can store vector data and that those vectors can [...]

An old character design tutorial from Computer Arts magazine that is worth your attention if you are looking forward to learn universal vector character illustration techniques."Over the next few pages we take you through the process of creating a ‘real life’ character using Illustrator CS2.

UK-based designer and illustrator Mike Harrison just updated his portfolio with some awesome new work. I love the second image below, inspired by the idea of a human lava lamp. Great stuff! http://destill.net/

Very nice collection of 64 ai designs  saved in both eps and jpg formats ready for modification and customizing for your own use and design. every file contains a design of corporate identity package with a logo and a place holder for the data, providing a letter head, folder, cd cover and business cards.

The hardest part about drawing a vector portrait is the illustration of the person's eyes. In Adobe Illustrator, the digital illustrators can take advantage of already predefined sets of skin tone color swatches and a powerful tracing tool like Live Trace.

I've been the Illustrators' Coordinator for the Southern Breeze region of SCBWI for a few months now and boy has it been exiting! I mean, how could I top our first Illustrators' Gallery Show being picked up by the Southern Arts Federation to tour the South for two years?

Long ago, in the nearly pre-historic past and as a part of my studies at a design and engineering college, I was planted down in a tiny, stuffy computer lab and forced to master Macromedia FreeHand, a geometric modeling application allowing the creation and editing of vector graphic files for print

This is a short and sweet tutorial on how to convert your stroke to a shape. Why do we need to do that? Say you’ve drawn a nice combos of straight lines and curves with your pen tool but you’re not satisfied with it just having a solid color. You can apply gradient to it by changing it to become a shape so it will be treated like one.

A resourceful vector concept by gbrgraphix. Each of the shapes has its own symbolical meaning that can be combined with other ideas and help you emphasize on the message you're sending. The zip file contains two versions of the composition (Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Flash).