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Quality Caricatures Made By An Expert

Alexandru — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 11:00:20 +0000

It’s saturday and we must relax after a working week. How can we do it better than watching some quality caricatures made by an expert in his field ? And more, you will find inspiring examples for your projects.

Author : Gonza Rodriguez

Enhance Your Designing Skills with Adobe Illustrator

Bogdan — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 18:43:06 +0000

Design is one of the most common elements of the Universe; everything that exists has its own design. These days’ people are utilizing designs in different aspects of life such as engineering drawing, architecture, circuit diagrams, graphics, images and much more. As the information technology is getting better people become aware about the importance of design and media. The more attractive design you have, the more presentable it will be. There are different tools and software applications available these days, using which people are creating web designs, graphical designs, custom images, map drawings and much more.

Adobe is one of the most popular IT Company which is providing numerous applications regarding designing; they have provided one of the most features rich design applications among which Adobe Illustrator is quite popular in professional designers. Adobe illustrator is considered as one of the best vector drawing software, it provides you ability to create cartoons, drawing, logos and charts. Unlike other design tools, illustrator formed shapes on the basis of mathematical equations which enhance vector graphics scalability without damaging resolution.

Web designers and graphic designers are utilizing Adobe illustrator for logo designing, developing cartoons, map designing and packaging designing. The best feature of illustrator is scalability, it allows you to scale images according to your requirements but at the same time it doesn’t have ability to create photo realistic designs. In order to provide you better understanding about the abilities of Adobe Illustrator, we are going to discuss some prominent features of Adobe Illustrator in detail below:

Illustrator documents

One of the most basic features of illustrator is to create a document; it provides you ability to create and save document profile, freedom to choose document format and preferences. In addition to that you’ll able to manage illustrator workspace and panels. Beside this it provides you skills to create document on the basis of layer structure, which gives you great deal of flexibility in terms of modification and visualization.

Drawing and transforming objects

The drawing tool allow you to create vector objects using pen tool and it offer plenty other tools to enhance vector object such as cutting, erasing, forming groups, shapes, symbols and object transformation. An encouraging aspect of illustrator is that it offers you ability to customize each and every tool according to your requirements.

Managing color and Transparency

This feature allows you to manage color and transparency; you can modify object colors and apply transparency options such as Opacity mask, Color mode and opacity. You have several tools to manage colors of the object, form textures, and apply gradients and more.

Along these features, it offers you great deal of features which are proven to be effective in terms of vector graphic designing such as Controlling effects, appearances, and graphic styles, designing content for web and mobile, creation of printing objects and implication of 3D affects.

These days competition among designers is at peak and in professional industry people always prefer to choose expert web or graphic designers. Adobe is offering various certifications regarding its software and in order to become Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) illustrator designer one has to pass 9A0-088 certification exam. Adobe certifications are well recognized among professional designers as it allows them to enhance their designing skills by providing knowledge about new tools. The best aspect of taking Adobe illustrator CS4 certification is that you’ll be able to learn its features and will have ability to utilize all the tools according to your needs. The 9A0-088 exam is comprised of 53 multiple-choice questions selected from all the key topics and you have 60 minutes to complete the exam. In order to pass this exam, you need to score 66%.

The most important concern in passing 9A0-088 exam is to prepare well, there are numerous resources offering books regarding Adobe Illustrator CS4 but you need the most appropriate preparation material based on exam content, so that you can understand the exam structure. Among numerous online resources, http://www.certshelp.com/ is considered to be the most authentic resource that offers 9A0-088 training material formed by certified experts. So if you are willing to enhance you designing skills and willing to learn latest drawing tools Adobe illustrator CS4 certification is the best way to do it.

45 Vintage Illustrations That Image The Future

Alexandru — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 11:00:16 +0000

When I was a child I watched a lot Cartoon Network and there were many cartoons showing flying cars, people living in a space-dome community or a world full of robots. Everyone had a robot, like a personal assistant. Thinking and imagine the future is something that mankind will always have it.

This post will get you back in time when people were thinking how their future will be. Their imagination is outstanding. Enjoy !

36 Impressive Hand Drawn Portraits

Alexandru — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 11:00:48 +0000

A set of portraits created and published in 2012. The clients included 11 Freunde, Åpent Rom, Gazeta Wyborcza, Twoj Styl and City Stories. All the portraits were hand drawn with a pencil or Copic Multiliner and coloured in PS.

Author : Bartosz Kosowski

5 Awesome Sports Shadow Illustrations

Alexandru — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:05:53 +0000

A lot of timeless sports illustration have been created in the past. Today, we will take a look at the modern sports illustration that is changing the world.

See how different artist depict speed and motion with different drawing styles in this compilation.

Author :Gem Fletcher

22 Colorful & Full Of Details Illustrations

Alexandru — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 11:00:55 +0000

Among clients he worked for, you can find: Wall Street Journal, Insight Design, DDB Warsaw, PKO Bank Polski, TBWA/Raad Dubai, Platige Image, Ars Thanea, EDP, Fiat, Ubisoft.

Author : Michal Dziekan

Colorful Illustrations With Personality

Alexandru — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 11:00:55 +0000

Today I want to present you Max Kostenko’s awesome artwork. Max is a talented digital artist from Moscow, Russia. His passion is to creates illustrations and character design largely inspired by cartoons such as Disney or Pixar movies. Max’ artwork has a lot of color and personality.

10 Interesting Sports Illustrations

Alexandru — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 11:00:42 +0000

C.F. Payne is an artist-illustrator whose artwork has graced the covers of Time Magazine, Readers Digest, Sports Illustrated, The New York Times Book Review and Sunday Magazine, MAD Magazine, der Spiegel, U.S. News and World Report, The Atlantic Monthly, Texas Monthly, Boys Life and more. He has been commissioned to paint countless politicians, authors and entertainers. He has illustrated ten children’s picture books, including The Remarkable Farkle McBride and Micawber, written by John Lithgow.

His artwork has been exhibited at The Cincinnati Art Museum, The National Portrait Gallery, The Norman Rockwell Museum, The Society of Illustrators Museum of American Illustration, The Selby Gallery at Ringling College of Art and Design and numerous college and university galleries.

30 Adobe Illustrator Tutorials For Learning How To Create Stunning Vector Based Graphics

Bogdan — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 14:25:25 +0000

When it comes to vector based graphics, Adobe Illustrator is considered the standard tool. Creating professional illustrations requires both time and patience because vectorial images are not so easy to create. If you work as a web designer and your primary focus is on creating stunning interfaces, then learning Adobe Illustrator is a must. Also, you can easily expand your expertise by starting to create other things such as logo designs. In this article I have collected 30 Adobe Illustrator tutorials which are excellent both to beginners and advanced designers.

How to Create a Gift Card and Prepare Artwork for Printing Using Adobe Illustrator

Creating a Slice of Cake Icon with Adobe Illustrator

Create a Dark Vintage Style Motorcycle Poster Design

How to Create a Detailed Calendar Widget

How to Create a Mail App Icon Using Adobe Illustrator

Creating a Swinging 60s Room in Adobe Illustrator CS5

Create Art Deco type art

Create a textured vector cityscape

Create retro graphics in Illustrator

How to Create a Liquid Logo Using Adobe Illustrator and DrawScribe Plugin

Create a 3D custom map in Illustrator

Create a Creamy Ice Cream Poster on Illustrator

How to Turn Glasses into a Great Geek Icon

Create Courage, The Cowardly Dog in Illustrator

Create a Retro Triangular Pattern Design in Illustrator

Create a Vector Tape Measure in Illustrator CS5

How To Create a Vector Sponge Art Effect in Illustrator

Create a Detailed, Vector Clothespin Illustration

Create a Skull & Crossbones Sticker Design in Illustrator

How to Easily Outline Curly Letters

Create a Sketchy Hand-Drawn Camera Illustration in Illustrator

How to Create a Line Art Vintage Vector Scooter in Illustrator

Create a Stylish, Vector Hair Typography Illustration

How to Create Hand-Painted Sign in Adobe Illustrator

Create a Detailed Lifebuoy Illustration

Create a Simple Map Illustration

Creating a Day of the Dead Inspired Portrait

How to Illustrate a Vector Vacuum Cleaner

How to Create the Star of Africa Diamond

How to Create a 3D Gold Trophy Cup Using Adobe Illustrator

“Choose To Live Healthy” Illustrations

Alexandru — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 11:00:07 +0000

In this post you will find some awesome colorful illustrations of natural food fighting against the bad food that we can find in most shopping malls. People must take their time to think about their health and find ways to eat healthy food. This illustrations were made by Oscar Ramos.