So you saw a Turing pattern Photoshop tutorial? Let me slap the mouse out of your hand and show you the various ways to create the same beautiful Turing textures solely in Illustrator, and Illustrator alone. Vectors be praised!
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Band will be back in swing before you know it. Here’s a small collection of graphics from the last few high school marching band seasons.
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As a fan of technical illustrations and data visualizations, I wanted to diagram the manufacturing process flow for one of the most complicated outpost constructions in the game Starfield—the advanced nuclear reactor.
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The perspective grid is one of the more obtuse and finicky tools in Illustrator—it’s imprecise, buggy, and asks a lot of the user. Let’s take it for a spin!
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Adobe Illustrator is almost never the last step in a 3D project, but it can certainly be the first. Its new 3D tools have been redesigned to focus on simplicity and quality (and slowness 🥴) and allow designers to dip their toes into the realm of 3D compositions.
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Villainy! A downloadable collection of color swatches derived solely from Disney’s cast of animated deplorables. Is it possible to tell whether or not a character is ‘evil’ simply based on their palette? Find out!
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A process for something I rarely do: architectural room renditions. Streamline your workflow to achieve a precise and beautiful hand-drawn interior design using a combination of free 3D interior design software, Illustrator, and Photoshop.
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Illustrator variables allow text URLs to behave like proper hyperlinks when saving the document as a PDF. It’s a useful trick to avoid relying on Acrobat or InDesign. Illustrator can be touchy however, so I’ve gathered a few tips to help.
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I’ve always wanted to try my hand at glitch art by using random effects to create an unpredictable series of images. This tutorial highlights my process of creating bitmap textures in Photoshop, applying those textures to vector art in Illustrator, breaking things, assembling things, and hoping for the best!
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The real heroes of planet Arakkis are the spice harvesters who keep the spice flowing. I finally had some free time to vector the new spice harvester from Denis Villeneuve’s Dune. Because the movie is AMAZING and I always have plenty of free time. Enjoy this overview of my illustration process.
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Texturing goes a long way towards making a piece feel complete; it adds a certain richness and depth. This tutorial will quickly take you through a vector illustration from beginning to end, and focus on how to create a colorful vector texture brush from scratch.
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Lost Worlds Brewing was founded to create a basecamp for like-minded adventure-seekers. Throughout history, the discoveries that shaped our world have become the inspiration for the beers of Lost Worlds.
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If you're into neutral colors, subtle palettes, muted tones, and pink creamy salmon hues, boy are you in for a treat! Here's a collection of 57 color palettes distilled from this large collection of like-minded websites.
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Draw Inside is a method to add textures, brush strokes, and other patterns directly into shapes without worrying about creating complicated masks. Think of it as the more streamlined cousin to the other forms of masking in Illustrator.
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Woven knots have always been a fascinating subject — they are symbolic and mathematically clever… and tricky to create. This tutorial will break down the process of creating a loosely woven knot graphic (Celtic knot, braid, etc.) in Illustrator.
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