June 22, 2009

Monday Illustrations: All tutes, all the time

• Veerle Pieters offers up some nice Illustrator tutorials:
  • First up is using Illustrator swatches & blends to make a quantized gradient background.
  • She then puts Illustrator’s blending modes & masks to good use in creating a lovely poster, step by step.
• From Layers Mag:
  • Corey Barker shows how to get some slick results using Illustrator’s Live Trace, symbols, and brushes.
  • Dave Cross maps a vector logo onto a t-shirt, keeping it scalable & editable even when rippled via the Displace filter.