Tag Archive | "Illustrator"

Intricate Patterns in Illustrator

Tuesday, January 8, 2008

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Intricate Patterns in Illustrator

This tutorial will show you how to create intricate patterns in Illustrator super quickly. Stuff that would take you hours to draw manually with the Pen Tool takes just seconds when you use this technique. This tutorial is special because…

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Tutorial: Extreme Sports Branding

Thursday, December 13, 2007

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Tutorial: Extreme Sports Branding

In issue #142 of Computer Arts Magazine (should be in stores now) you can find Oliver’s tutorial on how to design a logo and print ad for a fictional extreme sports brand. The brand he chose to invent was Yellow…

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Ornate Lettering Process

Thursday, November 1, 2007

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Ornate Lettering Process

I’m going to show you the process as to how I do my ornate lettering. This is a new design I did for Stone Sour that utilized this technique. Now right off the bat, this is not a step by…

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Become a Master Designer: Rule Three: Contrast, Contrast, Contrast

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

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Become a Master Designer: Rule Three: Contrast, Contrast, Contrast

Part Three of Seven Easy Principles to Becoming a Master Designer. Read Rule 1 and Rule 2 digg_url = 'DIGG_PERMALINK_URL'; Good contrast in your design goes hand-in-hand with your color selections. Contrast is the value difference between the colors on your design. Value…

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Create 3D objects in Cinema 4D from vector art

Tuesday, October 9, 2007

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Create 3D objects in Cinema 4D from vector art

This is a video tutorial on taking vector art and importing it into Cinema 4D to create a 3D object that can be animated, textured, and manipulated in 3D space. In this tutorial, written by David from filmmakingcentral.com he shows you…

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Some New Art by Jeff

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

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Some New Art by Jeff

Here are some new designs I’ve done lately. Just thought I’d show you guys some new stuff since we don’t frequently update our gomedia.us portfolio much. I will try to get the other designers at Go Media to post their new…

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Old School Type - Line Gradients

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

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Old School Type - Line Gradients

One of our readers suggested we write a tutorial explaining how to do this cool text effect. On the Dragonforce logo above, the basis of my typography was sketched on paper first and then vectored in Illustrator using the Pen…

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Step by Step: Using the Vector Packs

Thursday, August 23, 2007

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Step by Step: Using the Vector Packs

We get quite a few people calling every day with trouble opening or using our Vector Packs. I decided to write a tutorial specifically to help out newbies who aren’t exactly sure what they’ve just purchased. It’s amazing to know…

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Gigposter Design: The New Sex

Thursday, May 3, 2007

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Gigposter Design: The New Sex

Tutorial Introduction: A lot of people are making them. A lot of people suck. We don’t suck, and neither do you. This tutorial requires NO drawing talent… so don’t trip folks. You will however need Adobe Photoshop 7.0 or higher and…

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From Sketch to Vector Illustration

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

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From Sketch to Vector Illustration

Hey everyone! Welcome back to the GoMediaZine. There has been such a wonderful response on my vector art tutorial “Beautiful Vector Illustration” that I thought I better write another one. If you recall in that tutorial I discussed how to…

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Beautiful Vector Illustration

Thursday, December 28, 2006

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Beautiful Vector Illustration

One thing we do regularly at Go Media is create beautiful vector people. Having illustrated hundreds of these, I have worked out a few tips that I would like to share with you. This will make your job much easier. Here…

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Comic Book Style Graphic Design

Monday, December 11, 2006

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Comic Book Style Graphic Design

We have often been asked the process by which we create our illustrated flyers and posters. I will try to give you a clear tutorial on how we create our illustrations and turn them into flyers or posters. Our end…

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Designing Ultra SceneXCore Apparel!

Monday, November 13, 2006

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Designing Ultra SceneXCore Apparel!

Introduction This is a tutorial or a simple “how-to” guide to help you with your design projects. This is not the end-all, be-all way of doing things. We will try to make what is normally a long and detailed process of…

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Brief tutorial on apparel design

Thursday, July 20, 2006

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This is reposted from my previous blog entry at thewetcat.com (which I never update much). I figured it’d be a good way to get the ball rolling here. This tutorial is for a quick and easy way of doing a 2-3…

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