Tutorials
How to Design a Skate Deck with a Cool Skull Pattern
Illustrator’s built in Symbol Sprayer can be a highly useful tool for quickly creating awesome pattern graphics. Let’s look at creating a few vector skull graphics, then combine them into an intricate pattern design to customise a skateboard deck.
Create a Fun Illustrated Toy Site Design in Photoshop
I recently had the pleasure of creating a fun website design for NET magazine’s website build-off series. The topic of the challenge was toy sites for kids, so it naturally entailed all kinds of bright and colourful elements. Let’s take a look at the process of creating the fun illustrated landscape scene I used for my design.
Create a Trendy Galactic Poster Design in Photoshop
Galactic space scenes are a popular theme for digital art, they’re packed full of texture and vibrant colour, which are two ingredients of an awesome design! Using Photoshop’s blending modes along with a mix of textures and brushes, let’s get lost in space and create an abstract cosmos poster design.
Design a Vibrant Blackberry Inspired Ad in Photoshop
The Blackberry Loves U2 TV promo features some awesome, bright and vibrant lighting effects. Let’s take a look at recreating the style to produce a Blackberry inspired design of our own.
How To Create a Retro Apple Wallpaper in Photoshop
Follow these simple steps in Photoshop to create a homage to Apple, combining the retro striped Apple logo with a range of soft grungy textures to produce a detailed design with subtle touches of colour and tone.
Handy Techniques for Cutting Out Hair in Photoshop
When trimming out images in Photoshop, human hair or animal fur always proves troublesome and can be tricky to achieve a realistic look. Here are two techniques I use on images with both plain backgrounds, and those with a varied background tones, each achieving pretty decent end results.