LETTERING + GRAPHIC
DESIGN LEARNING
On Tuesday, I gave away 3 free vector decorative frames. In today’s tutorial, I show how I made them! We’ll create a custom vector decorative frame in Adobe Illustrator from scratch using this wacom tablet to draw the foundation of our frame, then use our mouse to clean up points. Finally, we’ll join all pieces together for one seamless path.
Happy Tuesday! This week’s freebie is a 3 pack of hand drawn decorative vector frames – perfect for invitations, fancy names + information, table numbers and seating cards. Download includes the three pictured below as an ai + eps file for versions of Illustrator, CS3 or newer, as well as a psd file with each frame as a separate smart object, also for CS3 or newer.
Hey! This Monday is Memorial Day! While this year ceases to slow down and summer well on its way, it’s only fitting to provide the necessary party-planning supplies 🙂 Today’s freebie is a printable, 6″x4″ invitation fill-in-the-blank postcard in three colors. Download includes trim lines, so it’ll be cake to cut and send.
Happy Tuesday! With summer just around the corner and everything getting more green by the day, I was in the mood to draw some flowers. 🙂 So! This week’s freebie is a mini flower kit: it includes 15 hand drawn vector flowers, leaves, stems + vines. Create combinations easily by putting different pieces together, so the kit gets even larger! These were all 100% hand drawn and vectorized. The download includes all 15 as an ai + eps file for versions of Illustrator, CS3 or newer.
Chances are you’ve come across illusion shadows before..shadows behind photos or elements that give the illusion the image is ‘floating’, bent on the sides, or somehow not lying completely flat. These shadows are super simple to create, and in this tutorial we’ll make 3 different kinds (shown above), as well as the polaroid style photo frames they lie behind. Let’s get started!
Happy Tuesday! This week’s freebie celebrates how awesome gritty textures make regular things 🙂 The download includes 2 unique vector and raster grit textures as a high res psd file sized 3000px by 2000px @300dpi and those same two textures as vector textures; an ai + eps file are included for versions of Illustrator, CS3 or newer. Perfect for adding a little extra texture to any print + web application!
This past week, I saw a tweet from an illustrator I admire confessing his frustrations of using InDesign because he uses it so infrequently. He mentioned text threading being one of the more perplexing issues he runs into – and it’s a really easy one to learn (in 5 minutes you’ll know how!), so anyone else who has been perplexed, this week’s tutorial was made just for you 🙂
Happy Tuesday! Who doesn’t love a good ribbon? They fit well on practically everything – stationery, web graphics, blog headers, gifts, logos, packaging, etc. And who doesn’t also love options? 😉 To fulfill all of your ribbon style wishes, this week’s freebie is a big one – a set of 20 hand drawn vector ribbons! Every ribbon comes as an ai + eps file for versions of Adobe Illustrator, CS3 or newer. Scale at will, put em on everything, and download them now!
Last week I gave away a pack of 3 recycled paper textures for free. In this quick tip tutorial, I’ll show you how I made them! We’ll start with the scan of the paper and we’ll use an easy trick to make any pattern seamless in photoshop. Let’s get started!
We use cookies to customize and create content that’s most important to you. We’ll never share the info we collect.
