How to Master Adobe Illustrator Without a Tablet
I have been wanting to make this tutorial for a while now. When I started using Adobe Illustrator I didn’t have a tablet for about 5 months and I thought this meant I had to avoid certain things like using
How to Color Your Artwork in Illustrator
Adding color to your artwork is one of the hardest things to master in Adobe Illustrator because you tend to want to think of colors realistically. For instance, if you are creating a carrot you want to make it orange,
3 Adobe Illustrator Functions/Tools That Are Really Annoying
I got the idea for this post after many months of struggling to figure things out in Adobe Illustrator. We've all had those times when we accidentally pressed something and it messed up our whole document. Back in February, I
How to Make a Waffle in Adobe Illustrator
I had a busy few days so I thought I would post a quick tutorial today and teach you how to make a waffle. I chose a waffle because it is a good lesson in using simple shading to create
How to Weave a Ribbon Through Letters in Adobe Illustrator
I've seen a lot of cool artwork lately where the artist makes it look like something is weaving in and out of an object. It gives a lot of dimension to the drawing with minimal effort so I thought I
Adobe Illustrator 101: Using Illustrator Shapes to Create Objects
Most basic artwork made in Adobe Illustrator uses shapes. Take this Abacus for example: The circular balls were made using the ellipse tool. Each side of the abacus as well as the poles the balls are on use the rectangle tool. Even the
How to Create 3D Block Letters in Illustrator
If you’ve ever tried to make block letters by hand it can be quite difficult to get the proportions right on each letter. Lucky for us Illustrator has a 3D effect tool that makes it easy to create 3D block
How to Make a Color Lighter or Darker in Adobe Illustrator
What I like about design software is you are able to develop your own ways of doing things. I tend to like the very dumb down, simple ways of working in Illustrator and this is one of them. A while back
How to Make Scalloped Edges in Adobe Illustrator
I don't understand why Illustrator doesn't have a tool for creating standard scallops. To be clear they do have what I like to call a reverse scallop tool which sucks in the edges in a haphazard way but what if
