How to Create Rosy Cheeks in Adobe Illustrator
In a lot of designs, you will often see what I consider to be flat design rosy cheeks where the rosy cheeks are drawn on top of the face. There is really no blending in these types of cheeks and
How I made my first $15.40 on Creative Market
When I decided to sell my designs on Creative Market, I would often read about success stories online and while those success stories are really encouraging, they don't always represent reality. I have been on Creative Market for a while
Adding Textures in Adobe Illustrator (Part 2)
I have done texture tutorials before, but they mainly dealt with adding textures to patterns or making your own textures. This tutorial is going to mainly focus on adding textures to elements of your designs instead of adding whole pattern
Design Talk: Responding to Criticism
As a designer, criticism is an inevitable nuisance. I remember on my first blog I received a comment about one of my tutorials. At the time I didn't get a lot of comments on my blog so any comment was
How to Save Your Artwork for Older Adobe Illustrator Models
A few months ago, I learned the hard way the importance of saving your artwork for older Illustrator models when I sold my first pattern and got an email asking if I could make the design file available for a
New Products in the Shop!
I am starting to get swamped by homework for grad school and haven't had time to come up with and develop a new blog post this week so I thought I would shamelessly self-promote my shop so I don't add
Free Vector Pattern: Planets
For today's Freebie Friday, I thought I would do something a little different. For a short time being, I am going to offer one pattern that is available in my creative market shop for free. It is only going to
How to Curve a Picture Around a Circle in Adobe Illustrator
Occasionally, when you are designing something you might want to curve your design on a sphere to give it more dimension. For example, if you are creating any sort of ball you can create the pattern of the ball and
Adobe Illustrator 101: Creating Faux Hand-Drawn Strokes in Adobe Illustrator
Longtime readers might know that I love to do tutorials on how to add small hand-drawn elements to your designs. This tutorial is something simple you can do to add those hand-drawn elements to your designs and is the perfect
