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24 Hour Comic Day 2008
--October 18 2008"About the Cartoonist Conspiracy: The San Francisco Cartoonist Conspiracy is one of the oldestcartooning groups still running in the...
Masking object with Adobe Illustrator CS4
--Vectot Art
Halftone Decoration
--A free vector stock from sergeypoluse . The set contains random halftone decorative shapes. Download Note: To use open the PDF file with Adobe Illu...
Random Vectors
--A set of random vector illustrations from Rickashay. The stock includes shapes of William Shakespeare, Fidel Castro + other unrelated but handy sig...
Vector Soldier : Knock 'Em Out The Box
--Vector Illustration of a soldier by JohnnyDoomsday . The file includes 6 different pattern swatches, so you can easily change the main color of the...
Draw characters from photos. Adobe Illustrator Tutorial
--An old character design tutorial from Computer Arts magazine that is worth your attention if you are looking forward to learn universal vector char...
Recycling Symbols
--A free set of social awareness six symbols in vector (EPS) format from DJShokry. DownloadVectot Art
Creative Online Magazines
--Another great collection of inspirational links, that I just found @ smashingapps.com. Have a look at 20 Creative and inspirational free design mag...
R’lyeh City Brushes
--Two sets of vector brushes for Adobe Illustrator from r2010. Main inspiration from H.R. Giger Antoni Gaudí and R’lyeh City. Prefect for drawing got...
Building a Baby
--"100g if Cartoons200g of fuel1 egg2 teaspoons of sugar4 blocks of cadbury choclate30g technologythrow in music, art and goreand at the end, lovewha...
Female Vector Eyes
--The hardest part about drawing a vector portrait is the illustration of the person's eyes. In Adobe Illustrator, the digital illustrators can take ...
Razor Blade, Laurel Leaves, Love Bombs Vectors
--A resourceful vector concept by gbrgraphix. Each of the shapes has its own symbolical meaning that can be combined with other ideas and help you em...
Tech type brush pack for Illustrator
--A free set of tech type brushes for Adobe Illustrator by r2010. Click on the image below to see a detailed preview. Download Note: To use decompres...
Ink techniques
--This Illustrator tutorial explores a step by step process of medical illustration, implementing useful vector illustration line art & ink style...
Adobe CS4 Video Presentation
--Vectot Art
Background Vectors
--A set of 6 vector compositions that can be used as backgrounds. Download Note: To use, extract the files with Winrar (Win 32) or StuffIt (Mac OS) T...
Vector Art @ Facebook Pages
--Vector-Art.blogspot.com just launched a Facebookpage. Feel free to join with some feedback and suggestions. If you already have a Facebook account ...
Logo Design Trends
--An informative and inspirational article on current logo design trends with great visual examples.By Bill Gardner (Logo Lounge)."Trend-watching, un...
Rich Media PDF Portfolio Tutorial
--A musthavealookat Adobe Acrobat tutorial from the website of Computer Arts Magazine."Creating a clear, succinct and visually rich PDF portfolio ha...
Punk's Not Dead
--A free vector stock from jonny-doomsday. The file format is EPS, so u can edit it with almost all major vector editors. Download Note: Click on the...
Hoodie Template for Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop
--Here is a free vector resource from pindlekill. If you're designing a merchandise collection or other kind of promotional clothing, this hoodie tem...
Vintage Party
--by hstudiosVectot Art
10 Digital Illustration & Design Spots
--A list of digital illustration and design links you should visit:Design @ Digg.com - Digg's design directoryColourlovers' Blog - Inspirational colo...
Vector Grunge
--A free vector stock from mykolan. Download Note: To use open the PDF file with Adobe IllustratorRelated posts: 25 Vector Grunge Brushes, Vector Gru...
Winter Sports Silhouettes
--A free vector set from amikal. The pack includes silhouette shapes of snowboarder, hokey player and a skier in EPS format. DownloadRelated posts: V...
The blob brush tool in Illustrator CS4
--First Look: Adobe Illustrator CS4 Blob Brush Tool from Go Media on Vimeo.Vectot Art
Vector Circles
--A set of decorative circle shapes in different color palettes by grolix. Download Note: to use open with Adobe IllustratorVectot Art
UK Irony
--from meddesignVectot Art
What's new in Illustrator CS4
--# Multiple artboards# Transparency in gradients# Gradients exposed# Blob brush tool# RIA and Flash CS4 support# Enhanced GUI# Separation preview fe...
Handdrawn Wings (EPS)
--Detailed hand drawn wings in vector format from stockgraphicdesigns.com. License : Free for personal and commercial use DownloadNote: to use you to...
Creative Suite 4 (cnet review)
--"Adobe released details Monday about Creative Suite 4, its first update to more than a dozen design and editing tools since Adobe CS3 some 17 mont...
Vector Clouds
--A free vector clouds pack from juliet-vanree. Free non commercial use. Contact the author here for commercial use. Download note: open the PFD file...
Illustrator CS4 How To
--Explore new features in Illustrator CS4 and play along with an editable "how to" file created by a leading designer.Download Files (.zip)Vectot Art
The multiple artboards feature in Adobe Illustrator CS4
--A fresh demonstration video from lynda.com. More articles and reviews for Adobe Illustrator CS4 coming soon.Vectot Art
Adobe CS4 Web Announcement
--If interested (and free at the time), you can check the be an official CS4 web announcement tomorrow morning. There are multiple time slots to c...
Adobe Illustrator's Pattern Brush
--The Hidden Secrets behind Adobe Illustrator's Pattern Brush from Go Media on VimeoVectot Art
Vector Landscapes
--Today's gallery posting is actually a reference to an inspirational collection of 40 vector landscape illustrations. LinkVectot Art
Pattern Swatches
--Create your own cool repeating patterns from combinations of vector elements, using these tips from Drew Cain.Our world is filled with patterns – f...
Stock Libraries
--"Trawling image libraries for the perfect image doesn’t have to be a chore: here are eight ways to find the perfect picture. You know the story: yo...
Vector Flowers
--A free vector stock by paroledemoi. The set conatins 12 cute flower shapes. Good for decoration. To use open the PDF file with Adobe Illustrator. D...
Woodcuts Brushes for Illustrator.
--A free set of detailed woodcut Adobe Illustrator brushes from r2010. If you use them you are encouraged to edit, bend, change, and mutilate for yo...
City Life
--by MissMatzenbatzenVectot Art
Logo Identity
--Computer Arts Magazine just published a how to logo identity tutorial for Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop on their website. Check it out."If you’re...
What’s the secret to creating quirky characters with mainstream appeal?
--"Character-based art is one of the most popular design genres: in recent times the world has been flooded with cute, wide-eyed creatures, cool DJ c...
Stroke Cap
--The term "Cap" reffers to the appearance of the endpoints on a vector path. There are three options (see image below); butt, round, and projecting....
Type effects with Adobe Illustrator
--"Many graphic designers, illustrators and digital artists use Illustrator on a daily basis for creating fantastic vector images, but the applicatio...
Vector Illustration in Web Design
--An inspirational blog posting that I found while browsing in Digg.com. A set of screenshots of websites implementing vector illustration in their i...
Digital Illustration: new opportunities
--An eye-opening article from ComputerArts Magazine."Lawrence Zeegen investigates how illustration has been reborn for a new audience, with a new gen...
Vector Speakers #2
--Another free vector stock by xavialonso10. To use open the pdf in Adobe Illustrator. Download*note: You can also take a quick look at the first vec...
Spirals
--A free set of of spiral vectors by sexualtyranosaurus. You can easily create similar shapes with using the "Transform Again Feature" in Adobe Illus...
Typographic Techniques in Adobe Illustrator
--If you had any ideas or questions about designing type with Illustrator, take a look at this image-based tororial. It covers techniques like: trans...
Adobe MAX 2008/2009
--MAX is an experience unlike any other — an opportunity to connect with thousands of designers, developers, partners, executives, and Adobe staff fo...
Sydney Opera House Vector
--The Sydney Opera House in vector format. Free stock from limeshot. To use open the PDF file with Adobe Illustrator. DownloadVectot Art
Adding perspective to maps
--Mark Mayers shows you how to give flat Illustrator maps a third dimension by using the Free Transform tool and a custom perspective grid. Tutorial ...
Weather Forecast Icons
--A set of vector meteorological icons in SVG Format. Download from here. Resource by KodeinVectot Art
Creative Brief
--Composing a creative brief has always been an important step in the graphic design process. Digital Arts Magazine posted a great article with tips ...
Retrospection
--Adobe Illustrator in 1988 Presentation Video.Vectot Art
Vector Symbols
--A collection of Adobe Illustrator symbols from Cherryflip. The set contains 29 shapes (see image below). To use them you will have to uncompress th...
Frankensteining Vector and Raster
--A great tutorial for frankensteining pixel and vector elements with Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. From istockphoto's article section. "Many art...
Victorian Decoaration
--A set of free vector brushes from sergeypoluse. The pack contains different swirtl ornamentsin victorian style. To use, open the PDF file with Adob...
Butterfly Brushes For Adobe Illustrator
--A free brush resource from remittancegirl. " These vector butterflies are made from a Zoology text on Central and South American insect...
Skin Tones
--Create characters that glow from within, using these handy tips for painting realistic skin colouring.How do you paint skin tones? Do you fill in w...
Flower Symbols
--A free set of Adobe Illustrator symbols by cherryflip. The file contains different flowers that can be useful for decorating your artwork or for bu...
Anime Eyes
--If you're currently interested in anime character design you may save some time with the eyes. The stock contains eye vectors in 8 different styles...
Rotate Tool & Custom Pattern Brush Tool Tutorial
--A great two step tutoarial with empasis on using the rotate and the brush tools in Adobe illustrator by www.bittbox.com"Creating intricate circular...
Clipping masks in Adobe Illustrator cs3
--Vectot Art
Vector Wings
--A wings r stock from rezbnik. Inside the zip file you'll find an EPS file that can be edited with almost all vector editors. DownloadVectot Art
Freefall
--by expansiondesignVectot Art
Vector Icons Pack #2
--A free vector icon pack from gwhite83. You'll get a better view if you open the PDF file with Adobe Illustrator and scale the icons up. Many of th...
Website Layout with Illustrator and Photoshop
--It was just about time for the first web design tutorial in this blog. Vector illustration skills are handy not only for print , but also for web d...
Businesswoman & Businessman Silhouettes
--Another silhouette resource for Digital Illustrators. 2 free vector stocks from parka done in Adobe Illusrator. Download from the links below the p...
Chinese Ink Brushes for Adobe Illustrator
--A set of 13 vector ink brushes by xentric For Illustrator CS2 and above. DownloadVectot Art
The Font Conference
--collegehumor.com present the FONTS and their characters in their own Font Conference.Starring: Times New Roman , Arial Narrow, Arial Black, French ...
Cityscapes drawing tutorial for Adobe Illustrator
--Another inspirational digital illustration tutorial from ComputerArtMagazine"Illustrating city scenes can be simple, but creating an idyllic place ...
Fashion Models
--A cute collection of fashion model shapes, all vector. Thanks to freman10. DownloadVectot Art
Vector Silhouettes
--A free vector stock from teach-me-freedom. The set is a mix of 35 different silhouette people postures. To use, open the file with Adobe Illustrato...
Interactive Pattern Swatches and Symbols in Adobe Illustrator
--Artlandia LivePresets is a new plug-in for Adobe Illustrator. Instantly create live pattern swatches or symbols and start editing them with your fa...
Musical Instruments Vector Pack
--A free vector stock from dragonartz. The pack contains 54 musical instruments and silhouettes shapes. To use: open the PDF file with ...
Frilly Brushes for Adobe Illustrator
--A set of 3 pattern brushes from olliesan. Compatible with Illustrator 10 and above. To use them go to Window > Brush Libraries > Other Library, sel...
Sometimes
--by crazychildVectot Art
Tech Ornaments Brush for Adobe Illustrator
--Great vector resource for digital artists. In case you're working on tech design concepts or you are a spacecraft designer looking for decoration v...
Typeface of the year
--Parachute® and the Centro Pro typeface superfamilies won this year's The EDAwards award for Original Typeface. Highlights and more info about the e...
Retro Logo
--"Get inspired by movie posters of the 70s to create an illustrative logo with a funky contemporary feel…Your logo can be much more than just a corp...
Natural Disasters Icons
--Natural disaster vectors for Adobe Illustrator by sizer92. Downloadrecycling, biohazard, toxic, fireVectot Art
Adobe Illustrator CS3: Live Color
--Vectot Art
Visual ID: Big Corporations
--One of my favourite online spots (colourlovers.com/blog), posted a short article about the color trends that big Corporations use in ther logo desi...
Doodle Vectors
--An EPS set of random hand-drawn looking doodles by arwenita. DownloadVectot Art
Decoration Tutorial
--If you feel frustrated or uninspired, get yourself confortable and take look at this tutorial. Topics covered: typography fundamentals and pathfind...
Vector Mix
--A free vector stock from uvsoaked. The pack contains random black and white shapes and few silhouette figures (the phoenix and the polo player are ...
Scatter and Painterly art brushes
--A set of 6 vector brushes for Adobe Illustrator by Celithralia. When used, you change their color by simply changing the color of your stroke. Dow...
Travel and Business Icons
--A pack of 26 vector icons for Adobe Illustrator thanks to sizer92. Download To open the archive you'll need WinRar or another archiver application ...
The Paint Brush Tool in Adobe Illustrator
--The most popular category in Vector-Art.blogspot.com is Brushes. There you can find many free vector brush sets for Adobe Illustrator and some cust...
Vector Snowflakes
--A pack of six different snowflake vectors from jeni-cek. Inside the zip file you will find an Illustrator (.ai) file, a Photoshop Custom Shape file...
Color Tricks
--Great color tips for Photoshop and Illustrator from Digital Arts Magazine"Do your colours fail to dazzle? Do your lines lack oomph? Sebastian Onufs...
Fade Away
--by dozignVectot Art
Figure - Ground with Adobe Illustrator
--Figure - Ground is one of the Gestalt Principles widely used in Graphic Design, especially in Logo Design. The perceptual factors of Gestalt are cr...
Pen Tool Skills : Bezier curves
--Another great tutorial from ComputerArts Magazine, that may be a great warm up exercise for newbies still feeling unconfortable with the pent tool ...
Laurel Leaves
--A set of laurel vectors for Adobe Illustrator from zygat3r. Simple solution if you feel stuck with ideas for a logo design project. With Laurel Lea...
Intro to Blends in Adobe Illustrator
--Usually digital illustrators use blends to achieve gradient effects in their artwork (Select objects then Object>Blend>Make). Please don't c...
Florescence Brushes for Adobe Illustrator
--Fresh stuff from cherryflip. A set of 38 Vector Flower Brushes for Adobe Illustrator. Download. By the way, if you come up with a concept using r...
40 Hours of Vector Drawing
--Science Machine from Chad Pugh on Vimeo.Vectot Art
Animating Vector Characters
--Alexis West shows how to bring your vector characters to life in Flash, turning an Illustrator image into a cool interactive animation.Being able t...
Vector Halftone Patterns
--A collection of 52 helftone seamless patterns for Adobe Illustrator by faeriedreamer. Downloadnote: to use the men, open the pdf file with Illustra...
Adobe Illustrator Keyboard Shortcuts : Layers
--Another list of keyboard shortcuts for advanced Adobe Illustrator users.1) Open/close Layers panel - F72) New Layer at the top of the list - Ctrl+L...
Free Vector Girls Stock
--A free vector stock from abstrasctik. The pack contains an Adobe Illustrator file with illustrations of the girls you see below plus its psd versio...
Random Vector Symbols for Adobe Illustrator
--A pack of random vector shapes for Adobe Illustrator by cherryflip. To use them you have to unzip and then put them into the Illustrator Symbols fo...
Inky Pen Brush for Adobe Illustrator
--This brush is an ideal tool for tracing scanned sketches in Adobe Illustrator. It basically reproduces the pens feel of loosing stroke width at th...
Gaming Machines Vector Pack
--The pack includes 13 Vector Arcade style gaming machines! Thanks to gimpy21. To use download the pdf file from here and import in Adobe Illustrator...
Color Mixed Brushes
--Brush set for Adobe Illustrator by celithralia . "The colors shown are the base colors for the brushes. You can change the line color at any time t...
Business masterclasses for illustrators
--The Association of Illustrators (AOI) has announced a business management course aimed at illustrators setting up on their own. The 11-session cour...
Elastic
--by SilvionixVectot Art
Outlining Strokes
--There are different cases when designers need to convert strokes to filled objects. Outlining strokes in a vector logos may prevent print problems ...
Artistic brushes collection
--Over 90 artistic brushes for Adobe Illustrator, all different shapes by nextexile. Click on the image below to see a detailed preview. For more inf...
Spacecraft Custom Shapes for Adobe Photoshop
--A collection of custom vector spacecraft shapes for Adobe Photoshop by retoucher07030. Those are just outlines but I'm pretty sure someone will fin...
Scaling and transforming in Adobe Illustrator
--Vectot Art
Scatter rubbish brushes for Adobe Illustrator
--The pack contains 8 scatter brushes:1 bubbles brush3 rain brushes for background rain both light and dark, one for visible raindrops4 night sky bru...
Illustrating Fashion
--Again great material from Computer Arts Magazine's website in help for digital illutrators (adobe users). "Follow Cybèle as she develops a sketch f...
Lima (vector, photography and brushes)
--Photomanipulation by whisperingsmithVectot Art
Phantasm CS Designer/Studio Adobe Illustrator plug-in review
--With such a range of Adobe Illustrator plug-ins on the market, it’s rare to come across one that excels to this extent. Phantasm CS adds Photoshop-...
Flower Tutorial
--A basic flower illustation tutoial for Adobe Illustrator. Tools used: Rectangle tool, Punker Bloat Transform Effect, Elipse tool, Rotate Tool, Ble...
Aviary's creative suite
--A demo video of a Aviary's new browser based image editor software and a part its review from webware.com"I finally got a chance to catch up with ...
Sun Vectors
--A collection of abstract sun vector shapes thanks to GreenGirl. To use the vectors open the pdf in Adobe Illustrator. DownloadVectot Art
Cutie
--by imitVectot Art
Comments on the dirty logo
--I'm not a big fan of TV Shows or for that matter TV at all. The logo of FX's television show Dirt, starring Courtney Cox from Friends impressed me ...
Summer
--Some people say summer comes after the last month with the letter "r" in its name (months with R are supposed to be cold January, February...Decemb...
Grunge Borders Tutorial
--This morning I came across this tutorial in Layersmagazine. It covers clipping masks and brushes in Illustrator and Photoshop. Useful if you're try...
Pantone Color
--Color is a an important topic in digital illustration, so I decided to add a new color category in the blog. I'll begin with a simple guide to pant...
Rotate Tool
--Vectot Art
Fresh Vector Brushes
--A fresh looking brush set for Adobe Illustrator from www.dtpvids.com . Ckech it out, I found other interesting resources and tutorials. To downloa...
Take A Seat Vector Collection
--8 eps vectors of seating furniture from fudgegraphics. Download the pack from here.Vectot Art
Vector Trees Illustrator Tutorial
--Green is in vogue and clients everywhere want natural imagery in their promotional material. Ben the Illustrator shows you how to create a fresh-lo...
Flow Goodie Pack Vecotr Pack
--A variety of isnpirational vector shapes by tfdc. DownloadVectot Art
Pretty in PUNK
--by biglewVectot Art
Convert Brushes from Photoshop to Illustrator
--In December I briefly described a quick method for vectorizing pixels with the Live Trace feature in Adobe Illustrator. In this tutorial you'll tak...
Groove
--Quickly created in Illustrator while not paying attention in my Photoshop class. Done by overlapping serif characters and playing with pathfinders...
Thorn Brush for Adobe Illustrator
--Thorn brush for Illustrator by orgamecha. To use the brush set download the pdf file, then open it with Illustrator and you'll have it in your brus...
Hibiscus Vectors
--I decided to post these hibiscus vectors as a response to one of the requiests in "Hibiscus Brush Set". Below you can see a preview of the shapes. ...
Vector Nails Tutorial for Adobe Illustrator
--Take a quick look at that great eight step image tutorial. It's pretty basic but you'll save a lot of time figuring out how to illustrate simple ve...
Adobe CS4 on Vista?
--Adobe is readying a new version of its Creative Suite, that includes Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, and other applications for print and Web ...
EskoArtwork Studio plugin for Adobe Illustrator
--EskoArtwork announced the introduction of Studio, a plug-in environment for Adobe Illustrator that brings interactive 3D packaging design to the fa...
A World Full Of Difference
--by tomasgouveiaVectot Art
Bloody
--by uproarrVectot Art
Computer Arts tips posters
--Discover the essentials of project management and dealing with agents with these two posters to download and print out.If you’re keen on the monthl...
Floating Trees
--Vector illustration by LoneWolfVectot Art
US: Yunique Solutions adds new PLM tools
--source: just-style.com"Yunique_Solutions Inc, the developer of product_lifecycle_management solutions for the fashion industry, has added new imag...
Skateboarding Shapes For Photoshp
--Skateboardin custom (vector) shapes for Photoshop by lukeroberts to download download click here. Vectot Art
Vector National Flags Collection
--In February I posted a detailed scalable political vector map with most countries, well today I found another large vector flag collection for Adob...
iPod GEL progress bar Illustrator Tutorial
--thanks to www.tutvid.comVectot Art
Vector Camouflage Pattern
--This is a pattern tutorial for Adobe Illustrator I came across this morning, browsing computerarts.co.uk"Have you ever needed to create camouflage ...
Pathfinders and Shape Modes in Adobe Illustrator
--Pathfinders and shape modes in Adobe Illustrator are an important feature. If once you start to feel comfortable with them you’ll find them pretty ...
Draw Freely : Inkscape New Release
--24th MarchThe Inkscape community today is announcing the release of the newest version of its open source vector graphics editor. Inkscape 0.46 is ...
The Rainbow Kit
--Rainbow brushes for your colorful inspiration.. Draw fantasic rainbows, swirls & curls with this colorful brush set from jlwdesign.com Downlo...
Adobe Illustrator Keyboard Shortcuts pt.1
--I decided to post a brief keyboard shortcut list for Adobe Illustrator for more efficient work with the pen tool.MAC OS / WindowsCommand / Ctrl = ...
Loosydings Expert Shape Typeface
--Here is an usable free shape true type face by protofonts. If you use this typeface in Illustrator and outline the characters, you may come across ...
Photo Tracing in Adobe Illustrator
--Check this detailed tutorial on how to draw and trace people from a photo. Learn how to create realistic illustration with just simple gradient fil...
Blood Cells Brush for Adobe Photoshop
--This set contains 25 different blood cell shapes by ardcor. As you can see in the preview below, the quality of the brushes is high and you can get...
