This week is IconWeek here on Vectorgraphit. You can read lots of articles about icon creation tutorials, inspirational artworks, and more. During the week we giveaway 5 $10 worth Gift Cards from Iconfinder.com.
Iconfinder provides high quality icons for webdesigners and developers in an easy and efficient way. The site launched in 2007 as the first search engine focused on icons.
Great day for webdesigners (and not only)! This month we have a limited time offer to download all the vector icons you wanted, for only $15. Just download and use them anywhere in your projects.
Flat Icon Design is the most popular topic from around the design blogs and forums for the last couple of months. The major mobile operating systems started to use or already using the Flat Design (WindowsPhone + Metro, Android, iOS7).
It seems that the Flat Design trend has already reached a new evolutionary level. Jeff Escalante, the one who initiated this trend discussion, called it Long Shadow Design. As he mentioned in a tweet, it started as a joke: “I actually can’t believe what’s happening now. It was a joke but its evolved out of my control…”
So how can one create a great, trendy icon with flat style and long shadow? Follow this tutorial and learn to use the basic tools and the tools on the Pathfinder Panel.
In today’s tutorial we will show you how to create a realistic delicious pear in Adobe Illustrator CS6. There is no problem, if you have other version of Adobe Illustrator, because most of the steps we use can be reproduced in older versions too. In thistutorial you will learn how to use the Mesh Tool (U), the Symbol Panel and the Symbol Sprayer Tool (Shift + S).
First of all, let’s do a little research about this delicious fruit we want to create.
Well it’s not symmetric, every point of it’s surface has another color and there are lots of dark dots, what do we do?
1. Create a new document, with 800x600px size, CMYK Color Mode. Draw a polygon shape with the Pen tool (P).
This is a step by step tutorial about how to prepare a vector artwork and submit it to microstock sites. We will create a simple but attractive vector artwork for sale onMicrostock sites like Depositphotos, Fotolia, Shutterstock, Istockphoto,Dreamstime, etc. You will learn to use basic tools of Adobe Illustrator, use scripts to facilitate the preparing process and use Adobe Bridge.
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Download free movie avatars
Download these free avatar icons, about some of my favourite movies. Maybe you will recognize cpt. Piccard from the Enterprise, but here is the Invisible man, Freddy Krueger and Captain America.
And now, as a bonus you can get some other items, to complete your avatars.
You can use and edit free, maybe if you use them, you will send me a mail.