How to make a vector badge logo in Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial you will learn how to make a logo with a badge, fence and barbed wire, using simple shapes, a custom brush and few simple Illustrator tools.

Artist of the week: Sergei Bobkov

Sergei is an wood sculpture artist. Aged 53, works on sculptures of a life-sized wildlife creatures made with sawdust of the Siberian cedar at his workshop in the settlement of Kozhany, Russia.

How to make a hammerhead vector illustration

Read this Adobe Illustrator tutorial to learn how you can use layers, transparency and feather style to achieve quite same effects rendered by a gradient mesh tool.

AviaSlider – jQuery Slideshow

It seem the jQuery market is very proficient, because week after week new sliders are coming up and make the term “unique” to look common. What make the difference between the rest of jQuery sliders and AviaSlider? Read more to find out.

Amazing vector gradient mesh showcase – Part 3

This is the last part of vector mesh series, what have the purpose to prove what a fantastic tool is the Adobe Illustrator gradient mesh. It worth to spend time and invest patient to learn how to work with it. Even the results may be not like in those artworks, you can save the day on your vectors projects.

Artist of the week: Paul Lung

Resident in Hong Kong, Paul Lung create amazing portraits in pencils. Just look at the hair, cloth textures or wrinkles and you will see that he love the details. When is talk about animals, he prove beside talent and a big patient.

Creattica inspiration contest with 1000$ prize

Creattica launched today an inspiration gallery and, along with the updated design and new features for finding and contacting creatives for hire, they also added some new categories. To can get the new sections off the ground, they launched an interesting contest.

Artist of the week: Negoita Alexandru

Known on CG forums as “dominus”, Alexandru is a romanian conceptual artist with great skills for character concepts, storyboards, environments, illustrations and even comics.

Logo, pattern and icon tips using Adobe Illustrator isometric effect tool

In past, we talk about how to use the Illustrator isometric tool to create a logo using a letter. In this article same technique will be used for a square object to obtain a logo, a pattern and an icon.

The Jewelry Shop – WordPress eCommerce

Designed especially for online ecommerce, The Jewelry Shop features a plugin free localized ecommerce system, a membership area, creating and saving a wishlist, an informative customer service area, unique „Shop by…“ widgets, lots of independent widget ready areas and so much more!

Artist of the week: Ben Heine

You may know him after a humorous series called “Pencil vs. Camera”, but this article will present some portraits done with a new technique what mix the Pointillism with Pop Art: Circlism.