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🍕🍕🍕 Friday night is ALWAYS pizza night. Before I met my now-husband, I basically subsisted on pizza, beer, and Diet Coke. This Adobe Illustrator pizza logo tutorial and I were MEANT TO BE.
OH MY GOD, I MADE AN ANIMATED GIF OUT OF MY OWN DRAWINGS! This was a super fun Day 12 tutorial for my May Design Challenge.
My drawing skills are pretty minimal, so it was cool that today's Photoshop tutorial helped me transform a photograph to a pencil sketch in under five minutes. I feel like an artist!
For Day 10 of my May Design Challenge, I turned snowflakes into flowers. This easy Every-Tuesday tutorial teaches the fundamental skills for creating circular patterns from geometric shapes.
I'm nothing if not stubborn: I've actually unsuccessfully attempted to create a text portrait using a tutorial before. What Photoshop doesn't know about me is that FAILURE ONLY MAKES ME STRONGER. I really hate it when software thinks it can get the best of me! Today I chose a tutorial from Blue Lightning TV and set to work.
Yesterday was really the first time I've played with 3D effects in any software and it was FUN! When I saw this tutorial from Dansky on creating a 3D revolve effect in Illustrator today, it felt like perfect timing. Who doesn't want to make cool 3D stuff? Check out the results from Day 8 of my May Design Challenge.
Being behind on my May Design Challenge meant I was on the hunt for a quick and dirty tutorial to get back on track. I found it via Adobe Creative Cloud's YouTube channel, featuring their under-a-minute tutorial on how to make 3D lettering in Illustrator. Could I learn something new in just 57 seconds? Find out on the blog!
Yes, this tutorial is a day late - please pretend I posted this on Monday for Day 6 of my May Design Challenge. This is one of my favorite tutorials from a designer who inspires me, Teela Cunningham of Every-Tuesday; check it out if you've never tried intertwining text and vector graphics!
