Vectips Monthly Roundup: January 2010

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5 Feb 2010

There are a number of great tutorials, freebies, and articles related to vectors coming out on the web daily. Each month, I roundup some of the best posts I have found useful. I can’t include everything I’ve seen throughout the month, but you can follow my Twitter feed to get all the daily links. Post comments with links that I have missed so everyone can see them!

Tutorials

Create Lady Birds Insect Tutorial Using Adobe Illustrator

Create a Cute Little Tiger in Illustrator

Creating a Surrealistic Hand-Drawn Illustration

Vector Handphone

How to Create an Electronic Piano in Illustrator

Other Tutorial Links For January

Abduzeedo 2010 Logo Design

How to Create a Cute Vector Bear T-Shirt Design

Reflections Done Right – Creating a Money Roll Icon

Create a student character mascot with Adobe Illustrator

Cafe Style Coffee Art in Adobe Illustrator

Illustrating a Business Briefcase in Windows 7 Style

Tips and Tricks

Illustrator Tip #17: Broken Glass Effect

Creating a see through editable text object in Adobe Illustrator

Rad Sechrist has a how-to blog with drawing tips, anatomy lessons, and and other bits of wisdom.

Jean-Claude Tremblay’s llustrator Tips/Tricks & Tweets day

Vector Freebies

Released a Free Vector Social Media Icon Set

4 Fabric Inspired Vector Pattern Swatches for Illustrator

Radial Pack – 50 Elements (Vectors & Brushes)

Other Vector Freebies For January

New free twitter icon set!

2010 Free Vector Calendar

Bunny K

Vector Inspiration and Articles

If Photoshop Was Batman, Then Illustrator Would Be…

Inklet turns your trackpad into a Wacom-style tablet

Interview with Rubens Scarelli


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4 Responses to Vectips Monthly Roundup: January 2010

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Mr Price

February 15th, 2010 at 8:48 pm

Earthly Engravings? Scarred Reflections? :)

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Tim D

March 11th, 2010 at 5:21 am

Live trace will convert a photograph to a vector illustration, there are a number of settings or you can customise one, it relies on the photograph being of a good quality, however it is not strictly a cartoon, none of the features will be exaggerated for example.

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N B

March 25th, 2010 at 3:16 am

Assuming I'm interpreting what you teacher wants correctly, you could do something like a news article on yourself, with pictures. It'd be pretty easy.

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Alicia twin cousins due any day!

March 25th, 2010 at 4:33 pm

Bonjour, je m'appelle Jean Claude Tremblay.
J'ai douze ans.
Je suis entre Southville International School
Je suis un garçon qui aime de jouer les joux sur l'internet.
J'aime les cheveux longs
Et j'aime jouer o2jam
j'aime utiliser l'internet
j'aime jouer Guitar Hero
Je s'aime Anne
J'aime regarder les films quand je me suis ennuyer
J'aime d'être avec mes amis

Je suis Jean Claude Tremblay, et merci pour visiter mon site-web! Tu peux faire n'importe'quel choses!

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