12 Vibrant Experiments from the PSDTUTS Flickr Group
in Articles by Sean HodgeExperimentation is a great way to discover new visual directions for your work. A great place to share your experimental results is in the PSDTUTS Flickr Group. Certainly, you can show the work you’ve created based on tutorials, but the community is also a vibrant place to share your visual interests.
How to Create a Super Shiny Pencil Icon
in Drawing by Eren GökselThe Pencil is one of the visual metaphors most used to express creativity. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to draw a pencil icon. We’ll have a look at gradients, selection tools, and basic transform operations. Let’s have some fun with this.
40 Dark and Futuristic Photoshop Effects
in Articles, Effects by Danny OutlawA question: what do exploding planets, energy spheres, ethereal lights, ruined cities, telepathic warriors, gloomy nebulas and light-rays all have in common? Answer: they look freaky awesome when you build them in Photoshop.
Here’s how to do all of the above and more, for a total of 40 excellent cyberpunk and Sci-fi style effects.
Dynamic Recessed Watercolor Typography in Photoshop
in Designing by FabioIn this tutorial, I’ll show you how to mix vector elements and watercolor effects with text to create a stunning design. It’s a quick process that depends heavily on good choices of images and colors.
Create the Classic Look of an Engraving in Photoshop
in Drawing by Omara KurzdorferGive your illustrations the traditional look of an engraving without actually drawing all those pesky little lines! The technique is simple, but requires some experience with the Displace Filter and knowledge of basic shading techniques. The result will have people thinking you spent hours and hours on your design… which you probably will, but at least you don’t have to actually engrave anything!
7 Steps to Developing Originality in Your Design and Illustration Work
in Articles by Sean HodgeDeveloping original work is something that artists strive for. Certainly we’re inspired by multiple sources, but ultimately it’s our synthesis of influence, discovery, passion, and process that determines the outcome of our work. Following are some steps you can take to drive your work forward into original frontiers.
Illustrating a Cool Glass of Beer
in Drawing by Eren GökselIn this tutorial, we’re going to draw a beer glass with some beer in it. We’ll create the shiny curly glass with reflection, put some beer in it, add some bubbles, and finally we’ll make the shadow and the reflections. Meanwhile, I hope you’ll have some fun and learn some cool technics too.
New PLUS Tutorial - SOSFactory Style Mascot Design in Photoshop
in News by Sean HodgeWe have a new PLUS tutorial from Sergio Ordóñez. If you’re wondering who he is then review this Interview he did on the PSDTUTS site not to long ago. For this tutorial, we contracted him to create a unique character design just for the PLUS Members to review his working process in creating it. So, for those of you signed up for PLUS you’ve got a real treat in store. We also included wallpaper-size version of the final presented designs. I’ve already set one on my desktop.
New PLUS Tutorial - Demolition Made Easy in Photoshop
in News by Sean HodgeWe have a new PLUS tutorial from Tomasz Opasinski. You can see his work at his portfolio site. A few months ago when he was working on the “I Am Legend” posters, he came up with some simple techniques that are very helpful when demolishing all sorts of structures. He’s created a PLUS tutorial that details this process.
Inspiration: Water and Ice
in Effects by Steven SnellAbout six months ago Sean posted Inspiration: Fire, Flames, and Infernos. I thought it would be appropriate and fun to take a look at the opposite end of the spectrum for some additional inspiration. Much like fire and flames, water and ice are prevalent in web and graphic design. Here is a showcase that will give you a taste of what is possible.
