Create some patriotic Labor Day badge vectors complete with hand-drawn text, ready for your blog, shop, or social media feed to wish visitors a Happy Labor Day!
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Category Archives: Tutorials
Summer’s End! Faceted Summer Banner Vectors
Now that summer is in full swing in the Northern Hemisphere, and what better way to say farewell to the season than with faceted summer banner vector designs filled with sunshine, rainstorms, and rainbows! With the super trendy faceted texture, we’ve got the makings for some fantastic stickers, web banners, and the beginnings of logotypes.
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Say Farewell to Summer with a Delicious Ice Cream Text Vector Effect!
Say goodbye to summer in the northern hemisphere with a delicious, drippy ice cream text vector effect! What a delightful way to end the season.
Create An Editable Stitched Label Type Treatment
If you found the previous Letterpress, Sketchy, and Metal type treatment tutorials useful, then you are going to like this Stitched Label Type tutorial. Like the previous tutorials, this one relies heavily on the Appearance panel, making it easy to edit the text and apply the treatment to other fonts and vector elements.
Vector Freebies! 14 Exclusive Floral Vector Stamps
Asmaa Murad, from Aivault, has created an awesome set of floral stamps for Vectips! I quickly got lost in creating scatter brushes, patterns, and more with the 14 Floral Vector Stamps. Download the set and see what you can come up with! Post links in the comments to your creations!
Create a Grimy Text Treatment with a Pen Tablet
In this tutorial I will show you how to create a grimy text treatment utilizing Illustrator’s Blog brush, Live Paint, and a pen tablet. You can easily apply these techniques to other illustrates, type treatments and logos.
Change Default Fonts for New Documents
Looking through some of my past work, I noticed I used the font Myriad a lot. At first I wondered why, then I came to the realization, it might be because Myriad is the default font in Illustrator. After that, I changed my default font for new documents. It is really easy to do, so read on to find out how.