Anchor Points: Travis Price

I’m a huge fan of Travis Price’s work. His work is a satisfying blend of nostalgic textures, strong strokes, and affable character design. He works as a freelance illustrator and also runs a small independent kids label with his wife, Renee. I’m sure you will recognize his work from a number of Vectips Weekly Inspiration posts and hope you are excited to read our little chat. Also, there is more of his great work to check out!

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Anchor Points: Sharon Milne

I’m sure most of you know Sharon’s work from some of Vectips’ Inspirational posts, a bunch of tutorials and articles on Vector.Tutsplus.com, her volunteer work over at deviantArt, or her tutorials on Inside Adobe Illustrator. She does some pretty amazing work with Adobe Illustrator so peruse the chat a learn a little more about her!

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Distribute Stacked Objects Script

Here is another great Illustrator script from John Wundes. It’s called Distribute Stacked Objects and it does pretty much what it says, it will distribute and center all selected objects. The object’s position is determined by it’s staking order in the Layers panel with the top object always placed first. You can also define a padding value when prompted. Pretty handy for importing messy files into Illustrator.

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Anchor Points: Tom Whalen

Tom Whalen

Anchor Points is a series of quick chats from mainstays of the vector art community and today we are chatting with Tom Whalen, also know as Strongstuff. Tom’s work has made a regular appearance on many of the Weekly Inspiration posts. I love Tom’s use of prominent shapes, an engaging color pallet, and pop culture references in his huge body of work.

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