How to Create a Pack of Android Launcher Icons in Adobe Illustrator

What You’ll Be Creating In today’s tutorial we’re going to make some little changes to our regular program, and tackle a subject that I’ve wanted to do for a long time. If you haven’t figured it out from the title, well, we’re going to create five simple icons that you could turn into Android launcher

How to Create a Thanksgiving Background With a Pumpkin and Leaves in Adobe Illustrator

What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, you will learn how to use the Mesh Tool in Adobe Illustrator to create a vector Thanksgiving background! If you want to skip the tutorial and just use this background with some other awesome elements, purchase the Happy Thanksgiving Background from GraphicRiver! Happy Thanksgiving Background 1. How to

How to Create the Carpet Pattern From “The Shining” in Adobe Illustrator

What You’ll Be Creating In today’s tutorial we’re going to continue with the Horror Movie Special, and learn how to create the trippy carpet pattern from Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. We’re going to create it in Adobe Illustrator using some “old-school” techniques, which involve the careful handling of the Rectangle Tool combined with the power

How to Create an Abstract Icon Set in Adobe Illustrator

What You’ll Be Creating Welcome to how to create an abstract icon set in Adobe Illustrator! The theme we’re working on will be chess. In this tutorial we will learn the step by step process of how to create an abstract set of icons using basic shapes and tools. For more examples of abstract icon

How to Create a Spain-Inspired Text Effect in Adobe Illustrator

What You’ll Be Creating In the following steps, you will learn how to create a Spain-inspired text effect in Adobe Illustrator.  For starters, you will learn how to set up a simple grid and how to create the background using simple rectangles. Using the Type Tool and the Character panel, you will learn how to

How to Create a Spanish 3D Text Effect in Adobe Illustrator

What You’ll Be Creating In the following steps, you will learn how to create a Spanish 3D text effect in Adobe Illustrator. For starters, you will learn how to create a simple background for your text and how to add basic text. Using only your piece of text and the Appearance panel, you will learn

How to Draw a Halloween Banner in Adobe Illustrator

What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, you will have the opportunity to learn how to use the Gradient Mesh Tool to draw a Halloween banner. If you’d like to skip this tutorial and just use this banner and three others in your work, you can go ahead and simply purchase Four Halloween Banners from