I don't know about you but personally am fascinated with Vector Art. I love what these guys put into the drawing, giving it life, energy and emotion. We see this every where in comics and illustrations for cartoons and the film industry. It is time we got ourselves into how they cook it! 

"We have often been asked the process by which we create our illustrated flyers and posters. I will try to give you a clear tutorial on how we create our illustrations and turn them into flyers or posters. Our end product will be this flyer which was created for our recent Go Media Inc. art show:"

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Creative Fan.com has rounded up their 20 best Photoshop tutorials in 2009 and compiled their list. Many of the tutorials highlighted and linked to are extremely brilliant and will seriously add to your graphics design skills.

"Not all tutorials are created equal.  Some feature stunning results, with little guidance about the creation, while others feature detailed instructions, but only achieve a mediocre result.  That’s why, in this post, CreativeFan has rounded up the 20 best Photoshop tutorials from 2009.  Not only do these tutorials feature incredible results, they also contain instructions so that any Photoshop user can understand. "

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Another brilliant tutorial from Abduzeedo, this time for Photoshop. The tutorial takes you through ten easy steps to creating a smokey typography effect in Photoshop, perfect for that creepy poster you've been planning to create. I believe it will add significantly to your design arsenal.

This is fairly simple tutorial that should take no more than 20 minutes.

Enjoy.

Animated swirls are all the rage in the motion graphics world, and there are some pretty cool things that can be done with them. But creating and animating such elements is really not as difficult and time-consuming as it would seem, even if the shapes are detailed and intricate. This will help you customize your own flourishes for your projects or videos. You'll also have a chance to use some basic presets and effects inbuilt in After effects.

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I am fascinated by a mixture of photography and fine art. It creates a beautiful feeling in the artwork which is very appealing to me. Several fine artists are able to produce artwork even close to photo-realism, but is that the intention of art? Art should give the viewer a beautiful vision of form in space working out its elements to produce a fantasy in a real world. The sole point for art is to make the viewer imagine the inexistent in his/her own world.

This tutorial will teach you how to create a dazzling drawing effect on a photo. Enjoy.

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One of the most captivating forms of fine art (guys that is my opinion) is the ability to illustrate a story so well that the viewer can live through it as they look at it. What is even more captivating is the the way the illustrator applies color to the artwork, hence making it more appealing. I love to use water color to color my illustrations but after getting to www.tutorialguide.net I found a tutorial that can help me be able to apply color to my artwork and make it even more appealing that a water color piece.

This tutorial will teach you how to color your artwork using the famous photoshop tools and voila, you will be dancing to your own music...so fasten your seat belts (because you need to go through this tutorial with close attention)!

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I like the look of fancy text mostly if it has a mystical feel about it. There are several ways to create that and so are the results.

"In this tutorial, we will create this effect using very basic Photoshop tools and layering effects. This tutorial is simple enough for a beginner to understand, but I should warn you that in this tutorial there ends up being over 60 active text layers, which will require a heavy use of your computer's memory. Let's jump into this tutorial and layer some glowing text."

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I have asked myself this question several times and maybe the answers are always right before us; perhaps hidden, I really can't tell. But I think to do a nice logo relevant to the client's demands requires a lot more than just skill. A lot of brain power here before you sit down to get to it. I believe there are certain steps one ought to take to make nice but also relevant logos. I found this site to be very helpful to me. 

"The logo that will be created in this tutorial can be seen below. Following the above rules this logo can be implemented on anything from a pen to full van livery, by designing it to work well in black and white, it can then be produced in flat colours, and then maybe even be given some trendy gradient and reflection treatment for use on screen."

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