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Tutorials on how to achieve traditional styles in your digital art and design work including mid-century illustration, vintage comic books, kitschy American design.
[Infographic] Create a Hand-Painted Effect with the DragStrip Brush Set
Learn how vector master Von Glitschka creates painterly artwork in Adobe Illustrator using the DragStrip brush pack (and a few unique tricks he developed) in this easy to follow infographic.
3 Unconventional Ways to Use Charcoal Brushes in Illustrator
[Infographic] The Ultimate Guide to Retro Font Pairing
Every tried to pair fonts together and it looked like Font Book puked on the screen?
Use this guide to learn the basics of retro font pairing. You'll use typography to create eye-catching combinations for your brand, side projects, and clients.
[INFOGRAPHIC] How to Roughen Your Typography
Imperfect type is important. Look at one of your old comic books, the work of Clark Orr, or a book like Mail Order Mysteries. In this infographic, I'll show you how to roughen your typography oh-so-subtly in Adobe Illustrator.
[Infographic] How to Create Retro Characters
Raises your hand if you've ever fallen victim to attempting to make a retro style character illustration and it just didn't look right. Good news: we made an infographic to show you how to use vector brushes to improve your results!
How to Create Your Own Graphic Styles in Illustrator
Graphic styles are the fastest way to achieve time-consuming effects in Adobe Illustrator. By using graphic styles you can achieve looks like our classic PopType effect below with a single mouse click.
How to Create a Stupid Fast T-Shirt Mock-Up
How to Make Your Own Photocopy Textures
Want to make your own photocopy textures to use in your design work? I'm sharing my best hard earned tips for creating copy machine textures I learned while making the Photocopy Hate Machine texture pack. Enjoy!
Three Easy Ways to Add Distressed Textures to Your Work in Photoshop
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