Tutorials
Tutorials on how to achieve traditional styles in your digital art and design work including mid-century illustration, vintage comic books, kitschy American design.
How to Use Photoshop Brushes in Illustrator
Creative hack: designer Joe Andrus shares a crash-free tip for adding texture to vector illustrations by bringing the photo-realistic results from your favorite Photoshop brushes into Illustrator.
Create textured images with the Woodland Wonderland brush set
Pro designer Brad Woodard explains how to quickly create a heavily textured retro illustration in Photoshop by harnessing the power of the RetroSupply Woodland Wonderland gouache brushes.
Creating retro characters with the Vector Hero pack
Freelance illustrator Rocky Roark walks through how to create stylised retro characters with the RetroSupply VectorHero ink brush set – using a handy trick for creating natural strokes with Illustrator’s Width tool.
How to Create a Matchbook Print Effect in Photoshop
Here's a Quick Way to Roughen the Edges of Your Work
How to Install Brush Tool Presets .tpl into Photoshop
This helpful step-by-step tutorial explains the difference between a brush preset and a tool preset, before walking through how to download and install brush tool presets into Photoshop. It's easy when you know how!
Hand Lettering 101: A Super-Brief Guide with Bonus Free Brushes
Level up your handlettering skills with Shauna Lyn Pacnczyszyn’s super-brief guide to creating original, old school-inspired lettering – and get our free handlettering tool kit while you're at it.
Create a Retro Robot using the Perspective Grid in Illustrator
One great (but often untapped) way to create unique design work is to mix together old retro work with new illustration work. In this tutorial, we'll be illustrating a robot and then putting it in the context of an mid-century advertisement.
How to Create a Retro Inspired Badge in Illustrator
Ever wanted to create a retro-style badge design in Illustrator? Then want no more! Follow this time-lapse tutorial to find out how to create a very simple one using just two fonts and a few graphics.
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