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 Resize Pattern Swatches in Adobe Illustrator
8 of the Best Retro and Vintage Typography Tutorials for Photoshop
Want to create incredible effects for your typography. The secret is to break it down into bite-sized steps. These tutorials will help you achieve mind-blowing type effects in Photoshop fast.
How to Create Speed Lines Typography in Illustrator
[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.
[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 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.
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.
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