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.
[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
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.
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