Retro and Vintage Tutorials for Photoshop and Illustrator Page 7

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 Make Adobe Illustrator Brushes

Tired of using the same old brushes? You're in luck! Our experts will show you how to make a brush in Illustrator to give your art your own personal touch!

How to Create Botanical Lettering in Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial, we're going to learn how to create a botanical lettering illustration in Adobe Illustrator (and have Illustrator do most of the work for you). This tutorial includes finding inspiration, constructing letters and script lettering, and adding botanical elements to your vector art including branches and leaves.

How to Create Retro 80s Style Art in Procreate

In this tutorial, we'll show you how to nail the totally tubular look of 1980s duotone patterns, neon color palettes, and zine-inspired prints in your work. We'll be creating a late eighties Saved by the Bell inspired illustration in this step-by-step tutorial for Procreate.

[TINY TUTORIAL] How to Draw a Mad Scientist

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to draw a mad scientist in a mid-century comic book style using broken, runny inker brushes in Procreate or Photoshop.

[TINY TUTORIAL] How to Draw a Retro Styled Matchbook

In this tutorial, we are going to show you how to draw a retro styled matchbook using The Texture Brush Pack for Procreate. So grab your iPad, load up your brushes, grab your favorite tiki cocktail, and follow us along in these eight easy steps.

How to Create a Set of Retro Icon Illustrations in Adobe Illustrator

Learn how to create retro-inspired icons in Adobe Illustrator. We'll be starting by creating a food truck illustration and then use that illustration to build out a full set of icons.

[Infographic] How to Cut Out Shapes with Brushes in Adobe Illustrator

Here's a simple trick we learned that allows you to cut away at a shape with your vector brushes! Learn how to use your vector brushes to subtract from a shape instead of adding to it. It'll have you creating with vector brushes in a whole new way!

How to Draw a Retro Character in Procreate

Learn how to draw a mid-century retro character illustration in Procreate using Procreate brushes in this step-by-step tutorial. Includes using Procreate brushes, clipping masks in Procreate, blending modes in Procreate and more.

[TINY TUTORIAL] How to Draw a Retro Magician in Procreate

Learn how to draw a retro-style illustration in Procreate in this tutorial. In this Tiny Tutorial, we'll be drawing a retro magician and rabbit using the Procreate app, Apple Pencil, and The Liner Brush Pack for Procreate by RetroSupply.

How to Add Patterns to Your Illustrations

Learn how to add patterns to your illustrations in Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop. Featuring TransferTone | Dry Transfer Patterns from RetroSupply.

Create a hand-painted effect with the DragStrip brush set

Follow Von Glitscha’s eight-step tutorial to find out how to create a realistic hand-painted effect in your illustrations. Here, he goes behind the scenes on a high-profile illustration created for Adobe Max with the DragStrip brush set for Adobe Illustrator.