Adobe Illustrator CS6 has a new feature which is called Gradient on Strokes. It is the first time since Adobe Illustrator’s creation we have an opportunity to apply the gradient fills to the strokes. There are two more types of the gradient fills beside the linear and radial gradient fills. I think this feature has lots of creative potential. Let’s examine the gradient on strokes in more detail and figure out how to use it. Continue...

Rejoice! You no longer need to know complex geometric construction techniques to create a detailed and precise graphics. All you need is the SubScribe plugin which is free to all DrawScribe, VectorScribe and Phantasm CS v2 customers! It will make all the calculations for you. However, do not think that you will not have to work at all — this plugin has not learned how to click the mouse for you yet… which is why we help you with these tutorials. In this one, we’ll be creating an App style icon where snooker balls are precisely located inside the rack. Continue...

To create this image in CorelDRAW you will need to use FreeHand Tool and Intersect Shaping. Continue...

I think that SubScribe Designer is an irreplaceable tool for anyone who creates detailed graphics. And it is even free to all DrawScribe, VectorScribe and Phantasm CS v2 customers! With its help, you can create tangents and perpendiculars to the paths, create a circle according to given points, quickly align objects relatively to horizontals or verticals, create circumscribed and inscribed circles, and much, much more. Continue...

With work progressing well on the updates necessary for all Astute Graphics plugins to operate with Illustrator CS6, we’re not forgetting that the vast majority of users will be remaining with Illustrator CS3 to CS5 in the near future. With this in mind, we have two important updates for immediate availability to all existing and new users. Continue...

Today we will learn how to create a text which is located in different planes. One very interesting trick with the Bounding box will let us do it without using 3D modeling. Find out more at the jump! Continue...

Our guest today is a famous designer Von Glitschka. Von is also famous because of his books, which are devoted to vector graphics. "The best way to improve your design as a creative is to improve your drawing skills. The more you do it, the better you get” – he says. Learn more about Von, his books and illustrations after the jump. Continue...

This lesson shall provide the examples of the wood and fabric textures creation technique. Also we shall learn how to render the light play on the objects with the help of Opacity Mask, Bland Tool and Art Brushes. Studying this lesson step-by-step, you shall become the witnesses and get to know all the secrets of the professional design artworks creation. Continue...

More than once you’ve probably experienced a situation when the Bounding Box was located at "inconvenient” angles and you needed to change it to make a correct transformation of one or multiple objects. It is quite natural if you come up with a question: how to rotate the Bounding Box in Adobe Illustrator? If you were looking for an answer, you probably won’t have found it. Until now… where I recently discovered a new trick which I want to share it with you. Continue...

Today I will try to analyze the most important of new features of Adobe Illustrator CS6, and will review the other less significant, in my opinion, improvements. After reading this review, you can get a first glimpse of the advantages of this release, and make your own conclusions; I was just trying to make an unbiased approach towards the subject of study. Continue...