Are you ready to ink & paint in Illustrator?

In Ink & Paint, an instant-access self-paced workshop, Laura Coyle gives a detailed demonstration of the two primary inking and painting tools in Illustrator: the Paintbrush Tool, and the Blob Brush Tool. You’ll learn about the settings for getting the most out of these tools with a pressure sensitive Wacom tablet. Laura thoroughly discusses Calligraphic brushes and shows you the steps for creating a set of brushes to use for linework and coloring. A pen tablet is required for this workshop.

With this foundation, you’ll be ready to follow along with Laura as she guides you through a complete, fun, floral art project that includes Laura’s original tracing art and a custom color palette. In the preview video below, Laura demonstrates how to use the Eraser tool.

Register today for Ink & Paint

Tags: Adobe | drawing | Illustrator | Laura Coyle | pen | tablet | vector | Wacom

If you have ever thought that Christmas shapes are great Photoshop resources for creating ecards for the winter season, psd-dude.com is way ahead of us. They know that by having the right shapes, brushes or patterns available anyone can create great designs in Photoshop in just a few minutes. In fact they have put together a set of vector Christmas shapes, Snow Brushes for Photoshop, and Christmas Wallpapers for just that purpose. Here’s the fun part, they’re all free.

Check out psd-dude.com and these great freebies. You’ll be glad you did.

Tags: brushes | vector | Wallpaper

It’s time for another Friday Freebie. Now that we’re ending our Christmas in July celebration, it seems appropriate that I share a small holiday card project I did using art from all-silhouettes.com. (more…)

Tags: clip art | Illustrator | Photoshop | shapes | vector