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- Winners of the Designious.com 5 Free Vector Packs GiveawayNovember 5
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Last week I posted the Designious 5 Free Vector Pack Giveaway and today I’m happy to announce the winners! There was tons of great comments, but only five were chosen. Look below to see if you are one of the winners! If you are, I will be contacting you shortly. Even if you did not win, check out some of the great Designious Royalty Free Vector Packs!
Winners
Thanks to everyone for contributing in this giveaway & congratulations to winners.
- Interview with Artist Aidan HughesNovember 4
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The first time I saw artwork by Aidan Hughes, I was in the local record store (Back when you still purchased CDs) and came across an album by KMFDM. I studied the artwork. I loved the dynamic black, white and red illustrations. It was one of my first inspirations into exploring illustration. Aidan, a experienced illustrator, provided an interview for Vectips with Illustrator, style and industry insights.
About Aidan Hughes
Aidan Hughes is a commercial artist, born in 1956 in Merseyside, England. In the 1980s, Hughes published a pulp-style magazine called BRUTE! which earned him notoriety as well as becoming an occasional pseudonym for Hughes. Aidan Hughes is well known for creating most of the album covers for the industrial band KMFDM. Two of KMFDM’s music videos (”A Drug Against War,” “Son of a Gun”) were animated versions of Hughes’s artwork. His other work has included outdoor murals, including the 75 meter mural in Barga Italy during 2003 which has since been covered over with an earth bank; and a wide variety of CD sleeves, computer games, clothing, furniture, storyboards, logos, tattoos and other multimedia.
Aidan Hughes Around the Web
View Aidan’s art, buy prints, and more.
- Vectips Monthly Roundup: OctoberOctober 31
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There are a number of great tutorials, freebies, and articles related to vectors coming out on the web daily. Each month, I roundup some of the best posts that I have found useful. I can’t include everything I’ve seen throughout the month, but you can follow my Twitter feed to get all the daily links. Post comments with links that I have missed so everyone can see them!
Tutorials
Character Illustration
A great character tutorial from sketch to finished vector.
How to Turn a Sketch into a Fat Cat Vector Illustration
Another great character tutorial.
Illustrator Tutorial: Snowflakes
A simple tutorial with
- Transform Tool TrickOctober 29
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This is one of those tricks that I felt stupid I didn’t know after I learned about it. I’m sure others out there know about it, but there must be some that don’t. This transform function works in CS3 and CS4. I’m not sure about earlier versions of Illustrator, so if anyone knows, post a comment. I came across this trick when watching episode 58 of Layers TV, a great Adobe videocast.
Transform Tool
I’ve always been envious of Photoshop’s Transform. When transforming an object in Photoshop, it is easy to quickly shear, add perspective and distort the element you are transforming. I thought you couldn’t do this as easily in Illustrator. I thought you had to rely on the Free Distort Effects or Mesh distortions. I even remember trying over an over again to get the Transform Tool to work in this fashion. Now I realize I was just doing it wrong.
First, use the Transform Tool (E) and select an object. Click and hold on one of the corners and then press the Command Key (Ctrl for Windows). Now you can easily transform the shape like in Photoshop. Make sure you click and hold on the area before you press the Command Key, or else it will not work. While using the Command Key, You can also use the Shift Key to constrain moments, use the Alt / Option key to constrain the
- Awesome Multiple Artboard Scripts for Illustrator CS4October 28
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Mordy Golding, author of the Real World Adobe Illustrator series (I can’t wait for his Real World Illustrator CS4 book), has posted a couple of amazing Illustrator CS4 scripts from Shane Stanley to his blog. Mordy was the Product Manger for Illustrator from 2001 to 2004, so you know these will be quality scripts. Upon using the scripts, the usability of Illustrator CS4’s Multiple Artboard function skyrockets.
Artboard Coords Script
Although there are multiple artboards in Illustrator CS4, there is only one ruler. This can get a little cumbersome when precisely placing objects in different artboards.
Thanks to Shane Stanley, the Artboard Coords Script creates a mini Transform panel that displays the coordinates for objects, relative to each artboard. Pretty handy!
Download the script from Mordy’s post.
PDF Pages to Artboards
Another slightly annoying