Feb 03
13 comments 2010 at 10.38 am posted by Veerle Pieters
Last week I talked about the logo design for Visit France. Looking at this logo again, I thought this would be a good opportunity to explain a bit more how I created the flag. No special tricks were involved though, a lot of Pen drawing and tweaking work was needed to get the result I wanted. It’s time to brush up your Illustrator Pen tool techniques.
Aug 18
34 comments 2009 at 08.48 am posted by Veerle Pieters
One of the questions I often get from readers is if I could write a tutorial on how to create a certain logo. It’s something that I think is not very good material for a tutorial because it’s so very specific. The hard part is not the execution in Illustrator, it’s the design itself, the creative process. Then again I think certain parts are explanatory e.g. a logo made of letters you draw yourself using circles, simple shapes and lines of equal thickness. The technique I have in mind is something that only works for logo’s that contain only a few characters, ideally not more than 5. It also stands or falls with the characters at hand e.g. if o’s and other circular shapes are involved, than it can get interesting to try this technique out…
Aug 05
26 comments 2009 at 10.04 am posted by Veerle Pieters
Today I have a very easy to follow step-by-step tutorial for people who just started out with Illustrator. This is another request from a reader who asked if I could explain how to draw this ring shape (see image on the left). Looking at this shape I can see it’s made of 2 overlapping crescents which are then rotated at 45 degrees. There is also this interesting overlapping effect which adds a bit of unrealistic depth effect which makes me think of the work of M.C. Escher. This time I thought it would be a good idea to work with screenshots again…
Jul 29
20 comments 2009 at 04.41 pm posted by Veerle Pieters
One of the requests I received lately was how you can flow text into a compound shape. To flow text into a shape you use the Area Type tool, but this doesn’t work for compound shapes. In this screencast I show you a workaround to this problem.
Jul 15
51 comments 2009 at 03.10 pm posted by Veerle Pieters
Do you remember my article about Phantasm CS Studio? Well, Astute Graphics is now holding a design competition, and in honor of the launch I’ve been offered to give away a copy of this fabulous Illustrator plugins serie.
Jul 08
18 comments 2009 at 04.41 pm posted by Veerle Pieters
A reader asked me if I could explain to him how to create the Bavarian flag in Illustrator. Instead of explaining this with text and images I decided to capture another screencast tutorial instead.
Jun 22
39 comments 2009 at 09.45 am posted by Veerle Pieters
When using Photoshop or Illustrator on a regular basis, whether you are a beginner, intermediate or pro user, you often bump into small problems that you would associate with illogical behavior and where you wonder “Why does this happen? Why doesn’t it just do what I want it to do”. They become little annoyances if you don’t know the immediate answer to.
May 23
3 comments 2009 at 11.59 am posted by Veerle Pieters
It is weekend so the ideal time to have some extra fun in Illustrator and learn something along the way. I’ve talked about writing a tutorial for Vectortuts+ a few days ago. The article has now been published as part of the Graphic Design week that was going on.
May 19
30 comments 2009 at 09.52 am posted by Veerle Pieters
A reader wanted to know how I created this pawn looking shape for the Devia logo. He especially wanted to know how you connect the two circles. What better way is there than to show this in a video…
May 12
25 comments 2009 at 12.34 pm posted by Veerle Pieters
The Adobe’s Creative Suite 4 packages have this interesting gradient style effect. It looks like a grid of swatches going from one color to another in subtle gradient effect. If you have ever wondered how you create this effect, then I invite you to take the jump and read on.
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