I’m pleased to release these new freebies: 12 free bicycle silhouette vectors. With the Tour de France in full speed and hitting the first serious mountain stage today there’s no better time to get your hands on these beautiful bike vectors. I’m a huge fan of the TdF and it’s great to see two riders from Luxembourg in the top 5. As you can imagine there aren’t many sport discipline where I can root for someone from my home country, let alone 2.
The set contains vectors of racing bikes, BMX, tandems as well as some bicycle pictograms. While I don’t ride a bike myself, like many designers I’m in love with the shape and geometry of bicycles. There’s something intrinsically beautiful about their clean, minimal lines. + Continue Reading
This post is part of the For Your Inspiration Monday Series showcasing the most inspiring designs out there. Each week a new artist or design style will be presented in order to get your creative juices flowing for the upcoming week. I hope you enjoy the series.
Alexis Marcou is a freelance graphic designer and illustrator from Larisa, Greece. Most of his works are traditional fine arts pieces with a slight digital touch-up. Keeping the colour scheme very monotone really adds to the overall composition and lets the talent shine through. If you like Alexis’ beautiful art then please stop by at www.alexismarcou.com for more inspiration. Let us know which one of the pieces your favourite is. + Continue Reading
It’s with great pleasure that I release this freebies set containing 64 free Illustrator Brushes of pen marker strokes and scribbles. They’re great to give any design a more natural, hand-drawn look. All brushes are of the highest quality and you’re free to use them in both personal and commercial works. They are compatible with Illustrator versions from CS upwards. It’s worth mentioning that with brushes like these the best results can sometimes be attained by setting the stroke to 0.25px or less. + Continue Reading
It’s been 2 weeks since I’ve released the Hi-Res Splatter PS Brush Set. Today, with great pleasure, I release the Free Splatter & Drips Vector Set. There’s a total of 17 highly detailed splats and drips vectors in this set which comes in EPS format. Any vector editor, such as Adobe Illustrator, will be able to open them. I used brushes from both the Hi-Res Splatter PS Brush Set and the Hi-Res Messy Watercolour PS Brush Sets to create these. All vectors are solid colour silhouettes and as you all know you can scale and transform them anyway you like without loss of quality. So yes, they are perfect for print work, but look good in web designs too. As always, you may use these freebies in both commercial and personal projects without the need of attribution. I hope you like them and put them to good use. + Continue Reading
This set of 11 Free Scaffolding Grunge Vectors was specifically created with large print designs in mind, but they can be used in web projects too. It’s a common technique to slightly destroy large type in ads and other print campaigns. Using vectors for this purpose is ideal as they can be scaled to any size without loss of quality. All vectors were made using images of scaffolding which were then traced in Illustrator. I’ve also included a short tutorial on how to make the most of these excellent freebies to grunge up type.
Don’t stop there though. Let your imagination wander and get creative. As always these freebies are free for use in both personal and commercial projects. + Continue Reading
As promised when releasing the December 08 Calendar Wallpaper I’ve written a tutorial on how to make it. This is my first ever tutorial and I hope you’ll like it. If there’s anything which is not clear please ask. I’m here to help. In order to achieve the space like scenery with the glowing lines we will use Illustrator and Photoshop. You’ll learn how to add subtle effects using textures and different blending modes. So here we go. + Continue Reading
Today I picked up on a neat little trick on how to extract a colour palette from a photograph. Imagine you stumble upon a gorgeous photo (or piece of digital art) which has this special colour scheme. You could use the eyedropper tool to extract each colour individually but there’s a slicker way of doing it. This tutorial teaches you how to convert a photo into a fully functional colour swatch palette using photoshop and illustrator. + Continue Reading
This is the second Vector Pattern Set. The patterns are composed of basic geometric shapes and come as an Illustrator swatch file. You need to copy the .ai file to the Presets/Swatches/Patterns location inside the AI folder. Colourise, rotate or scale the patterns as you wish. The possibilities are endless and there ideal as background or overlay to make your designs that bit more interesting. + Continue Reading
