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Weekly Vector Inspiration #80

Rype — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:12:47 +0000

This post is part of a weekly series showcasing inspirational vector art. Although the series showcases vector art, some work might just be vector inspired, not created completely with vector art. If you have any art suggestions, feel free to comment! For more vector art inspiration, check out the Vectips Flickr Group.

Sir Connery by craniodsgn

Gaia contest tee illustration by Konstantin Shalev

Timba Smits

Andrew Bannecker

so sexy in D&G by Maria Vittoria Benatti

Drift Away by Jacopo

Masque of the Red Death by AlexandreaZenne

Dance With Me by Chow Hon Lam

Peter Bowen

DuckIT by Daniel Lindskog

The Sudden Relapse of Mother Nature by Jared Nickerson

Accept & Proceed “NIKE” by ROAN

Nike Elemental by Jared Nickerson

JUST ENJOY by ROAN

SWEET Mr.ME by ROAN

Yes. Another Yeti on a scooter by cronobreaker

:s.e.a. .m.u.s.i.c: by flashparade

HEAVY METAL by HumanNature84

“The Trouble With Tribbles” Star Trek Poster by Olly Moss

Cumulus and Foam by YouWorkForThem

Fearless Zombie Hunters by lerms

A by Jonny_Wan

‘This is What Matters to Me’ feat. Non-Format, No Pattern… by d.kele

ALLIANCE OF DEMOCRACY by PEACHBEACH

Unfinished textile design for Neff Headwear (2010) by Jared Nickerson

Final textile design for Neff Headwear (2009) by Jared Nickerson

Weekly Vector Inspiration #79

Rype — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 15:25:56 +0000

Elegance of Black and White by ~Zzanthia

Happy 08 by clémentine

Deego Toys promo illustration by TokyoCandies

Alexis Taieb aka. Tyrsa

PistolsAtDawn by leonryan

just keep rollin by blablasah

Herbal Remedies Part I: Dandelions by Jenny Lloyd

The Dreamcatcher by Gus-Santome

«Raiffeisen «a la russe» by Andrey Gorkovenko

Nike Air by VanilaBCN

Christian San Jose

First Dibs Exhibit by Christian San Jose

Golden Buddha & Friends by Katari

Joshy’s Dream by Giorgio Dovas

IKS

lemclennan.com Version 2 Redesign by Louise McLennan

Scissor Sisters by Joe Murtagh

KHUAN CAVEMEN CO

Jack’s Flyers by blind SALIDA

7sins exhibition IN PLÁTANO ROCK by PO!!

Outlaws by Adrien Noterdaem

Advocaat victorious by Sergey Banityuk

Military Macaw by Goncharden

Deer by Goncharden

Weekly Vector Inspiration #78

Rype — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 14:01:45 +0000

Jungle, sex and sun by Lulu

Italie by KHUAN+KTRON

Ierland by KHUAN+KTRON

Frankrijk by KHUAN+KTRON

Home Sweet Taun Taun by SplitReason

Duncan Family Portrait by Freakshow6

Goddess autumn by dimary

Bumtown Bruiser by Brian Taylor

Wisli / Kidwear 2010 by Evgeny Kiselev

Circles by Steven Dunn

Kamil Czapiga

Phish Poster by Phish Poster

Felipão by Lu Bicalho

Christoph Ruprecht

Michele Angelo

D. Emory Allen

Grimm Brothers Brewhouse by The Tenfold Collective

Jules Verne Series by Jim Tierney

The Nike Cup+Mr. Kone by César Evangelista Bautista

Editorials and T-Shirt for Rockerilla Magazine by Luigi Bicco

Adrian Knopik

Bastardgraphics

RockStars by Rubens Scarelli

Quick Tip: Quickly Switch Between Open Tabbed Documents

Rype — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 15:52:55 +0000

I’m sure some of you already know about this, but if you don’t, you can save some time while working tabbed documents in Illustrator CS4 and CS5. Press Command (Control on Windows) and the ~ (the tilde key) to switch between open tabbed Illustrator documents. Pretty nifty!

Weekly Vector Inspiration #77

Rype — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 14:41:17 +0000

La grosse flaque! by MrWayne

Mice love jewelry by zutto

Nature’s Revenge by Giorgio Dovas

Transport by Walter De Marco

Pirate´s Lair by Walter De Marco

june illustration by Deni Dessastra

Playful™ Font by Pablo Alfieri

Portrait in dark tones by Alexxxx1

NATHAN JUREVICIUS

BattleCritters by Nick Barfuss

Matt W. Moore

For the Love of Shoes by Wendy Ding

SmART Car Illustration by StephenChan

Cerveceria Hacienda Beer by Andrew Rose

Thank You. Good Evening! Hope I’m Funny. by Ken Taylor

Exhibitions by Price

The Well Respected Man by Liam Smith

TREE OF THE KNOWLEDGE by Man-Tsun

RED by Man-Tsun

Time Dinasty by Jdesing

Tartan Training by Zzanthia

DAC Opposites Challenge by kungfumonkey

Mushroom Dream by acrylicana

Other by LimKis

White Queen by LimKis

Vectips Monthly Roundup: June 2010

Rype — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 20:06:00 +0000

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 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

Illustrator Tutorial: Design symmetrical character art

How To Draw a Cute Vector Dog Character in Illustrator

Create the Face of a Grumpy Bear

From Sketch to Vector, Simple Illustration That’s Not So Simple

Tips and Tricks

Turn the background of overlapping shapes transparent using the Pathfinder’s Trim option

Achieve screen-print effects in Illustrator

Quick Tip: Control the number of colors in Illustrator

Quick Tip: Quickly convert CMYK to Pantone

Vector Freebies

360 degree vector iPhone 4 Illustration

Export Layers as Images Illustrator Script

Vector Furry Creatures

Vector Butterflies

Vector Inspiration and Articles

Creative Sessions: Digital Illustration

Vector Spiderman: it’s all in the detail

Why build iPhone app mockups in vector format?

Weekly Vector Inspiration #76

Rype — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:07:53 +0000

KLAUS HAAPANIEMI

Wisdom comes by nature by diegoleal

Little Hope by Dark83

Astra `05 by Evgeny Kiselev

Tentacle Soup by dylan van loggerenberg

MENINAS CHARACTER by OSCAR OSPINA

RETURN TO KRYPTON by segd75

Contagious Magazine by LouLou and Tummie

Colors of the ol’marine song by Jdesing

Chubby Eve by CrisVector

Editorial illustration by Lindedesign

Tokyo Go Go

ELECTUNES AND NIKE by Jonathan Calugi

HELLOFREAKS

THE KRANEOS us tour poster by benestrada

cuervo AZT by Cesar Gomez

HEAD! WADUP? by david cuesta

BITS O BEATS by david cuesta

Computer Arts Project Editorial July 2010 by Jared Nickerson

Angel Barba

LEGO GIRLS by dylan van loggerenberg

WHO KILL WHO by Jonathan Calugi

Weekly Vector Inspiration #75

Rype — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:13:51 +0000

Sicksystems

Lovejoy Vodka

Christopher Lee

All Colours by C86 | Matt Lyon

Magazine Illustration by Lindedesign

the planet of the apes by mareaneus

Monster Snack! by bob canada

AnyForty vs Jonny Wan by Jonny_Wan

Les rouquines de la plage by beyond the chuch

LA girl by MisterChek

seichas by jeffgraffit

Toronto Island Concert by Doublenaut

2010 Studio On Fire Letterpress Calendar by Studio On Fire

Hiphop Bigband Legends by Roel van Eekelen

City Slickers Exhibition – Cape Town by Greg Darroll

Average Joe Skateboards by Greg Darroll

Nick Hammo Hamilton

Caramelaw Desktop Wallpaper by caramelaw

Tee by Varga Judit

Electric City Creative Sessions by Chris Leavens

Big Island – Illustration 02/10 by giedre domzaite

Victor Vigorsol

The Essentials by Neil Rook

Short

Amazing Free Seamless Pattern Generator Templates for Illustrator

Rype — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:37:02 +0000

After I posted the latest tutorial, Create a Trendy Type Pattern Treatment, I received an email from Matt from Mad Pattern pointing out his free seamless pattern generator templates for Illustrator. After I download and played around with the templates, I was amazed! These template are pretty slick and easily let you create seamless patterns.

About Mad Pattern

Mad Pattern is a free tool for rapidly prototyping patterns. More specifically, Mad Pattern is a set of 19 Illustrator templates that automatically create seamless patterns from Illustrator artwork based on 17 wallpaper groups (I’m not extremely knowledgeable about wallpaper groups and patterns, so this Wikipedia article was an interesting read).

Some of the Features

One template for each type of pattern
Automatic symmetric replication
Automatic clipping of elements drawn “out of bounds”
Easy to save/export repeating tile (for web page backgrounds)

Using The Mad Pattern Templates

When you first open on of the template in Illustrator it might seem a little confusing at first, but it really isn’t complicated. In the template, there are step-by-step instructions to create the pattern. There is also a video tutorial of the Mad Pattern site.

Downloading the Mad Pattern Templates

Simply visit the Mad Pattern site and download!

Creating a Illustrator Pattern Swatch

The instructions in the file explain how to export as a raster image for web use, but there is a way to create a pattern swatch so you can use it in other Illustrator Documents. This is what I did:

Step 1

After you have the pattern created, select all the objects in the current layer (Command + A) and go Object > Expand Appearance.

Step 2

Use the Rectangle tool (M) and create a rectangle the size of the smaller Artboard in the middle of the document.

Step 3

Select all the expanded pattern artwork and the new rectangle and create a clipping mask by going Object > Clipping Mask > Make (Command +7).

Step 4

Create another rectangle the same size as the smaller artboard, like before, and take off any stroke and fill. Go Object > Arrange > Send to Back.

Step 5

Select the clipped artwork and no stroke /no fill rectangle and drag it into the Swatches panel. There you go! A simple pattern swatch created with the Mad Pattern Templates!

Final Image

Below is the final pattern swatch in action.

Weekly Vector Inspiration #74

Rype — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:16:38 +0000