Daily Freebie #12: Vector Round Pointers

Daily Freebie #12: Vector Round Pointers

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Love Heart Art Balloon Valentines day Free Vector

Love Heart Art Balloon Valentines day Free Vector

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Valentine’s Day Heart Card Vector

Valentine’s Day Heart Card Vector

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Richard Seymour: How Beauty Feels

Just because you missed that awesome conference, doesn’t mean that you can’t still watch the lectures! This weekend we’re sharing an interesting talk by Storyteller and Richard Seymour at TED. In this talk you will ponder the questions, how do we tell that something is beautiful? And why does it… read more

149 New Seasonal Vector Illustrations & Freebie!

149 New Seasonal Vector Illustrations & Freebie!

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How to Create a Cute Valentine’s Day Icon with Adobe Illustrator

Valentine’s Day is almost here and what better way to express your love for design than to send a letter? This Quick Tip explains how to create an envelope icon, you’d love to click!

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Free download: Infographic Vector Kit

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Love Kiss Tree Lovers day Valentine day Vector

Love Kiss Tree Lovers day Valentine day Vector

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Most Popular Rose Banner Valentine day Vector

Most Popular Rose Banner Valentine day Vector

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Quick Tip: Create a Highlighted Text Effect With Adobe InDesign

Sometimes using a highlighted effect text gives a stronger emphasis and style to your design. In this quick tip we are going to achieve that effect by utilizing Paragraph Rules in Adobe InDesign. Let’s begin!

Step 1: Insert text

Create a new document at any size you want. Then insert… read more

Create a Golf Themed, Vector Illustration – Tuts+ Premium Tutorial

In this Tuts+ Premium tutorial, you will learn how to create a vector golf illustration. It includes creating a golf hole scene, complete with numbered flag for the hole and a cutout section of turf where the golf ball has landed. You’ll also learn to illustrate some dynamic text that… read more

How to make your type more appealing on the web

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Making the Perfect Project Pitch

Freelancing offers you maximum flexibility to choose the projects that best compliment your skills, passions and interests. Without doubt, this is one of the most obvious advantages in becoming a freelancer. However, in this economic climate the ability to only choose the projects that most attract you must… read more

Free Vector Icon Set for Valentine’s Day

Free Vector Icon Set for Valentine’s Day

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28 Cute Children’s Book Illustrations from Digital Artists

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Illustrators have found a nurturing community on the web where they can share awesome work. Artists drawing for children’s books were almost always done by hand. But with the popularity of Adobe software and the many tablet devices it’s easier than ever to move your work… read more

WDL Premium: Vintage Inspired Infographics

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This week, for our WDL Premium members, we have a PSD file from WeGraphics that contains a collection of shape layers that can be edited and reused as various charts and information graphics. With this file you will be able to create stylish vintage looking infographics,… read more

Best of Tuts+ in January 2012

Each month, we bring together a selection of the best tutorials and articles from across the whole Tuts+ network. Whether you’d like to read the top posts from your favourite site, or would like to start learning something completely new, this is the best place to start!

Psdtuts+ — Photoshop Tutorials

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Create a Vector Ticket Icon in Illustrator

In this tutorial you will learn how to use Illustrator to create a clean, vector ticket icon. Begin by creating the basic vector shapes, then add pixel perfect highlights, all the necessary text, warping, and grunge effects to give the final result interest. Get started on designing this vector ticket… read more

Adobe Illustrator Tutorial: Creating a Disco Ball

Creating an illustration of a sparkling disco ball might seem very complicated, and with good reason. In this new Adobe Illustrator tutorial we will try make it simple. We will be creating a really nice, shiny disco ball using only AI and our good taste in color selection. Overall, the… read more

16 High Quality Twitter Icons That You Can Download For Free

Let us take you to the free collection of some high quality Twitter icons that you can download for free. This round up showcases 16 beautifully designed and eye catching Twitter icons that will for sure grab the attention of your target audience. Twitter buttons such as Follow Me and… read more

Over 40 Free Vector Ribbons for Great Looking Designs

Over 40 Free Vector Ribbons for Great Looking Designs

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Love Birds for Valentines day Banner vector

Love Birds for Valentines day Banner vector

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Valentines day Vector Graphic

Valentines day Vector Graphic

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40+ Tips to Get the Most Out of Web Apps

There’s so many things you can do from your browser, you could get by quite nicely without any other native apps. The internet is full of amazing web apps, ranging from powerful tools for enterprises to little tools that do one thing great.

While the web apps and sites we love… read more

Colorfull Vector logo Elements

Colorfull Vector logo Elements

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Red Heart Shaped Icon Valentine day vector

Red Heart Shaped Icon Valentine day vector

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Best of the Vector Web – January 2012

Each month, we search the web for the best vector-related content and showcase it here for you all to enjoy. This month, we showcase high quality tutorials on mixing vector techniques with photography, we learn how to create vintage style lettering that has a grainy retro style, dive deeper into… read more

Daily Inspiration #1044

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Quick Tip: Using Typography to Create a Lunar New Year Card

Lunar New Year is here! This red card was chosen as a Lunar New Year E-card because in Chinese culture the color red is auspicious and represents happiness or good luck. During Chinese New Year red packets are given out for luck and prosperity in the coming year. In this… read more

How to Illustrate a Microscope in Illustrator

The microscopes is a symbol of our civilization. Throughout this tutorial on how to illustrate a vector microscope you’ll take advantage of numerous Illustrator tools. You will learn how to use blends, art brushes and 3D rendering in Adobe Illustrator. Let’s get started!

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First, create a horseshoe shaped path, filled… read more

Create a Creamy Ice Cream Poster on Illustrator

Hi everyone, before someone say it’s winter on the north pole, I gotta say it’s damn hot here in Brasil, so I though a tasty and frosty illustration would be a good exercise to do.

This is a step by step tutorial forwarding some of the previous tutorials. The idea is… read more

15 Free Beautiful Valentine’s Day Vector Illustrations

15 Free Beautiful Valentine’s Day Vector Illustrations

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Colour Combination Makes a Better Impact in Logo Designing

It’s undeniable. Branding is the life blood of any business. Even for small businesses, you’ve gotta build brand identity, or be ready for your company to go belly up.
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How to Create a Love Heart Greeting Card for Valentine’s Day

How to Create a Love Heart Greeting Card for Valentine’s Day

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Today’s Special Valentines day Banner vector

Today’s Special Valentines day Banner vector

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Glorious Love 25 Valentines day free vector

Glorious Love 25 Valentines day free vector

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Rives Tells a Story of Mixed Emoticons

Just because you missed that awesome conference, doesn’t mean that you can’t still watch the lectures! This weekend we’re sharing a quirky story told in emoticons by Storyteller and poet Rives at TED2008. See the power of visual storytelling and how typography can convey much more than words.

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Community: Peer Review 06

Vectortuts+ is all about helping people turbo charge their skills, and today we have another special community post that will help our readers take their images to the next level. The best thing is, you can be part of it too! Find out more at the jump.

Peer Review, 5

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Create a Stylized Performance Car in Illustrator CS5 – Tuts+ Premium Tutorial

In this Tuts+ Premium tutorial, learn how to create a stylized performance car from a reference image using many gradients, custom art brushes, patterns, clipping masks and not a single gradient mesh or blur in sight! If you are looking to take your skills to the next level then Log… read more

Create A Jeans Vector in Illustrator

Adobe Illustrator can be a little tricky to get your hands around, particularly after getting used to the workflow of applications like Photoshop. The differences between layer use and the creation of objects and shapes can be really strange at first hand.

In the following steps you will learn how to… read more

Amazing Valentine day Green Heart Vector

Amazing Valentine day Green Heart Vector

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Free Heraldry Vector downoad

Free Heraldry Vector downoad

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10 Sources for Stock Photos

More often than not I find myself meeting with a prospective client and telling them one of the biggest keys to designing a stunning website are the images that you use. You can have the most elaborate interface, with parallax scrolling, fluid and responsive resizing capabilities, and the best color… read more

Quick Tip: Quickly Create Recycled Paper Textures with Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial you will learn how to quickly create a series of recycled paper textures. You can use these to apply the effect of old paper over illustrations. The goal of this tutorial is to show you some shortcuts for aligning objects on the Artboard by using the Align… read more

Create a Golden Shield Illustration with Ivy Text Effect – Tuts+ Premium Tutorial

In this Tuts+ Premium tutorial, you will learn how to create a golden shield illustration and an ivy text effect. We’ll use vector shape building techniques to construct the main structure of our work and then Illustrator’s 3D tools to add depth. Then discover how to add polish to the… read more

Creative Uses of Illustration in Web Design

Using illustration in web design has become quite trendy these days. People love to see beautifully designed illustration based websites because they stand out from the rest. Not only because of the beautiful illustrative art work and carefully crafted web designs but also because of the perfect balance struck between… read more

Nice Heart art Valentines day vector for free

Nice Heart art Valentines day vector for free

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Daily Inspiration #1040

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Free Heart Shaped Balloon Valentines day vector

Free Heart Shaped Balloon Valentines day vector

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WDL Premium: Retro UI Set

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This week for our WDL Premium Members, we have a set of retro UI elements from Vandelay Premier. The set includes a considerable number of unique elements that are sure to be useful for those who like the always trendy retro style.

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Quick Tip: How to Create a Love Heart Greeting Card for Valentine’s Day

On Valentine’s Day, a holiday of people who are in love, everyone gives greeting cards to each other. This day is a good opportunity to show your feelings with an unusual gift. I’ll tell you how to create a vector-card for this holiday of love. This artwork was created by… read more

13 Important Resources for Learning How to Design Typefaces and Full Fonts

If you’re serious about creating a typeface design, then you’ll need some solid resources to get started. Learn effective typeface design workflows, how to take an initial spark of an idea from sketch, through Illustrator, into Fontlab, and then work your creation into a complete and custom font design. Here… read more

20 Beautiful Retro Poster Vector Illustration

20 Beautiful Retro Poster Vector Illustration

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Free vector download – Warrior skull

Free vector download – Warrior skull

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Romantic Valentines day free Love card vector

Romantic Valentines day free Love card vector

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20 Fun & Lively Character Design Tutorials from Vectortuts+

Mastering the art of character design is something that takes both a lively imagination and a good understanding of drawing techniques. Today we have have bundled together a collection fun and lively character design tutorials from the Vectortuts+ archives. Covering a variety of subjects from sketching to rendering there’s plenty… read more

Create a 100% Vector, Painterly Illustration – Tuts+ Premium Tutorial

In this Tuts+ Premium tutorial, we will use Adobe Illustrator to create a dynamic painterly textured illustration. This technique can be done using a mouse; however, a tablet will give you an extra level of control. We’ll cover the complete vector painting process from sketch to final illustration. If you… read more

How to make your own icon webfont

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Quick Tip: How to Create a Blueprint Illustration

Have you always wanted to be an architect, but really just because you want to show people cool blueprints? Well‚ neither has Ryan, but he’ll certainly show you how to create a blueprint illustration in Adobe Illustrator. It all starts with a square filled with a gradient, and demonstrates techniques… read more

How to Create Smoky Brushes and Type In Illustrator CS4

I’ve always been fascinated by smoke, and have experimented a lot with it. So in this tutorial, I explain how to create realistic smoke, make it into a brush and use it for type. Let’s light up our vector cigarettes and get started smokin’!

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Daily Inspiration #1037

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

10 Abstract Decorative Free Vector Elements

10 Abstract Decorative Free Vector Elements

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16 Nice Examples of Vector Graphics

16 Nice Examples of Vector Graphics

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Mike Matas: A Next-generation Digital Book

Just because you missed that awesome conference, doesn’t mean that you can’t still watch the lectures! This weekend we’re sharing an interesting demo by Software developer Mike Matas at TED2011. In this talk Mike demos the first full-length interactive book for the iPad — with clever, swipeable video… read more

How to Quickly Find Raster Images and Effects in Vector Files Using Adobe Illustrator

How to Quickly Find Raster Images and Effects in Vector Files Using Adobe Illustrator

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158 New Joyful Vector Illustrations from Vectorious.net + Freebie!

158 New Joyful Vector Illustrations from Vectorious.net + Freebie!

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The Pixel Renaissance: Pixel Art’s Place in 21st Century Expression

My first experience with pixels occurred in second grade. During the rainy months, our teacher allowed us to stay inside, where we replaced recess with video game tournaments. Huddled over old Apple II monitors, we maneuvered game hero Panama Joe through endless levels of Montezuma’s Revenge.

Panama Joe’s image featured an… read more

Extracting Logos Using Levels In Adobe Fireworks

In all the years that I’ve been using Adobe Fireworks, I have always had to perform one task in every project: remove the background from a logo. Most of the time, it’s because the client doesn’t have the original raw file that their previous designer used to create their company’s… read more

How to Create a Vector Light Bulb Icon with Inkscape

Today we’ll be learning how to create a vector light bulb icon with the free, open source vector program Inkscape. We’ll be following a Tango style of design for this project. Read on to learn more about the Tango Desktop Project and to learn how to create this icon.

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It’s here… Say hello to ZeroBundle!

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Quick Tip: How to Create a Simple Price Tag Icon

In the following quick tip you will learn how to create a simple price tag icon. It’s another tutorial that focuses mainly on the Appearance panel. First, you will need some basic tools and shape building techniques to create the starting shape. Next, using the power of the Appearance… read more

Tuts+ Premium Pack – Wild Animals

Today we have a unique Tuts+ Premium Pack, which is created in Illustrator by Sharon Milne. It’s filled with 10 illustrated wild animals. Each is completely vector, available in AI and EPS formats. Log in or Join Now to get this exclusive download. Learn more at the jump!

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Quick Tip: How to Create Typographic Snowflakes

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a series of different snowflakes from letters. To achieve this effect you will use the Transform Effect on a single letter. You will easily be able to create a series of individual snowflakes, taking advantage of editable type and the variety… read more

Working with Professional Typography in Adobe Illustrator

I would like to dedicate this tutorial to typography, which are the methods of processing printed text for better legibility and beauty. Typography is composed through the graphic design of printed text using the specifics for that languages rules. In this Basix tutorial will be apply the typography methods and… read more

Stop American Censorship — a campaign from Fight for the Future

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Weekly Freebie #5 – Beautiful Vector Branches

Weekly Freebie #5 – Beautiful Vector Branches

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New Jaw Dropping T-shirt Designs, Vector Packs & Freebie from Designious.com!

New Jaw Dropping T-shirt Designs, Vector Packs & Freebie from Designious.com!

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10 Beautiful Valentine’s Day Heart Vectors

10 Beautiful Valentine’s Day Heart Vectors

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Vector Graphics: 50 Free Vector Resources

Vector Graphics: 50 Free Vector Resources

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Vectortuts+ Quiz: Test Your Illustrator Knowledge

Test your knowledge of Adobe Illustrator with the Vectortuts+ Illustrator Quiz! How well do you know Adobe Illustrator? Find out at the jump!

If you enjoy this fun mini-quiz, try the Adobe Illustrator Basics Quiz. If you want to brush up on your basic knowledge, check out our Basix category for… read more

40 Fresh And High Quality Free Icon Sets In PSD Format

Here is yet another exciting collection of high quality Free Icon PSD files for the designers that they can easily modify according to their needs and requirements. We all know very well how precious high quality PSD files are for the designers especially when they are running out of the… read more

Create a Designer Gift Bag Using Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial you will learn how to draw a designer gift bag using basic shapes and various patterns, which are made available in Illustrator. You will also learn to add your own customized details to the design.

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Create an 800px by 800px RGB document. Let’s start by creating the… read more

Vector Images and Raster Images Difference

Vector Images and Raster Images Difference

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Quick Tip: How to Create a Mosaic Text Effect

In the following quick tip you will learn how to create a Mosaic text effect. It all start with the background. A simple rectangle filled with a flat color, a radial gradient plus a Film Grain effect. For the text you will use a nice, free font. After you expand… read more

Thanks to Our Weekly Sponsor: Artboard

Our featured sponsor this week is Artboard, a truly impressive vector drawing application that’s simple enough for everyone to use.

Artboard has all the features you need in an advanced vector editing app: over 20 tools for drawing and navigation, custom shapes, clip art, boolean operations, layers, advanced style creation… read more

Resolution Independence With SVG

In this article, we’ll look at Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), one of the most underused technologies in website development today.

Before diving into an example, let’s consider the state of the Web at present and where it is going. Website design has found new vigor in recent years, with the evolving technique… read more

Create a Picture Gallery in Illustrator

This work is a common project created together with Iaroslav Lazunov and Alexander Egupov. We have used 3D rendering, Blends, Opacity masks, making this three-dimensional stage with vanishing points. Learn every step in how to create this picture gallery work.

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First of all, take the Rectangle Tool (M) and draw… read more

What’s new for designers – January 2012

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Create a Skateboard Illustration with Mixed Medias

As most kids born in the 90s I was very influenced by skateboarding and was a “skater” myself. I always loved skateboard art and I remember going with my friends to skate shops to see the shapes from brands like Santa Cruz, Flip, Powell Peralta and others. I must admit… read more

How to Create an Isometric Shopping Basket Using Illustrator, Phantasm CS and VectorScribe

How to Create an Isometric Shopping Basket Using Illustrator, Phantasm CS and VectorScribe

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Valentine Vector Art: Free Download Beautiful Vector Images

Valentine Vector Art: Free Download Beautiful Vector Images

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5 Crucial Points Before Becoming a Freelance Web Designer

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A freelance career offers a plethora of opportunities and rewards for web designers like you, just itching to make it on your own. At the same time, it can lead to a lot of headache, even failure, if you don’t grasp a few basic skills… read more

Klaus Stadlmann: The world’s smallest 3D printer

Just because you missed that awesome conference, doesn’t mean that you can’t still watch the lectures! This weekend we’re sharing an interesting talk by Klaus Stadlmann at TED xVienna. In this talk Klaus demos his tiny, affordable printer that could someday make customized hearing aids or sculptures smaller… read more

The Vector Caricature from Glenn Jones

The Vector Caricature from Glenn Jones

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Community: Peer Review 05

Vectortuts+ is all about helping people turbo charge their skills, and today we have another special community post that will help our readers take their images to the next level. The best thing is, you can be part of it too! Find out more at the jump.

Peer Review, 5

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Free download: Balio Web UI Kit

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Vector Design: Cool Free HQ Vector Designs

Vector Design: Cool Free HQ Vector Designs

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Fun and Free Vector Backgorund Scene

Fun and Free Vector Backgorund Scene

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Quick Tip: How to Create a Cartoon Style Big Bang Explosion

Let’s blow things up with a nice big boom in this this Quick Tip. Circles, triangles and a star shape create a bright explosion. This is a step-by-step tutorial for beginners. The icons from the inkscape toolbar are added to the images to make it easier to find … read more