Iranian illustrator Shafiei invited to Berlin Intl. Literary Festival

TEHRAN, June 16 (MNA) -- Iranian illustrator Farshid Shafiei has been invited to the Berlin International Literary Festival, which runs from September 24 to October 3.

Being the first Iranian illustrator participating in the event, Shafiei will be holding several workshops for children and young adults aged 3 to 15 at the International Children’s and Youth Literature section of the festival.

Illustrator Drawing: Art tools

Special thanks to Ainsley Bevis for sending in this great Adobe Illustrator tutorial! She covers a number of good techniques good for beginner to intermediate Illustrator users. Ainsley is from BloomWebDesign.net ... and writes . . .

In this tutorial, I'll teach you how to design vector illustrations of Art Equipment in Adobe Illustrator. You can see the finished piece in this enlargement

Illustrator: The wizard's hat

Welcome back to the virtual space where some of the secrets for creating iconic beauties are unveiled.

The word 'wizard' has its root on concepts like wisdom and guidance. Most probably that's the reason why those helping user interface elements, the assistants, are also called wizards and are represented by default with a wizard's hat and wand icon.

The spell will be performed using Illustrator CS4.

 

Adobe Illustrator tutorial : Briefcase

The new O.S. Windows 7 has improved aesthetics to make the user interface at least more appealing. There are huge ultra detailed icons for folders, devices and so on. This time we will use Illustrator CS4 to create a nice briefcase with the Windows 7 style. You need only a few basics on how to copy, paste, rotate, scale and color the shapes. Let's focus on business.

Stunning Vector + Raster images

Following last month's vector vs. bitmap article, I decided to crack open a collection of rare and spectacular art I've been gathering over the past few months and show you some of these marvels. The first several pieces were created by talented young artists by combining vector and bitmap (raster) techniques. Here are some of the best, along with several excellent graphic designers who turn their visions into real products.