deke.com posts about Illustrator

Drawing a Subwoofer in Adobe Illustrator

Deke makes great use of gray gradients in Adobe Illustrator in order to make his very own subwoofer.

Creating Rivets in Adobe Illustrator

Deke uses Adobe Illustrator's gradient, drop shadow, and blend capabilities to create a riveting background for a triceratops logo.

Creating Brushed Metal in Adobe Illustrator

Deke uses Adobe Illustrator to create a brushed metal effect out of nothing but pixels.

Drawing Organic Curves with Round Corners in Illustrator (Triceratops Edition)

Deke shows you how to use Adobe Illustrator's round corner widgets to drag curves and avoid having to shape them with the Pen tool.

Dynamic Round Corners in Adobe Illustrator

Deke shows you how (and why) to use the Round Corners feature in Adobe Illustrator to make drawing faster and easier.

Illustrator Pen Tool (Triceratops) Tricks

Deke shows you exactly where to put the anchor points and place the control handles for drawing his Triceratops logo.

Designing an Animal Logo in Illustrator

Deke begins the time-traveling journey of creating a triceratops-themed logo in Adobe Illustrator.

Very Large Artboards in Adobe Illustrator

Deke explores the possibilities of the extra large artboards you can now create in Adobe Illustrator 2021.

Drawing a Universal Power Symbol in Adobe Illustrator

Deke uses some handy shape features in Adobe Illustrator to draw the universal power symbol.

Tracing an Object with the Photoshop Pen Tool

Deke shows you how to trace a pixel-based heart with the Pen tool in Photoshop in order to make smooth, artifact-free scaleable shapes.

Tracing a Specific Letterform with a Shape Tool in Adobe Illustrator 2021

Deke uses the new Snap to Glyph option in Adobe Illustrator 2021 to fill in the counters of a few O's with a relative ease that was previously hard to come by.

Illustrator 2021 One-on-One: Fundamentals Is Released (with Useful Samples Here)

The update to Deke's Illustrator 2021 One-on-One course is now available at LinkedIn Learning and we have the samples to prove it.