Tracing 500-Year-Old Artwork in Illustrator
Deke traces Albrech Dürer's famous rhinoceros in Adobe Illustrator and arrives at a scalable piece of vector art.
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Creating a Custom Angry Emoji in Illustrator
Deke uses Illustrator to fill in a gap in the emotional range of emoji-based expression. In other words, he draws Rage.
Turn off Live Rectangle Widgets in Illustrator CC
Deke examines the new features of the "Live" Rectangle tool, then figures out how to turn the annoying parts off.
Make Coloring Book-Style Placecards in Illustrator
Deke does a final riff on his Thanksgiving placecard project, by making coloring-book style generic people your guests can customize.
Create Place Cards for Your Holiday Dinner Guests in Illustrator
Deke celebrates Thanksgiving (or any dinner party, really) by creating custom place cards in Adobe Illustrator.
Islamic Design 5 Coloring and Sculpting
In this week's free Deke's Techniques we finally complete our journey to recreate this Tunisian stained-glass window, born in Africa, revealed in Amsterdam, glimpsed in London, and finished today in Illustrator (and then Photoshop).
Islamic Design 3, Connecting the Pieces
In this week's free Deke's Techniques movie we continue our travels into the mesmerizing Islamic pattern inspired by a lovely Tunisian stained glass window.
Islamic Design Part I, Flirting with Geometric Genius
Today Deke's Techniques begins a multi-week journey from Tunisia to Amsterdam to London to Colorado to wherever you are, courtesy of Deke's quest to replicate this 19th-century Arabic patterned stained glass window he came across in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Wrapping Text around a Graphic in Adobe Illustrator
Hello, my wonderful denizens of dekeLand. Sorry for the delay in yesterday's Deke's Techniques episode. We had some issues with the sample file, and since the sample file is so darned charming, I wanted to wait to be able to share it. (In fact, it's so darn charming, I'm making it available for download.)
The New Join Tool in Illustrator CC 2015
In this week's free Deke's Techniques, Deke shares an amazingly useful---possibly magic, I'm not sure, but definitely mind-reading---tool that's new in Illustrator CC 2015.
Wrapping a Gradient around a Circle in Illustrator
In this week's free Deke's Techniques episode, Deke shows you how to create a color wheel in Illustrator, which in real non-Deke life does not actually have the angle gradient like the one that you have in Photoshop.
Deke's Techniques 394: Adding Strokes and Fills to Type in Illustrator
Deke teaches you how to add strokes and fills to your type in Adobe Illustrator, providing a workaround for the limited power of individual character attributes.