deke.com posts about Illustrator

Deke's Techniques 386: Selectively Adjusting Colors for Print

Deke makes some selective adustments to the color of an illustration in Photoshop in order to get the best print.

Deke's Techniques 384: Creating an Origami Flower in Illustrator

Deke uses dynamic effects in Illustrator to fold up the petals of a flower into a virtual origami chrysanthemum.

Deke's Techniques 382: Drawing a Vector Flower in Illustrator

Deke starts with a simple circle shape and uses Illustrator's transformative powers of dynamic effect to create a mesmorizing, multicolored flower.

Deke's Techniques 365: Creating a Political Poster in Illustrator

Deke celebrates Election Day with a carefully crafted campaign poster made in Adobe Illustrator.

The Ring Tutorial to End All Ring Tutorials (Part 2: Engraving Your Elvish Message)

The step-by-step story of how to inscribe the 3D Ring to Rule Them All.

Deke's Techniques 346: Creating Uniform Hand Drawn Letters in Illustrator

Deke shows you how to create custom hand-drawn letters in Illustrator, with tips for how to repeat shapes so that they look like a cohesive font.

The Ring Tutorial to End All Ring Tutorials (Part 1)

This is a longish, literary-ish (well, you know, to the best of my ability), interpretation of Deke's ten-minute video tutorial on how to create the famous artifact at the center of Tolkien's work.

Deke's Techniques 344: Creating the 3D Ring (to End All Rings, or Something Like That)

Deke recreates the most famous ring in literary history (at least as far as geeks are concerned) in Illustrator.

Deke's Techniques 343: Baking a 3D Donut in Illustrator

Deke bakes delicious 3D donuts from people's heads in Illustrator

Do the Impossible: Create and Animate an Optical Illusion

Deke shows you how to not only create a Penrose triangle but then animate a golden ball rolling around its impossible never-ending sides.

Deke's Techniques 340: Select Focus Area and Pseudo Engraving

Deke uses the Photoshop's new ability to select based on focus area to isolate a portrait and turn it into a currency style engraving.

Deke's Techniques 338: The Four Interlocking Hands of Brotherhood and Teamwork

Deke shows you how to make a classic four-square intertwined handshake of peace, brotherhood, and teamwork inside Adobe Illustrator.