Drawing Precise Bézier Curve Time and Tangent Lines in Illustrator

Deke demonstrates how to create precise points and lines for a technical drawing featuring Bézier curves in Adobe Illustrator.

Drawing a Bacterium with Gradient Mesh in Adobe Illustrator

Deke shines a microscope on how to draw a bacterium in Adobe Illustrator using Gradient Mesh.

Painting with Blend and Combine in Adobe Sketch

Deke continues his quest portrait drawing quest in Adobe Sketch, with a demonstration of the blend modes available.

Introducing Adobe Photoshop Sketch

Deke introduces you to his favorite virtual drawing app, Adobe Photoshop Sketch

Applying Knockout Group to a Dynamic Path in Adobe Illustrator

Deke adds electrons to his atomic symbol by using Knockout Groups to reveal the proper background.

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.

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.

New Course: Draw Better and Faster with Illustrator CC

Deke's Techniques 285: Making a Scalable Avatar in Illustrator

Deke uses paths lifted from a photograph in Photoshop to create a scalable, vector-based avatar in Illustrator.

New Course: Introducing Illustrator (with Free Samples!)

Deke's Techniques 271: Tracing Hand-Drawn Art with Uniform Strokes in Illustrator

Deke takes a sketch drawn with pencil, enhances it in Photoshop, then traces it in Illustrator with resulting uniform lines.

Deke's Technique 260: Hand-Painting an Image in Photoshop (with a Wacom Cintiq)

Deke adds paint strokes and blended colors to a photograph to give it a hand-painted effect, using Photoshop and a Wacom Cintiq