Free Illustrator Pattern: Seamless Heartshaped Diamonds

Free Vector Patterns for Adobe Illustrator CS

SwirlyCurls the Seamless Patterns - Free Illustrator Download

(Click the image, scroll down to the download button.)

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Free Illustrator Brushes - Sick Brush Kit 2

POSTED BY admin on Aug 7 under adobe, brushes, freebies

Free Vector Brush Kit for Adobe Illustrator CS

SwirlyCurls the BrushKit - Free Illustrator Download

(Click the image, scroll down to the download button.)

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Funny Font Conference Video

POSTED BY admin on Jul 23 under Fonts

Font Conference

This video wasn’t long enough, so we made it double-spaced.

 

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

Royalty Free Vector Skulls, Cities, James Bond Suits, and More

POSTED BY admin on Jun 10 under Graphic Design

Royalty Free Skulls, James Bond, City

New Royalty Free Vector Graphics from Go Media.

Buy the Entire Set 11 Package

(all 7 individual packs) with one low price and one download. You get 161 high quality and detailed vector pieces. If you buy all at once, you save a ton! You are getting a $105 value for only $52 bucks!

Included in the set are Hand-Drawn Skulls, Doodles, Trees 2, Birds 2, Suits, and Type Explosions, and International City Skylines.

 

Free Illustrator Symbols - Vector Skateboard Skulls

Set includes 30 vector skull symbols and 4 Free Skull Patterns

Skateboard Skulls are Back - Sk8 Sk8 Sk8 Sk8 Sk8 Sk8 Sk8 Sk8

Download Vector Skateboard Skulls

Based on the original Sk8 Skulls set, I’m pleased to post that the second set of hand drawn vector skull symbols and skull patterns are available to download.  In case you don’t remember the original set check out this the Ryan Sheckler repeat design to refresh your memory:

Sheckler Skateboard - Download Skate Skulls Now

 

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Free Wood Textures and Tutorials

Illustrator Tutorials & High Resolution Textures

Free High Resolution Wood Textures

Free High Resolution Wood Textures

Wood Textures for Illustrator

Vectips

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New! Royalty Free Vectors

Lightning, Blood Drips, Tattoos, Nautical, Cute Vector Charecters, and more

GoMedia does it again with their new release of Set 10 of their Royalty free vector arsenal. Set 10 includes Lightning, Tattoos, Cute Stuff, Anatomy 2, Hooved, Nautical, and Blood Drips. You can also purchase the individual sets.

Lightning, Tattoos, Cute Stuff, Anatomy 2, Hooved, Nautical, and Blood Drips.lightning, thunder, storm, bolts, flash, electricity

cute, monsters, threadless, kid robot, creatures, cartoonbloody drips, ink drops, brush strokes, lepruchan, amatuer sketch, where da gold atdice, paw prints, tiger, scripts, flourishes, tribal, anchor, tattoo, flash, rose, heart, flames, ship, pinup, maskshark, tentacle, octopus, sea life, nautical, fish, dolphin, diver

User Showcase - Send me your stuff.

POSTED BY admin on Apr 7 under User Showcase

Send me you Stuff!! 

Ok. I know I’ve been quiet lately, but I promise the pay off will be worthwhile. So I’ve started a jlwDesign User Showcase on Flickr.com

Mick & Mu

Meanwhile, checkout Mick and Mu from Moomu in Perth, Australia.  They are a power photography and graphic design couple.   They used Swirly Curls 4 and sent me their work so I’ve posted it all for you to see. enjoy! 

Mu recently started a blog at theroute777.com and you can also catch Mu on Deviant Art and check out some of her other beautiful work.

33 Free Illustrator Symbols - Graffiti Grunge

Free Vectors - Graffiti and Other Art

33 Free Illustrator Symbols - Graffiti Art

Ok.. so I know you’ve been waiting and here is a new symbol set for you featuring 33 graffiti and other art related symbols.  Enjoy!

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Illustrator Tutorial - Easy Glass Effects in Two Minutes

POSTED BY admin on Feb 26 under Tutorial, adobe, illustrator

Tutorial Gratification in Two Minutes

I am reposting this tutorial because it was originally included with the Free Glass Symbol Set and it was too small.  Soon to come - Illustrator Quickie - Brushes.  Keep an eye out.

Illustrator Tutorial - Easy Glass Effects with Gradient Mesh

More About the Mesh

Change the color of a mesh point

Method 1 - Use Direct Selection Tool (The white arrow), select the mesh point, then choose your swatch

Method 2 – Drag the swatch to the mesh point

Remove unwanted mesh line segments

Method 1 - Using Mesh Tool holding down the Alt/Option key, click on a mesh line to deleteManipulate Mesh Select any point on your mesh with the Mesh tool and you’ll notice that directional lines appear. Grab a directional handle to move a directional line and you’ll alter the contour of the mesh line and, as a result, alter the direction in which the color of the selected point and the colors of the surrounding points blend into each other.Save Symbol LibraryUnzip and Save .ai file to: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator CS3\Presets\SymbolsSave From with Illustrator

  1. Open the file -> go to your symbol’s panel
  2. From the Symbol’s Fly-out Menu-> Choose Save Symbol Library
  3. Save the new library to the default Symbols folder. The library name will automatically appear in the Symbol Libraries submenu and the Open Symbol Library submenu.If you save the library to a different folder, you can open it by choosing Open Symbol Library > Other Library from the Symbols panel menu. Once you open it using this process, it will appear in the Symbol Libraries submenu with the other libraries.