Anyone interested increasing their Illustrator skill sets should have this site bookmarked. Von Glitska's site is a fantastic source of inspiration, information of all that is Adobe Illustrator. I don't know where he finds the time to write up all the tutorials. Each tutorial is a meticulous documentation, both written and photographed, of the steps he does (from start to finish) for an illustration project. Unlike the bubbly "happiness" and "killer tips" of the Photoshop TV and Layers TV, he actually presents projects that run the gamut from successful ad campaigns to projects that that didn't pan out, working with art directors, issues with pro bono work and how to improve work flow.
My favorites are his endless doodles that keep skills honed and sometimes turn out to be winning projects...he even doodles on recycled styrofoam coffee cups! Another, entitled, Visual tension, is a tutorial in which he demonstrated how the tiniest corrections done to the vectors of an image can make it transform from mediocre work to a professional job.
In addition to his tutorials he features tutorials from 35 other artists. It is a wonderful window into the art and lifes of artist/illustrators working in the digital age.
It takes a more than a few minutes of your time to go through this website, but it is worth the time and effort. I've learned more from a handful of his tutorials than a semester worth of Illustrator class.
a hidden gem
Thu, 02/21/2008 - 17:43 — Debbie (not verified)Anyone interested increasing their Illustrator skill sets should have this site bookmarked. Von Glitska's site is a fantastic source of inspiration, information of all that is Adobe Illustrator. I don't know where he finds the time to write up all the tutorials. Each tutorial is a meticulous documentation, both written and photographed, of the steps he does (from start to finish) for an illustration project. Unlike the bubbly "happiness" and "killer tips" of the Photoshop TV and Layers TV, he actually presents projects that run the gamut from successful ad campaigns to projects that that didn't pan out, working with art directors, issues with pro bono work and how to improve work flow.
My favorites are his endless doodles that keep skills honed and sometimes turn out to be winning projects...he even doodles on recycled styrofoam coffee cups! Another, entitled, Visual tension, is a tutorial in which he demonstrated how the tiniest corrections done to the vectors of an image can make it transform from mediocre work to a professional job.
In addition to his tutorials he features tutorials from 35 other artists. It is a wonderful window into the art and lifes of artist/illustrators working in the digital age.
It takes a more than a few minutes of your time to go through this website, but it is worth the time and effort. I've learned more from a handful of his tutorials than a semester worth of Illustrator class.