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Deke's Techniques 138: Creating a Superhero Shield in Adobe Illustrator
Just in time for the 4th of July, I show you how to create a shiny, reflective superhero shield in Illustrator. It's a long, intense technique, but it's super cool as well.
Deke's Techniques 134: Adding a Border to an Image in Illustrator
This is the day that Deke's Techniques amps up from casual to serious. Because this very day, I begin in earnest to kick some seriously vector-based ass.
Deke's Techniques 132: Adding Photographic Texture to Vector Type in Illustrator
This week, I show you how to take a couple of cloud photographs and cram them into some vector-based text objects, inside Adobe Illustrator.
I Have FInished "Illustrator CS6 One-on-One: Fundamentals"
Deke's Techniques 123: Joining Type to a Circle in Illustrator
Today marks Deke's first-ever video recorded in Illustrator CS6. And it's all about a topic as old as the hills: how to create type along both the top and bottom of a circle.
Deke's Techniques 112: Designing a Model Railroad Track in Illustrator
There are model railroad geeks. And there are vector graphics geeks. In this episode of Deke's Techniques, the two groups of geeks get to meet.
Happy Birthday, Adobe Illustrator!
Deke's Techniques 106: Drawing a Highly Graphic Explosion
In just two days, Adobe Illustrator turns 25 years old. Today, I celebrate Illustrator and the wider world of vector art with a technique that'll blow you away.
dekeAdvice: Getting Your dekeLove On
Deke's Techniques 102: Drawing with the Reshape Tool
Happy Valentine's Day. In honor of the occasion, I've come up with a tasty red candy of a technique, based on a misunderstood feature called the Reshape tool.
Deke's Techniques 099: Creating Great Movie Poster Credits in Illustrator
Have you heard about Warichu inside Adobe Illustrator? Unless you live in Japan, I'm guessing not. And yet it's just the ticket for formatting American movie poster credits.