Font Collection: 10 Free Handwriting Fonts

Font Collection: 10 Free Handwriting Fonts

Handwriting fonts, being organic, fluid and based on a person’s handwriting, can impart a sense of personality, humanistic connection and realism onto your composition. In this font collection, you’ll find 10 excellent, free handwriting fonts. Add your own suggestions in the comments.

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30 Designs and Illustrations with Great Masking Techniques

30 Designs and Illustrations with Great Masking Techniques

Masking is an artistic method by which a portion of a composition is isolated and protected in order to make changes disturbing or affecting other areas of the composition. It’s a very useful technique that artists employ in their work, sometimes even without thinking about it. Masking has even been used by painters as far back as prehistory.

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Create a Rockin’ Grungy Poster in Photoshop

Create a Rockin’ Grungy Poster in Photoshop

In this tutorial, we are going to create a grungy fictional concert poster in Photoshop. We will be using a variety of layer masks as well as other effects to create a grunge-themed poster that features a masked-out guitar player as a central design element.

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Vintage Star Pattern: Texture Pack

Vintage Star Pattern: Texture Pack

This free vintage-themed texture pack features a star pattern on aged paper. The texture comes in 20 wonderful color variations. At 3600x3600px and in JPG format, the files are large and high-resolution. The textures can be used as backgrounds or to add textures to designs, art projects, illustrations, photos, and more!

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Create a Vintage Memorabilia Poster

Create a Vintage Memorabilia Poster

This tutorial will show you how to create a conceptual vintage-themed poster of the Design Instruct South Expedition to Cape Horn in 1975. We will be mixing images, grunge brushes, textures and more to achieve the final design. The design process involves Photoshop filters, layer masks, trendy typography techniques as well as the use of Adobe Illustrator to create a stylish circular badge logo.

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Draw an Ornate Bell in Adobe Illustrator

Draw an Ornate Bell in Adobe Illustrator

In this Illustrator tutorial, I’ll demonstrate how to create an ornate bell using Adobe Illustrator. The creation process is quite simple: We will create shapes using the Pen Tool and Pathfinder Panel, as well as mix and match color gradients until we achieve a nice 3D result. Let’s get down to business!

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Vintage Starburst: Texture Pack

Vintage Starburst: Texture Pack

This freebie features a vintage-themed starburst, set on top of an aged paper background. This free texture pack comes in 36 color combinations and in JPG format. They’re very large (3600x3600px) and high-resolution.

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