
Elements of Design: Best Practices When Creating Form in Digital Media
There’s only 2 elements left to explore! Today we’re looking at form. This is where you can bring some reality into your designs and artwork; it can

Digital Art Ideas for Beginners: How to Add Texture in Illustrator
Ready to learn how to add texture in Illustrator!? In these digital art lesson tutorials you’ll take your artwork to the next level with Illustrator

Elements of Design: How Texture can be Eye-opening in Visual Media
The smooth comforting feel of your soft cotton sheets… The rough bark of the old tree that you climbed as a young child… The creamy,

Digital Art Ideas for Beginners: How to Make Value and Manage Shading in Illustrator
The tutorials you see below will show you how to do some digital art shading. They are a little more complex than the tutorials that

Elements of Design: How the Value in a Photo or Design can Express Feeling
In the past couple weeks we talked about color and got a peek into what value is in relation to color. This week we are going to get a

Digital Art Ideas for Beginners: How to Teach Digital Coloring in Illustrator
If you missed the post about color, you may want to go back and check it out as it will directly correspond to some of the

Elements of Design: What Colors Work Best Together?
Now that we’ve discussed Line and Shape as elements of design, it’s time to dive into color. Now, I say dive but perhaps I should amend that statement and say that

Digital Art Ideas for Beginners: How to use Shape in Illustrator
These tutorials are meant to go along with the How to Use the Right Kind of Shape in Art post from last week. Each tutorial below has

Elements of Design: How to Use the Right Kind of Shape in Art
Shape. After line, it is the first thing a child learns to draw. This second building block to the 7 elements of design can be

Digital Art Ideas for Beginners: How to Use the Line Tool in Illustrator
This post goes along with the How to Use Line to Lead the Eye and Keep Interest post from last week. Below you will find a few

Elements of Design: How to Use Line to Lead the Eye and Keep Interest
There are a lot of good articles out there that will explain the elements of design for you. So, why do I want to write

6 Bad Logos and where the designers went so wrong
Bad logo design… You know it when you see it, even if you don’t know how or why it’s true… Bad logos are something that