How to Create a Beautiful Mixed Media Illustration - Tuts+ Design & Illustration Tutorial

For many artists, an illustration begins with a pencil, a piece of paper, and a great idea. In this tutorial, Andreas Preis will show you how to create a beautiful mixed media illustration by sketching out an idea on paper, inking it, and then by bringing it in to Photoshop to clean it up, add color, and finally, to add some special effects. While this tutorial is written, it also includes a time-lapse video demonstrating the entire process of drawing and inking the illustration on paper. Let's get started!

Photoshop's Timeline Rocks

This is another of my anti-tutorials, where I share how I stumbled my way through something. It's not necessarily how things should be done and I'd love any feedback from people that really know what they're doing.

The new timeline for animating things in Photoshop really rocks, but it takes some getting used to and some Googling to figure out how to use it. Adjusting to new things is not always easy so I'm sharing this in my sarcastic tone that I use in my head to get through the day.

Talking-object illustrations tickle the funny bone

This fun series from designer Safwat Saleem brings inanimate objects to caustic life using a quirky, lo-fi approach that works brilliantly.