I posted a simple heart vector last week, which I actually had a fair amount of fun making. As I was making it, I noticed how many shortcuts and simple techniques make the process of vector illustration so much easier. I’ve learned a ton of great stuff from Vectips, Vectortuts, and Abduzeedo and wanted to pass along some workflow tips of my own. Have fun.
Oh, I should stress (as though it’s not already obvious), I’m no anatomist.
Introducing the first free resource in the ClickPop comeback. I wanted to get this out for valentines day, but got a little caught up in some fun projects I’ve been working on. So here it is, better late than never. Consider it a very early 2010 valentines day release.
As always, if you come up with something great, let us know. We love to see the amazing work creative people do with our humble resources. Happy illustrating.
Download the Have a Heart Vector (ai and eps)
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ClickPop Have a Heart Vector by Christopher Vasquez is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. Based on a work at www.clickpopmedia.com
No matter what you think of his politics, U.S. presidential cantidate Barack Obama has a pretty incredible marketing and design machine behind him. One strong example of this is his “O” logo. Simple, attractive, symbolic, it’s undeniably an effective logo.
Another aspect of the Obama campaign that is attractive to a lot of American’s is the grass-roots, everybody can be involved attitude that they’ve been trying quite successfully to convey. In honor of that attitude, and just in time for the Democratic Convention, I thought I would show some really helpful Illustrator techniques by making the Obama logo. In this tutorial, we’ll be going over the Pathfinder, Envelope Warps, Opacity Masks, and Gradient Meshes. And we’ll use a drop shadow!
What’s that? You don’t think we can do it? I have three words for you my friend.
Yes. We. Can.
A couple weeks ago, I gave out a Palin vector. I’ve been playing around with it since then, and finally have a shirt for sale. It combines the absolutely gorgeous Sarah Palin with her home state, and state motto, appropriately, “North to the future.”
I actually went to a McCain/Palin event with some friends and some shirts. The shirts were an enormous hit, and everybody and their grandmother (seriously, an elderly lady with a super old camera) wanted to get pictures. I don’t want to exaggerate, but I think we may have been more popular than McCain today.
Governor Palin was actually kind enough to autograph one for us, and we’ll be auctioning that off for charity soon. We’re still working out the details, but I’ll let you know on that one.
In any case, be a pal and pick up a Palin shirt. Photos from the rally after the jump. (more…)
I personally have been a big fan of Threadless for quite some time now. The designs they offer are, generally speaking, more beautiful, funny, or insightful than your run of the mill t-shirt. However, this might just be about to change. You see, I’ve posted a design to Threadless, and if it does not get printed, I promise I will throw a hissy fit and never use Threadless again!
Well, maybe not for a week or so at least.
As you can see, I’ve used a ton of the our free vectors. So if you like the design and want to support the site, give us a quick vote. I’ll love you forever if you do.
Last month was a really heavy month of work for us, and as a result you may have noticed that we weren’t posting as often. Thankfully, that’s all about to change (hopefully not the work load, just the fact that one way or the other we’ll be posting more often).
To kick things off, we have a very useful vector bird wing.
As always, let us know if you do anything neat with it. Have fun, friends.
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