Cam ‘Camske’ Sykes discuss how he goes about designing a character illustration in Photoshop, while also offering some free brushes for download! Advertise here via BSA

In this tutorial, we are going to design a simple New Year illustration with neon digits in Photoshop CS5. I hope you enjoy this tutorial and that it inspires you to create your own illustration for New Year! Layered PSD file included. Advertise here via BSA

In this Photoshop tutorial, Matt Fox is going give you a general overview of how he digitally colors an illustration. He’ll go over scanning, cleaning, flatting, coloring, rendering, and texturing techniques. There’s just as many ways to coloring a drawing digitally as there is to painting a picture. This tutorial won’t focus on any specific way to blend or choose [...]

Create a surreal retro-future illustration in Photoshop using stock photos, layer styles, and custom patterns. Advertise here via BSA

One of the hardest things to accomplish in vector illustration is a halftone. Here we show you how to create one in only four steps. Advertise here via BSA

Hi there. In the following tutorial you will learn how to create a semi-realistic MacBook Pro illustration. This is the left side view version. Next month I will also publish a shorter tutorial on how to create a MacBook Pro viewed from the front. Until then you can have a look at this detailed tutorial that will guide you through [...]

Kervin Brisseaux shows how he turned a basic illustration into a retro-futuristic artwork in Photoshop. You’ll use the Marquee and Pen tools to create a variety of forms, and generate atmosphere with glow effects made using Adjustment layers and Layer Styles. Advertise here via BSA

This tutorial will give you a general workflow overview of how to create traditional illustrations on paper and then refining it further in Photoshop. We will use Indian ink, paintbrushes and a brush pen to ink our pencil sketch, and then watercolor to fill in the illustration. Then we will place the illustration into Photoshop to perform some fine-tuning and [...]

Vector illustration can produce beautifully clean, precise artwork, but the results can also be a bit soulless. Here Mark Oliver creates those clean, precise shapes and then ‘grubbies’ them up for a more organic retro look. Advertise here via BSA

Learn the process of making a tribal-style illustration using only some fundamental techniques in Adobe Illustrator. This is more of a process overview than a play-by-play tutorial and thus, some basic skills in the program are needed in order to follow along. The main goal here is to show a workflow process, and from there, it’s up to you to [...]