In a few minutes that I had spare, I doodled a couple of birds to offer up for use, and sent across the best of the two for consideration. It didn’t get taken up, so rather than let a sketch go to waste, I decided I’d illustrate it for a tutorial of how I like to use Illustrator...

This tutorial will teach you a couple of techniques I use to create ghostly effect as those you have seen in The Suicide (second row, first image) or in Exodus of the Birds.

Using some basic shapes, effects, and gradients I will show you how to create a Twitter mascot for your blog or website. Twitter is a popular free web service for social networking and micro-blogging. You can follow Vectips, Sean Hodge, or Collis Ta'eed on Twitter as well!

This tutorial will show you what’s capable using paths. Paths are a really flexible way to achieve a variety of outcomes, yet can tend to be overlooked by the average Photoshop user.

Maya 8.0 for the modeling (polygonal) and Mental Ray for rendering. The lighting is given by an HDRI probe and two lights.

Painting Peacock using GIMP, Photoshop or other raster graphics software.

This tutorial is fine example of how 3ds max and Photoshop can be used together for quality output. These tips and tricks will be helpful in your other projects too.

This tutorial uses the warp tool and layer blending modes to create a Phoenix Bird out of a flower.

In this tutorial we will teach you how to make a cute bird in photoshop using pen tools.

Today I am going to illustrate a ‘bird’ from sketch to vector. To do this tutorial, you need to have some basic of illustrator drawing technique.