Another drawing tutorial for icon lovers in which we'll be illustrating a metallic compass. We'll be controlling shadow and reflection to add realism to the illustration. As with any icon design, it's a combination of the overall design and subtle details that gives quality results.

In this tutorial, we'll explain how to create leather material in Adobe Illustrator with modified patterns, gradients, and layer blends. You'll learn a simple way to create stitches and how to make shiny metals.

Create a simple and great Liquid Metal Effect - Free photoshop Video Tutorial.

Interface creation often involves a lot of metallic looking elements, but why not have a change...

In this nice and easy tutorial I’m going to be teaching you how to make a metallic, industrial-style text effect, using layer styles mainly, but also filters to make nice after-effects.

How to design a t-shirt on a budget and a tight deadline.

I am going to show you a quick and easy variation on metallic/silver text.

Today i’m going to show you a rather simple tutorial however it does give quiet a good foundation to those who are interested in starting metallic interfaces.

Create a brushed metal texture with Illustrator's effects.

As we all know 3Ds Max does not come with a decent precious or semi-precious metal material. Originally I tried making my own gold by modifying the dark gold material that comes with 3Ds Max, but as you may imagine that did not turn out well...