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Natalie Sklobovskaya loves vector art, comic-doodling, painting, web design and coding. She understands how to bring art school energy to her powerful images. Freshly graduated from Washington University in St. Louis, Natalie continues to learn and loves to push her work into new directions.

In the most pure form, vector graphics are visuals made up of points, lines, curves and geometrical shapes. A vector is represented by mathematical equations - going from point A to point B, and can be resized as often as needed without loss of quality. Vector illustration is a popular technique used by many digital artists. Many of today’s image-makers have grown up with vector programs and have developed their skills accordingly, utilizing the huge technologic advances of vector graphics to fuel their creativity.

Illustrator CS5 includes some great new drawing tools, including a set of perspective guides and natural media effects. Here we take you through how to use them.

It's been 20 years since Adobe Photoshop 1.0 was released, and today more and more illustrators and graphic art professionals all over the world are using Adobe's products to produce digital art, illustrations, photo retouches, videos, web sites and other creative material. Let’s have a look at the history of Adobe’s creative software.

A logo is the first impression of any brand or agency. It’s the symbol of your company, so it’s important to create a memorable and effective logo. Here are some guidelines for effective logo design and use.

Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator share many of the creative capabilities of the other. Photoshop is a bitmap image manipulation and processing program that is perfect for creating, outputting or modifying digital images of a photographic nature. Illustrator is a vector based drawing program that generates individual vector objects (Bezier curves) that retain their characteristics and are not part of a bitmap. Although the creative programs Photoshop and Illustrator are manufactured by Adobe, there are quite some differences.

It’s hard to believe that Poked Studio is only one man, the talented Mr. Jonathan Ball. When you browse his portfolio, you would think that there’s at least a whole studio behind the amazing vector artworks, cartoons and flash animations. Ball is a true master in creating fantasy characters and worlds in vibrant colors, served up with a double-dose of fun & crazy. No wonder his cute and fascinating illustrations take the world by storm.