Featured Artist: #AGjuly2015 3rd Place Winner – David Ortiz
In July’s competition we had so many entries we decided for the first time to award a first, second and third place! We’ve already heard from Mark Grace our first place winner but now it’s time for...
View ArticleAdobe Illustrator User Group Demonstration in Los Angeles
As well as creating awesome titian videos for our customers and presenting our Pop-up Webinars, our Graphics Scientist Sebastian Bleak sometimes attends Adobe Illustrator User Group Meetings to spread...
View ArticleHow to Make Rhinestone Patterns in Illustrator
Pop-up Webinar Recording The post How to Make Rhinestone Patterns in Illustrator appeared first on Astute Graphics.
View ArticleImportant updates!
The updated Unified Installer (v1.0.5) holds much more! The post Important updates! appeared first on Astute Graphics.
View ArticleColliderScribe Review by Tom Green, About.com
Tom Green, experienced Professor, tutorialist, speaker, raconteur and lecturer has published his fourth review on Astute Graphics plug-ins and this time focussing on ColliderScribe. Tom covers the...
View ArticleHow to Create Comic Cartoon Text with Distressed Effect using WidthScribe &...
Today you will learn how to create cute comic cartoon text, using a very simple technique and convenient tools in the WidthScribe plug-in. We won’t need to search for a suitable texture to create...
View ArticleFeatured Artist: Charlie O’Brien
Charlie O’Brien is a retired Canadian radio announcer/presenter who has always loved photography. He has also done a range of graphic work including website design. Most recently he has focused on...
View ArticleAstute Graphics tutorial videos now in German with Monika Gause
Hi I’m Monika Gause and I’m a graphic designer and I like to find out how things work and then explain it to others. That has brought me to design info terminals for technical history museums, teach...
View ArticleHow to create Gear Infographics using VectorScribe and Adobe Illustrator
In this article we will introduce you to the Dynamic Gear options presented in the VectorScribe plug-in. You will also learn how to create the perfect gearing which can be animated using Adobe After...
View ArticleAstute Graphics on the Catwalk – Workflow Tutorial by Kitty Florido
Based in Guatemala City, Freelance Designer Kitty Florido enjoys producing work for a variety of markets. Her work was most recently showcased in fabrics used by Guatemalan fashion designer Eduardo...
View ArticleAstute Graphics Plug-ins Workflow by Mark Oliver
Mark Oliver is an Award winning Illustrator and full time professional artist based in Worthing, UK. His recent work for the Smart Car campaign (among others) has benefitted from the use of our...
View ArticleBeata Pijanowska – Using Astute Graphics Plug-ins in my workflow
Graphic Designer Beata Pijanowska is a creative with a penchant for beautiful blooms. Her floral designs, logos and fonts (among other things) can be found across both of her Creative Market stores....
View ArticleAdam Foreman – Making the Transition from Raster to Vector
Adam Foreman is a freelance illustrator and designer who over the years noticed that a lot of artists found the transition from Photoshop to Illustrator quite daunting. He took some time out to...
View ArticleWe are Adobe CC2018 compatible!
Adobe have announced the immediate availability of the Creative Cloud CC2018 at Adobe MAX 2017. Can I upgrade to CC2018 and keep my latest Astute Graphics plug-ins? Yes! We have issued an upgrade to...
View ArticleMaintaining or Reinstalling Previous Generation Plug-ins
It is the case that with the ever-expanding set of Illustrator releases, support for older versions eventually has to cease for practical reasons and so (as we operate on a traditional perpetual...
View ArticleColliderScribe keyboard shortcuts
ColliderScribe keyboard shortcuts ColliderScribe is a simple toolset for Adobe Illustrator that enables you to position shapes accurately, placing any object precisely next to another when it touches....
View Article5 Ways to your Heart with Astute Graphics Plug-ins
Today, we'll look at five ways to draw stylized hearts that will be useful for creating greeting cards. It will be a simple and quick job if you use the tools I recommend in this article. Happy...
View ArticleAll plug-ins updated with Unified Installer v1.2.6
Last week, Astute Graphics released Phantasm v4 which has been snapped up by many enthusiastic customers old and new! But you don't just have to want color control and vector Halftone artwork...
View ArticleHow to Create Star Wars Icons in Line Art Style
In this tutorial I will describe the process of creating a Star Wars icons in a Line Art style in Adobe Illustrator. Our vector assistants are MirrorMe, VectorScribe and ColliderScribe; they will make...
View ArticleAndrew Kliatskyi – Speeding up my Isometric Design Workflow with Astute...
Andrew (Andrii) Kliatskyi is an Illustrator and Graphic Designer from Ukraine who counts Astute Graphics plug-ins as essentials of his designer tool set. He took some time out to explain how he uses...
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