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  • From spray paint to pixel

    If you want to use elements of street art in your commercial work, they need to be authentic. One of London's best-known graffiti writers, Rough, shows you how.

  • From sketch to wall

    It's all in the preparation. Luca Bratsi shows you how to take a sketch and get it ready for spray painting onto a wall.

  • Retro car vectors

    All you need is some inks and some brushes to turn a photograph of a car into a vector illustration. John Kelly of Joke Art talks you through the process

  • Distressed effects in Photoshop

    When you want to create convincing imperfections within your digital work, forget filters, the resources you need are all around you.

  • Make a political statement

    Create striking imagery in the spirit of past and present propaganda art. Command attention with sharp edges, minimal detail, bold colours, and the misappropriation of familiar iconic details.

  • Hands-on design

    Combining traditional media with digital techniques is a fail-safe way to add an interesting new dimension to your artwork, but you must be prepared to get your hands dirty, as Mark Mayers explains.

  • Back to the drawing board

    If you're after realistic-looking sketch and paint effects, forget using filters. It's always best to begin with the real thing.

  • Create a tasty skate deck graphic

    From rough sketch through to perfect vectorised artwork, illustrator John McFaul gets reminiscent about designing and preparing a vibrant graphic fit for any plank.

  • Metallic print effects

    There are several ways to add metallic effects and inks to your images, but, as Research Studios' Jeff Knowles demonstrates, adding an extra metallic Pantone layer to your channels makes the process quick and easy.

  • Following a music design brief

    These days, the designer's role doesn't stop at designing the record cover. Red's Ed Templeton explains how the look and feel is carried through to all manner of marketing materials.
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  • RT @CreativeBloq: This minimalist series of illustrated animals makes beautiful use of negative space: http://t.co/pRmn7BshRk

    4:13PM May 16th via web