I came across this vector illustration of a Geisha at Steel Dolphin Art & Design Forums. It was submitted by Gustav Germann (aka Guger) and I found it to be a delightful blend of simplistic illustration and gradient mesh work.
I asked him to send me a little info on his process. He had this to […]

For the past few months I’ve been trying my hand at some logo contests over at SitePoint Forums and was surprised to see contest holders still requesting the .psd as the desired file format. Likewise, there are still a surprising amount of entrants asking contest holders if it’s O.K. to create a proposal using Photoshop. […]

Jim Gunardson, 32, is a freelance artist who does most of his work for magazines. Jim wears many hats as a creative, as he also works as an interactive web designer, focusing on interface illustration, and icon design. Jim currently lives in New Jersey, right outside Philadelphia. He has lived in Sarasota, Florida and in […]

Have you ever been working in Adobe Illustrator and had an artboard full of many different objects or a very complex design but wanted to select one type or group of objects, and for example, want to change their color? You could manually try to go in and ungroup objects and ‘Shift + Click’ them […]

Vector Art made a breakthrough with the distinctive cell-filled designs hitting the design community. What was a primitive style in the realm of cartooning became a mainstream, attractive, and desirable trend for pieces of artwork. Now history is repeating itself in the realm of Vector Art, shifting towards realism, through use of the almighty Gradient […]

Thanks to James Cabrera, one of VT’s contributors for this engaging interview with the talented illustrator: Niccolo Balce of www.the-null.com

How did you first start getting into illustration?
I’ve been doodling ever since I was a kid. I actually used tracing paper back then ‘coz my dad was an architect and he had spare tracing papers […]

It’s finally here! Vectortown interviews John Schwegel, we hope you enjoy the read. Please feel free to post comments!
How Long have you been working as an illustrator and designer? Can you tell us a bit about what you do day to day?
I graduated from The Hussian School of Art in 1996 where I majored in […]

I first discovered this talented youth when he joined the Steel Dolphin Creative Forums and posted some of his great illustrations. Yoga is from Indonesia, WestJava , Bandung. At only 22 years of age he is already exhibiting a great amount of confidence in his illustrative works. He works mostly as a freelance artist […]

In his independent epic philosophical movie, Waking Life, Richard Linklater did more than just create a fascinating story. He utilized the talents of Bob Sabiston and a group of 30 or so animators to turn his story into a visual dreamscape. How appropriate for a movie about dreams and reality to be visually represented as […]

© Neil hooson
1. Let’s start off by telling our visitors a bit about yourself. So what can you tell us about the vector machine that is Neil Hooson?
Hmm… I don’t know what to tell you. I’m a workaholic father of 2 and husband of 1. I managed to come back to vector […]