Hello. Welcome to three bees in my bonnet blog. A blog of lots of things from nonsense to AI, PSD and AE tutorials. I also like to get proper hands-on and bake, sew, crochet, paper cut pictures and sometimes, pop-up cards and 3-d paper models.
Inspiration for graphic design is everywhere but sometimes our enthusiam gets damped down with decision fatigue or deadline pressure. We all want to produce something creative, something to give the eyes a real feast. And show off our skills. Today’s tutorial will give you all that and more. It shows you how to use the…
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Today I’m posting a tutorial on how to create the reflective glassy ball as seen in the image above. It’s based on kdigits video but has lots of changes all detailed in a step-by-step illustrated set of instructions. Mine is created with Illustrator cc but don’t think there are any new tools it uses that…
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Happy Earth Day! Today I’m giving you a set of free Illustrator brushes to create some stunning pattern designs. You don’t have to create mandalas, of course, draw any curve or line or shape and use the pattern brushes to decorate them any way you want. I’ve saved them as Tints so you can change…
Read MoreToday’s tutorial shows you how to make an animated download arrow (.gif) using Illustrator & Photoshop. 🙂
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We’ve all seen those super infographics where shapes are broken into jigsaw pieces to denote stages in progress, etc. They can fool you with their seeming simplicity but there’s a bit more than meets the eye. Learning the techniques is worth a little bit of effort and I’m sure you’ll come up with brilliant designs…
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Today, I’m giving you a pdf tutorial to intertwine objects in Illustrator. Bear in mind, Livepaint is destructive in its effects – so take a copy of the original if it’s important. Download my free tutorial here:
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Today I’m giving you a tutorial, not how to create the same as above but lots of things you can create to fill a letterform. They’re mostly basic mini tutorials but if you’re new to Illustrator you might find them useful.
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The Shapebuilder Tool gives you a nifty way to either unite or delete sections of overlapping objects in Illustrator. The yin yang above takes about 5 minutes to create. Have a go: download the tutorial for the instructions:
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Use a text wrap to create a pretty visual effect as part of a layout. If the page lacks colour, you could also use a clipping mask to display some colourful graphics through the outline of a shape. I’ve used a lovely curvy ampersand to show you how I created the image above. Download the…
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Today’s tutorial shows you how to make faux postage stamps. They can be printed and made into stickers or used as fun elements on holiday letters and notelets. Make a whole sheet of them 🙂 Download the tutorial here: Don’t Miss the Post! These details are taken from the An Post website (https://www.anpost.com/Post-Parcels/Sending/Christmas-2019/christmas-2018-postal-dates)
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