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Creating a Visual Brand Guideline

A Brand Guideline is a document that shows how a designer can use company assets to create designs. Let's go through some key sections of this document.

Colour Psychology: What Colours and Colour Combinations Mean to Us

How does a designer decide what colours to use on a specific project? It's common to think that this is just "colour sense", but the answer is actually found in Psychology and how we perceive colour combinations.

Procreate Shortcuts and Tips for Beginners

Procreate has many handy quick shortcuts that make using the app a breeze for designing and quick sketching.

Image Rescaling Algorithms Explained

Image editing software scale images using rescaling algorithms. Let's go over a few to see which one is the best one to use.

Types of Logo Design

Logos are a fundamental part of any company's brand image. In this blog, let's look at the types of logos brands frequently use to represent themselves.

Alpha Lock, Clipping Mask and Layer Mask in Procreate

Using Alpha Locks, Clipping, and Layer masks in Procreate allows us to draw over layers in a more convenient way than simply using a brush.

Usability Heuristic: Part 2

UI UX design is made a lot easier through "Usability Heuristics" developed by Jakob Nielsen. This part will talk about the remaining principles from Part 1.

Usability Heuristic: Part 1

UI UX design is made a lot easier through "Usability Heuristics", as developed by Jakob Nielsen. In this part, we will talk about the first 5.

Gestalt Theory for User Interface Design

Gestalt Theory is a set of principles that are used to study how the brain categorizes objects into a bigger whole. It is an important tool for any UI designer.

Croquis: Rapid Gesture Drawing

A croquis drawing is a sketch that highlights the most basic components of the subject. Combined with tracing, croquis can help artists understand concepts like tones, light, and shapes.

Useful Workflow Shortcuts, Tips and Tricks in Adobe Illustrator

Using Illustrator can be tedious. Here's how you can increase your workflow by learning these 9 useful Adobe Illustrator shortcuts.

Understanding Perspectives in Drawing

Understanding perspective is an important part of drawing realistic 2D art. Perspective can generally be separated into two types, Aerial and Linear.

Drawing a Human Foot

Feet are even more difficult than hands to draw since we get to see so little of them in daily life in comparison. But, using footprints, I have been able to develop a useful process of drawing feet.

Drawing Hands

Drawing human hands can be a challenging task. Let's go over the nuances and decisions you need to make when drawing them.

Glass Button Design in Adobe Illustrator

This is a process of creating a glass effect on a button using Adobe illustrator. The button is planned in several layers which will make it easier to make changes according to the different colors and effects when it needs to be changed in the future.

Design Ludo 3D Dice in Adobe illustrator

There are multiple ways to make realistic looking dice on Adobe illustrator; one of the methods is using the classic 3D bevel effect where you can assign artworks and symbols on each side of the dice. This method helps you create a real looking cube with perspective.

9-Slice Scaling in Adobe Illustrator

9 slice scaling in Adobe Illustrator is an image resizing technique that proportionally scales an image by splitting it into nine sections. In this way for example a rounded corner is preserved and are not stretched.

Grids in Adobe Illustrator

We start off by creating a line of a certain length on Illustrator and change the values of Position according to the desired square dimension you want for each box; in this case, the horizontal value will be 0 and the vertical value will be set to 80.

Font Selection in Mobile Games

What to consider when selecting font family or combinations for any mobile display app or game? This article tells you the process and design principles thought for while selecting a font family or a combination for a mobile game or an app.

101 Basics of Game Design Colours

The contrast effect is the most useful way to make texts and visual elements to be legible or more recognizable for the human eye.