Design - Yarsa Labs DevBlog (Page 6)

Vector Drawing in Clip Studio Paint

Clip Studio Paint has plenty of vector-based drawing tools to get you started. Vector drawings don't lose quality when scaled up, so it is an important skill to learn.

Stylized Game Art - Trees: Part 1

There are so many ways you can approach making a stylized tree, but it’s always best to take inspiration from the real world.

GUI Drop Down Menu Tutorial

Today we will build upon the basics of GUI elements in Unity and use them to create a drop-down menu for a game.

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.

Tips and Tricks for Clean Topology in Blender

Clean topology is important when creating meshes in Blender. In this tutorial, I will teach you how to create meshes with clean topologies that won't cause problems later on.

Using Filters for Layer Sorting in Photoshop

Continuing from my previous article on Layer Management, learning how to use Layer Filters will definitely increase your workflow even more.

Beginner's Guide to Using Mockups

Finding the best mockup for your design is pretty much all about trial and error. The searching process might be long and arduous but trust me, a good mockup will really make your design shine.

Design Files and Folder Structure

All designers know the pain of dealing with poor file names and folder structures when working on a project. Such pain can be avoided by following these simple steps.

GUI Elements in Unity

GUI is an important aspect of development. Today we will learn how to use different types of GUI elements in our Unity project.

Light Sources in Unity

In this blog post, I will go through all the light source options present in Unity to help you choose the right one for your scene.

Unity's Sprite Settings Explained

This blog will explain every setting in the Unity Sprite Setting menu in detail, from basic sprite type selection to Unity's built-in filtering options.

Layer Management in Photoshop

Managing your layers properly is an important thing for any designer. In this blog, I will talk about the most effective ways to manage layers in Photoshop.

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.

Looping Animations in After Effects Using Expressions

Looping animations using Expressions in After Effects is quick and easy. In this tutorial, I will show you how you can use Expressions in your Animation Looping workflow.

Creating Sprite Sheets in GIMP Using tilemancer

tilemancer is a script that allows us to easily create sprite sheets in GIMP. It makes up for the lack of sprite sheet functionality in GIMP itself.

Creating Custom Pattern Swatches in Illustrator

Adobe Illustrator is great for creating custom pattern swatches. You can create simple illustrations and turn them into seamless patterns by following these simple steps.

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.

Aligning and Distributing Objects in Photoshop

Align tools in Photoshop work similarly to Illustrator but are found in different places. They are useful for all types of graphical designs, so lets learn what each function does.

Appearances in Sketch

Working with multiple styles and properties can be frustrating in Sketch, but using Appearance is useful when you want a lot of your elements to follow a global style.

Stylised Game Art - Coins

Video games contain a lot of coins. So, let's learn to mint and render our own stylised coins using Blender.

Nanomachine Transition Effects Along Mesh in Blender

An experiment with blender procedural textures to create a nanomachine spreading effect that looks similar to the one in Metal Gear Rising using Blender.

Drawing using Layer Styles in Photoshop

Layer Styles are powerful Photoshop tools that can even be used to detail a drawing. In this tutorial, I will be showing how we can use Layer Styles to add depth and glow to a drawing.

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.

Solutions for Gradient Banding in Unity

If you are facing gradient banding when trying to use images in Unity, I have found a few solutions that will be able to help you without drastically increasing image size.

Design Thinking Implementation

This is Part 2 of a 2-part series about Design Thinking. In this article, we will talk about how to implement and build on the foundations of the last article.