PROMPT PACKS: Twenty complete prompt packs, two hundred fifty-six presets, organized into four collections so you can find your exact direction fast: Sketch, Paint, Print, and Modern Styles.
PHOTO TO STYLE: Turn an actual photo into a specific, deliberate artistic style — never a generic filter, always the real mechanics of a genuine technique.
BATCH PROCESSING: Every bundle includes the Batch Processing System, so one chosen style can run across a whole folder of your own photos instead of one at a time.

PHOTO TO SKETCH

Six complete prompt packs, sixty-six presets, all built from a real photo instead of a sketch. Graphite and Fine Ink for classic pencil and hatched-ink rendering, Contour Line for pure unbroken linework, Hand-Drawn & Naive Art for deliberate imperfection, plus real Pencil Types and Pen Types — four genuine tools each, crossed with three real papers. Includes the Batch Processing system to run one style across a whole folder of photos at once.

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GRAPHITE: Turn a photo into a graphite pencil illustration — realistic shading and genuine pencil texture, straight from your reference image.
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FINE INK: Fine-line ink illustration from a photo — precise hatching and etching-style detail, the technique real illustrators spend years mastering by hand.
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RESOURCE GUIDES: Digital Downloads will come through our friends at Teachable. Once you have downloaded and extracted the Resource Folders, they are ready to be used in Adobe Illustrator. LEARNING TARGET: Understand how to apply Brush Libraries, Comic Halftones, and BMP Textures.
CONTOUR LINE: Pure line illustration from a photo, no shading anywhere — unbroken continuous contour, fast energetic gesture line, and deliberately segmented broken contour.
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PENCIL TYPES: Four real pencil types from a photo — Soft Graphite (6B-8B), Hard Graphite (2H-4H), Charcoal Pencil, and Mechanical Pencil — each crossed with three real papers (Smooth Bristol, Toothy Sketch Paper, Newsprint), so every combination produces its own authentic mark quality. Black ink only.
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HAND DRAWN: Naive, folk-art-inspired illustration from a photo — deliberately imperfect, warm, hand-drawn character.
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RESOURCE GUIDES: Digital Downloads will come through our friends at Teachable. Once you have downloaded and extracted the Resource Folders, they are ready to be used in Adobe Illustrator. LEARNING TARGET: Understand how to apply Brush Libraries, Comic Halftones, and BMP Textures.
PEN TYPES: Four real pen types from a photo — Ballpoint, Technical / Rapidograph, Fountain Pen, and Dip Pen / Nib — each crossed with three real papers (Smooth Bristol, Toothy Sketch Paper, Newsprint), so every combination produces its own authentic line quality. Black ink only.

PHOTO TO PAINT

Seven complete prompt packs, one hundred fourteen presets. Painterly gives you six real painting tools crossed with three real surfaces. Ink Wash and Confident Marker & Pen cover authentic wet-line and professional rendering. Four Movements packs bring twenty-six real historical painting techniques — Classical, Baroque, Impressionist, Modern, and Contemporary. Includes the Batch Processing system to run any style across a whole folder at once.

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PAINTERLY: Real painterly rendering from a photo, black and white — six real painting tools (Round, Flat/Bright, Filbert, Fan, and Rigger/Liner brushes, plus Palette Knife), each crossed with three real surfaces (Coarse Canvas Weave, Smooth Wood Panel, Cold-Press Paper), so every combination produces its own distinct paint-breaking texture.
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INK WASH: Authentic wet-ink line technique from a photo — soft bleeding edges, genuine dry-brush breaks, and edge-anchored ink spatter. This is real line quality, not a tonal wash.
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RESOURCE GUIDES: Digital Downloads will come through our friends at Teachable. Once you have downloaded and extracted the Resource Folders, they are ready to be used in Adobe Illustrator. LEARNING TARGET: Understand how to apply Brush Libraries, Comic Halftones, and BMP Textures.
CONFIDENT MARKER: Professional, editorial-quality rendering from a photo — full-tonal marker work, precise crosshatched pen and ink, and weight-driven brush pen linework. The confident, polished counterpart to the naive and doodle styles elsewhere in the catalog.
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CLASSICAL MOVEMENTS: Seven real historical painting movements from a photo — Renaissance smoky Sfumato Blend, sculptural Fresco Contour, and Dissolving Realism; Baroque Dramatic Tenebrism and Glowing Impasto Highlight; Romantic Agitated Turbulence and Atmospheric Vortex. Built from real historical paint-application technique, not artist names — black ink only.
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IMPRESSIONIST - POST: Five real historical painting movements from a photo — Impressionist Broken Color Dash and Soft Shimmer Blur; Post-Impressionist Directional Groove, Geometric Block Patch, and Pointillist Dot Matrix. Built from real historical paint-application technique, not artist names — black ink only.
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RESOURCE GUIDES: Digital Downloads will come through our friends at Teachable. Once you have downloaded and extracted the Resource Folders, they are ready to be used in Adobe Illustrator. LEARNING TARGET: Understand how to apply Brush Libraries, Comic Halftones, and BMP Textures.
MODERN - ABSTRACT: Six real historical painting movements from a photo — Expressionist Melting Ribbon Line and Jagged Fracture; Cubist Faceted Plane and Gritty Collage Texture; Surrealist Hyper-Smooth Academic and Automatic Scrape Texture. Built from real historical paint-application technique, not artist names — black ink only.

PHOTO TO PRINT

Four complete prompt packs, forty-six presets, built from real print production techniques. Tonal Grain covers stippling, aquatint, mezzotint, and lithograph. Bold Print brings genuine woodcut and linocut character. Print Process adds six techniques including Risograph, Duotone, Drypoint, and Scratchboard. Punk & Collage covers raw Xerox-degrade energy. Includes the Batch Processing system for running any style across a whole folder.

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TONAL GRAIN: Classic printmaking texture from a photo — stippling, aquatint, mezzotint, and lithograph-style tonal rendering in one pack.
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BOLD PRINT: Bold woodcut and linocut style from a photo — chunky, confident, hand-carved print texture.
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RESOURCE GUIDES: Digital Downloads will come through our friends at Teachable. Once you have downloaded and extracted the Resource Folders, they are ready to be used in Adobe Illustrator. LEARNING TARGET: Understand how to apply Brush Libraries, Comic Halftones, and BMP Textures.
DRY POINT: A soft, fuzzy, velvety scratched-plate line quality distinct from any etched line.
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RISOGRAPH: Lo-fi spot-color layering with visible grain, the real Riso-print look, in color.
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SCRATCHBOARD: White line scratched out of solid black, every mark a removal, a real photo-negative quality.
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RESOURCE GUIDES: Digital Downloads will come through our friends at Teachable. Once you have downloaded and extracted the Resource Folders, they are ready to be used in Adobe Illustrator. LEARNING TARGET: Understand how to apply Brush Libraries, Comic Halftones, and BMP Textures.
LITHO - CRAYON: Genuine waxy, granular resist texture, crumbly buildup where pressure was heaviest.

PHOTO TO MODERN

Three complete prompt packs, thirty presets, covering the styles that don't fit anywhere else. Pixel Art gives real block-size control across 8-bit, 16-bit, and 32-bit chunkiness. Digital & Reflective Effects covers chrome, glitch, holographic, and Y2K surface treatment. Homemade Craft delivers genuinely hand-crafted, not-AI-generated texture. Includes the Batch Processing system for running any style across a whole folder.

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8-BIT PIXEL: Large, bold square pixel blocks, the chunkiest, most reduced grid in the pack.
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32-BIT PIXEL: Small pixel blocks, the finest grid in the pack, retaining real detail while still reading as pixel art.
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RESOURCE GUIDES: Digital Downloads will come through our friends at Teachable. Once you have downloaded and extracted the Resource Folders, they are ready to be used in Adobe Illustrator. LEARNING TARGET: Understand how to apply Brush Libraries, Comic Halftones, and BMP Textures.
LIQUID CHROME: Glossy, reflective metallic surface treatment.
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Y2K - NOSTALGIA: A dedicated early-internet-era digital chrome and bubble-gradient aesthetic.
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FINGER PAINT: Real fingerprint-whorl detail and smeared drag-trails, the loosest mark quality in the catalog.
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RESOURCE GUIDES: Digital Downloads will come through our friends at Teachable. Once you have downloaded and extracted the Resource Folders, they are ready to be used in Adobe Illustrator. LEARNING TARGET: Understand how to apply Brush Libraries, Comic Halftones, and BMP Textures.
CRAYON RUBBING: Genuine frottage texture — the deposit pattern comes from what's rubbed underneath, not a drawn line.

PHOTO TO STYLE

AI prompts that transform an actual photo into a specific, deliberate artistic style — nine techniques across three families, from classical fine art to modern digital effects.

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GRAPHITE: Turn a photo into a graphite pencil illustration — realistic shading and genuine pencil texture, straight from your reference image.
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FINE INK: Fine-line ink illustration from a photo — precise hatching and etching-style detail, the technique real illustrators spend years mastering by hand.
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RESOURCE GUIDES: Digital Downloads will come through our friends at Teachable. Once you have downloaded and extracted the Resource Folders, they are ready to be used in Adobe Illustrator. LEARNING TARGET: Understand how to apply Brush Libraries, Comic Halftones, and BMP Textures.
TONAL GRAIN: Classic printmaking texture from a photo — stippling, aquatint, mezzotint, and lithograph-style tonal rendering in one pack.
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BOLD PRINT: Bold woodcut and linocut style from a photo — chunky, confident, hand-carved print texture.
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PRINT PROCESS: Riso-print and duotone effects from a photo — the specific look of real alternative print processes, not a generic filter.
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RESOURCE GUIDES: Digital Downloads will come through our friends at Teachable. Once you have downloaded and extracted the Resource Folders, they are ready to be used in Adobe Illustrator. LEARNING TARGET: Understand how to apply Brush Libraries, Comic Halftones, and BMP Textures.
PUNK COLLAGE: Raw punk zine collage energy from a photo — Xerox-degrade texture and ransom-note collage aesthetic.

SKETCH TO BRUSHES

AI prompts that turn a rough pencil sketch into clean, professional inked linework — skip over the building phase.
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CARTOON: Bold, clean, confident cartoon linework — the exact look behind logos, mascots, and merch you already recognize. Sixteen presets across four distinct cartoon styles, each with four line-weight intensities, so you can dial in exactly how bold your character reads.
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COMIC STRIP: Real comic-book inking, from bold outer contour to fine interior detail. Sixteen presets built around the classic hierarchy that gives comic and editorial art its depth — no shading required to sell it.
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MASCOT: Apparel-ready mascot energy — the aggressive, hand-inked line quality that reads right on a T-shirt, not just a screen. Sixteen presets, four line-weight intensities, built specifically for character work that has to survive a print run.
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ANIME: Four distinct manga and anime line registers in one pack — from clean shonen action energy to delicate shoujo linework, plus a dedicated set built for real lip-sync animation work. Sixteen presets covering territory nothing else in the collection touches.
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RESOURCE GUIDES: Digital Downloads will come through our friends at Teachable. Once you have downloaded and extracted the Resource Folders, they are ready to be used in Adobe Illustrator. LEARNING TARGET: Understand how to apply Brush Libraries, Comic Halftones, and BMP Textures.
CALLIGRAPHY: Sixteen presets across four real calligraphy hands -- Copperplate, Blackletter, Brush Pen, and Monoline. Built for hand-lettering, invitation and stationery work, and any project that needs genuine script character, not a generic “handwriting font” look.
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RESOURCE GUIDES: Digital Downloads will come through our friends at Teachable. Once you have downloaded and extracted the Resource Folders, they are ready to be used in Adobe Illustrator. LEARNING TARGET: Understand how to apply Brush Libraries, Comic Halftones, and BMP Textures.
MARKER: Sixteen presets across four real marker types -- Fine Tip, Chisel, Dual Tip, and Paint Marker. Built for bold lettering, sign-painter style work, and any project that needs genuine marker character rather than a uniform digital line.

TREND TO STYLE

AI prompts, ready-to-use aesthetic systems built from real print-on-demand trend research — describe your subject, get a finished design in a specific, proven-popular style.
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COTTAGE + PASTORAL ROMANCE: Five of the biggest aesthetic trends in the print-on-demand world right now — Cottagecore, Coastal Grandmother, Grandmillennial, Hygge, and Folk Art — each built into a complete, ready-to-use design system. Fifteen presets, real trend-backed palettes, genuinely print-ready output.
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QUIET ELEGANCE: The understated side of what's trending — Quiet Luxury, Old Money Prep, Japandi, Balletcore, and Coquette. Fifteen presets built for the buyer who wants elevated, not loud.
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DARK GOTHIC: Six atmospheric aesthetics in one pack — Dark Academia, Soft Goth, Witchy Botanical, Dark Cottagecore, Goblincore, and Punk. Eighteen presets for the moodier, more mysterious side of the market.
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RETRO + NOSTALGIA: Six eras of nostalgia, one pack — Y2K, Retro Futurism, Indie Sleaze, Memphis Design, Weirdcore, and Vintage College Athletics. Eighteen presets that tap directly into what's cycling back right now.
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RESOURCE GUIDES: Digital Downloads will come through our friends at Teachable. Once you have downloaded and extracted the Resource Folders, they are ready to be used in Adobe Illustrator. LEARNING TARGET: Understand how to apply Brush Libraries, Comic Halftones, and BMP Textures.
BOLD + PLAYFUL: Turn the volume all the way up — Barbiecore, Dopamine Dressing, Kindercore, Maximalist Botanical, and Coastal Cowgirl. Fifteen presets for designs that are never trying to whisper.
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RESOURCE GUIDES: Digital Downloads will come through our friends at Teachable. Once you have downloaded and extracted the Resource Folders, they are ready to be used in Adobe Illustrator. LEARNING TARGET: Understand how to apply Brush Libraries, Comic Halftones, and BMP Textures.
HAND DRAWN + CRAFT: The handmade, market-stall side of design — Botanical Science Illustration, Naive Doodle, Craft Fair Folk Print, Scribble & Sticker Art, and genuine kids'-table charm. Fifteen presets for warmth over polish.

DESIGN TO TEXTURES

AI prompts that take a finished design and give it real, authentic production texture — the difference between a flat digital file and something that looks like it actually came off a press.
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HALFTONE SCREEN: Real screen-print halftone effects, straight out of the prompt — thirty presets across ten authentic dot, line, and pattern styles, including analog hand-screened irregularity and gritty spot-accent texture. The texture that makes a design look like it actually came off a press.
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FABRIC + WEAR: Give a design real, lived-in apparel texture — the soft cracking, fading, and wear that makes a print feel like it's been through the wash a hundred times, in the best way. Twelve presets across four texture families.
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SURFACE DAMAGE: Authentic distress, not a generic grunge filter — twelve presets built around real damage types: grunge, grit, fold marks, acid wash. The difference between 'vintage' that looks designed and vintage that looks real.
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PRINT + PRESS: The texture of an actual print run gone slightly, beautifully wrong — cracked ink, uneven screens, vintage stamping, ink bleed. Twelve presets for anyone chasing that genuine vintage-press look.
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RESOURCE GUIDES: Digital Downloads will come through our friends at Teachable. Once you have downloaded and extracted the Resource Folders, they are ready to be used in Adobe Illustrator. LEARNING TARGET: Understand how to apply Brush Libraries, Comic Halftones, and BMP Textures.
PAPER: Real paper surface presence, straight out of the prompt — twelve presets across kraft, cotton rag, chipboard, and genuinely aged document character. Not distress — the warmth and weight of a design that was actually printed on something.
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RESOURCE GUIDES: Digital Downloads will come through our friends at Teachable. Once you have downloaded and extracted the Resource Folders, they are ready to be used in Adobe Illustrator. LEARNING TARGET: Understand how to apply Brush Libraries, Comic Halftones, and BMP Textures.
PHOTOCOPY: Genuine photocopy degradation, straight out of the prompt — twelve presets covering real generation loss, toner streaking, contrast blowout, and paper jam artifacts. The authentic zine-and-flyer look, not a generic grunge filter.

LINEAR WORKFLOW

Master the core construction methods and choose the right one for any design — pen, shapes or tablet. Use the Linear Workflow Guides on Teachable. Please log in to your active Creative Systems Membership Account or enroll in our Learn + Launch Program to follow along on Teachable.ACCOUNT LOGIN  /  VIEW LEARNING PATH
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PEN TOOL WORKFLOW GUIDE: If you are frustrated with the Pen Tool, a simple tip is to break down the process into 2 Steps. The first step is to just apply...
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SHAPE-BASED WORKFLOW GUIDE: A good place to start if you are new to Adobe Illustrator is our Beginner Guide (Shapes). We will be going through...
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RESOURCE GUIDES: Digital Downloads will come through our friends at Teachable. Once you have downloaded and extracted the Resource Folders, they are ready to be used in Adobe Illustrator. LEARNING TARGET: Understand how to apply Brush Libraries, Comic Halftones, and BMP Textures.
PENCIL TOOL WORKFLOW: Many of you are looking to use your Tablet with Adobe Illustrator. I am going to recommend breaking down your...
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COLORING + EDITING GUIDE: A workflow, not a tool list. Follow the six steps below in order — the sequence itself (duplicate first, check gaps before painting, background before detail) is what prevents...
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TYPE TOOL + EFFECTS GUIDE: A workflow, not a tool tour. Four tools, one goal: get text into a design and keep it live as long as possible...
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RESOURCE GUIDES: Digital Downloads will come through our friends at Teachable. Once you have downloaded and extracted the Resource Folders, they are ready to be used in Adobe Illustrator. LEARNING TARGET: Understand how to apply Brush Libraries, Comic Halftones, and BMP Textures.
FILE PREP + EXPORT GUIDE: Building and exporting are two completely separate things. You build small, focused, and fast. You export large, clean, and platform-ready....

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NICHE COMPASS: Before you pick a color palette, a font, or a single product to sell — you need to know who you're making it for and why...
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BRANDING KIT: You finished Niche Building knowing who you're making things for. Now it's time to decide how you show up to them...
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RESOURCE GUIDES: Digital Downloads will come through our friends at Teachable. Once you have downloaded and extracted the Resource Folders, they are ready to be used in Adobe Illustrator. LEARNING TARGET: Understand how to apply Brush Libraries, Comic Halftones, and BMP Textures.
STYLE DNA: Your niche told you who you're making things for. Your brand told you how you show up...
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AI-FIRST DESIGN: This course is built around a fundamental shift — AI stops being a reference generator and becomes the primary build method...
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AI ACCELERATED PRODUCTION: This course covers something different: AI that lives inside a specific platform and understands that platform's native output format...
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RESOURCE GUIDES: Digital Downloads will come through our friends at Teachable. Once you have downloaded and extracted the Resource Folders, they are ready to be used in Adobe Illustrator. LEARNING TARGET: Understand how to apply Brush Libraries, Comic Halftones, and BMP Textures.
AUTOMATION SYSTEMS: This course covers something different: AI that thinks with you about your business — helping you plan, write, systematize, and eventually automate...
I appreciate your videos. I have been an illustrator user for years and have my own ways of doing things. It's great to see other ways of using tools and learning tricks I didn't know were available! It's also good to see you doing the same thing as me in other instances, confirming I'm on the right track!Andy Zenz
Awesome tutorial! I don't think I've picked up something so easily from someone who knows what they are doing. I managed to draw my first vector art and it was a joy! Great work keep it up!blitz145
Thank you loads! Compared to other tutorials, yours are just really well-explained and easy-to-follow. Can totally see that you've got a passion for what you're doing and that's just wonderful! 🙂 Keep it up, you're doing an amazing job. Yulia Kachurova
Love your video thanks so much. you blow Lynda.com out of the water!!!!Steve Yensel
Brilliant video. So much great info packed in here. I'm just getting started drawing cartoons with my Wacom tablet, and this was a huge help. Thumbs up and thanks!Dorian Staten
Wow Thanks Jason...was really struggling with making images with basic shapes. Your tutorial is helping me out!!Kishor Rajani
thanks a lot you are really one of my favorites, I like the steps you give us, and I'm so thankful for that effort you do for helping us :)Wessam Lotfi
Keep up the good work Jason. I’ve been doing Lynda.com tutorials for a few months now and I got more out of your videos than what I’ve received at Lynda. Keep it up and Thank You!!bobby jacobs • 1 year ago
These tutorials are amazing. Just started using illustrator and really glad I found your channel. The only videos that explain everything step by stepAida Stan
You are definitely one of the best teachers I've found dealing with start to finish creative process. Great work!!!Jasen Fisher
Thank you so much man, I loved the way you explain this, I spent days looking for a good tutorial vid, thanks a lot, gonna keep watching your videos!!!Karel Marccenaro
Awesome tutorial! I don't think I've picked up something so easily from someone who knows what they are doing. I managed to draw my first vector art and it was a joy! Great work keep it up!blitz145
Thank you loads! Compared to other tutorials, yours are just really well-explained and easy-to-follow. Can totally see that you've got a passion for what you're doing and that's just wonderful! 🙂 Keep it up, you're doing an amazing job. Yulia Kachurova
Love your video thanks so much. you blow Lynda.com out of the water!!!!Steve Yensel
Brilliant video. So much great info packed in here. I'm just getting started drawing cartoons with my Wacom tablet, and this was a huge help. Thumbs up and thanks!Dorian Staten
Keep up the good work Jason. I’ve been doing Lynda.com tutorials for a few months now and I got more out of your videos than what I’ve received at Lynda. Keep it up and Thank You!!bobby jacobs • 1 year ago
These tutorials are amazing. Just started using illustrator and really glad I found your channel. The only videos that explain everything step by stepAida Stan
You are definitely one of the best teachers I've found dealing with start to finish creative process. Great work!!!Jasen Fisher