In this week's tutorial I cover where to find some more options for your standard text on a path application. Generally speaking most people leave it at it's default, not knowing there are far more options available to use.

Illustrator Tutorial, More Options For Doing Text On A Path

In this week's tutorial I cover how to use smart objects in Photoshop to quickly pop out a layer of a more complex file to make some edits before returning it to it's parent document. Knowing this functionality can save a lot of time.

Photoshop Tutorial, Using Smart Objects For Quick Edits In Complex Files

In this week's tutorial I cover how to utilize Illustrator's Save Selection feature which allows you to save custom selections of paths into the select menu.

Illustrator Tutorial, Saving Selections For Faster Illustrating

In this week's tutorial I cover a super quick way to change your ruler measurement units. This quick tip will prevent you from having to dig in the preferences to switch between units of measurement.

Adobe CS Tutorial, Quickly Swicthing Your Ruler Units

In this week's tutorial I cover how to do perspective distortion in Illustrator, which may be something you've done a thousand times in Photoshop, and never knew Illustrator could do it as well.

Illustrator Tutorial, Perspective Distortion In Illustrator

Non-tutorial Tuesday: This week is the first part of a 14-part Let's Make Art. This series shows the creation of the album art for my fourth album "From Nothing Comes" from start to finish. There's lots of avenues explored and methods tried that sometimes work, sometimes not.

The songs playing during this video are "Solid State", "The Form And The Shape", and "Concord Proper" from this album the art is for. You can find it on Bandcamp here: [link]

Let's Make Art - From Nothing Comes Album Art, Part 1

In this week's tutorial I cover a quick setting that allows things you paste in Illustrator to retain their layers. Personally I think this should always be on, but if yours isn't set yet, this covers how, and why it's beneficial.

Illustrator Tutorial, Having Paste Remember Your Layers

In this week's tutorial I cover how to utilize the New Window option in Illustrator for viewing the same document in a variety of ways. This is a very handy tip for when working with complex illustrations.

Illustrator Tutorial, New Window For Multiple Views

In this week's tutorial I cover how to turn off the auto-application of Illustrator's basic appearance when drawing new objects. This simple setting will save a ton of time when drawing with brushes.

Illustrator Tutorial, Getting Rid Of Basic Appearance On New Objects

My girlfriend's handmade soap business has a brand new website (courtesy of myself), so if you're in the market for some beautiful handmade bath and body products go check it out! I'd appreciate it!

Ailu & Rofa - Beautiful and Unique Handmade Bath & Body Products

In this week's tutorial I cover how to fake dimensional lighting on objects you're faking into your document. This is of course a simple overview, but it lays the ground work for how to handle more complex photo faking jobs.

Photoshop Tutorial, Making Dimensional Shadows and Shading

In this week's tutorial I cover how to make artboard-specific guides, and also non-standard guides out of objects. This handy tip helps keep your documents clean and organized.

Illustrator Tutorial, Localized Guides For Specific Artboards or Objects

Non-tutorial Tuesday again. This time, in preparation for Season 3 of Game Of Thrones bearing down on us, I give you my remix of the Game Of Thrones theme. Free downloads from Bandcamp to the first 200 people.

Ramin Djawadi - Game Of Thrones Theme (Fictionalhead Remix)

In this week's tutorial I cover how to add a gradient to live text in Illustrator, so that you are able to keep your text editable while still having your color choices. This helps when making logos, or designs where you may have to edit the font later, but want to explore color options.

Illustrator Tutorial, Adding A Gradient To Live Text

In this week's tutorial I cover how to turn on the constrain angle option in Illustrator so that everything you do is locked to a specific angle. This tip is not something I personally ever use, but can be handy for some people to work into their workflow.

Illustrator Tutorial, Constraining Your Illustration Angle

It's time for not-a-tutorial Tuesday -- and today brings you... a remix. This time it's of "Breath Of Life" by Florence + The Machine. Free download of the remix available on Bandcamp, first come first serve to the first 200 people. Enjoy!

Florence + The Machine - Breath Of Life (Fictionalhead Remix)

In this week's tutorial I cover a quick way to combine the contents of text objects in Illustrator. This handy tip will prevent you from having to manually combine objects, and avoid non-text objects at the same time.

Illustrator Tutorial, Combining The Contents Of Text Objects

In this week's tutorial I cover how you're able to use basic math functions like addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division in your fields in Illustrator and InDesign. This is very handy for when you need to add a certain amount, or even get the output of a fraction you don't know off the top of your head.

Illustrator Tutorial, Using Basic Math Functions In Fields

In this week's tutorial I cover some simple artboard shortcuts that should help improve your speed and workflow when working on multiple artboards in a single document.

Illustrator Tutorial, Artboard Shortcuts

In this week's tutorial I cover some tips on how to better handle your content from artboard to artboard in the newer versions of Illustrator. These tips are helpful for managing the creation of new versions or additional pages in illustrator.

Illustrator Tutorial, Some Basic Artboard Management Tips