Would you believe there's a national pig day? To celebrate this brilliantly clever animal we created a tutorial which demonstrates exactly how to create a simple and very cute pig icon.

I will show you how to create the Icon from start to finish. Using only simple shapes and the Shape Builder tool! Getting to know this tool will mean you can take several separate shapes and combine them to form a new illustration. Without any fuss or faff! This will save you loads of time in future creative projects and mean you can explore new ways of utilising shapes!

In this tutorial I will show you how to use the new Face-aware Liquify tool but in a slightly new way! Usually used to alter facial features of subjects in photographs instead. You will now discover how it can be used to make changes to your portrait illustrations.

This means even once you have finished a drawing you can carry on customising it in Photoshop, until you are happy. Plus you can correct a little mistake you noticed to late! 

Creating a sense of balance within a composition may sound a like an unusual concept at first. However it’s a very useful and important piece of design theory to get the hang of. This is our 85th tutorial and will teach you about how to distribute your creative assets so you can make the most of your design layout. So you can be sure every element gets the attention it deserves!

Understanding how Balance works is especially useful when working on editorial design poster design or when you are creating visuals for advertising.