Ever wanted to include one of those uber-cool hand-sketched fonts in your project, but either didn’t have the time to create the sketch yourself or wanted better control over the consistency of the characters?  Now you can have both! Check out this tutorial on Vectips to learn how to create your very own sketch-like font from any typeface on your computer. Better yet, you can easily edit the wording, change the typeface or choose a different color without having to re-create the effect every time you make a change. Amazing!

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As you may know from visiting our T-Shirt Shop, t-shirt design is near and dear to our hearts. It’s a great way to have some fun and really open up your creativity to design something without the restrictions of client feedback. We came across this great list of tutorials for designing – and producing – your own t-shirts. Enjoy and design away!

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This site offers some good Illustrator tutorials on how to create a variety of shapes and effects, including how to create a type-based logo from shapes.

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Use this tutorial to learn how to create a vector-based sunburst graphic with a grunge texture. Unlike a lot of grunge texture tuts, this one shows you how to create the texture in Illustrator as well, without using any other images.

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VectorTuts+ features tutorials, articles, freebies and more on techniques and effects for Adobe Illustrator. Part of the Tuts+ network of sites.

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