PeHaa Blog

illustrator tutorial: create a 6-egg box (not necessarily for Easter)

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a 6-egg box (full of eggs). We will use 3D Rotate and Revolve Effects. We will also play a lot with masks. You may download the source file (created in Illustrator CS4, back-saved to CS2+).

illustrator tutorial: create a yummy vector cupcake

Some time ago I posted two similar cupcakes as vector freebies. Now it is the time to share my recipe (with a special dedication to Janna Hiromasa ;):)). The CS2+ source file is included.

merry carps – vector freebie

This is going to be the second Christmas Eve in my life when I do not eat a carp. The first was back then, 33 years ago, 24 days after my birth…
With a special dedicace to all who I miss and who miss me this evening…

The source file (.ai) is free for all your personal [...]

milky-way donkey vector freebie

Inspired by a small brass donkey that my friend Basia spotted for me at a flea market. Not a horse but counted into my ‘horses collection’. The one I look at while working, the one I particularly like (… don’t I actually love them all?).
Anyway, I share it with you for your personal and commercial use.

on waves. simple free vector illustration

Strangely enough it started with a dress squeezed into my scanner. Black beads. Star-like flowers. Plus The Science of Dreams I’ve seen recently (by Michel Gondry, with Gael García Bernal and Charlotte Gainsbourg).
My illustration was finished when I leafed through the Hundertwasser postcards I’d bought in Vienna two weeks ago. I had no time [...]

hibiscus flowers – vector freebies

I found a flower pot by the trash-cans in my courtyard on Saturday before Easter. Two long ligneous branches, a few deep-green leaves, plenty of yellow, falling ones (nothing too spectacular).
But I took it home.
When I saw it that morning (and it was May, 1st – isn’t it a day that has something to [...]

new season makeover – my new spring/summer avatar

Is it the extended weekend that I somehow forgot about all to-dos, shoulds, have-tos etc? Totally laid-back – it’s not very me… (yet?).
About the afternoon I felt I miss my macbook, woke it up and had this sudden urge to change my avatar. The one (to the left) I’ve been using up to now was a self-portrait created in Illustrator. The plan was to modify it and make it more for spring and summer. Ear muffs and my warmest yellow sweater are deep down in the closet now.