For this week tutorial I got inspired on the Tiki and Maori culture and made this big illustration. Tiki refers to large wood and stone carvings of humanoid forms in Central Eastern Polynesian cultures of the Pacific Ocean. The term is also used in M?ori mythology where Tiki is the first man, created by either Tumatauenga or Tane. ( Wikipedia ).
This is a advanced tutorial, however with you're a illustrator beginner you won't find bigger problems to do it, since I tried to explain it the best way possible, enjoy it guys :) .
The wallpaper of this week is an amazing image created by Adam Spizak and the Artis Navi team. The ArtisNavi is a blog created by Gregory Machon and Adam Navi to be a creative outlet for presenting and sharing some cool and interesting ideas that they found inspiring, promising and sexy enough to share with us.
For more information about ArtisNavi visit their blog at http://www.artisnavi.com/. There's also a case study showing how this wallpaper was created.
The book suggestion of this week is about typography and it is an essential book for those starting out their design career or interested in learning the elements of this trade. The Elements of Typographic Style is the perfect book to start 2012 improving your design skills :)
