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    5 digital illustration techniques you should try in 2026
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    5 digital illustration techniques you should try in 2026

    Digital illustration is evolving. By 2026, certain techniques will be consolidated as essential. Incorporate these 5 trends to your portfolio. Digital illustration continues to transform at an accelerated pace. Every year new tools, styles and approaches emerge that expand the creative possibilities for artists of all levels. In 2026, visual trends point to a balanced combination of digital, analog and narrative experimentation. Mastering new techniques not only broadens your skills, but also allows you to stand out in an increasingly competitive industry. Exploring trends is a way to stay current, nurture your style and discover unexpected ways to tell visual stories. Here are 5 key techniques that will shape digital illustration in 2026, ideal to start integrating into your creative workflow today. 1. Analog textures applied digitally. The fusion between manual and digital will continue to grow. Illustrators are increasingly incorporating brushes that simulate graphite, charcoal, ink, oil or watercolor, achieving a handmade finish without giving up digital flexibility. It is also becoming common to digitize real textures rough paper, watercolor stains, handmade strokes to integrate them in layers and enrich the composition. This technique adds depth, imperfection and humanity, highly valued in editorial illustration, children, posters and personal art.

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  • Curious Minds Podcast S2: The Small Symbols That Rule Our Lives
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    Curious Minds Podcast S2: The Small Symbols That Rule Our Lives

    How can simple symbols come together to help us navigate a complex world, and even transform it? This week, we’re talking about the pictogram

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  • A Brief History of Batman Comic Book Covers with Chip Kidd
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    A Brief History of Batman Comic Book Covers with Chip Kidd

    The prominent graphic designer analyzes cover design through the ages for one of the most iconic fictional vigilantes: Batman!

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  • 10 Free Online Color Theory Classes for Beginners
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    10 Free Online Color Theory Classes for Beginners

    Journey through the spectrum of color and discover how to use it across different art forms, from photography to illustration, with these free lessons

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  • 4 Sustainable Packaging Websites to Help Your Brand Go Green
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    4 Sustainable Packaging Websites to Help Your Brand Go Green

    From reusable to recycled, add sustainability to your brand ethos with eye-catching and eco-friendly packaging

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  • 6 Design Secrets in the Beijing Winter Olympics 2022
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    6 Design Secrets in the Beijing Winter Olympics 2022

    Discover how architects, designers, and illustrators have weaved Chinese cultural heritage into their creations

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  • 110 Essential Figma Shortcuts for Designers
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    110 Essential Figma Shortcuts for Designers

    Discover the basic keyboard shortcuts you need to design with greater agility using the vector graphics editor

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  • Dave Buonaguidi on Screen Printing: “This is My Chance to Flourish”
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    Dave Buonaguidi on Screen Printing: “This is My Chance to Flourish”

    We discover the joy of surrendering to your creativity, and changing your career at 50, with Dave Buonaguidi We all remember 2020, it was a significant year for everyone. But it happened to be the year when Dave Buonaguidi left his 35 year career in advertising to begin life as a full time artist, all at the age of 50. His advertising portfolio was an impressive one; he’d worked as a creative director before setting up his own agency Karmarama in 2000, and later, the world’s first co-operative agency, St Luke's. But when you’ve carved a prolific advertising career for yourself, and are still lacking the creative freedom you crave, “it’s time to get out.” Dave found himself at Print Club London, a screen printing studio in East London, where a hobby soon turned into something he simply couldn’t stop. Almost two years on, his career change has turned out very well.

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  • Free PSD Template to Design a Stunning Book Cover Jacket
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    Free PSD Template to Design a Stunning Book Cover Jacket

    Download this layout guide detailing the key elements to tell a visual story and create a captivating dust jacket in Photoshop

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  • What is Project Management and Which Skills Are Essential?
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    What is Project Management and Which Skills Are Essential?

    Discover how a project manager contributes to a balanced and effective workflow between clients and creatives

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    Interior Design Tutorial: How to Make Your Bedroom Cozy

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  • 5 Interesting Facts About Books
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    5 Interesting Facts About Books

    Discover surprising facts about these everyday objects, from why books are that shape to who wrote the most expensive one

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  • Essential Tools to Run Effective Remote Design Sprints
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    Essential Tools to Run Effective Remote Design Sprints

    Run a successful online design sprint ...

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  • Flower Arrangement Tutorial: How to Make a Hand Tied Bouquet
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    Flower Arrangement Tutorial: How to Make a Hand Tied Bouquet

    Discover the techniques flower arrangers use to create an abundant-looking, bouncy bouquet, with Bloom and Burn

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  • 5 Colors to Help Rediscover Optimism and Adventure in 2022
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    5 Colors to Help Rediscover Optimism and Adventure in 2022

    Pantone and Canva explore color trends that could help us reach a "new normal"

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  • Food Styling Tutorial: How to Style and Photograph a Meal
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    Food Styling Tutorial: How to Style and Photograph a Meal

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  • What Is Food Styling? 6 Tips for Taking Delicious Photos
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    What Is Food Styling? 6 Tips for Taking Delicious Photos

    Learn everything you need to know about designing and presenting food imagery, and bring your dishes to life

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  • 6 Design Trends You Need to Know for 2022
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    6 Design Trends You Need to Know for 2022

    Maximalism, diversity, ethics, and anti-design are trends predicted to take center stage in the new year

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  • What Is Food Design and What Does a Food Designer Do?
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    What Is Food Design and What Does a Food Designer Do?

    Discover this broad discipline that reflects on how we create, present, and consume food

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  • Seeing the Same Color Everywhere? It May Be the Next Pantone
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    Seeing the Same Color Everywhere? It May Be the Next Pantone

    Pantone's Color of the Year doesn't only set the trends, it's influenced by them too

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  • How to Design Creative Packaging That Sells Your Brand
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    How to Design Creative Packaging That Sells Your Brand

    From thinking big to asking the right questions, learn the dos and don’ts of designing creative packaging for your brand

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  • COP26: 3 Key Factors That Shaped the Brand Identity
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    COP26: 3 Key Factors That Shaped the Brand Identity

    From bypassing borders to going beyond politics, discover the story behind the now globally-recognizable design

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  • 17 of the Most Talked About Rebranding Campaigns of 2021
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    17 of the Most Talked About Rebranding Campaigns of 2021

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  • What Is Sustainable Packaging and How Can It Help Your Brand?
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    What Is Sustainable Packaging and How Can It Help Your Brand?

    Incorporating eco-friendly packaging is one way in which businesses can show their commitment to sustainability

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  • Design Tutorial: How to Use a Pantone Guide for Successful Printing
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    Design Tutorial: How to Use a Pantone Guide for Successful Printing

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  • What Is Composition in Graphic Design?
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    What Is Composition in Graphic Design?

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  • Free Download: Mockups for Book Cover Design
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    Free Download: Mockups for Book Cover Design

    Turn your designs into captivating book cover jackets with this free PSD template

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  • The Expert: Michael Johnson Dissects 3 Top Brands
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    The Expert: Michael Johnson Dissects 3 Top Brands

    Discover how branding expert Michael Johnson applies his definitive 5.5 Steps to three well-known brands

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  • Freelance Tutorial: Basic Principles of Creating a Digital Portfolio
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    Freelance Tutorial: Basic Principles of Creating a Digital Portfolio

    Learn the dos and dont's of creating a strong digital portfolio, with Mark Brooks

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  •  Free Adobe Illustrator Template for Data Visualization
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    Free Adobe Illustrator Template for Data Visualization

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  • PET Lamp: How to Transform a Plastic Bottle Into a Design Lamp
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    PET Lamp: How to Transform a Plastic Bottle Into a Design Lamp

    PET Lamp combines traditional international weaving techniques with PET plastic bottles to create design lamps

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