Vectortuts and a New Direction for AiBURN

AiBURN Given a New Direction

AiBURN started off as an Adobe Illustrator tutorial blog. It also covered news, resources, and issues on vector art. For it's first 6 months of existence (from late November of 2007 to May of 2008) this was the focus of the blog.

Early this month I decided to widen the scope of AiBURN. The branding remains intact, but a new tagline is being assigned of: Art + Inspiration. AiBURN is changing it's focus. It's now a website dedicated to Art and Inspiration burning up the web today. So the (A) stands for (Art) and the (i) now stands for (Inspiration). Typically all forms of digital art and design will be the focus of the blog. However, I may write on a diversity of subjects and just about anything occasionally.

I'll still accept occasional guest posts, but the blog will primarily be written by me for the near future. When I started this blog I wanted to create a great place to learn vector graphics. I've written quite a few tutorials on the subject here. I'll still write tutorials here occasionally, but the focus is shifting to be more articles. While I'm widening the scope of the subject matter covered here, AiBURN will always have a soft spot for vector graphics.

Vectortuts to Launch Next Week

I've taken on the role as editor of another Eden tutorial site. The site is Vectortuts and will be launching this coming Monday. So, anyone who's looking for a great place to publish their vector tutorials that will be the place. I'm really excited to launch the new site. Right away we'll have great vector tutorials writer's involved, such as: Tony Soh of iStockdiary , Ryan Putnam of Vectips, and Grant Friedman of ColorBurned who's written a few here on AiBURN. I'll be writing tutorials each week to kick off the new site as well.

If anyone else would like to get involved with Vectortuts check out the Contribute Area of the new site. While it will be predominately a tutorial site, we'll be looking for articles as well.

To the Future

I look forward to this new phase for AiBURN and I hope to see everybody over at the new Vectortuts blog. Also, I'll still be editing PSDTUTS, though I'll probably write less articles there to free up some time to write some great vector tutorials for the new Vectortuts site. Let me know if there are any questions.

It's been great building AiBURN up. I went out to dinner to celebrate when AiBURN crossed the 1,000 subscriber mark not to long ago. The blog has been growing at about 100 subscribers a week. I'll be putting some new energy into the blog and likely posting more times per week, while keeping the quality high. Thank you to all the readers and contributors. It's been great getting to know so many students, artists, and designers through this blog.

New Content and Topics to Cover

Now that AiBURN is heading off in a new direction, indicate anything you'd like to see covered here. I have a page available for User Suggestions. Be the first to leave your suggestion!