125+ Ultimate Round-Up of Illustrator Tutorials
When it comes to web and graphic design, Adobe Illustrator is usually the primary option to consider. However, the software package itself is a quite hard to learn — and extremely hard to master.
Why I need to look any Illustrator tutorial? Out of many reasons there are three reasons for simple explanations. First, Illustrator offers a variety of advanced tools to smooth out your design, optimize structure proportions and emphasize some beautiful details. Second, if you have some experience with Illustrator then it is easy to learn the basics and quickly produce very impressive and beautiful results. And Third, its capable of creating any type of stunning effects, all waiting at your finger tips.
It’s been months, since we have been Rounding-Up interesting, useful and creative Illustrator Tutorials which can help you to create great designs.
Creativity means a lot in any kind of presentation. Whether it’s a logo, banner or a complete design; being able to inject creativity into it not only help in floating the message around, it also leaves solid impression on the viewer. Good design is not easy thing to emerge, or it is often a very challenging job to discover creative designs. However, there are few ways by which you can improve your designing skills. One of them is analyzing other’s work and find the inspiration behind every details. In this presentation, we present to you a Ultimate Round-Up of Illustrator Tutorials for igniting your creativity.
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Tutorials about Illustrator
01. Learn Illustrator CS3 in 30 Days
02. A Comprehensive Guide: Illustrator’s Paintbrush Tool and Brush Panel
03. Illustrator’s Pen Tool: The Comprehensive Guide
04. Utilizing the Magic Wand’s Tolerance Levels
05. Illustrator Live Trace
06. Adobe Illustrator CS3 Tutorial: Selection Tools
07. Spraying Symbols in Adobe Illustrator
08. Duplicate with rotate tool
09. An Intro to the Mesh Tool
10. Illustrator Make with Mesh
11. Tips for Working with the Gradient Mesh Tool In Illustrator
12. Spiral Tool Mysteries – Solved!
13. Using the Pathfinder and Align tool in Illustrator
14. How to Make a Custom Illustrator Brush
15. Get More-Natural Adjustments with the Illustrator “Reshape” Tool
16. Fun with Illustrator’s Blend Tool
17. Adobe Illustrator Shortcuts
18. Create a Disco Environment with Twirl Tool, Crystalize , and Envelope Tool
Character Related Tutorials
19. How to Create a Killer Chainsaw Bunny Character
20. Character Illustration
21. Create Your Own Vector Cartoon Character
22. Creating vector characters in Illustrator
23. Symmetrical Illustration: Thug Bunny
24. Wolf Drawing Tutorial
25. Twitterlove Bird, from sketch to vector in Photoshop and Illustrator
26. Create a Cute Vector Monster from a Pencil Sketch
27. Face, Hair, Clothing Illustrator Tutorial
28. Drawing a Character’s Face in Illustrator
29. Drawing Homer Simpson
30. Creating convincing characters
31. Create a Gang of Vector Ninjas
Page Layout Related Tutorial
32. Use Adobe Illustrator to Create a Clean Website Layout
33. Create the First Page of a Fairy Tale Story Book, with a Hint of Kitsch
34. Design a Business Report Cover
Lines, Shapes, Charts or Graph Related Tutorial
35. Turn a Boring Bar Graph into a 3D Masterpiece
36. Trendy Geometric Lines Tutorial
37. Command Shape in Illustrator
38. A Time to Shine
39. Creating Road Maps in Adobe Illustrator
40. Use the power of Illustrator to create cool 3D infographics
41. Creating Omspace 3D cylinder graphic in Illustrator
42. 3D Charts in Adobe Illustrator CS
43. 3D Graphs
44. How to make retro/futuristic curves in 10 Steps
45. Create a Four-Leaf Clover
46. Spice up Pie Charts
Objects Related Tutorial
47. Craft a Vector Collegiate Notebook Design
48. How to Create an Open Book with Illustrator’s 3D Extrude & Bevel Tool
49. Create a Rotatable Globe in Adobe Illustrator
50. Create a 3D Push Pin and a Paper Note in Illustrator
51. Draw A Realistic Vector Guitar in Inkscape
52. Create an Animated 3D Poker Chip

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53. Create a Sidekick LX Styled Vector Illustration
54. Illustrator Tutorial: Disco Ball
55. Create a Vector Home Cinema Design
56. 3D Objects and Transparencies to Make a Vector Cola Bottle Design
57. How to Make Realistic Skate Wheels in Illustrator
58. How to Draw Your Own Vector Wings
59. Chinese Bamboo
Sketch or Painting related Tutorials
60. Create a Stunning Undersea Painting Using Vector Packs
61. A Pseudo-Sugar Skull: From Start to Finish
62. Master painting in Illustrator
63. How to Create a Classic Vector Painting with Watercolor Washes and Line Art
64. Woman and Cats How-To Advanced
Logo, Symbol or Icon related Tutorials
65. How to Make a Vector Military Cap Icon
66. How to Create a Vector Light Bulb Icon with Inkscape
67. Create a Spiral Ornament Symbol in Illustrator
68. How to Create a Vector Safari Compass in Illustrator
69. Adobe Bridge Icon
70. iTune Icon
71. Create an envelope icon with a satin feel
72. How to Turn Glasses into a Great Geek Icon
73. Logo Design Project Step by Step Walkthrough
74. Creating a Crazy Cool Logo
75. Test Your Creativity
76. Pirate cartoon tutorial
77. Create a Vector RSS Icon with Illustrator
78. How to Design a Classic Heraldic Figure
79. BMX Illustration
Text related Tutorials
80. Let’s Make a Playful Yet Robust 3D Letter Design
81. Blueprint Style Text in Adobe Illustrator
82. 3D Text Tutorial
83. Creating an Environmentally Friendly Green Type Treatment
84. Tug and Twirl Text in Illustrator
85. Type on a Path Options
86. Make a Torn Vector Desktop Wallpaper with Angled Text
87. How to Create a Magnified Text Illustration
88. 3 ways to apply a line pattern effect on text in Illustrator
Patterns and Texture Related Tutorials
89. Geometric Patterns in Illustrator
90. Create A Wood Grain Texture
91. Creating-Pattern
92. Create a Themed Repeating Pattern in Illustrator
93. Design your own pattern swatches
Effects Related Tutorials
94. Creating a Cool Water Effect
95. Vectoring Hair
96. Easily Make Shiny Realistic Vector Hair
97. Experimental text effects
Backgrounds, Abstract Art, Poster or Label related tutorials
98. How to Create Colorful Abstract Artwork in Illustrator
99. Create a Blissful Vector Scene
100. Super cool abstract vectors illustrator and photoshop
101. Create Abstract Backgrounds
102. Swirl Mania in Illustrator and Photoshop
103. Poster Illustration: Go Forth and Create
104. Create an Milk Bottle with a Funny Cow Label
105. Design a Print-ready Ad in Adobe InDesign
106. Swingin’ Retro Look in Adobe Illustrator
107. Crazy cool vectors illustrator and photoshop
108. Recolor Artwork Using Illustrator’s LiveColor
Very Advanced Tutorial
109. Illustrator Vector Line Art of Cruise Ship
110. See-Through Car Illustration Tutorial
How to find Inspiration for illustration design
111. Finding Inspiration
Some Lovely Results of illustration
112. Abstract Peacock
113. Abstract Phoenix
114. Pattern Maniac
115. POGO Illustration
Video Tutorials
116. How I Do Stuff Tutorial
117. Create 3D Pyramid
118. Creating an iPod
119. Drawing Face
120. Create Swirling Rainbows with Ease
121. Vector Drawing – The Dog
122. Creating Seamless Pattern
123. Creating Comic Book Style Text
124. Roundtrip Logo from Illustrator to Photoshop
125. Feynman Diagrams
126. Drawing a Nice Vector Golden Badge Award
127. Creating Vectorized Shining and Sparkling Heart Artwork and Icons
128. Adding Texture
129. Creative Background Effects
130. 3D Brochure
131. Creating 3D Shapes in Illustrator
Sources to Learn Adobe Illustrator
- VECTORTUTS
- Vectips
- Blog.SpoonGraphics
- N.Design Studio
- Veerle’s blog
- GoMediaZine
- Vectordiary
- Layers Magazine
- Computer Arts
- IllustratorWorld
- AiVault
- IllustrationClass
- PinkZAP
- AiBURN
Find Something Missing?
While compiling this list, it’s always a possibility that we missed some other great Tutorials. Feel free to share it with us.
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‘Holy Shit’ at the very advanced tutorials!
wow! very nice!
soon, I’m going to start study illustrator!
There’s so many great selections in there! Thanks for including my Twitterlove Bird tutorial, Dkumar!
My mother once told me that never leave the good things so i’m goanna bookmark this list in my collection
Thank you InstantShift, at a quick glance these will surely help!
Nice Collection DKumar, one of the really helpful post around.
Great stuff. Let me say, I don’t have to search around for Illustrator tuts now. Almost everything I need I’ve just found in here. I’ve used Illustrator quite a bit, and the more I use it, the more I realize I have barely scratched the surface! Thanks for the List. Great site!
Gracias, personalmente me viene mu bien para empezar a utilizar el illustrator (llevo un año intenando ponerme a aprender a utilizarlo) y dejar de lado el freehand que ya toca!
Gracias por compartir la información.
Can’t believe you left out a tutorial about the appearance pallet.
Imagine being able to design cool type, THEN being able to edit the type..?!
http://www.bittbox.com/illustrator/illustrator-tutorial-dynamic-burberry-text-guest-post/
Incredibly huge article – wow, good job, bookmarking right away.
Fantastic resource, thanks for sharing
Extensive list. Very good. Thanks.
Thanks for the list. It is useful info to me!
125+?! Wow–you did a lot of great work for this post! Outstanding!
I really should get around to producing a seamless pattern tutorial. I make enough of them!
shopped
Wow that’s a lot of tutorials! That will take some time to go through, can’t wait to check those out. Thanks for taking the time to compile this and share it to everyone.
Thanks for the list, it’s extremely extensive and useful!
Also, may I recommend these simple tutorials which show how to obtain a couple of fun effects?
Especially the particle logo. I don’t really see a lot of tutorials documenting how to make one.
http://www.logobee.com/logo-design-tutorial/tutorial.htm
The best tutorial i’ve ever seen on this website…
Okay, this is an awesome list. Tons of tutorials I hadn’t seen before. But I don’t think #66 should be on that list… it’s for inkscape!
nice round-up there.
very informative.
thx for sharing
Hello dear,
Pls suggest me to become a member.
thanks
anand
Cool stuff! Here are some more sites to check out…
http://www.ergodraw.com/tutorials/index.php
http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/design/new-illustrator-tutorials/
OOh my God this is so great ,do check out the link below
http://www.alogodesigncompany.com/process.html
Oh yes the mesh tool and gradient mesh is something I have been working with lately and the above tute will certainly come in handy.
Can any logo designer advise if they have used mesh gradients and how to incorporate those in highly graphical logo design?
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