Highest Rated Illustrator Tutorials

Illustrator’s built in Symbol Sprayer can be a highly useful tool for quickly creating awesome pattern graphics. Let’s look at creating a few vector skull graphics, then combine them into an intricate pattern design to customise a skateboard deck. Let’s give it a try…

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Skull Patterned Skate Deck

Twitter is quite a social media juggernaut as of late. It’s getting to the point that one has to have a Twitter account. And what good is a Twitter account without a link to it? And what better way to link to your Twitter account than with a cool blue bird character illustration? This tutorial will walk you through the steps from sketch to vector in creating an original cartoon-style character vector illustration.

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Twitter Character Icon

There’s nothing cooler than designing artwork for a skateboard deck! Follow this walkthrough in Adobe Illustrator to create your own vibrant and stunning vector artwork using geometric lines, shapes and a perfect colour scheme. The result is an awesome deck design ready for wall hanging, or hooking up with trucks and wheels for a session on the street!

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Colorful Skateboard Deck

Infographics are great visual tools for communicating large amounts of data. Breaking down large amounts of abstract data, they place the information in context and transform it into tangible and useful knowledge. In this Illustrator tutorial we’re going to learn how to translate abstract data into a 3D, easy-to-understand illustration.

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3D Infographics

In this tutorial it will take you through the steps and techniques of creating a golden compass. This tutorial just uses Adobe Illustrator and a heavy dose of ingenuity so let’s get started!

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Golden Compass

This awesome tutorial shows you how to create a colorful spirograph effect in Adobe Illustrator. You’ll learn some great techniques and have a chance to experiment and create your own individual poster or wallpaper. Check it out!

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Spectrum Spirograph

In this tutorial you’ll start by taking a photograph of a tree, then trace its natural form and add your own creative touches to produce an eye-catching, contemporary illustration. You’ll use a range of Illustrator tools, including the freehand drawing tools, the shape tools and the Layers palette. Give it a go!

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Colorful Trees

This tutorial shows you how to create a cool looking retro logo in Adobe Illustrator, this technique is something that only works for logo’s that contain only a few characters, ideally not more than 5. This tutorial is really interesting so let’s try this technique out…

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Retro Type Logo

This Adobe Illustrator tutorial will show you how to create an abstract art that can be used for wallpaper, website header or background images. It is fun and easy. You will learn how to use the Warp and Twirl tool to create abstract vector art in minutes. Users with basic skills should be able to handle this tutorial. To continue on this tutorial, you need Adobe Illustrator CS or above.

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Colorful Abstract Swirls

This tutorial is perfect for the beginning to intermediate Adobe Illustrator artist. We’ll cover how to layout a website and prepare it for use on the web. Also, we’ll use the Website Elements Freebies from Vector Tuts to mock up the design as well.

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Clean Website Layout

In this tutorial, It’ll show you how to create a vector film slate icon. The tutorial uses some basic shapes, some gradients, and even a blend. Moreover, you can easily customize this tutorial with your own logo or typography. Let’s get to it…

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Shiny Film Slate Icon

In this logo design Illustrator tutorial it will show you how to create a slick logo and a splash in Photoshop. The logo we will be learning to design is for Zee. Let’s give it a go…

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Slick Logo Design

There are some popular sketchy fonts available that are great for grungy and hand-drawn designs and illustrations. My problem is, I want to be able to use this sketchy style in any font. Turn’s out, it is actually really easy to do in Illustrator. Moreover, you can create a Graphic Style and easily apply the style to other editable fonts!

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Sketch Font

With oil prices the way they are today, everybody is thinking Green. In the following Illustrator tutorial, It’ll teach you how to create a Green type treatment. It works great for logos and other design elements. Let’s give it a go!

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Leafy Green Type

This Adobe Illustrator tutorial will show you the process of creating a full logo. It will take you through the concept stage then you will develop the concept in Illustrator and the result will be a colorful vector logo. Let’s get going…

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Colorful Logo Design Process

Realistic renderings can be done easily in Adobe Illustrator. With vector shapes, the objects can be preserved and edited infinitely which is a great advantage over raster objects. A few simple tweaks from the Effects menu and an understanding of basic object rendering can create a bold and stunning finish. In this tutorial It’ll be guiding you step by step through the stages required to create a realistic candy bar using Illustrator.

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Realistic Candy Bar

A popular typography trend in web design and print design is letterpress styled text. This text styling is easy to do in Photoshop, but in Illustrator, it is super simple to create letterpress styled text while keeping the text editable. Utilizing the Appearance panel and Graphic Styles, you can quickly and consistently apply this style to any editable text and other vector objects.

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Letterpress Type

In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how I build a light bulb from scratch in Illustrator. We’ll use numerous shapes and effects to create this illustration. I’ll take you through each step in creating this bulb. Let’s get started!

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Realistic Lightbulb

In this tutorial we will explore the “Average” command in Adobe Illustrator, and learn how to use it in rather unusual way. In this case, we’ll create abstract scribbles using relatively simple methods and apply it to our type. Let’s get going…

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Scribble Type Effect

This tutorial will show you the whole process behind creating a comic book style poster. Starting from pencil sketches right through to the final design in illustrator, you’ll learn some invaluable techniques that you could transfer to other project. Let’s take a look!

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Comic Book Style Poster