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Illustrator Tutorials

Cutaway Car Illustration Tutorial
In this lesson you’ll learn how to create a 3-Point Perspective-view drawing of a generic car, working from plan and elevation view reference only.

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Spice up Pie Charts
For some charts you might only want to spice up the most important slice or the biggest one. Although most topics aren’t as fun as mutations, any sort of

added graphics make boring charts look a lot better.

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Retro Car Tutorial
All you need is Illustrator, some inks and some brushes to turn a photograph of a car into a vector illustration.

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Intricate Patterns In Illustrator Tutorial
This tutorial will show you how to create intricate patterns in Illustrator super quickly. Stuff that would take you hours to draw manually with the Pen Tool

takes just seconds when you use this technique. Video-version is also available.

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Creating a Crazy Cool Logo
In this post I will show you how we created the logo. I will skip the drawing parts, yes

there were tons of drawings before going to the computer, because when they stole my

computer and backups in 2006 they took all my photos of the drawings.


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Wolf Drawing Tutorial
Learn how to create an illustrated wolf from the hand-drawn paper sketch to final product

with Illustrator and Photoshop.


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White Tiger Tutorial
A cartoony white tiger tutorial. A poster illustration.

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How To Make 3D Vector Vintage Stars
I’m going to walk you through a technique to create vintage looking 3d stars in Illustrator.

You guessed it, 100% vector.


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Complex Circular Design Techniques
Creating intricate circular designs and patterns may look difficult because the shapes can

be very complicated, but you will be surprised at just how easy making these shapes can be.

I will go over some neat tricks, tools, techniques, and settings that will have you pumping

out perfect circular designs in no time using Illustrator.


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Comic Book Style Tutorial
Learn how to create illustrations and turn them into flyers or posters. The end product will

be a flyer which was created for an art show.


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Creating Pins
Pins are popular these days, so I thought why not write a tutorial on how to create these in

Adobe Illustrator. If you’ve ever wondered how to simulate this realistic looking pin or

button effect, here’s your chance to learn.


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Complicate Orb Icon
This tutorial will teach you doing more complicate button icon or Orb effect Icon using

Illustrator. This is quite a long tutorial.

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Test Your Creativity
“Using a provided set of basic shapes I have to compile them to create my illustration. The

theme is up to me but there are some ground rules such as you cannot edit the shapes or

distort them, you however can subtract from them using any of the shapes in the provided

set.


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Vintage T-Shirts
It’s easy to create authentic collegiate T-shirt designs using Illustrator, Photoshop and a

good old-fashioned iron. In this tutorial, illustrator Derek Lea reveals how combining both

applications can create stunning results.


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Skull Tutorial
An alien skull tutorial. Editorial illustration.

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Pirate cartoon tutorial
Learn how to create a vector pirate cartoon character from a hand-drawn sketch.

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Illustrator Shapes Tutorial - This is an Adobe Illustrator Tutorial on How to Make Shapes

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Design Float Circle Icon- This tutorial will teach you how to create a Designer float icon

using adobe Illustrator that will match with the awesome fasticon set.

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Using Illustrator’s Mesh Tool as Nature Intended- How to use the Mesh tool to simulate

nature’s way of colorizing things—in this case, a fallen leaf.

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Leather Stylin’ in Illustrator- How to create a quasi-realistic leather patch logo complete

with buttons and stitching.

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Symmetrical Illustration: Thug Bunny!- This tutorial will go through the method of using

symmetry in your artwork. Learn how to do half the work but still get the full benefit from

your artwork.

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Create a Disco Environment with Twirl Tool, Crystalize , and Envelope Tool- In this tutorial

you will see how to use envelope tool to create a Disco Ball , You will also utilize Twirl

and Crystallize tool to understand its options.

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Create a Designer Font- How to break apart a font into vector bits that we can manipulate.

This is a great way to add your style to a font or to make your own!

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Draw Your Self Portrait- Learn how to transform your photo into your vector self portrait.

You’ll review techniques for tracing photos.

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Creating trees in Illustrator- Green is in vogue and clients everywhere want natural imagery in their promotional material. Ben the Illustrator shows you how to create a fresh-looking tree.

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Illustrator Tutorial: Figure Shading-
Drawing the human body is never easy, but shading it and giving it depth as well can be a real headache. A nice tutorial on figure shading by Russell Tate.
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Texture- When working in Illustrator it’s nice to add textures that weren’t computer generated (like gradients or pattern fills). This is a step-by-step instructions on how you can create your own hand-made texture effects using a Chinagraph Pencil on simple Watercolor Paper.
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3D Logo Tutorial- In this Tutorial you will start with the making of a logo shape, going to rough 3D, and finishing it in Photoshop.
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How To Create Your Own Vector Cartoon Character- Follow this tutorial to create your own vector character; Freddy the Fish.
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ILLUSTRATE IMAGE INTO VECTOR- Basically, it is quite simple to illustrate an animate rather than a real object. Its color tone is simple and easy to apply. Yhis tutorial will teach you how to illustrate an image into vector.
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Free Watercolor Brushes and Tutorial- How to create a couple watercolor brushes, and at the end of the tutorial you can download some Free Vectips Watercolor Brushes!
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Simple organic shapes the Illustrator way- Here is a nice way to create wood grain effect using the warp tools in illustrator.
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Realistic Curtain- How to create a realistic curtain using the gradient mesh.
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Swirl Mania in Illustrator and Photoshop- There are lots of ways to create swirls in Illustrator, in this tutorial you will learn 4 ways to create swirls, and by mixing them you will learn some very powerful techniques that will allow you to easily make tons of different styles of swirls and crazy sperm vectors.
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Kacper Spala
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Maciej Mizer
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Cris Vector
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Eendar
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Andrey Gordeev
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Playstation 3
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The Swallowers of Pretty Things
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Communion by Cristiano Siqueira
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Dior Vector
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Naketano
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Fruit Tree
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Overgrown
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Drug Free Zone
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Midnight Terror by Matheus Castro
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Madam Eninette
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Bulgarian Jazz Festival 2008
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illustrator Pucker and Bloat Effect How to use the Pucker & Bloat Effect.
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Save Time With Save Selection- Selecting multiple objects in Illustrator is essential to productivity. One of the best selection features in Illustrator is Save Selection.
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Vector Effects How to mix a photo with vector elements using Photoshop and Illustrator.
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Sandwich Board Whitey & Wheaty
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Colorful Illustration Very beautiful dream like illustration in vector .eps format
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The Butterfly Patch A Sample Patch from one of the Tool Boxes available at aivault.
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Free Vector Art Spring Flowers
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From Sketch to Vector Illustration- A technique of vector illustrating that takes a little bit more skill is starting with a hand drawn sketches.This tutorial will focus on that technique of vector illustrating.
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Craft a Dramatic Vector Landscape Environment- This tutorial will show the intermediate Adobe Illustrator artist how to make a dramatic landscape environment.
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He aint showing up hun
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Bently Stamp
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Lolly Zombification
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Vector Polishing Techniques- This tutorial includes 9 Photoshop techniques that will show you how to add more depth, color, contrast, and texture into your vector art.
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