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Illustrator Tutorials: 30 New Tuts to Learn Vector & Illustration Techniques

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Fresh vector illustrator tutorials, leading graphic designers and artists share their expert tips and tutorials to help you to create vector graphics. In this collection we’re gathered new Illustrator CS6 and Illustrator CC tutorials which can help to create Vector Graphics in Adobe Illustrator. I hope these tutorials can enhance you’r illustration skills and improve the quality of your works.

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Free Vector Tutorials for illustrations

Tutorials can provide a lot of help, step by step presentation of a thing that made it easy to learn and understand. Illustrator is widely used in designing things related to Print Media. Thirty new illustrator tutorials which can really helpful to improve your design and illustration knowledge. Enjoy!

How To Create a Colorful Vector Landscape Illustration

Learn how to create old wild west desert with mountains that extend to the horizon, but these same techniques could be used to create a landscape scene for any fictional or non-fictional place.

How To Create a Colorful Vector Landscape Illustration

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How to Create an Owl Character Using a Circular Grid in Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial I will show you, step by step, how to create a circular grid, align it perfectly and design a cute owl character. Hopefully, you’ll learn how to use circles to create other characters on your own.

How to Create an Owl Character Using a Circular Grid in Adobe Illustrator

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How to Create Gig Print Poster in Illustrator Tutorial

The assigned project was to create cool and fun gig poster prints for a student union nightclub event – a big campus shindig before the kids go back for the holidays. Out of ideas and inspiration, I thought I’d raid my sketchbook for inspiration – something that I often do when faced with designer’s block. I happened upon a couple of doodles and sketches that I figured would be ideal for a winter, holiday design with a bit of an edge to it.

How to Create Print Poster Tutorial- Bringing Doodles and Sketches into Your Illustrator Workflow

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How to Create a Cute Gingerbread Man in Adobe Illustrator

Character design is always fun and creative. If you love it as much as I do, then jump into this tutorial and learn how to create a cute gingerbread man character in vector form.

How to Create a Cute Gingerbread Man in Adobe Illustrator

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How to Cute Character Art in Adobe Illustrator

The initial sketch is included as a download for you to work along with. The masterclass draws on vector art skills, exploring the power of various stroke techniques.

How to Cute Character Art in Adobe Illustrator

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How to Create a Cartoon Penguin Winter Illustration in Affinity Designer

In this tutorial we’ll be drawing a lovely cartoon penguin, which will help us to feel warm and cozy on a cold winter day. We’ll be using basic shapes and some drawing tools of Affinity Designer to make a simple textured effect.

How to Create a Cartoon Penguin Winter Illustration in Affinity Designer

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How to Create a Vespa in Adobe Illustrator

In this illustrator tutorial you will learn how to create high quality main shapes of the vespa, using the Pen Tool and Ellipse Tool, along with the Offset Path and the Pathfinder palette. Next, using complex gradients, basic blending, masking and vector shape building techniques along with some effects you’ll add depth and shading to your shapes. Finally, you’ll learn how to add a few more subtle details, highlights and shadows for your vespa.

How to Create a Vespa in Adobe Illustrator

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How to Create a Snowy Window Scene in Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial, you will use basic shapes and Warp Effects, and will learn how to use the Spiral Tool for the window’s iron security bar. You will also see how easy it is to create a poinsettia using just basic shapes. To illustrate the snow, you will use the Warp Tool.

How to Create a Snowy Window Scene in Adobe Illustrator

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How to Create a Sea Sunset Painting in Pointillism Style with Stipplism in Illustrator

In this tutorial you will learn how to create pictures in pointillism style, and for that you don’t need to know how to draw. Paints and brushes are not required. All you need is Stipplism and a few bitmap images that you can work with using the help of Rasterino and Phantasm, without leaving Illustrator.

How to Create a Sea Sunset Painting in Pointillism Style with Stipplism in Illustrator

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How to Edit and Use a Stock Vector Graphic in Adobe Illustrator and CorelDRAW

How to Edit and Use a Stock Vector Graphic in Adobe Illustrator and CorelDRAW

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Create Repeating Patterns for Skate Deck Art in Illustrator Tutorial

In this tutorial you will learn how to use repeating, tiled patterns based on vector workings of real-world objects. By taking the everyday, such as vegetables and kitchen utensils in this case, and reworking them as stylized vector art, you can add a real twist and create some thought-provoking art.

Create Repeating Patterns for Skate Deck Art in Illustrator Tutorial

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How to Create a Set of Food Icons in Adobe Illustrator

In this new tutorial you will learn how to create a set of summer inspired food icons in Adobe Illustrator.

How to Create a Set of Food Icons in Adobe Illustrator

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How to Create Golden Ribbon Banner Vectors in Adobe Illustrator Tutorial

Add a touch of luxury to your designs with these shiny golden ribbon banner vectors. Easily create banner vector shapes with warped rectangles and apply a series of gradients to the shapes to get a gilded perfection.

How to Create Golden Ribbon Banner Vectors in Adobe Illustrator Tutorial

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How to Create Dripping Effect for Editable Text with Stipplism in Adobe Illustrator

You will learn how to create a dripping text effect using the Symbol Stipple feature in Stipplism, Appearance panel and native Illustrator’s feature.

How to Create Dripping Effect for Editable Text with Stipplism in Adobe Illustrator

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Amazing Texture Techniques for Vector Artwork Illustrator Tutorial

You’ll learn how to take scanned textures and turn them into vectors using image trace, then effectively apply them to your illustration using clipping masks. Jeffrey will also explain how to add brush strokes to hard vector edges, so as to give a hand-drawn feel to your artwork.

Amazing Texture Techniques for Vector Artwork Illustrator Tutorial

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How to Create Halftone Effects in Adobe Illustrator

Halftones are dots of varying sizes and spacing, put together to simluate a tone or gradient. Though it is a method connected to print, the aesthetics of it have made it popular to use even for digital content.

How to Create Halftone Effects in Adobe Illustrator

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How to Create an Autumn Composition With a Sparrow in Adobe Illustrator

In this illustrator tutorial you will learn how to draw one of these cute creatures! We will use basic shapes, move a few anchor points, and use the warp effect. You will find many similar elements from my previous tutorials, which will make this tutorial easy and still fun to create!

How to Create an Autumn Composition With a Sparrow in Adobe Illustrator

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How to Create an Alarm Clock in Adobe Illustrator

You will learn lots of useful illustrator tricks to speed up drawing a clock face along with some other parts of the clock. Hope you will enjoy this tutorial and maybe even discover some new methods along the way.

How to Create an Alarm Clock in Adobe Illustrator

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How to Create a Trio of Cute Pencil Characters in Adobe Illustrator

At the beginning, you will create the body of the pencil using basic shapes and a few distortion techniques, and after that comes the fun part where you will create different face expressions. You can even mix and match all the elements as you desire to obtain a personalized pencil character.

How to Create a Trio of Cute Pencil Characters in Adobe Illustrator

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How to Create Vegetal Mask Step by step in Illustrator CC

The tutorial has been one of the longest illustrations of Paul DOUARD, and you will see below the different steps from the sketching on Adobe Photoshop CC, to the full drawing and colorization on Adobe Illustrator CC. The whole final work is in vector.

How to Create Vegetal Mask Step by step in Illustrator CC

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How to Create a Vibrant Day of the Dead Portrait in Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial We’ll create a female portrait using different methods and techniques for a great result. You can use this tutorial as a reference for your own picture.

How to Create a Vibrant Day of the Dead Portrait in Adobe Illustrator

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How to create a Legendary Sword in the Stone in Illustrator

The tutorial is composed of two main parts, creating the sword and creating the stone. You will start from basic shapes and with simple vector shape building techniques that involve the duplicating objects, Transform effects, the Blend options and the Pathfinder palette you will easily create the shapes that you need. The Clipping Mask also plays an important role in this tutorial along with some interesting effects.

How to create a Legendary Sword in the Stone in Illustrator

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How to Create a Travel Journal in Adobe Illustrator

The tutorial is composed of two main parts, creating the travel journal and creating the pencil.

How to Create a Travel Journal in Adobe Illustrator

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How to Design Retro Isometric Artwork in Illustrator Tutorial

Vector illustration can produce beautifully clean, precise artwork, but the results can also be a bit soulless. Here Mark Oliver creates those clean, precise shapes and then ‘grubbies’ them up for a more organic retro look.

How to Design Retro Isometric Artwork in Illustrator Tutorial

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Create the Wicked Witch of the West in Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial the Wicked Witch of the West now dons a stylish collection of haute couture clothing to be rivaled only by her fabulously evil attitude. Join me in a maddening ride through form and color as we create a stunning witch and her entourage of flying monkeys.

Create the Wicked Witch of the West in Adobe Illustrator

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How to Create Holiday Card with Adobe Capture and Illustrator

his tutorial is a courtesy of Von Glitschka. He shows us how to create a Holiday Card using Adobe tools like Capture and the old classic Illustrator.

How to Create Holiday Card with Adobe Capture and Illustrator

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Draw the Cowardly Lion From the Wizard of Oz in Adobe Illustrator

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is one of the most popular fairy-tale novels for children, which is also loved by millions of adults for its fantastic, magical atmosphere. In this tutorial we’ll be creating a colorful portrait of Cowardly Lion, using a stock photo to create a realistic, outlined look. We’ll be adding some grungy and lighting effects, creating a stylish thematic poster with the Cowardly Lion.

Draw the Cowardly Lion From the Wizard of Oz in Adobe Illustrator

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Create an Art Nouveau-Inspired Glinda Character in Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial you’ll learn to create a character from children’s novel “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz”—the Good Witch of the South.

Create an Art Nouveau-Inspired Glinda Character in Adobe Illustrator

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