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27 New Vector Illustrator Tutorials to Learn Design & Illustration Techniques

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New vector graphics, illustrator tutorials from 2016, in these tutorials you will learn how to create character design, vector icons, brushes, vector logos, portrait drawing and pattern illustrations.

In this collection we’re gathered fresh Illustrator CS6 and Illustrator CC tutorials which can help to create Vector Graphics in Adobe Illustrator. I hope! these illustrator tutorials can enhance you’r illustration skills and improve the quality of your works.

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New Illustrator Tutorials for Vector Graphics

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. Twenty five illustrator tutorials which can really helpful to improve your design and illustration knowledge. Enjoy!

How to Create a Collage Illustration in Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial, we will use photos I took of a few objects whose textures I found interesting: my winter sweater, my favorite plaid shirts, and some old wooden doors. You will find them in the zipped file provided with this tutorial.

How to Create a Collage Illustration in Adobe Illustrator

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How To Create a Decorative Drop Cap in Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial you will take you through the process of decorating a letter in Adobe Illustrator with a range of vector embellishments. We’ll make use of some really useful techniques that you’ll be able to make use of in all kinds of illustration projects in the future.

How To Create a Decorative Drop Cap in Adobe Illustrator

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How to Create a Coming Soon Web Page in Illustrator

In the following tutorial you will learn how to create a fun coming soon web page in Illustrator.

How to Create a Coming Soon Web Page in Illustrator

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How to Create Watercolor Brushes in Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial you will learn how to transform that art – specifically our watercolors – into AI brushes. Follow along to create your own and make sure to pick up our brand new Watercolor Illustrator Brush Pack while you’re at it!

How to Create Watercolor Brushes in Adobe Illustrator

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How to Create a Geometric, Kaleidoscopic Design in Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial, I will show you how to use these simple effects in order to create an impressive multi-functional design.

How to Create a Geometric, Kaleidoscopic Design in Adobe Illustrator

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Illustrator Special Effects: Draw a Realistic Coffee Cup Background

In this tutorial you will learn interesting techniques on how to use the Appearance Panel in Illustrator CS6 with its very useful features. Using various techniques, we can create really realistic water effects.

Illustrator Special Effects: Draw a Realistic Coffee Cup Background

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How to Quickly Create a Cute Phone Character in Adobe Illustrator

In today’s tutorial I’m going to show you how to create a cute character illustration, using some of Illustrator’s most basic shapes and tools, combined with the power of Blending Modes.

How to Quickly Create a Cute Phone Character in Adobe Illustrator

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Learn How to Create Gold Paint Brush Strokes in Illustrator

In this tutorial I am going to show you the ins and outs of our new Gold paint brushes for Illustrator. I will show you how to open the brushes and start using them right away. The brushes are set by default to have a lovely gold color, but you can also change their settings to apply your own colors.

Learn How to Create Gold Paint Brush Strokes in Illustrator

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How to Create a Pie Chart in Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial I will show you how to create a Pie chart in Adobe Illustrator.

How to Create a Pie Chart in Adobe Illustrator

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Learn How to Create Unique Character Designs in Illustrator

Starting a new character design is like looking at a blank canvas. It’s exciting, yet scary, and might even make you break out in hives. So the key to keeping your cool under pressure is to first pick a theme.

Learn How to Create Unique Character Designs in Illustrator

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How to Use Vector Graphics to Create a Repeating Pattern in Illustrator

How to Use Vector Graphics to Create a Repeating Pattern in Illustrator

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Learn How to Create an Ice Cream Cart in Illustrator Tutorial

In this tutorial, we’ll be creating a detailed illustration of an ice cream cart using Adobe Illustrator. One of the things that you will learn is how to create the main shape using several tools with the basic vector shape building techniques, some masking techniques as well as other simple effects.

Learn How to Create an Ice Cream Cart in Illustrator Tutorial

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Learn How to Create Professional Logo Design In Illustrator

In this video we’ll see how to create a professional logo in adobe illustrator using some simple techniques

Learn How to Create Professional Logo Design In Illustrator

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How to create an engraved illustration effect in Illustrator

In this tutorial I am going to show you how to take a photograph and turn it into an engraved illustration effect in Illustrator. Our end result will be a pure vector design. We will go through preparing the image, and then we will apply some patterns to the shapes, manipulating them to achieve the engraved effect.

How to create an engraved illustration effect in Illustrator

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How to Create the X-Men Character Gambit in Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial, I’m going to design Gambit as a woman. Gambit is a character from the X-Men universe, who is said to be getting his own movie in October 2016.

How to Create the X-Men Character Gambit in Adobe Illustrator

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Learn to create a vector Headphone in Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a realistic headphone using simple and understandable techniques. Most of the process is based on Pen tool and Gradient tool. This tutorial is easy for any beginner to complete.

Learn to create a vector Headphone in Adobe Illustrator

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How to Create a Simple Shape Fruit Vector Design

In this tutorial we’ll create a delicious fruit vector design from basic shapes and create a dynamic composition perfect for print and web media alike!

How to Create a Simple Shape Fruit Vector Design

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How to Draw Creatively Using Photo References

Drawing from imagination sounds cool, but we rarely know enough about the subject to draw it perfectly. You could try and guess, just to impress others with your guessing skills, but is it really worth it? Using a reference to support your memory isn’t cheating. It’s just getting know what you’re trying to draw!

How to Draw Creatively Using Photo References

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How to Draw a Pack of Six Sport Icons in Illustrator

Each icon is made up of two main parts, the court and the ball. During the process we will see how easy it is to use some basic shapes, the Align and the Pathfinder palette, Offset Path, Blend along with some other useful functions of Adobe Illustrator to create some great looking icons. That being said, open up Illustrator.

How to Draw a Pack of Six Sport Icons in Illustrator

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Create Lightsaber Vectors in Adobe Illustrator

In today’s tutorial we will create intersecting futuristic lightsaber vectors with the help of the blend objects, blending modes, and gradient fills. The tutorial is relatively simple and can be applied to many other Illustrator projects.

Create Lightsaber Vectors in Adobe Illustrator

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How to Create a Realistic Outlet Adapter

In this tutorial we’re going to create a Realistic Outlet Adapter in Adobe Illustrator. You will learn how to create the main shape using several rectangles and ellipses, the Offset Path, the Align and the Pathfinder palettes.

How to Create a Realistic Outlet Adapter

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How to Create a Character Kit in Adobe Illustrator

This new tutorial is quite unique—unlike the other tutorials we’ve done in the past, this one is more like a game. First we will create many different elements of character design from scratch, and then we will use these elements to create different characters. I promise you that you will have lots of fun combining different parts together and experiencing the excitement of creating various characters.

How to Create a Character Kit in Adobe Illustrator

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How to Create a Still Life Illustration of German Food in Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial, we will create an illustration with delicious German food. All the elements of this illustration are simple, made from basic shapes, which will lead you to quick but awesome results. We’re going to need the Pen Tool a couple of times, but I promise that it won’t be that hard.

How to Create a Still Life Illustration of German Food in Adobe Illustrator

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Create Graffiti Logo on Brick Wall with Texture in Illustrator

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a vector graffiti logo and apply the bitmap texture from the free texture packs, available to customers Pro Texture Packs with the help of the Texturino. Other Astute Graphics’ tools will help us to make the process of creating an artwork fast, convenient, and efficient.

Create Graffiti Logo on Brick Wall with Texture in Illustrator

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How to Create a Seder Plate for Passover in Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial, we’ll work from provided sketches in creating rendered illustrations of the six Seder dishes, while learning a little bit about each. As an alternative, you may want to use references for various food types from stock images purchased from Envato Market.

How to Create a Seder Plate for Passover in Adobe Illustrator

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Steps to Create a Geometric Poster Vector Design

Let’s have fun with pops of color in this text treatment tutorial! We’ll use simple shapes to transform text into a fantastic geometric poster vector design in seven steps flat!

Steps to Create a Geometric Poster Vector Design

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How to Create a Fabulous Professor X Pin-Up in Adobe Illustrator

Comic book covers are basically pin-up illustrations. It’s incredibly common for artists to tackle X-Men characters as a range of pin-ups, but one of my favorites is often ignored or not as fabulous as I think he should be.

How to Create a Fabulous Professor X Pin-Up in Adobe Illustrator

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