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This article is an ultimate and huge collection of adobe illustrator tutorials from all around the web, 205 tutorials to be precise. These tutorials can help you improve your skills and in your knowledge in illustrator. It can advance you from beginner to professional. The tutorials are very detailed and informative written by professional illustrators for your benefit.
All the tutorials are categorized in 6 categories so that you can easily find what you are looking for (clicking on the category will navigate you to it):
- Scenes Tutorials
- Text Effects Tutorials
- Character Tutorials
- Icon Tutorials
- Objects Tutorials
- Illustration & Design Tutorials (Misc Tutorials)
1. Create an Elegant Theater Interior with Illustrator
2. How to Create a Vintage Ocean Liner Poster
3. Create a Realistic, Vector Building Illustration
4. Create an Illustration of a Pearl-Filled Clam on an Ocean Bed
5. Learn to Create a Financial Crisis, Vector Illustration
6. How to Create a Cute Earth Illustration in Vector
7. How to Make a White Holiday Scene in Illustrator
8. Smoothly Shift Winter Colors, While Creating an Icy, Vector Landscape
9. How to Create a Landscape Wallpaper for your Desktop
10. How to Create a Cartoon Spaceship Interior in Under One Hour
11. How to Create Your Own Stylized Vector City
12. How to Create a Classic Vector Painting with Watercolor Washes and Line Art
13. How to Create a Fun Hot Air Balloon Sky Scene
14. How to Create a Textured Vector Landscape
15. How to Create a Stylized Underwater Scene
1. Create Colorful, Layered Paper Type in Illustrator
2. How to Create a Smokin’ Western Type Treatment in Illustrator
3. Make a Torn Vector Desktop Wallpaper with Angled Text
4. Create an Old Paper & Feather Pen Illustration
5. Create a Swirly Type Treatment
6. Create a bubble text effect
7. Create a folded paper text effect
8. Create An Editable Stitched Label Type Treatment
9. Turn Any Font Into a Sketch Font
10. Creating Editable Letterpress Styled Text
11. How to Create a Trendy Retro Type Treatment
12. Creating an Environmentally Friendly Green Type Treatment
1. Create a Cute Retro-Flavored Teddy Bear with the Gradient Mesh Tool
2. Modeling the Human Face in Illustrator
3. How to Design a Cheeky Koala Mascot Head
4. Create a Colorful, Vector Carnival Mask
5. How to Create Typeface Characters
6. Create a Set of Shiny Character Eyes
7. How to Create a Curious Owl in Illustrator CS4
8. How to Create a Vector Goldfish in Six Steps
9. Use Illustrator to Create a Fun, 3D, Character Logo
10. Tracing a Vector Face From a Reference Photo
11. How to Create an Eagle Head Sticker
12. How to Create a Stinking Zombie Flesh-Eater in Illustrator
13. How to Create a Mosaic Portrait from a Photograph
14. How to Create a Fantasy Character in Illustrator
15. How to Illustrate a LeBron James Cartoon Character
16. How to Create a Vector Illustration and Prepare it for Micro-Stock Sale
17. How to Create a Web Site Mascot
18. How to Create a Cartoon Character with Expressive Lines
19. How to Illustrate a Cute Emo Kid
20. How to Create a Killer Chainsaw Bunny Character
21. How to Turn a Sketch into a Fat Cat Vector Illustration
22. Create a Sweet Pair of Glossy Vector Lips
23. How to Create a Cute Bunny Vector Character
24. Create the face of a grumpy bear
25. Create the face of a greedy monkey
26. Create the face of a goofy bunny
27. Create a cute and simple hippo face
28. Create A Vector Art Twitter Bird Character Icon
29. Create a Cute Furry Vector Monster in Illustrator
30. How To Draw a Cute Vector Dog Character in Illustrator
31. Create a Rolling Stones Inspired Tongue Illustration
32. Create A Cute Creature Character From A Sketch
33. Create a Cute Panda Bear Face Icon
34. Create a Happy Sun Character
35. Create a Character Mascot with Adobe Illustrator CS4
36. Create a Twitter Style Bird Mascot
1. How to Create a Simple Cardboard Box Icon
2. Create an Ominous Jar of Purple Ooze
3. How to Draw a Glossy Yo-Yo Icon using Adobe Illustrator
4. How to Create a Distinguished Personal Diary Icon
5. How to Make an Opulent Chair Icon
6. How to Create a Hyper-realistic Flashlight
7. How to Create a Shiny Bucket Icon
8. Create a Stylized First Aid Icon in Illustrator
9. Creating a Toaster-Popping Illustration
10. Reflections Done Right – Creating a Money Roll Icon
11. How to Create A Realistic Chef’s Knife in Illustrator
12. How to Create a Golden, Vector Compass in Illustrator
13. How To Create An Academy Icon From Simple Shapes
14. How to Create an Energy Saving Bulb in Illustrator
15. Create a Fun Icon of Frozen People on Ice – Part I, Create a Fun Icon of Frozen People on Ice – Part II
16. How to Create a Recycling, Paper Bag Icon
17. How to Create a Photorealistic iMac and Magic Mouse
18. How to Illustrate a Brain Icon for OSX and Vista
19. How to Create a Gearbox Settings Icon Using Simple Shapes
20. Create a Yummy Ice Cream Icon with Mesh Objects and Blends
21. Abracadabra, How to Create a Magic Hat Icon
22. How to Make a Sweet Vector Popsicle Illustration
23. How to Create a Vector Sketchbook
24. How to Create an Hourglass Icon in About an Hour
25. How to Create an Alarm Clock Icon
26. Make 3D Yet Flat Looking Shopping Basket Icons
27. How to Make a Vector Military Cap Icon
28. Craft a Delicious Chinese Food Icon
29. How to Turn Glasses into a Great Geek Icon
30. How to Create a Magic Wand Icon
31. Create a laptop icon
32. Create a simple paint brush icon
33. Create a documents icon
34. Create a simple lcd monitor icon
35. Create a classic calendar icon
36. Create A 3D Vector Book Icon
37. How to Create a Vector iMac Graphic in Illustrator
38. How to Create a Vector Safari Compass in Illustrator
39. Create a Tasty Burger Icon in Illustrator
40. Design a Stylish Wallet Icon in Illustrator
41. Create a Vintage TV Set Icon in Illustrator
42. Create a Simple Storefront Icon
43. Create A Briefcase Icon
44. Create a Stylized GPS Icon
45. How to Design a Set of Multicolored Buddy Icons
55. Make a Handy 3D Vector Calendar Icon
56. How to Create a Transparent Battery Icon
57. How to Create a Juicy RSS Feed Icon
58. Design a Vector Audio Speaker Icon In Illustrator
60. Create a Vector Film Slate Icon
61. Create An Aperture Style Camera Lens Icon
62. Create a Vector Lock Icon Design
1. How to Create a Still Life in the Style of Primitive Art
2. How to Create a Medieval Paper Scroll
3. How to Create a Lustrous Electric Guitar
4. Create a Detailed, Vector-based iPhone Illustration, Part 1, Create a Detailed, Vector-based iPhone Illustration, Part 2
5. How to Create a Charming Jewelry Box
6. How to Create a Tube of Paint and a Brush, Using Adobe Illustrator
7. How to Illustrate a Marvelous Violin Icon
8. How to Create a Vector Baseball Bat and Ball
9. How to Illustrate a Professional Looking Apple iPad
10. How To Create a Sleek DVD Player with Adobe Illustrator
11. Create a Stylized, Vector Rubik’s Cube
12. How to Create a Shiny, Vector Laptop
13. Create a Cute, Stylized Suitcase Tag in Pink
14. Draw a Glowing, Vector Pocket Watch – Front and Back
15. How To Make an Olympic Gold Medal In Adobe Illustrator CS4
16. How to Create an Electronic Piano in Illustrator
17. How to Create an Elegant, Vector Pen in Illustrator
18. How to Make Super-Sharp, Vector Swords
19. How to Create a 3D Marker in Illustrator
20. How To Create A Vector Wacom Tablet In Illustrator
21. How to Create Stereo Headphone Plugs in Illustrator
22. Make a Sleek and Refreshing Vector Energy Drink
23. How to Create Semi-Realistic Scissors in Illustrator
24. Hit the Mark with a Realistic Vector Dartboard
25. How to Make a Vector Diamond Ring in Illustrator
26. How to Create a Stack of Poker Chips
27. How to Create Shiny, Vector Dice in Illustrator
28. How to Draw A Realistic Vector Light Bulb From Scratch
29. Make a 3D Vector Film Roll, Drawn In Perspective
30. How to Make a Detailed 3D Vector Tire in Illustrator
31. Create a Milk Bottle with a Funny Cow Label
32. How to Create an Enchanted Holiday Ornament Design
33. How to Make Festive Vector Gift Boxes
34. Craft a Vector Collegiate Notebook Design
35. How to Create a Colorful Retro Style TV
36. Create a Checkered 3D Chess Figure Scene
37. How to Create a Fresh Mojito Cocktail Glass
38. Create an iPod Nano
39. Create a popcorn box
40. Create an illustration of a fountain pen
41. How To Create A Realistic Pendrive
42. Wooden Smoking Pipe
43. Vector Plasma Television
44. Create An Awesome Space Rocket Avatar in Illustrator
45. How to Create a Box Cutter Style Vector Knife
46. Make a Shiny Gum Ball Machine with Mesh Gradients
47. Create a Stylized Vector Police Badge with Metal and Leather
1. Using Gradients to Create a Vector Bug
2. How to Make an Attractive Vector Butterfly
3. How to Create a Stylized Vector Grasshopper
4. How to Turn a Client Approved Snack Label into a 3D Looking Snack Pack
5. Make an Awesome Military Themed Vector Package
6. How to Create Sheet Rolls with Custom Spirals
7. How to Make a Vector Photo Album and Wood Background
8. Create a Customizable Aluminum and Glass Styled Vector Emblem
9. How to Create an Art Gallery Frame in Vector
10.How to Create a Caramel Ripple Effect
11. How to Create Realistic, Vector Bubbles
12. How to Create a Rainy Window Vector Background
13. How to Create a Vector Optical Illusion
14. Create a Vector Tree with Custom Brushes and the Gradient Mesh Tool
15. How to Create a Rocketing, Vector Aircraft Shuttle
16. How to Create Your Own Abstract, Music Design
17. How to Create a Captivating, Self-Promotion Kit
18. How to Make an Inspired, Golden Painting in Illustrator
19. Create an Abstract, Textured Artwork in Illustrator
20. Create a Valentines Day Illustration for Your Sweetie
21. How to Create a Retro Vector Illustration with Stylized Lines
22. How to Create Colorful Abstract Artwork in Illustrator
23. How to Illustrate Deliciously Realistic Grapes using Simple Techniques
24. From Sketch to Vector, Simple Illustration That’s Not So Simple
25. Illustrating a Chili Pepper with Illustrator’s Envelope Distort Tool
26. How to Design a Shiny Zipper
27. How to Create a Pencil and Paper Illustration
28. Dress Up Your Desktop with a Sharp Dual Screen Wallpaper
29. How to Make a Retro RC Airplane Poster
30. How To Create Outstanding Modern Infographics
31. Turn a Boring Bar Graph into a 3D Masterpiece
32. How to Make Realistic Skate Wheels in Illustrator
33. Create a Code-Style T-Shirt Design for Website Promotion
34. Create a Fun Halloween Vector Poster
35. Create the Mini Logo
36. Japanese Sushi
37. Gradient Mesh Flower
38. Realistic Orange
39. How to Make an Icy Cocktail
40. Create A Mouthwatering Chocolate Covered Strawberry
41. Design Gift Boxes Using Illustrator’s 3D Tools
42. Create a Stylish Sports Car Dashboard With Areas of Detailed Realism
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Great Collection. I’m glad to see 3 tutorials of mine in the list. Nice to see such a huge roundup.
I have some issues with Illustrator… erm… illustrations because too often they are made of unnecessary wild gradients and too bright colors, looking like something from the 90’s. There’s some bad apples in your list above, but most of them look useful. I especially like some of the text and logo examples.
Thanks. It’s quite a big list. I believe there’s something for everyone in it. I’ll have to come back when I need some inspiration or help with Illustrator.