75+ Greatest Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

Rad Pattern In Illustrator That Makes You Dizzy

Using basic tools in Illustrator and an old paper texture we can create very nice patterns with that vintage feel, in this case we have even created a crazy optical illusion.

Create a Candy Inspired Vector Snowboard Design – MORE INFO

Learn how to put together a sweet candy inspired design in Illustrator by cutting, splitting and joining vector paths to produce an intricate weave of shapes. We’ll then add some finishing touches with subtle shading and a cool striped overlay to add depth to the design. The final concept will them be ready for being mocked up as a custom snowboard design.

How To Create an Awesome Vector Skate Deck Design – MORE INFO

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!

How to Design a Skate Deck with a Cool Skull Pattern – MORE INFO

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.

Illustrator Tutorial – Create a Gang of Vector Ninjas – MORE INFO

It can be quite tricky getting the hang of Adobe Illustrator, but if you take a step back and concentrate on the basics there’s a range of options for creating great looking images. In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at constructing a group of cool vector ninja characters using just the basic shapes and a variety of simple tools, making it a good start for Illustrator beginners.

Logo Design Process and Walkthrough for Vivid Ways – MORE INFO

Here’s my design process and a walkthrough of how the final logo is created in Adobe Illustrator.

Monster Character Series Part 1 – MORE INFO

Hopefully these will be easy enough to follow by Illustrator beginners, with mostly the basic tools and shapes being used.

Create a Character Mascot with Adobe Illustrator CS4 – MORE INFO

Mascots are becoming increasingly popular in web design. In this intermediate Illustrator tutorial we will show you how to create a vector character mascotfrom a sketch in Adobe Illustrator CS4. The techniques in this tutorial can easily be applied to other illustrations, icons, and design elements; as well as legacy versions of Illustrator.

An Illustrator’s Project: From Start to Finish – MORE INFO

In this tutorial, I’ll walk you through the steps of how to create an illustration art piece so that you can witness what goes behind a digital illustrator’s work, as well as gain some new insights for your own projects’ workflow. We’ll go through conceptualization and idea gathering, creating illustrations in Illustrator, and then finishing the piece in Photoshop.

How to Create Infographics in Adobe Illustrator – MORE INFO

In this tutorial we will learn how to create the information graphics (Infographics) using the standard tools of Adobe Illustrator. We will also show you some ways how to change graph appearance retaining its dynamic functions; i.e. you will be able to edit the data graphs after all transformations.

3D Text Tutorial – MORE INFO

5 Steps tutorial describing the process of 3D Typography creation without any 3D software. You’ll need only Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. To be honest I was going to write similar tutorial but Johnson pass ahead of me =) Anyway It’s a great and very useful skill which can be used not only for 3d text creation, but for any 3d object.

How to Create Perfect Radial Shapes in Illustrator – MORE INFO

In this tutorial, I will walk you through the creation process on how to effectively recreate some perfect radial shapes. Once you have completed this tutorial. I am sure you will be creating some amazing radial shapes to include in your designs.

CREATE A STUNNING RETRO FUTURISTIC TYPOGRAPHY – MORE INFO

This tutorial is written with the assumption that the user has only very limited knowledge of Illustrator and Photoshop. So things are going to be spelled out rather slow and painfully to ensure everyone knows what they are doing.

How To Design A Hand-Drawn Vector Pattern Using Pencils, Photoshop And Illustrator – MORE INFO

In this tutorial I’m going to show you how to take a single hand drawn element and transform it into a highly flexible and editable seamless vector pattern.

Vector Tutorial:Anime Coloring – MORE INFO

So, I don’t know if this is what anime looks like to you, but this is what anime looks like to me. Ideally for Illustrator CS2 users but these principles/tips/techniques can be applied to pretty much any program.

Illustrator Tutorial – 3D lighted text effect – MORE INFO

In this one I will first show you how to create some 3D text, which we will then apply some art brushes to so that we get a neat, futuristic spacey effect.

Create a Simple Storefront Icon – MORE INFO

In this tutorial I will show you how to create a simple storefront icon using some rectangles, Illustrator Effects, and gradients. This icon is great for use in e-commerce sites and the techniques in this tutorial can easily be applied to other icons, illustrations, and logos.

Creating Seamless Textures – MORE INFO

Illustrator is great for creating sharp clean graphics. I used to rely on Photoshop for creating simple seamless textures for typography, web, and illustration projects. Since the updates to the Appearance panel in CS4 and the updated crisp graphics for web in CS5, I create these textures solely in Illustrator and actually, it’s really easy!

Design and Print Bold Promo Cards in 60 Minutes – MORE INFO

In this tutorial I’m going to show you how incredibly easy it is to put together some promo cards using MOO.com’s minicards and a couple of vectors from GraphicRiver, in fact the whole thing from idea to execution to print only took me just 60 minutes.

How to Create a Cute, 3D, Vector Robot – Vector Premium Tutorial – MORE INFO

For this tutorial, we’ll use simple shapes to create a cute robot. We’ll apply various shading techniques to give our vector illustration a 3D style. We’ll work from sketch the final illustration, and cover all the techniques used to make this character.

Maintaining Rhythm and Flow in Vector Character Design – MORE INFO

First, let’s look at some concepts that will help you to create characters with dynamic and interesting poses. Then we’ll break down the basic process of creating a character from sketching through to the final vector file. Whether you’re interested in creating vector mascots for branding design, or making interesting characters to use in your animations, you’ll find these techniques helpful.

How to Create a Stinking Zombie Flesh-Eater in Illustrator – MORE INFO

In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a cartoon zombie in Illustrator. Starting by creating a fresh corpse, we will then ‘yuck’ it up using a number of techniques.

Blend and Mask Yourself a Great Poster – MORE INFO

In this tutorial, we’ll be creating a poster with a strong geometric central design, which utilizes flowing blends, masks shapes, and subtle gradients, to create a sophisticated final work. Learn each detailed step in creating this poster.

How to Create an Eagle Head Sticker – MORE INFO

In this tutorial, we’ll explain how to create an eagle head from a photograph and make a sticker out of it. This is a fairly straight-forward process and is relatively simple to get good results with.

How to Create a Vector Illustration and Prepare it for Micro-Stock Sale – MORE INFO

This tutorial details a professional workflow for creating vector illustrations and prepping the artwork for these sites. I’ve also included a bunch of time-saving tools and tips as well.

How to Create Seamless Watermark Patterns – MORE INFO

In this tutorial, we will cover two different watermark designs using the same pattern making technique.

Use Illustrator to Create a Fun, 3D, Character Logo – MORE INFO

In this tutorial we’ll use illustrators 3D tool to create text with depth. We’ll give the letters personality by placing them at angles and choosing a fun font. We’ll add a crazy rabbit character and unify all the colors as we add simple shading. Lastly, we’ll give this fun logo a sticker effect.

Create a Fun Icon of Frozen People on Ice – Part I – MORE INFO

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a fun, vector icon of a people symbol, frozen in an ice cube, from scratch. We’ll explore the usefulness of Adobe Illustrator’s 3D tools. The whole creation can be divided into two different parts. Part I: The ice cube, and Part II: The people icon.

Craft a Vector Collegiate Notebook Design – MORE INFO

Learn to create how to create a vector collegiate notebook design, which consists of a realistic vector notebook and accessories. It’s also the perfect base for creating a cool website header theme! Advanced knowledge of Adobe Illustrator is required to complete this tutorial.

Create a Colorful, Vector Carnival Mask – MORE INFO

This tutorial is about how to draw a colorful, jolly, full-face, carnival mask in Illustrator. I explained how every part was made like: the jolly hat, the border seam brush, the bells, the small mask on the face, the glitter symbols and the other decorations on the face.

Create a Feather Brush and Set of Detailed Wings in Illustrator – MORE INFO

In this tutorial I’m going to show you how to create a feather art brush. You’ll then learn how to use it to create a set of angel wings, which can be added to your illustrations.

Create an Inspirational Vector Political Poster – MORE INFO

This tutorial is inspired by Sheppard Fairey’s famous political poster series for the Obama campaign in the US. We’ll be showing you how to create this style of design. We’ll start with basic image editing techniques in Photoshop to get our guide layers setup, and then we’ll jump into Illustrator. You don’t need any fancy equipment to do this.

Create a Milk Bottle with a Funny Cow Label – MORE INFO

In this tutorial, we’ll explain how to create a 3D milk bottle. We’ll also cover how to create and apply a cute cow label to it.

Create a Realistic, Vector Building Illustration – MORE INFO

This is a massive tutorial that documents the creation of a realistic vector, building illustration, which is based on a photo reference. There are numerous techniques covered, each section is very well detailed with documentation on each step and process used to create this artwork. Doing a large project like this will build your vector skills immensely.

How to Create a Rocketing, Vector Aircraft Shuttle – MORE INFO

In this tutorial, we’ll be creating a illustration of a speeding aircraft shuttle. It’s going to be all vector, but along the way we’ll use blends, and other techniques that give this rocketing aircraft an interesting look.

How to Create a Vector Optical Illusion – MORE INFO

In this tutorial we’ll learn to create three types of optical illusions. Learn how easy it is to fool our brains. You’ll not believe there is no curved lines on the chessboard.

How to Create a Web Site Mascot – MORE INFO

In this tutorial, I’m going to give an overview of how developed a character from the initial brief through to the final site mascot and then to go on to create several poses for different parts of the site.

Make a Headphones Icon Using Adobe Illustrator – MORE INFO

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a realistic image of headphones using simple and understandable techniques. It turns out that to get a good result there is no need to do it in a complex way. This tutorial is easy for any beginner to complete.

Reflections Done Right – Creating a Money Roll Icon – MORE INFO

Cash-in when you follow this tutorial for creating accurate and logical reflections. I’ll cover how to use shading and masking to create an illustration that’s worth the look.

Tips for Working with the Gradient Mesh Tool In Illustrator – MORE INFO

In this tutorial, we’ll show you some tips that will improve your Mesh work. We’ll also show you a proper workflow to get outstanding results with this tool. We’ll take a close look at creating a layer within the detailed file of a meshed boot.

Create a Glowing Neon Sign using the Appearance Palette – Screencast – MORE INFO

This tutorial shows the potential the Appearance Palette in Adobe Illustrator. We’ll be building an elaborate neon sign, utilizing the Appearance Palette to speed up the process and remove the need of drawing complex paths.

Create a Green Viscous Text Effect – MORE INFO

In the following tutorial expand an existing font, use illustrator’s 3D tools to add dimension, and then add a green viscous text effect. If you want to add a fun, vector text effect to your portfolio, then get started now.

Create Colorful, Layered Paper Type in Illustrator – MORE INFO

Today I will show you how to brighten your mood by creating vivid illustrations with layered paper text and ribbons. We’ll create custom type and use Illustrator effects extensively to optimize our work.

All About Transformation in Adobe Illustrator – MORE INFO

In this tutorial you will learn everything you ever wanted to know about one of the most powerful Adobe Illustrator Tools – Transformation. Discover how it works, learn multiple ways of transforming objects, study the tools of transformation, and many other useful techniques.

Everything You Ever Want to Know About Creating Seamless Patterns in Illustrator – MORE INFO

In this tutorial I dive into the anatomy of patterns in Adobe Illustrator, analyzing numerous existing methods of creating a seamless pattern fill, from the easiest ones to the most complex ones.

Elegant gradient ribbon in Illustrator – MORE INFO

Illustrator diamond flower – MORE INFO

Not sure if my title describes exactly what I’ll try to explain in this tutorial, but it in the center of the shape I see a flower and the outside reminds me of a diamond. I’m sure there are a few different ways to create such a shape. It’s all pretty simple really. The hard part is choosing the right colors, right transparency value and transparency mode because you need to experiment a lot to achieve the result you want.

Illustrator full spectrum spirograph – MORE INFO

With this tutorial we’ll stay within the same area of spirographs. Today’s article is completely inspired by Mr. Spirograph himself Andy Gilmore. His work is stunning and very inspirational. He does magic starting from simple shapes and ends up with a remarkable complex composition.

Illustrator type technique using shapes – MORE INFO

One of the questions I often get from readers is if I could write a tutorial on how to create a certain logo. It’s something that I think is not very good material for a tutorial because it’s so very specific. The hard part is not the execution in Illustrator, it’s the design itself, the creative process.

Recolor artwork using Illustrator’s LiveColor – MORE INFO

Today I’ll talk about how you can recolor your artwork in Illustrator CS3 using the LiveColor feature. I’ve always wanted to talk about this feature, but somehow I never got to actually doing it. I believe this is a rather powerful feature that might be a bit daunting at first sight. It definitely needs some getting used to before you actually see or understands its power.

Create an Add to Cart/Basket/Bag Button – MORE INFO

In this tutorial I will show how to create one of the most common buttons. I made three buttons with similar design but different icon and text. Follow this fast tutorial and you will learn to create an add to cart, basket or bag button.

How to create a Rubik’s Cube in Illustrator – MORE INFO

To continue the series of tutorials aimed to provide useful tips, tricks and advices in creating nice illustrations (using Illustrator), I’ll show you how to create a simple Rubik’s cube illustration.

Adobe Illustrator tutorial: Draw realistic liquids in vector art – MORE INFO

You’ll learn numerous Illustrator techniques to create vector liquid, by playing around with Illustrator’s Mesh tool, Warp tool and layer blending properties.

Life & Style tutorial: Experimental text effects – MORE INFO

In this tutorial, Illustrator expert Amenth demonstrates just a few of these, taking text extrusions to the extreme and using this as the basis for creating amazing vector shapes dynamic, far-out artwork almost entirely using Illustrator’s text tools.

Illustration tutorial: Creating convincing characters – MORE INFO

In this tutorial, you’ll learn some basic skills for converting your character from a pencil doodle to a complete, fully-coloured image – learning some crucial Illustrator skills along the way.

Adding Gradients to Illustrations in Adobe Illustrator – MORE INFO

Below is a tutorial I’ve written for adding gradients to a cartoon character in Adobe Illustrator.

Design with Swirls and Flourishes – MORE INFO

This swirl designs tutorial will cover some of the techniques you can use to create your own beautiful swirls and flourishes.

Cafe Style Coffee Art in Adobe Illustrator – MORE INFO

In this Illustrator tutorial I’ll explain step by step how I created the “Delicious Coffee” illustration which was published in “1000 Restaurant, bar & café graphics” by Rockport Publishing.

Retro 3D Arcade Text Effect in Illustrator – MORE INFO

In this tutorial we’ll make clever use of Illustrators built in 3D capabilities, gradients and opacity masks to design a Retro 3D Type Effect.

Illustrator Tutorial: How to Make an Icy Cocktail – MORE INFO

in this Illustrator tutorial, I will explain how I draw a refreshing cocktail drink in Adobe illustrator. Hope you will find this useful and inspiring to make other kinds of drinks or cocktails.

Illustrator Tutorial: Perfect Silhouette with Live Trace – MORE INFO

In this Illustrator tutorial, I am going to teach you how to prepare your images in Photoshop for Live Trace. Then, we will experiment with various Live Trace settings to create our silhouette. After reading this, you will be able to create better looking silhouette figures.

Create a Detailed Restaurant Chalkboard – MORE INFO

In the following new Adobe Illustrator tutorial you will learn how to create a detailedrestaurant specials style chalkboard. We’ll start with the Rectangle Tool and some simple vector shape building techniques. Once you have your starting shapes you can continue and add the colors. We’ll use multiple fills and strokes along with a bunch of new effects and some simple blending techniques. For the finishing touches, we’ll use several built in brushes and patterns along with some simple masking techniques.

CREATE A CLEAN RETRO BADGE IN ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR – MORE INFO

In this tutorial we are going to create a clean retro-looking badge/burst in Adobe Illustrator. These are great for adding to a website, advertisement, banner, etc to help the text stand out.

Create a Simple Map Illustration – MORE INFO

In the following Adobe Illustrator tutorial you will learn how to create your very own simple vector map illustration. First, we’ll build the starting shapes using pixel perfect alignment, some basic vector shape building techniques along with a bunch of warp effects. Then we will put on the finishing touches. We will add the colors along with some simple effects and highlights to give it that final bit of character.

How to Create a Promotional Website Infographic in Adobe Illustrator – MORE INFO

In this tutorial, we will learn how to collect and process statistical data, then visualize it using Adobe Illustrator. You will also learn how the various vector elements of this project were created, as well as how to save the project in PDF format, edit it, add hyperlinks, and place navigation between pages.

How To Create a Cubist Style Logo Design in Illustrator – MORE INFO

Follow this logo design process walkthrough to see the making of a cubist style logo design made up of lots of detailed vector facets. Not only will we be creating the actual design in Adobe Illustrator, but I’ll also be describing the whole logo design process in this tutorial, from the initial sketches right through to finishing off the final design.

Creating A Crazy Cool Logo – MORE INFO

In this tutorial, you will be shown how we created the logo. Skipping 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.

Create a Stylish, Vector Hair Typography Illustration – MORE INFO

So in today’s tutorial, I’m going to show you how I created this stylish piece of hair typography in Adobe Illustrator CS5. I’ve also finished it off with a quick aged coloring giving it a vintage design feel.

Quick Tip: How to Easily Outline Curly Letters – MORE INFO

Making smooth looking curves and curls in vector can be tricky, especially if you’re working with hand drawn forms. In today’s Quick Tip I will show the process of outlining some extremely curly letterforms that have been hand drawn and scanned into the computer. The process can be made a little bit easier with the help of some shapes, the scissors tool and the Shape Builder Tool.

Create Art Deco type art – MORE INFO

This tutorial’s featured artwork began life when Adam Pointer was commissioned by design agency Zip (zipdesign.co.uk) to produce a piece promoting the Sunday night event at the now-defunct London West End club, The End.

Logo Design On A Budget – MORE INFO

In this tutorial I’ll break down my creative process used on a logo design for the UK hip-hop duo Second Nature.

Create a black and white logo – MORE INFO

The following tutorial will help you understand the process of designing a brand identity, working with shapes and using your head to see what is effective and what isn’t. When creating a new identity, you should bear in mind that attention to detail is everything, and you need to focus on letter spacing, overall balance, and form.

Geometric Flower Effect Logo In Illustrator – MORE INFO

In this tutorial I will show you how I made this nice logo for one of my clients in Czech Republic. Feel free to use it as inspiration, but please do not copy it in any form. All copyrights belong to the owner whom I made it for. Last but not least, please excuse Czech language appearing in the dialog boxes on pictures; I use a localized version of illustrator.

Create promotional artwork that sells you to new clients – MORE INFO

in this tutorial he takes you through the creation of a piece from what he calls his ‘seasonal billboard’: online self-promotional work depicting the four seasons.

Why you should use Adobe Illustrator to create user interfaces – MORE INFO

This article is an introduction to the series of tutorials that will be devoted to the creation of interface elements in Adobe Illustrator.