50 Very Useful Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

Adobe Illustrator is a powerful application for vector design. Designers are working on it and making beautiful artwork and beginner are learning to improve their skills. There are a lot of tutorials on Illustrator are online which are very useful for beginner and advance users.

Create a glowing neon effect in your illustration that can grab an audience’s attention with its beauty and uniqueness.

All things Beautiful

How to easily create digital abstract smoke using both Illustrator and Photoshop. One of the best things about this technique is that it’s very customizable and you can do it pretty quickly.

Smoke Effect

How to create smoke in photoshop, from Abduzeedo.

How to create the eye catching graphics shown off on the box of windows vista, and in some of their wallpapers/screensavers.

Rainy Day Rainbows

Draw A Realistic Vector Guitar in Inkscape

Create an Animated 3D Poker Chip

Create a Sidekick LX Styled Vector Illustration

Illustrator Tutorial: Disco Ball

A nice tutorial by Veerle on how to create Apple’s new system GUI in Leopard with the inset effect on the text.

This tutorial will teach you how to use Photoshop and Illustrator to create cool looking Vector Line Gradients to give your text a vintage old-school feel.

Melting Ice Text Effect

Learn how to create a smokey night effect on text to give it an eerie supernatural sort of feel. It’s a good exercise in using the Wave distortion filter.

Spice up Pie Charts

Craft a Vector Collegiate Notebook Design

How to Create an Open Book with Illustrator’s 3D Extrude & Bevel Tool

Create a Rotatable Globe in Adobe Illustrator

Create a 3D Push Pin and a Paper Note in Illustrator

Create a Vector Home Cinema Design

3D Objects and Transparencies to Make a Vector Cola Bottle Design

How to Make Realistic Skate Wheels in Illustrator

Smoke + Type

If you want to provide an instant flashback to a bygone era while letting your creativity shine through, few techniques are as versatile as a collage made up of vintage elements.

Fantastic method of creating a vintage photo effect in Photoshop.

Crooked Mushroom

Nik Ainley shows you how to make a splash, blending two very different images to create this amazing underwater effect, complete with a dissolving figure of a man.

This tutorial will demonstrate how to take an image, in this case a woman’s face, and give the appearance that it is entirely composed of vector shapes.

Lamborghini

Cosmo Girl

How to design a watercolor effect menu in Photoshop.

How to create a hand-painted and water color effect.

How to use the Pucker & Bloat Effect

How to create the blending wave lines using the Blend tool in illustrator.

NoPattern

Mosk

GdsWork

Nietylko

Illustrator’s Pen Tool: The Comprehensive Guide

Utilizing the Magic Wand’s Tolerance Levels

Illustrator Live Trace

Lauraalejo

K4lab

Sugarrhyme

Experimental text effects

How to Create Colorful Abstract Artwork in Illustrator

Create a Blissful Vector Scene

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