25+ illustrator tutorials to start your week

September 8th, 2008

Need some help getting going today? How about some tutorials that inspire me now just as much as they did when they were first published. Here is a nice round up of 25 or so Illustrator Tutorials. Enjoy.

Vectips

Creating Halftone Effects

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Free Watercolor Brushes and Tutorial

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Create A Wood Grain Texture

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Create Abstract Backgrounds

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Create Sketchy-Style Vectors

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VectorTuts

Create a Glowing Vector Lightsaber

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Create a Stylized Semi-Realistic Wine Glass

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Easily Make Shiny Realistic Vector Hair

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Design Gift Boxes Using Illustrator’s 3D Tools

vectortuts-giftbox.jpg

Illustrate a Grunge Style Talking Skull in Vector

vectortuts-skull.jpg

GoMediaZine

Comic Book Style Graphic Design

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Draw an old-world style tattered scroll from scratch

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How to Create Realistic T-Shirt Mockups

gomedia-tshirts.jpg

How to Draw Your Own Vector Wings

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Ornate Lettering Process

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Veerle

Recolor artwork using Illustrator’s LiveColor

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Creating geometric patterns in Illustrator

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Creating seamless patterns in Illustrator

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Creating a ribbon in Adobe Illustrator

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Illustrator Live Trace

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Random Tutorials

Creating organic desktops

organic-desktop-illy.jpg

Illustrator Charts

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How’d They Do That? - Bitmap into Vector

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Creating Custom Brushes for Illustrator

custom-brushes-illy.jpg

Adobe Illustrator Gradient Mesh Portrait Tutorial

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So that does it for this post. I apologize for not posting a Friday’s Five last week, I was not feeling all too well.

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  1. #1 Graphic Design Links and Tutorials says...

    25+ illustrator tutorials to start your week | ifoh designs

    A nice roundup of 25 or more Adobe Illustrator Tutorials to start your week off right!

    • Posted on September 8th, 2008 at 12:34 pm

  2. #2 Angie Bowen says...

    This is a great collection. I just finished downloading the watercolor brushes and love them!

    • Posted on September 8th, 2008 at 4:48 pm

  3. #3 Matt says...

    Thanks Angie, glad you liked the list. The watercolors are great I would have to agree, and pretty much everything from vectips…

    • Posted on September 8th, 2008 at 8:08 pm

  4. #4 Janko says...

    These are great, I also like watercolor brushes

    • Posted on September 11th, 2008 at 6:19 am

  5. #5 Matt says...

    Thanks Janko, glad you enjoyed it, and thanks for stopping by!

    • Posted on September 11th, 2008 at 10:27 am

  6. #6 Acuity Designs says...

    Great list Matt! A couple of techniques in there, I need to get proficient with myself, its very easy to get stuck into one repeating process with Illustrator.

    • Posted on September 13th, 2008 at 1:44 am

  7. #7 Matt says...

    @ Mel (hopefully that is you, if not then Ashley)

    I completely agree. Sometimes you get very comfortable doing things one way, and then you find out there is another way, that quite possibly could be faster. I guess it is just best to learn with an open-mind.

    Thanks for stopping in, and just to state, from your illustrations, you should be the one writing the tutorials!

    • Posted on September 13th, 2008 at 8:41 am

  8. #8 Acuity Designs says...

    Matt, if you see us posting on blogs it’s always Mel, Ashley is too busy with an Illustration BA!.

    We would love to write some advanced tuts, but the more we search the web, the more we see, we approach our work differently to most (often in a skewed process), especially due to the fact we work collaboratively. Your doing a great job, we find ourselves back here a lot! Keep those Friday fives coming.

    Mel
    :thumbup:

    • Posted on September 14th, 2008 at 5:28 pm

  9. #9 Matt says...

    @ Mel

    Ahhh, excellent. Well best of luck to Ashley then!

    As far as the tuts go, maybe things will come together more for you in the future at which point you will start writing some. You guys do great work, so it will be nice to shed some insight on how you approach difficult designs, etc.

    Glad you are enjoying the Friday’s Five, and thanks for stopping by. Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

    • Posted on September 14th, 2008 at 8:21 pm

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