We have shared many vector packs recently in Graphic Mania. It is the time now for a new Adobe Illustrator tutorial that I hope you find helpful and useful. In this tutorial, you will use Adobe Illustrator basic tools to draw the calendar and add the effects on it using different colors and gradient effects. Thus, it will help you to understand how these tools work and how to use it in real-world design projects. In this tutorial I will show you how to create a stylish vector calendar for 2013 that you can

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Adobe Illustrator is one of the great tools that can help you extend your creative boundaries with its amazing new and existing features and tools. In the following tutorial we will learn how to create a folded text effect in Illustrator CS6. In this Illustrator tutorial we will create a text and fold parts from it to create our final artwork using simple and easy Illustrator features, such as the Pathfinder panel, the Gradient tool and the Transform tools. Related posts: How to Create an Alarm Clock in Adobe Illustrator

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A short time ago Adobe has released the new version of Adobe Illustrator CS6, which comes with new, useful features, and one of these features is the new Pattern tool. Creating patterns in Illustrator was one of the painful tasks, because it needs tricks and accuracy to create seamless patterns that flow easily when they are repeated in the design.The new Pattern tool provides an easy and accurate method to create seamless patterns in a few steps, as we will explore in today’s tutorial. Related posts: How to Create an

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In this interesting tutorial we will be learning how to create an American flag in Adobe Illustrator. Basically, you can create any kind of flag using this technique. The creation process consists of a part where we create a symbol of the flag (in our case famous red and white stripes and 50 white stars on the blue rectangle) and a part where we create the waving flag by using the 3D effect Extrude & Bevel. To enhance the 3D effect we will make sure that both sides of the

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Today we will be learning how to create a cute alarm clock in perspective in Adobe Illustrator. Some people tend to have problems with perspective, so if you are one of them, feel free to use a reference image if you need to. We will create few ellipses, arrange them and with some nice gradients we will make a nice looking alarm clock. There is just one thing about perspective we should keep on mind. The most important aspects of perspective are size and distance. If you increase the distance

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Social media icons are one of the most used resources for any web designer, since they are one of the most essential components of any website. It helps to connect the website with its related profiles on these social networks. At the same time, the style of social media icons should match the global style of the website design. This requires the designer to have various styles of social media icons in order to find the suitable style for each website. Vector social media icons are more useful and usable

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Today we will be learning how to create a neat email illustration with Adobe Illustrator. A combination of a white envelope and the @ (at) symbol can be a perfect combination for the website icon. All we have to do is use the 3D effect Extrude & Bevel, aPen Tool and some nice color gradients

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In today Illustrator tutorial, we will learn how to create a nice floral design that can be used in many different ways. We will use the Pen Tool and some additional tools, such as the Direct Selection Tool, Convert Anchor Point Tool, Blend Tool and some Pathfinder features. For skilled Pen Tool users creating floral elements is quite easy, but in this tutorial we will learn how to avoid the use of the Pen Tool and create the floral elements by combining regular shapes

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In this tutorial, we will learn how to create Japanese style vector floral design in Adobe Illustrator. The tutorials will go step-by-step to show how to graduatly build the floral stem and add the background with the ability to change the background colors

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Even in the middle of the digital artwork era, no one can resist the beauty of the spontaneous hand-drawn doodles. So in this tutorial we will learn how to create our own hand-drawn RSS feed icons in Adobe Illustrator and we will apply the same concept to other icons as well

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Today we will be learning how to create a shiny Trophy cup in Adobe Illustrator. The process is very simple: all we have to do is combine a few basic shapes in the Pathfinder Panel and to apply some nice gradients that will allow us to create a realistic look of a Trophy cup

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