Way Cool Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

By Rafiq Elmansy (admin) | August 30, 2009 | Posted in Illustrator | View Comments
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In my opion, the best practice to learn about the tips and tricks in Adobe Illustrator is to learn through how-to tips ans tricks tutorials.

In this post, Some of the most amazing Illustrator tutorials and vector art tutorials that will help you get idea about how to use each of the Illustrator tools and features. There are also another amazing collections of Illustrator tutorials here:

Design with Flair from Start to Finish in Illustrator CS4

Way Cool Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

This Illustrator tutorial will teach you how to covert bitmap photo to vector and apply this amazing effect on it.

Creating a Cut-out style Illustration from a Photo Template

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a vector eye illustration based on a real image.

Draw a Balloon in Illustrator Tutorial

Learn from this scratch how to create this nice balloon step by step in Adobe Illustrator.

Drawing Birds in Illustrator Tutorial

I am sure you will like to learn how to create these cute illustrator birds. This tutorial will digg into the steps to create such nice vector birds in Illustrator.

Vector Build Methods 1

Also, this tutorial, will teach you how to build vector objects in Illustrator and will take the example of creating vector flower.

Drawing a character’s face in Illustrator

Learn how to create cartoon character from scratch in Adobe Illustrator. This tutorials goes through the process of creating this nice character from the step zero on paper till the final step on Adobe Illustrator.

Flash Game Illustration

Give your Flash game design vector effect and look, this article discusses how to create Flash game resources in Adobe illustraotr such as Illustrator backgrounds and characters.

Illustrator Vector Line Art of Cruise Ship

This unique tutorial is one of the unique tutorials that teaches how to create an illustration of a ship based on a real diagram of a real ship. If you like to learn more about creating vector ships, I recommend starting with this great one.

Gears and Splined Shafts in Adobe Illustrator

This tutorial will teach you how to create differnet vector gears shapes in details.

Image Inlay Text Illustrator Tutorial

Now, it is the time to learn some Illustrator text effect. This tutorial shows hwo to create masked text effect in Illustrator.

Stylized Portrait Illustration

Start with a bitmap photo, this tutorials teached how to convert this bitmap image into vector portrait in Adobe Illustrator.

Create A Vector Art Twitter Bird Character Icon In Adobe Illustrator

Do you like to creat your own twitter icon? Some knod of unique icon that is only in your site. Here, you will learn how to create twitter icon in Adobe Illustrator.

Drawing a Vase in Illustrator Tutorial

This tutorial shows how to use the 3D feature in Illustrator to create 3D vector vases in Adobe Illustrator.

Comic Book Style Graphic Design

This amazing tutorial shows how to create comic book style graphic art from scratch to the final step.

Creating a crazy cool logo

And this article teaches how to create vector logo like the above one in Adobe Ilustrator.

About Rafiq Elmansy (admin)

Rafiq Elmansy is a graphic designer and runs his own design studio Pixel Consultations. He is also an Adobe Community Professional, Certified Expert and Adobe user group manager. He is a Friend of Icograda (the International Council of Graphic Design Associations). You can read his writings on Adobe site, Adobe Edge magazine, communitymx.com and his own blog www.graphicmania.net. He can also be followed on Twitter @rafiqelmansy

View Comments to “Way Cool Adobe Illustrator Tutorials”

August 31, 2009 at 3:35 pm
johnnyb says:

Hi Rafiq,
Thanks so much for this post *_~
It is almost like you knew I needed illustrator tutorials for my digital drawing class`-`

I am going through the birds tonight, they are cute`-`
This is an amazing collections of tutorials, thanks os much`-`
September 1, 2009 at 4:56 am
Rafiq Elmansy (admin) says:

Hi Johnny,

Actually, I thought of you when I was doing this post Wish you all the luck with your AI lessons
September 1, 2009 at 7:40 am
johnnyb says:

thanks rafiq:) the class is going great, and I am learning a lot too:)
December 19, 2009 at 9:26 pm
TAZ says:

hi Rafiq
thank you so much , coz of u and other great guys im doing good with PS and AI , now im working on FLASH can u please tell me the best way to learn flash CS4 ,shokran ,
taz
January 5, 2010 at 10:12 pm
Kuswanto says:

Thanks for the round up. The tuts absolutely useful.
.-= Kuswanto´s last blog ..Inking Tutorial With Photoshop =-.
January 12, 2010 at 4:11 am
Rafiq Elmansy (admin) says:

Hi Taz,

Thanks alot for your nice words. There are many sites and resources to learn Flash CS4. You can visit http://www.lynda.com for video tutorials. or find some useful books at http://www.peachpit.com, they got alot of good Flash books.

Also, you can find sites that provide free Flash tutorials such as flashkit.com.

Hope this helps
Rafiq

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