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10 Best Illustrator Tutorials

Posted on 04. Aug, 2010 by admin.

Create a Detailed, Vector-based iPhone Illustration

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a photo-realistic iPhone illustration and every single icon you can find on the iPhone touch screen. That’s 18 icons! With so many fantastic tips and tricks we’ve broken the tutorial into two parts, in part two you will [...]

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Create interlocking motifs in Illustrator

Posted on 08. Jun, 2010 by admin.

Stamp your style on a surface by covering it with your own connecting motifs, writes Sam Brade
How do you fill a space with interlocking motifs, each one occupying its own little piece of the jigsaw puzzle?
In this tutorial I’ll demonstrate how to rough out and plan your artwork before transferring it [...]

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Cool Typography with the Blend Tool in Illustrator

Posted on 07. Jun, 2010 by admin.

I have written some Illustrator tutorials in which I’ve used the Blend Tool to create swirls and other shapes, but I have never used it to create a text effect. Then we received this email suggestion from one of our readers quite a few months ago asking us how to create that effect. I really [...]

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Create a Stylized, Vector Rubik’s Cube

Posted on 08. Apr, 2010 by admin.

Learn to create a stylized Rubik’s Cube in Illustrator. I’ll take you through how to make every detail of the final illustration, which will teach you some new techniques and introduce you to some new Illustrator tools. Let’s get started with creating this iconic, retro puzzle cube.
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How to Make an Inspired, Golden Painting in Illustrator

Posted on 31. Mar, 2010 by admin.

In this tutorial we will travel back in time to recreate the painting style of one of the most outstanding symbolism artists – Gustav Klimt. His works are full of warm golden colors, simple ornaments, irregular patterns, natural symbols, and asymmetric shapes. We will work to produce this style with the help of Adobe Illustrator [...]

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How to Create Realistic, Vector Bubbles

Posted on 31. Mar, 2010 by admin.

His Majesty the Bubble! In this tutorial we will learn how to create realistic colorful bubbles. We’ll cover numerous techniques and build this illustrations step by step. Set aside a couple hours for this one!
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How to Create a Vector Optical Illusion

Posted on 30. Mar, 2010 by admin.

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.
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Playing with Vectors in Illustrator

Posted on 13. Mar, 2010 by admin.

Last week I decided to spend some time playing with Illustrator and trying to come up with a cool black and white artwork. My inspiration came from some skateboard deck designs which have this sort of 3D effect without using gradients or anything, and not exactly a woodcut effect either. After a few hours I [...]

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Create a Colorful, Vector Carnival Mask

Posted on 16. Feb, 2010 by admin.

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. Hope you enjoy it.
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shakespeare text illustration tutorial

Posted on 16. Feb, 2010 by admin.

I created this text illustration of the ‘Bard’ as an ironic play on the idea of making pictures out of words. Something Shakespeare is one of the best at.
Files that might help:
Shakespeare reference picture – istockphoto
Ink Blot Vectors – I have provided these for download in an earlier post.
Il Shake Fest Font – DaFont
Shakespeare Quotes [...]

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Learn gorgeous new shading skills

Posted on 12. Feb, 2010 by admin.

One of the hardest parts of Photoshop art – or indeed much other art – is creating subtle, detailed shading. However, layer masks make the process much easier, allowing you to select and modify certain areas without affecting the rest of your canvas.
In this tutorial, Yuta Onoda shows how you can transform a pencil sketch [...]

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How to Design a Cheeky Koala Mascot Head

Posted on 11. Feb, 2010 by admin.

We’re going to put those vector eyes you learned how to make not long ago to some good use! This tutorial will show you how to combine basic shapes with some clever coloring and blending to make a fantastic looking koala character.
We’ll use some opacity masks, brushes, gradients and effects, in addition to an easy [...]

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Cafe Style Coffee Art in Adobe Illustrator

Posted on 01. Feb, 2010 by admin.

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.
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Three Ways to Create Celtic Knots in Illustrator

Posted on 27. Jan, 2010 by admin.

In this tutorial, we’ll explain how to create magical Celtic knots. Ornaments accompanied Celts in life and in death. Ornaments decorated clothes, books, furniture, ware, weapons, and gravestones. I’ll show you three ways to create Celtic knots in vector – from simple to the difficult. The last techniques allows one to create knots of any [...]

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How to Make Super-Sharp, Vector Swords

Posted on 24. Jan, 2010 by admin.

In this tutorial I’ll show you how to draw a sword in Illustrator, using the Rectangle Tool, gradients, and other Illustrator tools. Actually the tutorial isn’t very hard, let’s see the final result that is our goal first!
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How to Create Typeface Characters

Posted on 11. Jan, 2010 by admin.

I started a character design project that merges typefaces into unique monsters, cute animals, and various other font inspired character creations. The method is simple, I take different sections of the characters of a specific font and I put them together, giving birth to different kinds of creatures.
The interesting thing about Typefaces is that each [...]

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