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Finally Something Worthy of Learning: 30+ New Illustrator Tutorials

Abdul Haadi — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 07:18:41 +0000

Web designers and the adobe users are always up in the search for the tutorials or to take inspirations from so they can learn more and raise their level from beginners to pros. the adobe illustrator is one of amazing software to design with. Every day thousand of tutorials are coming in to help the designers to simulate their creativeness in the designs I have collected some of handy tutorials from all tutorials out there and amalgamate them into this post. I didn’t create any of the tutorials below thanks to the genuine authors of these fascinating tutorials to help the beginners like me. This post contains mixed up tutorials for adobe illustrator some of these tutorials are for beginners and some of them are for professional designers.

These intermediate and advance tutorials explain everything about the designing, coloring, shaping process and many more. In this post I have linked up the original web source below every image by clicking the view tutorial button will be directed towards the original website from where you can see your desired tutorial. These tutorials also feathered some power full tips and tools for designing. I advocate all you designers out there to have a sneak peek at my post so take inspirations and create your own mesmerizing designs and feel free to share your valued comments

Turning a Photo into Lichtenstein Style Pop Art with Illustrator

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Create a Sneaker Concept Illustration in Vector – Tuts+ Premium Tutorial

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Create a Vector Hair Dryer in Illustrator

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Creating a Detailed Eye from Stock in Adobe Illustrator

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Create a Cute Vector Monster from a Pencil Sketch

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Quick Tip: How to Draw an Apricot with the Mesh Tool

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Create a Sketchy Hand-Drawn Camera Illustration in Illustrator

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How to Illustrate a Stepladder in Illustrator

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Quick Tip: The Line of Action, Make Your Character Poses More Dynamic!

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How to Illustrate a Street Lamp in Illustrator

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Quick Tip: How to Illustrate a 3D Drawing Pin

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Create a Plastic ID Badge in Illustrator

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How to Illustrate a Button Sewed into a Cloth

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Create a Psychedelic, Funky Line Art Portrait

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How to Turn Glasses into a Great Geek Icon

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Learn How to Create Realistic Vector Fire

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Create a Watercolor Vector Flower Illustration

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Illustrate a Grunge Style Talking Skull in Vector

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Create A Jeweled Dollar Sign

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Create a Stylized Gradient Mesh Soccer Ball Illustration

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Create a Vector Film Slate Icon

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Create a Glowing Abstract Light Vector Graphic

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Easily Make Shiny Realistic Vector Hair

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Create Stylized Vector Dog Tags

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Make an Aurora Borealis Design in Illustrator

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How to Create a Transparent Battery Icon

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How to Create a Juicy RSS Feed Icon

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Illustrate a Pair of Sweet Gradient Mesh Cherries

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Create an Attractive Arctic Landscape Environment in Illustrator

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Learn From These 40 Awesome Text Effect Tutorials

Asma Abbas — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 18:37:37 +0000

Creativity, drawing and the job of a designer is not limited to images, photos and pictures only. The new love of designer is text effects and wanting to learn more about it. In fact, text effects have become an art in itself. Designers want to learn it more and more and so we have brought something that could come to a lot of use to them. Learn From These 40 Awesome Text Effect Tutorials and you will be creating some brilliant ones in no time. It’s always a great thing to learn from other designers and so here are the best of the best tutorials. Take a look at these and I’m sure you’ll find a lot of good stuff.

Create a Glowing Neon Sign using the Appearance Palette – Screencast

Create a Swirly Type Treatment

The Hidden Power of the Average Command: Creating Swirly Type

How to Create a Trendy Retro Type Treatment

Create a Polished Raised Type Treatment

Creating Editable Letterpress Styled Text

How to Create a Smokin’ Western Type Treatment in Illustrator

Create a Grimy Text Treatment with a Pen Tablet

Create a Furry Calligram in Illustrator

Creating an Environmentally Friendly Green Type Treatment

Quick Tutorial: Create a Reusable Retro Type Treatment

Let’s Make a Playful Yet Robust 3D Letter Design

Create a Folded Paper Text Effect

Illustrator Tutorial: Warp Text Inside A Heart Shape

Creating stunning, detailed typography with Illustrator

Create An Editable Metal Type Treatment

Learn to Create a Variety of Beveled Lettering

Tug and Twirl Text in Illustrator

3D Typography in Photoshop

How to Make a Wooden Text Effect with Adobe Illustrator

Illustrator type technique using shapes

Blueprint-Style Text in Adobe Illustrator

How to Add Decorative Glamour to Your Ordinary Script Font

Working with type in Illustrator

How to Make a Cartoon Style Cereal Box Logo in Adobe Illustrator CS3

Retro 3D Arcade Text Effect in Illustrator

Create a Glossy, Smooth Text Effect

Getting Carried Away with Balloon Lettering

How To Create Detailed Gothic Linework Typography

Ornate lettering

Illustrator Tackle Twill

Old School Type – Line Gradients

Create a Vibrant 3D Pixel Type Treatment

Create a Mummy Text Effect

Create Colorful, Layered Paper Type in Illustrator

How To Create a Simple Sticker Text Effect

How to Create an Entangled Lettering Illustration

How to create a glassy text effect in Illustrator

Learn to Create a Variety of Script Lettering

Create a Green Viscous Text Effect

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50 Must See Illustrator Tutorials for Designers

Asma Abbas — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 08:59:37 +0000

After using Photoshop, using a software like Adobe Illustrator can be tricky. But a good designer is always ready to learn more stuff and employ it in his work. In fact, if you get a flow of Adobe Illustrator, it can come to use more effectively than Photoshop in some ways. So here is a collection of 50 Must See Illustrator Tutorials for Designers which once you learn can come to a lot of use. You can take these tutorials as inspirations to create something amazing on your own. These tutorials are for beginners as well as for advanced users. So look through our post and see how these tutorials can come to your use.

Create a Themed Repeating Pattern in Illustrator

Illustrator Tutorial – Create a Blissful Vector Scene

How to Create a Vector Safari Compass in Illustrator

How to Create a Vector iMac Graphic in Illustrator

Create Your Own Spoof Airplane Safety Illustrations

Translucent IM Style Illustrator Icon Tutorial

Create a Colourful Abstract Wavy Ribbon

Vector Monster Character Illustrator Tutorial

Create a Vector Pirate Cartoon Character

Create a Vector RSS Icon with Illustrator

Create a Tasty Skate Deck Graphic

Create Vector Japanese Style Tattoos

Create Sketchy-Style Vectors

Illustration 4 Pt Series – From Sketch to Finish

How to Create Anatomy Illustrations in Illustrator

Create an envelpe icon with a satin feel

Building a Website Wireframe in Illustrator

Blueprint-Style Text in Adobe Illustrator

Creating a Friendly Green Type Treatment

Learn Illustrator CS3 in 30 Days

Simple organic shapes the Illustrator way

Old School Type with Line Gradients

Create the Perfect Diamond in Illustrator

Recreate the Obama Logo in Illustrator

Creating a ribbon in Adobe Illustrator

Create a Vector Home Cinema Design

Illustrator 101 – Opacity Masks

Create the Design Float Circle Icon

From Sketch to Vector Illustration

Guide to Illustrator’s Pen Tool

Create a Vector Cartoon Character

Draw Your Own Vector Self Portrait

Creating a Crazy Cool Logo

Creating Convincing Characters

How to Make a Map in Illustrator

Creating Vector Graphic Circles

Adobe Illustrator Cartoon Snail Tutorial

Creating a Vector Folder Icon

Illustrator Watercolour Brush Tutorial

Designing a Sleek Pencil Icon

Swirl Mania in Illustrator and Photoshop

Design with Swirls and Flourishes

How to Create a Cute Bunny Vector Character

A Guide to Illustrator’s Blend Tool

A Guide to Illustrator’s Paintbrush Tool and Brush Panel

Create a Vector Film Slate Icon

How to Turn Glasses into a Great Geek Icon

Illustrating a Summer Field Landscape

Create the Photoshop CS2 Splash Graphic

Vector Tracing a Photo

ARTICLE/TASK	PROJECT	WORD COUNT	MINUTES	DATE GIVEN	DATE DUE	NOTES/STATUS

Q&A and hourly updates	CMS	80 k.words	120	28-3-2012	28-3-2012
quality check/reports	CMS		90	28-3-2012	28-3-2012
marilyn manson huntington tickets	ticketnest 1112	250	60	18-3-2012	28-3-2012
eli young man band mansfield tickets	ticketnest 1112	250	60	18-3-2012	28-3-2012
red hot chilli peppers philadelphia tickets	ticketnest 1112	250	60	18-3-2012	28-3-2012
aiken tickets	tlmatrices 1112	100	25	27-3-2012	28-3-2012

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40+ Simply Stunning Adobe Illustrator Icon Design Tutorials

Abdul Haadi — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 16:36:43 +0000

The busy world of web design needs a lot of icons to add usability and aesthetics to the web design. That is why nowadays clients often seek icon designs from web designers. Although icon design in adobe illustrator does not involve rocket science, however, web designers have so many other things in their plate that icon design gets pushed back in their daily tasks. And so it happens that when an icon design project comes your way, you suddenly become eager about icon design tutorials either to lean some new skills or de-rust the old ones.

Here is a splendid showcase of 40+ Simply Stunning Adobe Illustrator Icon Design Tutorials to master the art of icon design in adobe illustrator.

Television Icon

In this easy to follow step by step tutorial, you will be shown how to create this cool retro television icon, by using some basic shapes and gradients.

Stack of Poker Chips

This tutorial will teach you how to create a simple stack of poker chips.

Stylized GPS Icon

In this beginner/intermediate Illustrator tutorial, you will learn how to create a stylized GPS icon using simple shapes and gradients.

3D Vector Film Roll Icon

In this tutorial, you will learn how to draw a realistic film roll, drawn in perspective, using the Pen Tool, Ellipses and Gradients.

Transparent Battery Icon

In this tutorial, you’ll create a detailed icon of a battery similar to the one used for the iPhone touch. The battery “fuel” color can be changed as well as the “fuel” level, allowing the icon to be used to create a battery or power meter for applications.

Vector Military Cap Icon

In this advanced tutorial, you will learn how to create a realistic military style cap icon using gradients, blends, and the Gradient Mesh Tool, and using a photo reference to base this illustration on.

Magnify Zoom Icon

You’ll work primarily with the pathfinder and basic shape tools to cut out the shapes for this illustration, though the pen tool will also be used, and color the elements using various gradients.

Vector Smiley Icon

You will use some basic Illustrator tecniques to create this happy Smiley icon.

Vector Audio Speaker Icon

Create a vector speaker icon using some ellipses with gradients, the Grid Tool, and the Mesh Tool.

Magic Hat Icon

For this tutorial you will use the pen tool, pathfinder palette, and other tools to create this magic hat icon with a cute bunny inside.

Hourglass Icon

With simple shapes, gradients, and vector textures, this simple tutorial will show beginning illustrators how to create an hourglass icon.

Gearbox Settings Icon

Utilizing only simple, predefined shapes, as well as tools like the Pathfinder and transformations, entire illustrations can be created from scratch. In this tutorial, we’ll create an icon suitable for portraying options, settings, preferences, etc., similar to OS X’s system preferences icon.

Tropical Colored Compass

In this tutorial you’ll be creating a stylized Vector Compass Icon Design, applying some modern Web 2.0 effects and bright colors you will bring this icon to life.

Multicolored Buddy Icons

This tutorial uses some basic shapes, gradients, Feather, and Illustrator’s powerful Live Color feature, to create these excellent Buddy Icons.

Vector Safari Compass

Use this Adobe Illustrator tutorial to draw up your own vector Safari inspired compass in Adobe Illustrator, and icon that works well in small formats while also displaying quite a lot of intricate details when viewed in large format.

Shiny, Vector Dice

In this tutorial, you will learn to create a set of vector dice using Illustrator and the tricky and underused Gradient Mesh Tool.

Vector Film Slate Icon

The tutorial uses some basic shapes, some gradients, and even a blend, to create this marvellous Film Slate icon.

CD Icon Using Illustrator in 5 Minutes

In this basic Illustrator CS3 tutorial, you will create a CD icon, in only 5 minutes!

Detailed Camera with Photo Icon

This tutorial will show the intermediate Adobe Illustrator artist how to make a sleek web 2.0 style icon.

Turn Glasses into a Great Geek Icon

In this advanced tutorial, you’ll learn how make a cool,and geeky, glasses icon.

Design A Coffee Mug Icon

In this easy to follow tutorial you will create a basic coffee mug icon.

Aperture Style Camera Lens Icon

In this tricky tutorial, you’ll create a detailed camera lens similar to the one used as the logo for Apple’s Aperture photo-editing software.

Translucent IM Style Icon

Use this tutorial to help you create a scalable vector Instant Messaging style icon with the impression of a glossy and semi-translucent surface.

Artua Design Studios

Artua Design Studios are a team of graphic designers and illustrators, who specialize in icon and GUI design.

Stefan Dziallas

View the custom icon & pictogram design portfolio of Stefan Dziallas, from IconWerk.

William Wilkinson – Little Pixels

William Wilkinson is an icon designer living in Victoria, Canada.

Medard Konopík – IconBakery

View the delicious icons and interfaces from Medard Konopík, a 21 year old from Prague, Czech Republic.

Icon Design Tutorial: Drawing A Pencil Icon

This tutorial presents some good design practices that will help you master icon design. It will help you, particularly if you have just started to learn, or want to learn more about icon design in Illustrator.

How To Create An Academy Icon From Simple Shapes

In this tutorial you will learn how to construct a cool academy icon by putting together simple shapes in Illustrator and then applying layer effects on them in Photoshop.

How to Create a Yellow Submarine Icon with Gradient Meshes

“While spaceships, rockets and UFOs are all the rage in the icon world these days, submarines have been inexcusably neglected. Let’s correct this situation immediately by drawing a fun submarine using gradient meshes, pattern brushes, opacity masks and blending modes.”

How To Make an Icy Cocktail

This tutorial explains how to draw a refreshing cocktail drink in Adobe Illustrator.

Textured Journal Icon

In this tutorial, you will create a textured, rather than glossy, textured Journal icon.

Designing a Stumbleupon Icon

In this tutorial you will cover the basics that will give you an idea how the icon is rendered, you will learn how they appear in smaller sizes and the constraints you can find when using Vector (Illustrator) instead of Pixel (Photoshop) based image software. Great starter tutorial.