24 Fresh & Useful Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

Adobe illustrator is a great tool for creating vector graphics which can be used in web pages as well as print design. However, it is very important to know how the different techniques and how to achieve certain design effects. So these step-by-step tutorials will help you get you there. We spend lot of time to find unique and best tutorials out there and it resulted in 24 new and fresh adobe illustration tutorials from the last few months.

Below is a list of very useful Adobe Illustrator Tutorials that I’ve found to be most useful for learning new techniques and brushing up your vector design skills.

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44 Really Useful and New Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

1. Illustrating a Hippie Bus

2. Vectors Imitate Life with Gradient Mesh

3. Create a Happy Sun Character

4. Eye-Catching 3d Pie Graph

5. How To: Create a Seamless Diagonal Pattern in Illustrator

6. Create a Rolling Stones Inspired Tongue Illustration

7. How to Create a Photorealistic iMac and Magic Mouse

8. Draw a screaming little girl in Illustrator

9. How to Create a Recycling, Paper Bag Icon

10. Swirly Border Design in Illustrator CS4

11. Zee Logo in Illustrator

12. How to Create a Climbing Rope Pattern Brush

13. Create an unique twitter bird for your website

14. Create A Grisly Zombie Illustration With A Pen Tablet

15. How to Create Roads and Rail Tracks on a Path

16. Old style typography tutorial

17. How to create a funny insurance agent

18. Distressed/Grunge Art in Illustrator

19. How to Create Smoky Brushes and Type In Illustrator CS4

20. Create a Cute Pig postcard from sketch

21. Using the Glyphs Panel in Illustrator

22. How to draw a delicious Burger

23. How to Create Vintage Vector Bottle Caps In Illustrator CS4

24. Halloween Pumpkins

14 Responses to “24 Fresh & Useful Adobe Illustrator Tutorials”

1. Brad C says:

   November 14, 2009 at 10:34 am

   Thanks for the roundup, I’ve seen one or two of these, but there are some really good tutorial here I’ve never seen before.
2. 24 Fresh & Useful Adobe Illustrator Tutorials | Design Shack says:

   November 14, 2009 at 11:46 am

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3. calgary web design says:

   November 14, 2009 at 11:48 am

   great List i will be using these thanks
4. designfollow says:

   November 14, 2009 at 5:05 pm

   great collection

   thanks
5. Smashing Buzz says:

   November 15, 2009 at 3:52 am

   excellent useful illustrator tutorials, i really like whole creative list.
6. A.D.K. says:

   November 15, 2009 at 6:58 am

   This is an awesome collection and thanks for including my old style typography effect tutorial.
7. Tomas says:

   November 15, 2009 at 7:21 am

   Thanks for roundup, my favorite is the sun character tutorial.
8. Robert says:

   November 15, 2009 at 9:36 am

   Good compilation. The path/pattern tutorials are particularly useful looking. thanks!
9. James Ballard says:

   November 15, 2009 at 3:33 pm

   Some nice ones mixed in with some blah. Cut out the weaker ones for a stronger post.
10. Thomson says:

    November 15, 2009 at 11:59 pm

    @James Ballard – I know there is few simple tuts, Sure I will keep in mind to eliminate simple ones in future post. Thanks You.
11. Thomson says:

    November 15, 2009 at 11:59 pm

    @Robert Glad you like the path/pattern tutorial.
12. Noel Wiggins says:

    November 16, 2009 at 8:37 am

    The smoke one is awesome, that is a truly unique technique that I could see plenty of use for thanks

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    Thanks and Regards

    Noel for Nopun.com
    a graphic design studio
13. Rogerio Fratin says:

    November 16, 2009 at 11:36 am

    GREAT collection!
14. Waasys says:

    November 23, 2009 at 8:08 am

    nice to see some of my tutorials here! thnx!