Illustrator is a full-featured drawing program that provides sophisticated tracing and text manipulation capabilities as well as color separations. Presently, designers are into learning the various techniques and effects that can be generated with the software.

We have collected a Compilation of Fresh Adobe Illustrator Tutorials that you can learn from and read through to enrich your knowledge. Feel free to browse through the collection and gain new techniques of your own. Have fun!

Collection of following Adobe Illustrator tutorials

• Create a Simple Paint Brush Icon
• Make Colorful Bean Characters On Illustrator CS4
• How to Illustrate a Colorful Hippie Peace Van
• Create a Popcorn Box
• How to Make an Animated Paper Robot
• How to Make a Retro RC Airplane Poster
• Vector Plasma Television Tutorial
• How to Create a Sleek DVD Player with Adobe Illustrator
• How to Create a Shiny Bucket Icon
• How to Make an Attractive Vector Butterfly
• How to Make an Inspired Golden Painting in Illustrator
• Create a Simple Storefront Icon
• Create Lush Glossy Vector Images
• Illustrator Flowers Leaves Vector Graphics
• Create a Simple 3D Text Illustration
• The Making of a Chocolate Bar Character
• Make Vector Car from Photo in Illustrator
• Create a Cute Creature Character from a Sketch
• Draw a Glowing Vector Pocket Watch – Front and Back
• Create Textured European Goldfinch Characters
• Create an Abstract Textured Artwork in Illustrator
• Create a Colorful Vector Carnival Mask
• How to Create a Hyper Realistic Flashlight
• How to Create a Cubist Masterpiece in Illustrator
• How to Illustrate a Professional Looking Apple iPad
• Create a Cute Baby Monster Character in Illustrator
• Illustrator Bird Tutorial
• Master Dynamic Gradient Techniques
• How to Create Realistic Vector Bubbles
• How to Create the Face of a Hippo Using Illustrator

Follow this step by step walkthrough of my recent design process for the ‘Spectrum’ poster. Starting with custom made type in Illustrator, we’ll move our vector graphics into Photoshop for some serious distressing with Photoshop brushes, blending modes and more!

The Spectrum poster takes inspiration from the old ZX Spectrum computer of the 80’s, the feature of the design is the custom made abstract type, which is mixed with a full spectrum of colours then grunged up to the max with textures and muted background tones. The overall theme is a cool mix of 80’s retro and modern day grunge.

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 like the text effect and decided to give it a try. So in this tutorial I will show you how to create a text effect using the Blend Tool in Illustrator and then we will use Photoshop for some final retouches to make the effect more subtle. The technique is very simple and it won't take more than 30 minutes to achieve the same effect.

Step 1

Open Illustrator and create a new document. I used A4 for the size, but it is not really important because we will copy the illustrator vector and paste it in Photoshop later on.

With the Pen Tool (P) create a Z with just a few points. Every time you create a new anchor point, hold the mouse button to transform it to a curve.

Icon freebies is one of the common item that a website mostly offers. Designers are given the option to download the icon of their choice. This freebie is great since it would not require work to the designer. Hence, it will provide available resources for the design.

As a “level-up” offer, we here have decided to collect some cool adobe illustrator tutorials for icon-making. This will be a great treat for all icon-lovers out there who wants to make their own icons for everyone to see… Check out our 40 Excellent Adobe Illustrator Icon Tutorials that you can learn for expanding of knowledge!!! Enjoy!

DeviantART is probably the ultimate site for every illustration lover to find great inspiration, from great artists... but, it's not only to see, but also to learn! There are some amazing tutorials avaiable, and these are some great ones.I didn't have the time to practice these yet, mainly because my focus is web, but I'm pretty sure that all illustrators and amateurs out there will really dig these and try 'em out.