131 Illustrator Tutorials from around the Web

Here are 131 Illustrator Tutorials, located at InstantShift, providing a very comprehensive set of tutorials from around the web for this vector graphics editor. These Adobe Illustrator tutorials help you in a big way whether you are an Illustrator beginners you are seeking to learn more advanced features of this graphics tool. The tutorials are divided into sections so that you can directly go and look for the areas in which you want more expertise and to increase your skills. After finishing with these Illustrator tutorials, you will be able to expertly draw and edit your illustrations, design your own logos. and create special effects.


Illustrator Tutorials for the basics
This section of tutorials will be learning guide for you if you are comparatively new to Adobe Illustrator. The following tutorials give you excellent lessons on mastering Illustrator within thirty days, guiding you to use paintbrush and brush tools, selection tools, rotate tools, mesh tools and many other useful tools that you can use.

 - Learn Illustrator CS in Days
 - A Comprehensive Guide: Illustrator’s Paintbrush Tool and Brush Panel
 - Illustrator’s Pen Tool: The Comprehensive Guide
 - Utilizing the Magic Wand’s Tolerance Levels
 - Illustrator Live Trace
 - Adobe Illustrator CS Tutorial: Selection Tools
 - Spraying Symbols in Adobe Illustrator
 - Duplicate with rotate tool
 - An Intro to the Mesh Tool
 - Illustrator Make with Mesh
 - Tips for Working with the Gradient Mesh Tool In Illustrator
 - Spiral Tool Mysteries – Solved!
 - Using the Pathfinder and Align tool in Illustrator
 - How to Make a Custom Illustrator Brush
 - Get More-Natural Adjustments with Illustrator “Reshape” Tool
 - Fun with Illustrator’s Blend Tool
 - Adobe Illustrator Shortcuts
 - Create a Disco Environment with Twirl Tool, Crystalize , and Envelope Tool


Character Illustrator Tutorials
These tutorials focuses on topics related to characters. After going through this section you will be able to create different characters according to your creativity.

 - How to Create a Killer Chainsaw Bunny Character
 - Character Illustration
 - Create Your Own Vector Cartoon Character
 - Creating vector characters in Illustrator
 - Symmetrical Illustration: Thug Bunny
 - Wolf Drawing Tutorial
 - Twitterlove Bird, from sketch to vector in Photoshop and Illustrator
 - Create a Cute Vector Monster from a Pencil Sketch
 - Face, Hair, Clothing Illustrator Tutorial
 - Drawing a Character’s Face in Illustrator
 - Drawing Homer Simpson
 - Creating convincing characters
 - Create a Gang of Vector Ninjas


Page Layout Illustrator Tutorial
These tutorials explains features on page layout such as creating website layout, creating a sample of fairy tale story book and designing a business report cover.

 - Use Adobe Illustrator to Create a Clean Website Layout
 - Create the First Page of a Fairy Tale Story Book, with a Hint of Kitsch
 - Design a Business Report Cover


Illustreator Tutorials forLines, Shapes, Charts, and Graphs
This section of tutorials covers the topics on lines, shapes, charts and graphs. These tutorials illustrate these features with good amount of ample examples by giving screenshots wherever necessary.

 - Turn a Boring Bar Graph into a D Masterpiece
 - Trendy Geometric Lines Tutorial
 - Command Shape in Illustrator
 - A Time to Shine
 - Creating Road Maps in Adobe Illustrator
 - Use the power of Illustrator to create cool D infographics
 - Creating Omspace D cylinder graphic in Illustrator
 - D Charts in Adobe Illustrator CS  
 - D Graphs  
 - How to make retro/futuristic curves in   Steps
 - Create a Four-Leaf Clover
 - Spice up Pie Charts


Objects Related Illustrator Tutorials
These tutorials explains some of the advanced features of Illustrator like crafting a vector collegiate notebook design, creating rotatable globe, creating animated D poker chips, and creating vector home cinema design.

 - Craft a Vector Collegiate Notebook Design
 - How to Create an Open Book with Illustrator’s D Extrude & Bevel Tool
 - Create a Rotatable Globe in Adobe Illustrator
 - Create a D Push Pin and a Paper Note in Illustrator
 - Draw A Realistic Vector Guitar in Inkscape
 - Create an Animated D Poker Chip – PART I
 - Create an Animated D Poker Chip – PART II
 - Create a Sidekick LX Styled Vector Illustration
 - Illustrator Tutorial: Disco Ball
 - Create a Vector Home Cinema Design
 - D Objects and Transparencies to Make a Vector Cola Bottle Design
 - How to Make Realistic Skate Wheels in Illustrator
 - How to Draw Your Own Vector Wings
 - Chinese Bamboo


Sketch and Painting Illustrator Tutorials
These tutorials demonstrate sketch and painting related topics. Some of the topics covered here are creating a stunning undersea painting using vector packs, and master painting in Illustrator.

 - Create a Stunning Undersea Painting Using Vector Packs
 - A Pseudo-Sugar Skull: From Start to Finish
 - Master painting in Illustrator
 - How to Create a Classic Vector Painting with Watercolor Washes and Line Art
 - Woman and Cats How-To Advanced


Illustrator Tutorials covering Logos, Symbols, and Icons
This section of tutorials introduces you to the topics related to logo, symbol and icon. Some of the topics covered here are making a vector military cap icon, creating a vector light bulb icon, creating an envelope icon with a satin feel, pirate cartoon tutorial, and creating a vector RSS icon with illustrator.

 - How to Make a Vector Military Cap Icon
 - How to Create a Vector Light Bulb Icon with Inkscape  
 - Create a Spiral Ornament Symbol in Illustrator  
 - How to Create a Vector Safari Compass in Illustrator
 - Adobe Bridge Icon
 - iTune Icon
 - Create an envelope icon with a satin feel
 - How to Turn Glasses into a Great Geek Icon
 - Logo Design Project Step by Step Walkthrough
 - Creating a Crazy Cool Logo
 - Test Your Creativity  
 - Pirate cartoon tutorial
 - Create a Vector RSS Icon with Illustrator  
 - How to Design a Classic Heraldic Figure
 - BMX Illustration


Text Illustrator Tutorials
These tutorials teach you text related topics of Illustrator.

 - Let’s Make a Playful Yet Robust D Letter Design
 - Blueprint Style Text in Adobe Illustrator
 - D Text Tutorial
 - Creating an Environmentally Friendly Green Type Treatment
 - Tug and Twirl Text in Illustrator
 - Type on a Path Options
 - Make a Torn Vector Desktop Wallpaper with Angled Text
 - How to Create a Magnified Text Illustration  
 - ways to apply a line pattern effect on text in Illustrator


Patterns Texture Illustrator Tutorials
These tutorials cover patterns and texture related features of Illustrator.

 - Geometric Patterns in Illustrator
 - Create A Wood Grain Texture
 - Creating-Pattern
 - Create a Themed Repeating Pattern in Illustrator
 - Design your own pattern swatches


Effects related Illustator Tutorials
These tutorials describe and explain effects related features of Illustrator. Some of the special effects that are covered here are creating cool water effect, vectoring hair etc.

 - Creating a Cool Water Effect  
 - Vectoring Hair
 - Easily Make Shiny Realistic Vector Hair
 - Experimental text effects


Illustrator Tutorials forBackgrounds, Abstract Art, Poster or Label
These tutorials cover topics related to backgrounds, abstract art, poster and label.

 - How to Create Colorful Abstract Artwork in Illustrator
 - Create a Blissful Vector Scene
 - Super cool abstract vectors illustrator and photoshop
 - Create Abstract Backgrounds  
 - Swirl Mania in Illustrator and Photoshop  
 - Poster Illustration: Go Forth and Create  
 - Create an Milk Bottle with a Funny Cow Label
 - Design a Print-ready Ad in Adobe InDesign
 - Swingin ’ Retro Look in Adobe Illustrator
 - Crazy cool vectors illustrator and photoshop
 - Recolor Artwork Using Illustrator’s LiveColor


Advanced Illustrator Tutorials
Here are some advanced tutorials showing how to create and manage vector graphics in Illustrator such as an abstract phoenix, pattern maniac, and an abstract peacock.

 - Illustrator Vector Line Art of Cruise Ship
 - See-Through Car Illustration Tutorial
 - How to find Inspiration for illustration design   Finding Inspiration
 - Some Lovely Results of illustration   Abstract Peacock
 - Abstract Phoenix
 - Pattern Maniac
 - POGO Illustration


Illustrator Video Tutorials
These video tutorials explain topics like creating D pyramid, creating an iPod, drawing face, creating comic book style text, feynamn diagrams, creating background effects, and creating D shapes.

 - How I Do Stuff Tutorial
 - Create D Pyramid
 - Creating an iPod  
 - Drawing Face  
 - Create Swirling Rainbows with Ease
 - Vector Drawing – The Dog
 - Creating Seamless Pattern
 - Creating Comic Book Style Text
 - Roundtrip Logo from Illustrator to Photoshop  
 - Feynman Diagrams
 - Drawing a Nice Vector Golden Badge Award
 - Creating Vectorized Shining and Sparkling Heart Artwork and Icons  
 - Adding Texture
 - Creative Background Effects  
 - D Brochure
 - Creating D Shapes in Illustrator

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