Illustrator Tutorials

Amazing guide as to how professional illustrators go from sketch to vector illustration.

Create amazingly detailed patterns in Illustrator. Without this technique it would take you hours to create this effect by hand! Step by step tutorial as well as a video.

Learn how to create amazing swirls in Illustrator and Photoshop

Easily create halftone effects from blends, gradients, gradient meshes, and photos in Illustrator.

Create a low-cost, low-tech T-shirt using a digitally designed stencil.

Create abstract backgrounds from Gradient Meshes, Step Blends, and Opacity Masks.

A quick and easy tutorial on how to create line art.

Witness the construction of ornate hand lettering starting with a sketch ending with an amazing final result that is all vector. Very inspiring!

Learn how to create nice gloss Icon or button in just a few steps in Illustrator

This tutorial is inspired by Sheppard Fairey’s famous political poster series for the Obama campaign in the US. We’ll be showing you how to create this style of design. We’ll start with basic image editing techniques in Photoshop to get our guide layers setup, and then we’ll jump into Illustrator. You don’t need any fancy equipment to do this. I used an older mouse that still has the rubber ball.