Illustrator Tutorials — Effects

In this first tutorial you’ll learn to create an illustration of a fountain pen. It is more of an advanced tutorial but I tried to make it as detailed as I could. Hopefully you’ll understand the exact steps I followed to reach this final illustration.

Gradient Mesh is a grid-based painting technique in Illustrator that enables advanced colouring of vector objects with smooth and malleable colour transitions. Learn here how to master it.

This detailed tutorial will show you how i created the Diamond necklace available to download freely from Aivault

Promotions play a vital role in marketing your product. High quality design gives a noticeable impact to your product awareness among the target audience. In this tutorial, we will design a promotional T-shirt for a website that is exclusively created for PHP enthusiasts.

Create a wine glass from scratch in Illustrator using transparency and translucency settings, with tips from Rare Design's James Arnott.

I've always been fascinated by smoke, and have experimented a lot with it. So in this tutorial, I explain how to create realistic smoke, make it into a brush and use it for type. Let's light up our vector cigarettes and get started smokin'!

How to Create a Caramel Ripple Effect

How to Create a Rainy Window Vector Background

How to Create a Spray Grunge Splatter

How to Create a Mosaic Portrait from a Photograph