Illustrator Tutorials — Logos and Icons

In this tutorial I will show you how to create a vector bottle cap in Illustrator CS4 using some basic shapes, gradients, and effects. This tutorial is for beginners and is quite simple. It will demonstrate how the layering of shapes with different gradients applied to them can give you a nice sense of depth. Let's get stared!

Illustrator has a lot of features a lot of people don’t even know about, one of them is the 3D Rotate Tool. In this beginners Illustrator tutorial you’ll be using that tool to create a cube icon in 10 very simple steps. Your outcome could be used as part of a logo design, backgrounds for stationery products, advertisements or even favicons.

How to Create a Golden Compass in Illustrator

This step-by-step tutorial will teach you how to draw an awesome and shiny space rocket in Illustrator. Great for avatars and gravatars!

In this tutorial, I want to share one of my processes of creating a logo mark from sketch to vector artwork.

This tutorial explains how to create a vintage TV set using Adobe Illustrator. Using various techniques you will learn to draw the perfect illustration for your website.

How to Create a Quirky Twitter Bird in Core Draw

How to Create a Radial Mesh in Illustrator and Make a Vector CD

This tutorial isn’t about about creating a specific icon, instead instructions on how to setup Illustrator so you can creating clean (pixel wise) icons in the least amount of effort possible. If you’ve never created an icon for the toolbar or tab bar for the iPhone, you must first know that icons are rendered off the alpha channel (or transparency) of the image.

Have you ever wanted to make your own set of emoticons? Using the basic techniques brought about on this tutorial, you can easily create your own set of emoticons.