10 essential Illustrator tutorials

Mar 4, 2008 | Filed in: Graphic Design, Illustration, Tutorials

A selection of excellent tutorials for Adobe Illustrator from simple pen tool basics to those special little polishing tricks to finish off your work. Many of these principles can also be applied to other graphics packages such as Freehand, Fireworks and Inkscape.

Illustrator pen tool exercises

Creating a Leopard folder in Illustrator

Creating light motion trails & glowing sparks

Intricate patterns in Illustrator

Creating pins (badges) in Illustrator

How to make 3D vintage stars

Old School type – line gradients

Crop excess artwork

Creating a crazy cool logo

Vector polishing techniques

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Michele Says:

Hello, I just wanted to let you know that your link to the “old school type - line gradients” is not linked correctly…I believe you have one too many http’s in there.

But love your site.

~Michele
petnos Says:

Good collection. All of them are really great works.
Sean Johnson Says:

@Michele - thanks for that.. all fixed
Yan Says:

Hi Sean, great site and portfolio!

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