Illustrator Tutorials: 30 Fresh Tutorials to Learn Drawing and Illustration Tricks

Latest free vector illustrator tutorials to thought you how to draw New Year and Christmas cards, backgrounds and more exciting graphic designs. Illustrator tutorials which are very helpful to learn illustration and drawing tricks. We hope these tutorials can enhance you’r illustration skills and improve the quality of your works. These tutorials are best for beginners and advance artists and designers. Have an enjoyful day!

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1. How to Make a Flyer Design for Christmas in Illustrator

Learn how to make a flyer in this event flyer tutorial. You’ll learn how to create an effective flyer design just in time for Christmas.

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2. How to Make a Tropical Party Flyer Background in Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial, you will have the opportunity to learn how to use the Gradient Mesh Tool to draw a party flyer template design. Then you’ll see how to turn this template into a real flyer with Placeit!

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3. How to Draw a Boxing Kangaroo in Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial and learn how to draw a Cute Boxing Kangaroo character in Adobe Illustrator. You will practice drawing with the Pen Tool, you will use the Blend Tool, effects and brushes to add dimension and details in your drawing.

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4. How to Create a Memorah Illustration in Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial we’ll be creating a Hanukkah holiday card and illustrating one of the most popular Jewish symbols, the Hanukkah Menorah. The Menorah is one of the oldest symbols in Judaism. Sometimes called the ‘Chanukiah’, the Menorah is a nine-branched candelabrum that is used on Hanukkah. It stands for light, wisdom, and Divine inspiration.

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5. How to Create Line Patterns in Adobe Illustrator

In today’s tutorial, we’re going to take a quick look at the process of creating a set of vector line patterns in Adobe Illustrator, using nothing more than some basic shapes that we’re going to adjust here and there.

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6. How to Create Masha and the Bear, a Russian Fold Fairy Tale in Adobe Illustrator

In today’s tutorial, we will be creating an illustration that shows how Masha is in the basket that the Bear is carrying. We’ll use basic shapes, the Pencil Tool, and some Warp effects in Adobe Illustrator, and we will also move the handles and anchor points of basic shapes to transform them.

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7. How to Draw a Spooky Black Cat Character in Adobe Illustrator

Follow this tutorial and learn how to draw a more or less Spooky Black Cat character. This tutorial is filled with details and you will learn how to use highlights to add dimension to your character. We’ll add bones and create a custom Pattern Brush for the tail and spine.

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8. How to Create Winter Watercolor Gift Tags in Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial you will learn how to create winter watercolor gift tags in Illustrator and we’ll once again be using watercolor elements from the free mini kit.

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9. How to Create a Holiday Retro Background with Champagne Galsses Design in Illustrator

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use the Mesh Tool in Adobe Illustrator to create a retro winter holiday vector background!

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10. How to Create a Christmas Winter Background with Mesh in Adobe Illustrator

In this simple tutorial, you will learn how to use the Mesh Tool in Adobe Illustrator to create a winter background!

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11. How to Create a Christmas Sleigh Design with Mesh in Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use Mesh in Adobe Illustrator to create a vector Christmas sleigh design with a sleigh and a pile of gift boxes!

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12. How to Create a Winter Seamless Pattern in Adobe Illustrator

In this new tutorial you will learn how to create a seamless pattern inspired by the winter holidays in Adobe Illustrator.

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13. Create 3D Background with Gradient Color Combinations Adobe Illustrator Tutorial

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14. How to Create Four Ninja Turtles Characters in Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial, you will learn how to draw four ninja turtle characters in Adobe Illustrator. As usual, we will use basic tools and vector shape-building techniques to create the main shapes. You will also practice your drawing skills, apply gradients for more realism and use some basic effects. You can use these techniques and elements to create whatever character you want.

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15. How to Create Some Marble Balls in Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to create some marble balls in Adobe Illustrator. We’ll use some simple shapes and tools that you would normally use on a daily basis to achieve the final result. Hopefully, you will learn some handy tips along the way.

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16. How to Create a Cartoon Map Illustration in Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial, I would like to show you how to create a cartoon map illustration in Adobe Illustrator. The continents won’t look real as you’d usually see on a map—they’ll have a funny, simple, cartoon-like style instead. We will use basic shapes and deform them using some effects or by moving anchor points. You can print out the finished illustration on a large piece of paper and hang it up on a wall.

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17. How to Create a Gzhel Pottery Russian Pattern in Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create and use an Art Brush in Adobe Illustrator to create a vector traditional Russian pottery design called Gzhel!

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18. How to Create an Easy Rangoli Design for Diwali in Adobe Illustrator

For starters, you will learn how to set up a simple grid and how to easily create the starting shape. Taking full advantage of the Appearance panel, you will learn how to decorate the edges of the first shape. Using basic vector shape building techniques, the Appearance panel and a bunch of Transform effects, you will learn how to stylize the interior of your circle.

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19. How to Create a Detailed Stack of Books in Adobe Illustrator

Follow this tutorial and learn how to easily create books with the help of the 3D effect in Adobe Illustrator. Play with the settings to change the position of the books and create a stack of them. Learn how to create the pages and add extra details to level them up.

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20. How to Create a Scary Hiding Under the Bed Illustration

In this Illustrator tutorial, we’re going to take a close look behind the process of creating a scary illustration using nothing more than a couple of basic geometric shapes that we will adjust here and there.

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21. How to Create Two Slices of Avocado in Adobe Illustrator

For starters you will learn how to create the main shapes using basic tools and vector shape-building techniques. Next, you will learn how to add color, shading and highlights for your shapes using linear and radial gradients and a bunch of effects.

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22. Learn How to Create Flat Style Bus in Adobe Illustrator

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23. How to Create a Polar Bear Illustration in Adobe Illustrator

Today, you are going to learn how to create this animal in Adobe Illustrator. Some images there might look complicated, but here, I will show you how to create a polar bear using basic shapes. We will also use Warp effects and the Pen Tool. To use the Pen Tool and not have to worry, we’ll use the Smart Guides, which will help us.

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24. How to Create a Winter Watercolor Holiday Postcard

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25. Create a Traditional Russian Khokhloma Ornament in Illustrator

In this tutorial, we are going to create a shiny pendant with a Khokhloma design—the famous traditional Russian ornament, which was widely used for pottery and furniture decoration. We’ll be using simple yet spectacular effects, blends, and self-made brushes in Adobe Illustrator.

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26. How to Create an Abstract Icon Set in Adobe Illustrator

Welcome to how to create an abstract icon set in Adobe Illustrator! The theme we’re working on will be chess. In this tutorial we will learn the step by step process of how to create an abstract set of icons using basic shapes and tools.

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27. How to Create a Russian Text Effect in Adobe Illustrator

You’ll use the Appearance panel in Adobe Illustrator to create and save a graphic style for the letters, and this will make it easier to recolor the entire piece of text. You will create a new geometric pattern and two new Pattern Brushes that will help us to decorate the vector text.

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28. How to Create Space Illustration Background in Adobe Illustrator Tutorial

In this Episode we will be creating a Space Vector Illustration. We will use 5 simple steps to create out this design. During the process, we will be using Rectangle tool, Eyedropper tool, Clipping mask option, Warp option and Recolor Artwork Option. We have used some new techniques as well. So check out the video to find out the techniques used.

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29. Adobe Illustrator Tutorial: Pose Characters Using Illustrator’s Puppet Warp Tool

In this Illustrator tutorial, Ben O’Brien looks at how to get started with the Puppet Warp tool and how to use its various functions. He’ll show you how to rig characters in preparation for posing using the tool, how to use it to adjust graphic lines or objects, and how to use your skills to bring personality to a character.

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30. How to Create a Pack of Android Launcher Icons in Adobe Illustrator

In today’s tutorial we’re going to make some little changes to our regular program, and tackle a subject that I’ve wanted to do for a long time. If you haven’t figured it out from the title, well, we’re going to create five simple icons that you could turn into Android launcher icons for any future apps that you might create or be involved in creating.

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