Illustrator Tutorials: 30 Impressive Vector Illustration Tutorials to Learn

Tutorials are the best way to learn trendy styles and effects and these fresh and useful adobe illustrator tutorials can provide’s a lot of help, step by step presentation of a thing that made it easy to learn and understand. Adobe Illustrator is a powerful illustration tool for creating vector art, digital illustrations and useful artwork, which can be use in web and graphic design projects.

In these tutorials, you will learn how to create surreal portrait, 3D modeling, vector graphics, patterns and textures, clutch fashion Illustration and many other useful objects and effects. Enjoy!

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1. How to Create a Frying Pan in Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial you will learn how to create the main shape using several ellipses, basic vector shape building techniques and a bunch of gradients. Moving on, you will learn how to add subtle shading and highlights using basic tools and some simple effects. Finally, you’ll learn how to create a simple background.

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2. How to Create an Alice in Wonderland Tea Party Scene in Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial you will learn how to create an Alice in Wonderland themed tea party scene. Many of you may have heard of the little girl falling down a rabbit hole into a world full of adventures. There was a tea party—an odd, bizarre, ridiculous, and eccentric tea party. For me, it was the most memorable scene. That’s why I want to show you how to create such an illustration.

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3. How to Create a Golden Camping Trailer in Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial I will show you how to create a colorful surfing van using the most basic shapes and tools of Adobe Illustrator.

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4. How to Create a Flat Astronaut in Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial, we’ll learn to create a stylized astronaut on a space background, using simple shapes and applying lots of gradients to add depth and volume to our illustration.

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5. How to Create an Isometric Type Effect in Adobe Illustrator

In Adobe Illustrator tutorial we’re going to create a vibrant piece of vector artwork featuring three dimensional type from an isometric viewpoint. This isometric type effect is commonly combined with bright colours to produce a fun design style. Adobe Illustrator is the perfect tool to create such an effect; the 3D Extrude & Bevel tool easily generates an accurate isometric layout, then the artwork can then be broken down into individual vector shapes for easy customisation with colourful fills and detailed patterns.

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6. How to Create an Illustration of a Starling on a Branch in Adobe Illustrator

Spring is here, and we are all about it! It’s the most wonderful time of the year, when the trees and flowers are blooming, the birds are chirping, and joy is in the air. And that is what we will create today—an apple blossom branch and a starling.

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7. Create Two Colorful Children’s Book Illustrations in Illustrator

Doodle up a cute design for a kids’ book and render it with Gradient Meshes, Blends, little sparkles, and various Blending Modes. Layered shapes pump this design and its counterpart up from being as simplistic as the initial sketch.

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8. How to Draw Vector Peaches Using Gradient Mesh in Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial, you will have the opportunity to learn how to use the Gradient Mesh Tool to draw a pair of appetizing peaches.

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9. How to Create a Game Graphic Style Text Effect in Adobe Illustrator

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10. Create an Electric Fan in Adobe Illustrator

Some of the skills you will learn will include creating basic shapes use simple techniques like the Pathfinder, Align, Offset Path, etc.. Then add dimension by coloring the shapes with a bunch of gradients. I hope you enjoy the process and learn something new along the way.

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11. How to Create a Deep Diving Illustration in Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial, let’s imagine an underwater journey while drawing a deep diver and lost sea treasures in Adobe Illustrator. As usual, we will use the most common instruments and techniques.

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12. How to Create an Illustration for International Women’s Day in Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial we will create an illustration of three happy women who already have their gifts—flowers. As in my previous tutorials, we will use basic shapes, which will be modified by using different effects. You will see how simple it is.

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13. How to Create a Geometric Flamingo Bird in Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial, we’re going to take a look at the process of creating a simple geometric bird illustration, which we will bring to life using some hand-drawn shapes in Adobe Illustrator. As always, we’re going to be using some of the basic shapes and tools that you probably already work with on a daily basis.

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14. How to Create a Vintage Spring Portrait of a Girl in Adobe Illustrator

In this illustrator tutorial we will create a spring portrait of a young girl with tulips. I took the daisies from one of my previous tutorials. If you want to add daisies to your final result, check out this tutorial.

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15. Illustrator Tutorial – Waterfall Landscape Flat Design

In this Adobe Illustrator tutorial, I show how to create a waterfall landscape in the style of flat design! This illustrator flat landscape waterfall tutorial contains a fair amount of detail and a very monochromatic color scheme. I believe this illustrator flat design tutorial to be suitable for all levels of graphic designers including beginners! As always, if you learned something from or enjoyed this illustrator flat design tutorial, be sure to leave a like as it really does help me out a lot!

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16. Illustrator Funny Hairy Cartoon Design in Adobe Illustrator

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17. Create Colorful Gradient Lettering in Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial you wil learn how to create the same effect, but in Illustrator. By using Illustrator, everything can be infinitely rescaleable since it’s vector-based. We’ll utilize some features you may not be aware of that you can use for future work, too. This is a slightly advanced tutorial.

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18. How to Create a Vacation Beach in Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial you will learn how to use the Mesh Tool to create a summer background with a vacation scene!

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19. Create Flat Style Cocktail Glasses in Adobe Illustrator

This tutorial is very doable if you’re a beginner, but the pace is a little quick, so just a head’s up. We’ll be in Illustrator CC for this one since we’re using the live corners option for smooth contours on our glasses.

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20. How to Create an Easter Basket Illustration in Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial I would like to show you how to use basic shapes to create a wonderful image in Adobe Illustrator. You will also learn how to create some decorated Easter eggs and a little chick. As always, we will apply different warp effects to some basic shapes to achieve the beautiful result we want. I think that this image is really festive looking and perfect for the Easter occasion.

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21. How to Create a Revolver Icons in Illustrator Tutorial

This is another quick icon tutorial in which we will take a look behind the process of creating a cute little revolver pistol.

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22. Learn How to Create a Simple Flower with the Effects Panel in Illustrator

Here is a very short Adobe Illustrator tutorial about how to create a Simple Flower using only the Basic Tools and the Distort & Transformation Effects.

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23. Quick Tip: How to Create a Illustration ofPussy Willow with a Chick in Adobe Illustrator

In this quick tutorial you will learn how to create a pussy willow and chick illustration. We will basically create one branch and then turn it into many. We will then make three compositions using these branches. At the end, we will cheer up our illustration by creating a little chick.

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24. Create a Simple Stopwatch Illustration in Adobe Illustrator

In the following steps, you will learn how to create a simple stopwatch illustration in Adobe Illustrator. For starters, you will learn how to prepare your document and how to set up a simple grid. Next using basic tools and effects along with the Appearance panel and the Pathfinder panel, you will learn how to create the main shapes of the stopwatch.

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25. How to Make an Isometric Cube Pattern in Adobe Illustrator

In this video tutorial, you wil learn how to make an isometric cube pattern easily, using Adobe Illustrator!

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26. How to Draw an Office Background in Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use the Mesh Tool and Blend in Adobe Illustrator to create a professional office desk background!

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27. How to Design Infographics in Adobe Illustrator 2018

In this tutorial, I am going to show you how to design an infographic template comprised of interconnected circles. You will learn how to work with gradients applied to the stroke, a Scissors Tool and finally basic transformations in Adobe Illustrator.

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28. Illustrator Tutorial: Teddy Bear

In this tutorial we will learn how to create a cute Teddy Bear with soft yellow bow in Adobe Illustrator. We’ll be using various tools and functions along with some simple effects, so you don’t need a graphic tablet or advanced drawing skills for making up such character.

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29. Illustrator Tutorial: A Tableware Set

n this tutorial you will learn how to draw a tableware set with plate, fork, knife and tablecloth in Adobe Illustrator. For starters you will learn how to create the main shapes using basic tools and vector shape building techniques along with a bunch of linear gradients. Moving on, you will learn how to add subtle shading and highlights using some simple effects.

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30. Adobe Illustrator Tutorial: Add a Sense of Motion to an Artwork

In this tutorial, illustrator Eric Van Den Boom explains how you can use lines and patterns to add a sense of motion to your illustration or artwork.

Here you’ll learn how to make your own pattern swatches and transform them. You’ll then use them to make your football player appear to be at the centre of the action, resulting in a more dynamic piece.

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