Illustrator Tutorials: 27 New Tutorials to Learn Illustration and Drawing Techniques

Latest free Adobe Illustrator tutorials to learn drawing, digital vector illustration and character illustrations. Adobe illustrator is widely used to draw illustrated portraits, background illustrations and many more useful  illustrations. These tutorials will provide’s a lot of help, step by step presentation of a thing that made it easy to learn and understand. Keep a good mood and enjoy!

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1. How to Create the Carpet Pattern From “The Shining” in Adobe Illustrator

We’re going to create it in Adobe Illustrator using some “old-school” techniques, which involve the careful handling of the Rectangle Tool combined with the power of the Pixel Grid.

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2. How to Make a Thanksgiving Background with Pumpkin and Leaves in Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use the Mesh Toolin Adobe Illustrator to create a vector Thanksgiving background!

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3. How to Create a Shaded Type Effect in Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial I’ll show you how to produce a shaded type effect in Adobe Illustrator. We’ll use a script font as the basis of our typography, then apply a series of gradients to give the impression that the letter strokes interweave and overlap.

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4. How to Create an Eco Bulb and Butterfly Illustration in Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use the Mesh Tool in Adobe Illustrator to create a light bulb with some nature elements!

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5. How to Make an 19th Century Inspired Logo

In this tutorial, I’ll be showing you how to create a logo like this in Illustrator with a little help from Photoshop.

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6. Create a Vintage Television in Adobe Illustrator

From this video you can learn to create Vintage television using Adobe illustrator.

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7. How to Create a Vector Autumn Background in Adobe Illustrator

In this simple tutorial, you will learn how to use the Mesh Tool and a bit of Image Trace in Adobe Illustrator to create an autumn background!

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8. How to Make No-Stretch Cross Hatching Pattern Brushes in Adobe Illustrator

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9. How to Create Romance Scene in Adobe Illustrator Tutorial

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10. How to Weave a Bedouin Sadu Fabric Pattern Using Adobe Illustrator

In this illustrator tutorial we are going to revive this traditional design by recreating this ethnic technique using simple tools and techniques found in Adobe Illustrator.

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11. How to Create a Quick Pelican in Adobe Illustrator

This tutorial is quick and not hard. It’s adapted for beginners, so you’ll be able to finish it and get a result easily. If you still have questions, feel free to ask them in the comments below and I’ll help you. You don’t need to buy or download anything additional to create this illustration as we’ll make it from scratch. That’s why I recommend my tutorials, because all you need to have is Adobe Illustrator!

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12. How to Draw Gingerbread Cookie in Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial you will learn how to create delicious gingerbread cookies in Adobe Illustrator. Follow this tutorial and learn how to draw gingerbread cookies in vector form. We will play with brushes and effects to create the texture and with the Appearance panel to create the colored icing. By the end, you will be able to draw a different kind of cookies and apply these techniques in your future projects.

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13. Quick Tip: How to Create a Cute Welsh Corgi in Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial we will create a cute Welsh corgi using line art. While creating this illustration, you have two options: you can draw a line with the Pencil Tool, or by using the Arc Tool and then creating the desired curve from it. After that, we will color the illustration, and that’s actually it. You’ll learn how to move the anchor points and handles in order to achieve the result you want.

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14. How to Create a Showroom Background with a Red Carpet in Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use the Mesh Toolin Adobe Illustrator to create a showroom background with spotlights and a red carpet!

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15. How to Create a Garden Gnome Illustration in Adobe Illustrator

Do you like garden gnomes? Learn how to create a garden gnome illustration in Adobe Illustrator.

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16. Create Vector Geometric Background in Adobe Illustrator

In this Illustrator tutorial, we will create a simple polygon and use guides and the Pen tool to build a complex series of shapes from our single initial shape and then add shadows and grain using the effects in Illustrator and then duplicate the initial cluster shape and build it out into a complex background that can be as big or as small as you want!

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17. Create Striped 3D Shapes in Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial I will show you how to create two different striped 3D shapes within Adobe Illustrator. The methods used in this video can be applied to a variety of different shapes, and the directions of the lines can also be experimented with. There are truly endless results you can achieve with these processes, so I look forward to seeing what you guys can do with this knowledge!

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18. Purple Polar Bear Silhouette Vector Illustration in Adobe Illustrator

We will use many shape tools and the Pen tool to work our way through creating this and manipulating the light and depth of the illustration by adding shadow and highlight accents in all the right places. If you’re into illustration or just want to have some fun working on a random Illustrator project, this tutorial may be just the one for you!

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19. How to Create a Rainbow in Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial, we’re going to learn how to create a rainbow in Adobe Illustrator.

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20. Simplifying Logo Design in Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial, we’re going to learn how to simplify and create more complex logo designs in Adobe Illustrator.

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21. How to Create a Hand Holding a Stethoscope in Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use the Mesh Tool in Adobe Illustrator to create a medical background.

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22. How to Create a Transparent Water Droplets with Gradient Mesh in Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use the Mesh Tool in Adobe Illustrator to create a set of transparent drops!

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23. How to Create a Vector Coffee Icon in Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Illustrator for a fun beginner-style tutorial! We’ll create a vector coffee icon using simple shapes and add some depth with a flat design and an easy color palette. If you’ve never used Illustrator before or are just getting familiar with it, this is the perfect tutorial to get some basics down. At the end, you’ll have an infinitely rescalable vector icon you can use for web design, print work or to post to your social media accounts.

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24. How to Create an Isometric Layered Text Effect in Adobe Illustrator

For starters, you will learn how to create a simple piece of text and how to adjust its attributes. Taking full advantage of the Appearance panel, you will learn how to add multiple layers to the text. Using a simple 3D Rotate text effect, you will learn how to add an isometric look to the text.

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25. How to Create an Oktoberfest Illustration in Adobe Illustrator

Do you know about Oktoberfest in the Bavarian region of Germany? It’s a huge celebration from the middle of September until the beginning of October. The celebration started from the royal wedding of Prince Ludwig and Princess Therese. The wedding was in October, so that’s why the name of the celebration is Oktoberfest. It was in Munich, and all the citizens were invited to celebrate this ceremony in 1810. In this tutorial, you will learn how to create an illustration on an Oktoberfest theme. We will take basic shapes, warp here, distort there, and as a result we will get a Bavarian man with beer glasses and pretzels.

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26. Sand Castle & Bucket Adobe Illustrator Tutorial

This tutorial will also be quite simple and pretty easy to follow which is perfect for users who just want to start learning basic tools of illustrator.

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27. How to Create Vector Glitches Using Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial, we will learn to create three different glitch techniques using Adobe Illustrator. We will work with vectors, allowing us to resize the elements as much or as little as we want without losing the quality.

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