Adobe Illustrator tutorial: Top 10 Illustrator tutorials of 2011
In 2011, we showed you how to create a myriad of artistic styles in Adobe's vector art tool. Here are the ones you've loved most.
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Master Illustrator's Blend tool
Radim Malinic has a recipe for success to help you create great type art using Illustrator’s little-used Blending tool
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Digital Mixed-media techniques
Simon Brader reveals how handmade textures, Illustrator curves and Photoshop effects all went into the creation of The Donor Trail
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Colourful type art
Blend objects in Illustrator, then fuse them with type and colour in Photoshop, says Michael Kammerer – the results are fascinating
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Adobe Illustrator tutorial: The secrets of beautiful caricatures
Drawing people is not the most obvious application of vector imagery, but Stanley Chow shows it can deliver brilliant results
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Adobe Illustrator tutorial: Create vector halftone effects
One of the hardest things to accomplish in vector illustration is a halftone. Here we show you how to create one in only four steps.
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Adobe Illustrator tutorial: Woodcut effects for type art
It’s easy and quick to produce vector art with a vintage woodcut feel, as Karan Singh shows – and custom brushes are the key
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Adobe Illustrator tutorial: Master composition in vector art
Great art doesn’t have to be complicated, as Petros Afshar proves by conjuring up a bird graphic out of basic building blocks
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Adobe Illustrator tutorial: Design retro isometric illustrations
Vector illustration can produce beautifully clean, precise artwork, but the results can also be a bit soulless. Here Mark Oliver creates those clean, precise shapes and then ‘grubbies’ them up for a more organic retro look.
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Find success with type and CG
This tutorial is about using simple random shapes to create a stunning composition which revolves around typography. You will build elements in Illustrator, Photoshop and a 3D application – in this case Cinema 4D, though similar software can be used too – and then combine them with type and effects back in Photoshop.
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Adobe Illustrator tutorial: Design a magazine infographic
Paul Butt has created an infographic about Doctor Who's most feared enemy – the Daleks – and reveals techniques on how to produce stylish and intelligible infographics.
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Add depth to vector art using shadows and glows
Jonny Wan shows how to keep your compositions fresh
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Create a summery photomontage
Jennifer Cirpici explains how to add gradients, blurs and adjustments to combine vectors and photos for realistic results
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Design hip music art
Gordon Reid shows you a slick psychedelic-influenced cover by adding a unique twist on a few simple filters.
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Adobe Illustrator tutorial: The secrets of cute character art revealed
Bubblefriends-creator Sascha Preuß teaches the art of designing colourful cartoon characters and reveals the principles of cuteness
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Digital type art techniques
Jorge Restrepo explains here how to modify characters in your own work to create a type-based illustration for an editorial layout
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Type thats fit to eat
Radim Malinic shows you how to create the semblance of words spelt out in melted chocolate. You’ll be encouraged to speed up at times, while at other times you’ll need to linger over tiny details to create that ultra-realistic look, fit for any advertising campaign or logo.
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Add vector flair to model shots
Recreate this brilliant image with tips from Camilo Bejarano
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Build a vibrant, pattern-based isometric cityscape
You can easily combine isometrically drawn objects with repeat tiling to create a complex cityscape, as 2xanadu demonstrates
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Adobe Illustrator tutorial: Designing type art for Haiti
Learn how 12 artists from the Blood Sweat Vector collective came together to design art in aid of earthquake victims