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 tutorial: Faux 3D finishes in Illustrator
Karan Singh shows you a clever and ridiculously quick way of giving your flat illustrations a faux 3D finish – without leaving the confines of Illustrator.
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Adobe Illustrator tutorial: Top Illustrator tutorials of 2010
Last year 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 tutorial: Add depth to your art with expert shading techniques
Bristol-based artist Ben Steers will show you how he uses gradient effects and opacity masks to overcome this, as he takes you through how he created his piece, Gone Karting.
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Adobe Illustrator tutorial: Draw realistic liquids in vector art
In this tutorial you’ll learn numerous Illustrator techniques to create vector liquid, by playing around with Illustrator’s Mesh tool, Warp tool and layer blending properties.
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Adobe Illustrator tutorial: Master the basics: Perspective drawing in Illustrator
Learn how to draw in 3D using the grid tools available in Adobe Illustrator CS5.
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Adobe Illustrator tutorial: Give personality to character art
Learn how to create character art from scratch; taking inspiration from Aaron Miller and his food-themed delights
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Adobe Illustrator tutorial: Discover tattoo illustration techniques
With his stunning tattoo-style designs, digital illustrator and ‘part-time thrasher’ Chris Parks shows you had to master line art and shading.
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Adobe Illustrator tutorial: Design symmetrical character art
In this tutorial, creative duo LouLou & Tummie show you how to use Illustrator to create a symmetrical, character-filled banner. You’ll hone your use of the Pathfinder tool to build new shapes, and tweak lines to give them a sense of flow.
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Adobe Illustrator tutorial: Create lush, glossy vector images
It’s easy to associate vectors with flat shapes – but creating Illustrator images with real depth needn’t be a headache. In this tutorial, Thomas Burden shows how you can create striking, vibrant work in Illustrator using a simple colour palette and basic blur effects – particularly Illustrator’s built-in Gaussian Blur effects.
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Adobe Illustrator tutorial: Create quirky repeating patterns
In this tutorial, Imakethings (known to his mum as Andrew Groves) shows you how to make a repeat pattern based on map-like imagery. He uses simple shapes and icons to illustrate geographical features from a bird’s-eye point of view similar to those used in OS maps.