The 50 Best Adobe Illustrator Tutorials from 2009
Published in DesignSince the year is winding down, we thought it would be helpful to go back and pick out the best Illustrator tutorials that were published in 2009. The year was full of great tutorials, and 50 of the best are featured here. For more Illustrator tutorials please see:
- Learn Adobe Illustrator: All the Basics for Beginners
- 30 Text Effect Tutorials for Adobe Illustrator
- 40 Tutorials for Working with Shapes in Illustrator
- 25 Tutorials for Using Illustrator and Photoshop Together for Outstanding Results
Smoothly Shift Winter Colors While Creating an Icy, Vector Landscape
How to Create a Landscape Wallpaper for Your Desktop
Create a Grisly Zombie Illustration with a Pen Tablet
How to Create a Vector Wacom Tablet in Illustrator
Create a Rolling Stones Inspired Tongue Illustration
Create a Milk Bottle with a Funny Cow Label
Create a Character Mascot with Adobe Illustrator CS4
How to Create a Craft’s Inspired Vector Kid Illustration
How to Create a Photorealistic iMac and Magic Mouse
Blend and Mask Yourself a Great Poster
How to Design a Skate Deck with a Cool Skull Pattern
Perfect Silhouette with Live Trace
Create a Realistic Candy Bar in Illustrator
Create a Cute Panda Bear Face Icon
Quick Tutorial: Gradient Strokes
Illustrator Full Spectrum Spirograph
How to Create a Smokin’ Western Type Treatment in Illustrator
How to Create Shiny, Vector Dice in Illustrator
How to Create an Energy Saving Bulb in Illustrator
How to Create a Rainy Windo Vector Background
Turn any Font into a Sketch Font
How to Create Seamless Watermark Patterns
Abracadabra, How to Create a Magic Hat Icon
Design and Print Bold Promo Cards in Under 60 Minutes
How to Create an Identity Package in Illustrator
How to Create a Vector Illustration and Prepare it for Micro-Stock Sale
Geometric Flower Effect Logo in Illustrator
Rad Pattern in Illustrator that Makes You Dizzy
Complex Symbols with Pathfinder
Creating Editable Letterpress Styled Text
Illustrator Ring Shape Via Overlapping Crescents Effect
Illustrator Swatches Gradient Background Effect
Striping Live Type in Adobe Illustrator
Easily Create Sticker Text and Graphic Effect in Illustrator
Create a Vector Art Twitter Bird Character in Adobe Illustrator
Everything You Ever Want to Know About Creating Seamless Patterns in Illustrator
How to Create an Awesome Vector Skate Deck Design
Elegant Gradient Ribbon in llustrator
Create an Awesome Space Rocket in Illustrator
For some Photoshop tutorials please see:
37 Responses
Great!
Thank you!
Have a great 2010!
Wow great post I posted a similar post on Creative Nerds today great minds think a like. Its good to see someone else’s perspective on what they think where the best illustrator tutorials from 2009.
Simply the best! Fantastic examples! Have a great 2010!!!
Now these are some good tutorials! I haven’t been able to follow many Illustrator tutorials as they can be a bit difficult, but I really like your approach here thanks for sharing!
Great resource! I will surely bookmark this list, still getting my feet wet with Illustrator (long time Photoshop user)
What a collection man…it’s really impressive……
Good collection!
the candy bar looks fantastic !!
Great list of tutorials! Thanks so much. My fav is the zombie one.
cool collection ! thx for sharing, keep up the good work
great blog, thanks for sharing, the hampster is soooo coool!!1
Bookmarking this for sure. Thanks for the great resource!
Wow… amazing collection…. Bookmarked, certainly… You must have searched like hell to collect all of these… commendable.. thanks for sharing
Hi ,
Your post is simply superb ! ! ! ! Good to see this ,
Keep rocking .
Regards :
yuva
Thanks for this collection!
There are some really nice tutorials that every designer with no or little experience in Illustrator should try.
Awesome List of Tutorials (as always)
These are all fantastic tutorials ( nothing new there! ), thank you for sharing
Awesome design. Really simple designs. I love the cute panda. Keep it up.
Bookmarking this for sure. Thanks for the great resource!
A great collection. I love the look of the smoke on the rocket. Thanks
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