More Illustrator Tutorials

These tutorials are of various lengths and levels of skill in using Illustrator. You will complete the number of tutorials listed at the beginning of each of the groups shownbelow.

    1. Learn New Skills or New Ways to Create Objects (do any 3 of these)

    2. Create Scenes or Landscapes (do 1 of these)

    1. More Advanced Tutorials (do 1 of these)


Learn New Skills or New Ways to Create Objects

Complete any 3 of the tutorials in this group

Tutorial Final Images: Links to Tutorials
3D Gear Illustrator Tutorial: 3D Gear (a different method of making a gear)
Happy Octopus Create a Super Happy Octopus Character
Skull Tattoo Skull Tattoo
Perspective Reflected Text Perspective Drop Shadows
Glassy Buttons Glossy Button
Making a Map

How to Make a Map in Illustrator

Use Google Maps to get an aerial view to use for your map, then press "Print Screen" on your keyboard. Open a new document in Photoshop and paste. Save the screen shot.

Obama Logo Obama Logo Tutorial
Fun, Eyecatching Text Create Fun, Eye-catching Text with Adobe Illustrator
Silhouette Creating Silhouettes in Adobe Illustrator

 


Create Scenes or Landscapes

Complete 1 of the tutorials in this group

Tutorial Final Images: Links to Tutorials
Fantasy Space Background Create a Fantasy Space Background with Illustrator
Hotair Balloon Sky Scene How to Create a Fun Hot Air Balloon Sky Scene
Summer Field Landscape Illustrating a summer field landscape
simple landscape
Create a Blissful Vector Scene
Arctic Environment
Create an Attractive Arctic Environment
White Holiday Scene

How to Make a White Holiday Scene in Illustrator

A couple of tutorials about creating snowflakes: "fancy" vector-swirl snowflakes & simple snowflakes

 

Winter Colors Landscape

Smoothly Shift Winter Colors, While Creating an Icy, Vector Landscape

Note: Since we do not have the Phantasm Color Plugin mentioned in Steps 22 to 26, you can't follow those steps exactly. You can get similar results using settings available in Illustrator.

 


More Advanced Tutorials

Complete 1 of the tutorials in this group

Tutorial Results: Links to Tutorials
Sword How to Make Super-Sharp Vector Swords
Create a Gearbox How to Create a Gearbox Settings Icon Using Simple Shapes
Environmentally Friendly Green Type Creating an Environmentally Friendly Green Type Treatment
Reflected Logo Tutorial: Web 2.0 Logo Reflection in Vector format with Illustrator
Design with Swirls and Flourishes Design with Swirls and Flourishes
Swirl Mania Swirl Mania in Illustrator & Photoshop