35+ Helpful Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

Adobe Illustrator is the preferred tool used by designers, artists and the like to create, well, illustrations. You can use Adobe Illustrator to create vector-based graphics, which have the advantage that there is no loss of quality at any size.

However, mastering Adobe Illustrator is no easy task, and it can easily overwhelm a beginner. Fortunately, there are loads of detailed tutorials on Illustrator on the internet that you can use to put Illustrator to good use. Here are 38 such tutorials for Adobe Illustrator. You might also want to check out a previous post on Photoshop text tutorials.

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1. Creating Road Maps in Adobe Illustrator

2. Cutaway / See-Through Car Illustration Tutorial

Creating a see-through car

3. How to Make an Eco Friendly Vector Poster

4. Create a Milk Bottle with a Funny Cow Label

5. Tropical Transparency Effect

Create a bouquet of tropical flowers

6. Draw a Balloon in Illustrator

7. Create Fun, Eye-catching Text with Adobe Illustrator

8. A Beveled Star

Creating a beveled star in only a few steps.

9. Create your own Leprechaun

St. Patrick’s Day has passed, but this is still a fun tutorial to create a leprechaun!

10. How to Create Vector Sun Rays

A simple tutorial to create sun rays.

11. 3D Hammer using Illustrator

Creating a 3D hammer in Illustrator – a simple tutorial

12. How to create Vector Wings

13. Creating a Retro Car

14. Create a Vector Pirate Cartoon Character from a Hand Drawn Sketch

Create a cool pirate in Illustrator. Arr!

15. How to Create a Stylized Vector Grasshopper

16. Drawing Birds in Illustrator

Draw cute birds in Illustrator

17. The Making of Abe, The Are My Sites Up Mascot

A tutorial/documentation on how a mascot for a service was made

18. Creating an Bar of Vector Soap

Create a bar of vector soap and give it a retro look in Illustrator.

19. Spice up Pie Charts

Spice up boring pie charts!

20. Tasty Tentacles

Create tentacles with Illustrator

21. Computer Display Icon

22. 3D Pill

– Create a 3D pill in Illustrator

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23. Chinese Bamboo

24. Cartoon clouds

Create cartoon clouds quickly

25. How to Make a Map in Illustrator

Another tutorial on making a map in Illustrator.

26. Design an Awesome Product Ad

Create a spectacular product advertisement using Illustrator (and Photoshop)

27. Trendy Geometric Lines

Creating a trendy geometric design in Illustrator

28. Simple organic shapes

Creating simple organic shapes in Illustrator

29. Creating pins in Illustrator

30. Stylish Vector Flower

Create a stylish vector flower in Illustrator

31. 3D Logo

create a 3D logo in Illustrator

32. 3D Vase

Create a nice 3D vase in just five minutes!

33. How To Make 3D Vector Vintage Stars

Make 3D vintage stars in Illustrator

34. Folder Icon Adobe Illustrator Tutorial

Create a glossy folder icon in Illustrator

35. Creating trees in Illustrator

Create artistic trees in Illustrator

36. Glassy Orbs

Create glassy orbs in Illustrator with this simple tutorial.

37. Drawing a Fish in Illustrator

Draw a cute fish.

38. Drawing a Doll in Illustrator

You Got Any?

Do you know of any useful Illustrator tutorials we could add to this list?

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