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Back to School Special: 30 Easy Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

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Summer is coming to an end and it is almost time to go back to school again. With this in mind, let us get to basics and share with you a selection of great beginner tutorials and articles which explain tools, panels and other tricks Adobe Illustrator has to offer!

Before you jump into more complex projects, it’s always good to get to know the tools you will be working with on a regular basis. If you’re an absolute beginner or perhaps a seasoned pro, learning the basics is a must have. You may realize something you might not have seen before, so it’s always good to refresh your knowledge of these tools.

If you use Adobe Illustrator, then it’s almost certain that you use the Pen Tool when creating your paths. This comprehensive guide aims to introduce or remind you of features, shortcuts, and methods for working with what is arguably Adobe’s most essential tool.

You may know about RGB and CMYK, but how about LAB or HSB? With all these color choices and ways to use them it’s often easy to get confused. In this introduction to Illustrators color tools you will learn about the different color spaces, how they work and what tools you can use to get the most out of them. Let’s get familiar with the powerful color tools that Illustrator offers!

Illustrator’s Paintbrush Tool (B) and Brush panel are some of its most powerful tools. With the Paintbrush Tool (B) and Brush panel you can dress up your vector paths into compelling flourishes, patterns, tapered edges, and more. In this tutorial, we will break down the basics of the Paintbrush Tool and Brush panel and show you how to create your own brushes.

You’ve probably used the Pathfinder panel to combine shapes and make new ones. But do you often find yourself clicking (and undoing) each icon in the panel until you get the look you want? Wouldn’t it be easier to take some time and learn exactly what each function does? Here’s a look at the über-useful Pathfinder panel.

You’ve probably used the Pathfinder panel to combine shapes and make new ones. But do you often find yourself clicking (and undoing) each icon in the panel until you get the look you want? Wouldn’t it be easier to take some time and learn exactly what each function does? Here’s a look at the über-useful Pathfinder panel, part 2.

In Adobe Illustrator, the Blend Tool can help you create impressive color blends. But there is more to it than you might know. This comprehensive guide can help you unlock your creative potential and teaches the features, shortcuts, and in depth methods that the Blend Tool has to offer.

Type is an essential part of Illustrator; whether you’re desktop publishing, designing logos, or using type for image building, you’ll be reaching for the Type Tool. This guide comprehensively covers the essentials of what is a huge amount of Illustrator functionality, which is type.

Adobe Illustrator CS5 has a new option within the Stroke window known as “Width Profile”. This tutorial shows how you can create brushes and use them in any version of Adobe Illustrator CS. You will also learn how to create, save and use your new brushes!

You can be a skilled sketch artist and designer, but color theory is still something which can be hard to grasp for some. This is why the new Adobe Kuler iPhone app and it’s integration with Adobe Illustrator CC has me jumping for joy so much I’ve needed a new computer chair!

What is Kerning and why do I need to know about it? If you’ve ever asked this question, then today’s Quick Tip is perfect for you. You will learn the basics of kerning, why kerning is so important in design and some handy tricks to make kerning easy.

Adobe did such a great job of thinking of everything in the entire Creative Suite, they even thought of ways to let us think of our own ways to improve upon it, if you can follow this twisted logic. In this article, we’ll share some Illustrator tweaks and customizations that you may find useful.

Have you ever wondered what the Expand Appearance command is used for? This video Quick Tip will show you how. Aimed at the beginners, you will see up close how special effects are applied via the Appearance panel and how to make the effect a solid shape.

In this Quick Tip screencast, we take a look at the Character panel in Adobe Illustrator. This comprehensive guide will show you what each field does, and you’ll learn some time-saving keyboard shortcuts for setting the character attributes of your text.

Let’s look at seven useful Illustrator techniques to accomplish easily. These may seem tedious to resolve issues for the beginning Illustrator user. While many of these techniques are rudimentary, even advanced artists may learn a tip or two they didn’t know.

In this tutorial you will learn everything you ever wanted to know about one of the most powerful Adobe Illustrator Tools – Transformation. Discover how it works, learn multiple ways of transforming objects, study the tools of transformation, and many other useful techniques.

There are quite a few Illustrator tools that many of us have never used, finding a workflow that we have found efficient and stick with it. Occasionally though, it’s a good idea to crack open Illustrator and take a look at some of its underused features. Scribble effects are worth taking a look at because they’re a quick way to add texture to your designs and a bit of personality. Let’s take a closer look at how to use this effect and how you can get creative with it!

The Graphic Styles panel in Illustrator CS4 is more powerful than it’s ever been. Quickly add, create and save appearance attributes to make your work stylin’.

In this tutorial, we’re going to cover the benefits, some uses, and the ‘how-to’ of two powerful methods to hide or show areas of an Illustrator document without deleting objects that you want to be invisible, which allows you to go back and re-work more easily.

The Gradient Mesh can be one of the hardest tools to control. Even professional Illustrators can be heard crying out in frustration at its seemingly random actions. You can overcome these feelings of frustration by learning some techniques that will make your job easy and fun. This quick tip will teach you two handy mesh taming techniques that will save you time and help you overcome the "Gradient Mesh blues".

In this tutorial we will have a close look at the text improvements in Adobe Illustrator CC. We will learn how to use the brand new Touch Type Tool and create funky typographic designs with. We will also learn about the new convert Point/Area type and advanced Search Font options. Let’s get started!

Perhaps you want to exercise your new skill set. Why not jump into some of these great beginner to intermediate tutorials, perfect to ease you into creating illustrations and projects in Adobe Illustrator.

In this tutorial, we are going to show you how to make a cute monster character in Adobe Illustrator using basic shapes, Pathfinder panel, Width Tool, and Strokes. You will be able to apply these techniques to create other characters.

In this tutorial you will learn how to create an adorable cartoon Little Red Riding Hood with her basket and bunch of flowers. You will use the Pen Tool (P) and basic shapes such as the Rectangle Tool (M), the Ellipse Tool (L) and the Polygon Tool. This is a great tutorial for those who are getting the hang of Adobe Illustrator’s basic tools.

With this tutorial we’ll show you how to create a Bazinga text effect made famous by Sheldon from the sitcom The Big Bang Theory in Adobe Illustrator. We’ll be using some techniques to add multiple effects to a single shape, also duplicating and copying objects quickly, as well as creating a pattern and even rotating that pattern without disrupting the shape it’s applied too.

In this tutorial, Jude C Roxas will be discussing various points in making a cartoon bear scene with simple shapes and with a limiter color palette in Adobe Illustrator. From sketching and planning, he will be choosing the overall color and feel with Adobe Kuler, illustrating main elements for the scene and learning to reuse existing illustrations to save time but will still be able to present a unique look in the elements to avoid redundancy in the design. 

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a cute illustration with upside down panda in Adobe Illustrator. You will use the basic shapes and some use of the Pen Tool (P), so a great project for those who still see themselves as a beginner, but want a little challenge. 

If you’re a Tuts+ Premium Member, you have available a series of video courses which are designed for beginners and upwards for a variety of Adobe Illustrator needs. These are just some of the awesome courses available to access right now! The beauty is, you can preview some of the initial videos without a membership, to see if getting a Tuts+ Premium subscription is right for you.

This course by veteran illustrator Von Glitschka takes you through the entire creative process from drawn design to final vector illustration. Glean valuable tips from time proven methodology that will help and enhance your own workflow by implementing a systematic approach to building vector shapes and elements.

Adobe Illustrator is a powerful and popular tool for illustrators and designers, but can be intimidating if you’ve never worked with vector before. Don’t know about anchors, brushes, symbols or meshes? Never fear! Experienced illustrator Ryan Quintal takes you from newbie to Illustrator pro in just 30 days. Once you’re up and running, Ryan will work through a final project, a product case design, to show how it all goes together.

So you’ve learned Adobe Illustrator in 30 Days. You know your way around a vector — congrats! But what about using Illustrator for print or apparel design? Or to create a website? Are you ready to take your skills to the real world? In this advanced course, Ryan Quintal throws off the training wheels and gets you into the nitty gritty of actually completing real design projects in Illustrator.

From photo-realistic 3D to subtle shapes and shades of color, you can achieve some stunning effects with the gradient mesh tool. If you’re comfortable with Illustrator and ready to jump into advanced illustration techniques, this is the course for you. Join us as Cheryl Graham teaches us how to effectively use the gradient mesh tool in any illustration project.

Learning the multiple possibilities of Illustrator’s effects and the vast array of tools, is a mighty challenge to take on. In this course, Cheryl Graham will teach you how to work with live effects, text effects, a 3D effect and much much more. So get your creative head on, open up Illustrator and let’s get started!

For the beginners, we hope this article helped enlighten some areas in Adobe Illustrator that may have been mystifying! For the more advanced, it’s always great to refresh. Don’t forget to follow us over on Twitter and Facebook!

The preview image for this article was created thanks to our tutorial on how to create a detailed vector chalkboard icon by Andrei Marius. His tutorials are great for beginners as they require little use of the Pen Tool.

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Create a button with a piece of text and the control panel "look"

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Software: Adobe IllustratorDifficulty: BeginnerCompletion Time: 30 minutes

In the following steps you will learn how to create a social button using only one piece of text in Adobe Illustrator. For starters, using the Type Tool, a basic font and a nice dingbat font you will create that piece of text. Next, taking full advantage of the Appearance panel, using multiple fills, strokes and effects along with some basic blending techniques you will learn how to create the actual button. Finally, you will learn how to easily edit and recolor your button.

Create a New document, pick the Type Tool (T) and open the Character panel (Window > Type > Character or hit Control + T). Simply click on your Artboard, add the "Subscribe V" piece of text and make sure that there is some space between the "Subscribe" and the "V". Use the "Myriad Pro" font with the size set at 13pt and the color at black (R=0 G=0 B=0). Using the Type Tool (T), select only the "V" and focus on the Character panel. Increase the font size to 18pt and replace the "Myriad Pro" font with the "Social Media Icons Bold" dingbat font.

Make sure that your piece of text is selected, open the Appearance panel and simply add a fill using the Add New Fill button (pointed by the little, blue arrow). Select this new fill, use the linear gradient shown below and go to Effect > Stylize > Drop Shadow. Enter the properties shown in the following image and click OK.

Make sure that your piece of text stays selected, focus on the Appearance panel and add a second fill using that same Add New Fill button. Select this new fill, drag it below the existing fill, set the color at R=241 G=90 B=41 and go to Effect > Convert to Shape > Rectangle. Enter the properties shown in the following image, click OK and go to Effect > Stylize > Rounded Corners. Enter a 5px radius and click OK.

Check the Relative box from the Convert to Shape – Rectangle effect and the properties of the effect will automatically change when you decide to change the size of the text.

Keep focusing on the Appearance panel, make sure that the orange fill is selected and hit the Duplicate Selected Item button (pointed by the little, blue arrow in the following image). Select the newly added fill, replace the orange with white, change its Blending Mode to Overlay and go to Effect > Path > Offset Path. Enter a -1px Offset and click OK.

Keep focusing on the Appearance panel, make sure that the white fill is selected and hit again the Duplicate Selected Item button. Select the newly added fill, replace the white with the linear gradient shown below, change its Blending Mode to Normal and go to Effect > Distort & Transform > Transform. Enter the properties shown in the following image and click OK.

Keep focusing on the Appearance panel, select the bottom fill and go to Effect > Stylize > Drop Shadow. Enter the properties shown in the left window (in the following image), click OK and go again to Effect > Stylize > Drop Shadow. Enter the properties shown in the right window (in the following image) and click OK.

Keep focusing on the Appearance panel, select the existing stroke, set the color at R=221 G=70 B=21, make sure that the size is set at 1pt and go to Effect > Convert to Shape > Rectangle. Enter the properties shown in the following image, click OK and go to Effect > Stylize > Rounded Corners. Enter a 5px radius, click OK and go to Effect > Path > Offset Path. Enter a -0.5px Offset and click OK.

Keep focusing on the Appearance panel and add a second stroke using the Add New Stroke button (pointed by the little, blue arrow in the following image). Select this new stroke, make sure that the size is set at 1pt, set the color at R=35 G=31 B=32, lower its Opacity to 10% and go to Effect > Convert to Shape > Rectangle. Enter the properties shown in the following image, click OK and go to Effect > Stylize > Rounded Corners. Enter a 5px radius, click OK and go to Effect > Path > Offset Path. Enter a 0.5px Offset and click OK.

Keep focusing on the Appearance panel, make sure that the black stroke is selected and hit the Duplicate Selected Item button. Focus on this newly added stroke, increase the size to 3pt and open the existing Offset Path effect. Increase the Offset to 1.5px and click OK. Make sure that this new stroke is still selected and lower its Opacity to 5%.

Here are the small changes that you need to make if you want to turn your "Subscribe" button into a "Twitter" button. First, make sure that the Type Tool (T) is active and focus on your piece of text. Replace the "Subscribe" with "Follow us" and the "V" with a "B". Make sure that your piece of text stays selected, focus on the Appearance panel and replace the orange fills with the blue ones shown in the following image.

Finally, here are the Appearance attributes that you should use for a "Favorite" button or a "Facebook" button. For the "Favorite" button replace the "V" with a "K" and for the "Facebook" button replace the "V" with an "S". Also, if you choose to create the "Favorite" button, select the white fill, lower its Opacity to 75% and change the Blending Mode to Color Dodge.

Here is how it should look. I hope you’ve enjoyed this tutorial and can apply these techniques in your future projects.

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Announcing the 7 Envato birthday bundle!

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On Tuts +, we celebrate our 7th birthday with another free Tuts + course: jQuery 101: the essentials.

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Thank you that Envato and we hope part of the community on many celebrate more birthdays in the future with you.

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Erstellen Sie eine unschuldige flauschige Kätzchen mit Grundformen in Adobe Illustrator

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Who doesn’t love cute little kittens? In this tutorial I’ll show you how to create one in a very simple way. You don’t need to know anything about Adobe Illustrator to try this, but after you’re done with it, you’ll be familiar with manipulating basic shapes, matching colors, creating simple brushes, Clipping Mask and even Graphic Styles!

The first step is usually about document size, but I’ll tell you a secret: in vector size doesn’t matter. You can change your document size at any time with Artboard Tool (Shift + O), without affecting the artwork. Try it!

Our artwork is going to be symmetrical, so we need to set an axis of symmetry first. Show Rulers with Control + R, then grab the one on the left and drag it to the center of the screen. Your guide is ready! You can easily hide it too with the Control + ; shortcut.

We’re going to build a mouth first, as it’s a nice “landmark” to measure the other elements from. To do this:

Set your Fill color to #cfa374Place your cursor over the guideHold Alt and Shift keysUse Ellipse Tool (L) to draw a circle.

Alt will place the circle’s center where the cursor is, and Shift makes it an even circle, rather than an ellipse.

Before we go further, I’d like to show you an important trick. If you want to create a picture with colors that fit each other, you can just pick a base color and change its Brightness to your needs. Click Layer Options button to see the menu, then select HSB (Hue, Saturation, Brightness). Now just move the slider to get a new shade of your base color.

Draw another circle with a lighter shade (I used #f2bf88). It will make one of two round shapes in this famous “:3? emoticon. In the left upper corner you can see what shape we’re building.

Draw a rectangle using the Rectangle Tool (M) (don’t change the color) that touches the guide and partly covers the smaller circle.

We’ll modify this basic shape. Grab Direct Selection Tool (A), then double-click any of corner points and move it upwards.

Use the same process to modify the other corners as shown below.

The perfect basic shape for the nose will be a triangle, but there is no such a shape in Illustrator! At least, it’s not on the list. Choose Star Tool (the list will show up if you hold rectangle icon for a while) and select Star Tool. Draw a star, but don’t release it yet. Press your down key on your keyboard a few times and see what happens!

Use a pink shade (like #f4bec1) and place the triangle where the nose should be.

A triangle is a good basic shape for the nose, but we want it to be more defined. A triangle has even more points you can manipulate, so… you know what to do!

Draw a circle (use brighter shade of pink) that will be a nostril, and then another circle (click the black square to get black immediately).

Add a purple ellipse that will be an open mouth. By default every new object is created above the previous ones, so you need to drag its layer under that light part of the mouth.

Time for these little holes for whiskers. Relax, we won’t draw them one by one! We can use another Illustrator trick using Scatter Brushes. Draw a black ellipse, select New Brush icon on Brushes panel, then select Scatter Brush.

There are a lot of options here, but they’re rather easy to understand:

First, we want our holes to change size according to how much pressure we apply to our graphics tablet – hence Pressure and minimum size set to 10%.We want them to be placed in a distance to each other, that’s why we move Spacing slider a bit.Rotation of the holes needs to be bound to rotation of the path we draw, hence the last options selected.

Try out your new brush. If something doesn’t work as it’s supposed to, just double-click the brush on the list and change the options again. When you’re ready, draw a row of the holes and lower their Opacity. They should be there, but without looking like the most important element of the picture.

What’s a cat without fluffy fur? The answer is – Sphinx cat, however we’re wanting a fluffy cat. Let’s create another brush that will save us a lot of time. Draw a triangle, use the Free Transform Tool (E) to make it long and narrow. Now just drag the middle point so you’ve got a kite shape.

Create a New Brush – this time it’s an Art Brush. The Colorization Method should be set to Tints, so that you can change the color of your strokes.

Pick a color from the shapes with Eyedropper Tool (I), then Shift + X to toggle between stroke and fill color. Now you’re ready to add some fur – change the size of your brush to your needs and add some cute strokes.

When you draw a lot of elements of one kind, it’s wise to Group (Control + G) them. It will help keep your document tidy.

Time for the rest of the mouth. Draw a bright (#f2d8bd) rectangle first.

Drag one point down for this triangle-like shape.

Add another rectangle, picking the color from the mouth.

Change its shape a bit.

We’ll build the head now. Create New Layer, drag it under the previous one, and draw a huge circle.

Cat’s don’t have circular faces, they’re more like triangles, so move one of the points with Direct Selection Tool (A).

Create another layer (it will be easier this way to add fur later) and draw an ellipse, using darker shade of brown.

New layer, new ellipse, the same color (it’s a mouth!).

Another layer and bright brown again for the forehead.

Even more brightness for the upper part of the head for this circle.

Add another ellipse for the cheekbone. This will help us place the eye later.

Create another layer and draw a black ellipse that will make the hole for the eyeball (looks creepy, doesn’t it?).

Manipulate its shape a little for this sad, innocent look. You can also try to play with handles (the arrow shows you one) to get a better effect.

Add two new ellipses under the black one to define the edges of the eye hole. Alter their shapes too.

Time for the eye itself! Draw a blue ellipse and manipulate its shape.

Draw another ellipse for the pupil. Use a darker shade of the blue (black wouldn’t look good here, trust me).

We’ll add a little glow now. Copy the eye and drag it above the pupil. Make it narrower and position it near the bottom of the eye.

Open the Gradient panel. With the “glow” ellipse selected, choose black to white gradient from the list, then double-click the black arrow to change it to white. Now we’ve got white-white gradient. Change the angle to 90 degrees, then change the left arrow’s Opacity to 60% and the right one’s to 0%. Looks good!

I’m sure you guessed how to create an ear. They’re just like triangles, right?

Oh, maybe not really, but mostly. We can fix it but modifying the points to at volume to the tip of the ears as shown below.

Copy the ear, resize it and change its color to pink. That’s an inside of the ear!

There should be a part of head visible behind the ears. Draw it with light brown.

Time to add more fur. If you created a new layer for every part, you shouldn’t have problems with it. If you didn’t, just draw the fur on a new layer, group it and then drag in under the others. Change the size of the brush anytime you need (the fur around the mouth is certainly thinner).

And the whiskers! You can use your fur brush for it, just choose really small size and draw long lines.

All this time we’ve been focused on the left half of the head, without caring about the mess on the other side. We need to cut it before we copy the half. Draw a rectangle that will cover all the left half and touch the guide with its right side (the color doesn’t matter).

Select everything you’ve done so far and go to Object > Clipping Mask > Make (or just use shortcut Control + 7). Now we’ve got a neat left half!

Select the half and go to Object > Transform > Reflect. Select Vertical and click Copy. Now just move the other half to its place. The head is complete!

We’ve got a lot of work behind us, so at this point everything should be a piece of cake! Create New Layer under the head (Lock the head layer to avoid mistakes) and draw a column of ellipses. It will build the upper part of the body, neck, shoulders and torso. We’ll mix some colors here – the middle one (#ffce99) is 100% bright. You just need to move the brightness slider to get the others. Don’t forget about long, thick fur!

Now the lower part. Draw three ellipses for the rest of the torso and two legs. It’s the same trick with colors here – you can just pick the color for the torso from the part above, then manipulate their brightness. The further the element from us, the darker it should be.

Don’t forget to add fur to the new shapes.

Now time for little paws. Draw an ellipse for a single finger and create the shape as shown below.

Reflect the finger vertically and place it next to the first one.

They both look the same, so we need some border for them. Duplicate both fingers and having them selected, click Intersect in Pathfinder. Then darken the part you’ve just got.

Let’s use the same process for the remaining fingers.

Copy one finger, make it smaller and drag it under the other fingersCopy it, pick the darker color for it and make the copy more narrow, to get a border tooYou can now reflect the last finger.

When your paw is done, copy it to a layer under the original, and darken its colors, both for the fingers and borders. Also, add a dark ellipse for the tummy.

As all the body is ready, you know what to do to get the other half! When done, use the same process to add the tail.

We’ve got a kitty now, but it’s just a usual kitty. Let’s make it more fun! First, we need a background that will flatter the cat’s eyes. Don’t forget about the shadow, or our kitty will seem to be floating in the air.

We’ll build the wings now. We’ll create just one wing and reflect it when it’s done. So, start with three ellipses that make an “arm” together (a wing is nothing but an arm with feathers).

Before we start drawing feathers, we can use a little trick again to save a lot of time – build a brush for one feather! Make it out of one black ellipse as an Art Brush (don’t forget about Tints in Colorization Method). Check it out, it’s a really nice brush!

Now just draw a row of the feathers. The arrows show you direction of them.

Draw another row, using a brighter shade. The direction stays the same.

And the last one, almost (but not entirely) white.

Our kitty is an angel, not a bird, so we need to make the wings even more unusual. What about making them glow? Draw a rectangle in any color, then go to Filter > Stylize > Outer Glow and change the options to these below.

Remove any colors from the rectangle, then open Graphic Styles tab (you can find it in Window menu) and click New Style icon. The style of the rectangle (no fill, no stroke, and glow that’s invisible at the moment) will be saved and ready to use anywhere else.

Now select the last row of the feathers and use the style. But there’s a catch – the style we’ve saved has no fill! If you select it directly, it will make the feathers invisible. To avoid it, you need to add this style to existing one – just hold Alt when clicking the style.

Once the wing is ready, reflect it to the other side.

There’s just one more thing we need to do. Draw an ellipse with a thick, white stroke and no fill. It will be a halo!

It should be glowing too, so apply our style to it. If you like the effect, you’re done, however I suggest changing its color to bright yellow – it will be appear warmer. To do this, open Appearance tab, click Outer Glow and edit the options.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and learned a lot of things to use in the future. I wish you good luck in your vector journey!

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