Illustrator Tutorials & Effects
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Premium Tutorial: Photorealistic Watch

Learn how to create an amazing photorealistic watch in this new premium tutorial. This tutorial is written for intermediate illustrator users to attain an expert level in illustration. In this tutorial, you will get an indepth knowledge about creating objects with photorealism.
Let’s see how to create a photorealistic watch in this tutorial.
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Premium Tutorial: Purified Water

This tutorial will take you through the process of creating a purified water illustration step by step. Through these steps you will learn how to use a gradient mesh tool in creating realistic gradient effects and other techniques as well. Knowledge of using the Pen tool and creating fills can help. But it will still be easy even to those who didn’t have a first hand experience with Illustrator. Upon completing this tutorial, you will learn how to use the gradient, mesh tool and other techniques like wrap, blends and filters.
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Illustrator Tip #33: Opacity Mask

Illustrator opacity mask are great to create transparency on shapes. The idea is simple. You will have a mask that is black to white and the areas that are black will be masked out. Next you just have to apply the opacity mask to your object. Let’s see how you can use opacity mask to create soft transparency edges in this tutorial.
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Illustrator Tutorial: Holland Tulip Field

This tutorial will show you how to create a beautiful Holland landscape filled full of colorful tulips and a traditional Dutch windmill. We will start by creating a red tulip flower with the Gradient Mesh tool and then make yellow and purple color variations of the tulips. Then we will create the windmill using simple gradients and solid fills and finally we will arrange all the elements to complete our landscape. I have included steps that are crucial to get the desired look assuming that the user is familiar with basic Illustrator drawing and coloring tools. So let’s start creating!
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Premium Tutorial: Draw a Banana

In this tutorial, you will learn lots about drawing a realistic looking banana. I will explain to you step by step on how to achieve this photo realistic effect using advanced gradient mesh techniques. You will begin by drawing the mesh of the banana and learn how to adjust and fill the mesh points to achieve this look.
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