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30 Best Illustrator Tutorials of 2009
Adobe Illustrator is a great designing and vector software for drawing. With the introduction of each newer versions, it keeps getting more and more powerful and indispensable graphic design tool. This also means that you have to keep learning something new everyday to enhance your skills and add efficiency to your workflow.
We have featured some of best tutorials during the year 2008 and again we are very excited to bring to you a compilation of Best Illustrator Tutorials during the Year 2009! Below you will find 30 handpicked best and excellent Adobe Illustrator tutorials published on web during the Year 2009.
1. How to create a Television Icon
This easy step by step tutorial will show you how to create a a retro television icon just with some basic shapes and gradients.
38 Inspiring Vexel Artworks & Tutorials
“Vexel” is a combination of the words vector and pixel, and it is used to describe a style of digital art which is entirely pixel-based, but looks like vector art. Vector uses mathematical equations to create lines and shapes in image whereas vexels are raster works in pixels.
30 Best Inspiring Vector Figure Illustrations
Figure illustrations require a lot of skills, time, patience and great understanding of human anatomy. Enormous amount of time goes into drawing the details like hair, face, body posture and facial expressions to to bring the characters to life. For this article, we will look into the web to bring the 30 best vector figure illustrations for your inspiration. Enjoy the post!
1. Vector Kid
Huge Collection of High Quality Patterns
The use of patterns in art and design projects are varied and well known. There are many sources from where you can find free raster or bitmap patterns, but there are not much when it comes to good high quality free vector patterns. So, in this post, we have listed a compilation of good quality and useful free illustrator vector patterns for download.
To edit the patterns in Adobe Illustrator, you can access the Patterns in the Swatches panel.You can customize existing patterns and design patterns from scratch with any of the Illustrator tools. There are many advantages of using seamless vector patterns. It is scalable to any sizes without any loss of resolution and you can change the colors, fill, stroke to suit your project. Thus, making it completely editable, modifiable and flexible.
1. Floral Vector Pattern
2. Redmillion Dotted Pattern
3. Royalty-Free Illustrator Vector Swatch Patterns
This is a free set of 8 Adobe Illustrator Swatch Patterns.
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Illustrator Tip #14: Pasting Smart Objects in Photoshop
Using both Photoshop and Illustrator is a common work flow process in many projects. In this small tip, I will show you how you can use Illustrator’s objects, shapes or text as Smart Object in Photoshop and still keep them editable in Illustrator.
In this example, I have created a shape using Star Tool, Pucker and Bloat Effect In Illustrator.
Illustrator Tutorial: Warp Text Inside A Heart Shape
In this tutorial, we will see how we can warp the text around a shape or a object. This technique will show you how to combine the text wrap and heart shape together to achieve the text wrap effect. This tutorial will concentrate on how to use Envelope Distort feature in Illustrator to achieve this effect. You will also learn some new techniques along the way. For this to work effectively, first we have to decide on a suitable shape. Secondly, we will need to decide what word to warp inside the shape. Normally a short phrase works best. And finally, we need a thick and fancy font to pull the trick.
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Illustrator Tip #12: Transform Pattern
In this simple but very time saving and useful tip, we will see how we can transform pattern fill in Illustrator without transforming the object on which the pattern fill is applied.
For example, if you have a pattern fill applied on a square or rectangle shape like this:
