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Illustrator Tutorials & Effects

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Illustrator Tip #19: Quick Seamless Valentine’s Tiles

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Valentine’s day is coming and in this tutorial, I will teach you a trick to create quick seamless heart tiles.  With this tip, you will be able to create seamless tiles in a matter of seconds. And the best of all, the effect is adjustable by changing the values in the Appearance Panel. So let’s see how to do it…
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Olympic Logo Tutorial #4: Mexico-68

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In this tutorial, we will continue the series of the best Olympic logos walkthrough. Today, we will recreate the amazing logotype of Olympic Games in Mexico of 1968. Although the logo was created more than 40 years ago, it still remains a favourite piece of design and typography for many people. We will use Adobe Illustrator features to recreate this unique logo. Let’s get started!
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Premium Tutorial: Fun & Cute Polaroid Robot

In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a Polaroid robot illustration for my past t-shirt graphic project. Drawing this illustration is pretty easy. I am not going to use a lot of gradient so the graphic is easier to print on t-shirt. You just need to know the basic of using pen, shapes, and pathfinder, the rest are just patience and happy thought. Please enjoy~
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Illustrator Tutorial: Vector Handphone

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In this Adobe Illustrator tutorial, I’ll show you how to draw a vector mobile phone by using simple shapes and gradients. You will learn how to draw basic shapes to build a vector handphone from scratch. So let’s get started.

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Illustrator Tip #18: Broken Glass Effect



This great broken glass effect can be used for creating effective text effects for your websites or logos. The broken glass effect is relatively simple to create. Throughout this tutorial, I will teach you the skills needed to create this cool effect in Adobe Illustrator.
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Illustrator Tip #17: 4 Methods of Drawing Tables in Illustrator

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Tables are often used when you are designing brochures or company profiles. However, drawing a table can be quite tedious in Illustrator as there is no proper tool to draw tables. I will illustrate some workarounds to this problem and its pros and cons.
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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.

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