50 Adobe Illustrator Tuts

Here are 50 Illustrator Tutorials dated 21 March 2009, it must be Illustrator CS3 tutorials because the collections should be before of the date it was published in Think Design as 50 links to take a look.

Personally Illustrator CS3 is the best choice to be start with if you wanna learn the basic of Adobe Illustrator, simply because Ai CS3 don't have (and you don't need those) some new fancy tools and features such as the bristol brush, perspective tools, etc.. and it will not confusing you with multiple artboards introduced. The best features in Illustrator CS3 for me is the simple but powerful 'Smart Guide' compared to CS4, CS5 (or new coming perhaps) which the new 'Smart Guide' seems too much in 'snap' abilities, and it's not possible to configure it as the previous.

Anyway here are the topics covered in the collections of 50 tutorials:

1. Basic Shading and Lighting
2. Tutorial: Transform, Style, Blend
3. Tutorial: make texture without leaving Illustrator
4. Some Cool Introduction to Illustrator Videos
5. Basic Drawing with Adobe Illustrator’s Paths & Pen tool
6. Creating gradations with Adobe Illustrator’s Gradients & Blends
7. Basic & Advanced Illustrator Drawing Techniques for Technical Illustrations
8. Using the Pathfinder and Align tool in Illustrator
9. Illustrator Pucker and Bloat Effect and more
10. Tutorial: The Flare Tool
11. Creating a 3D Gear
12. Illustrator full spectrum spirograph
13. Create a Vector RSS Icon with Illustrator
14. Creating seamless patterns in Illustrator
15. BMX Illustration
16. Symmetric Illustration
17. Soaring Vectors
18. Creating Road Maps in Adobe Illustrator
19. Realistic Photo Vector Tutorial
20. Tropical Transparency Effect
21. Ornate Lettering Process
22. How to Design a Font From Start to Finish
23. Live Color in Illustrator CS3
24. Create 3D Can of Beans
25. Blueprint-Style Text in Adobe Illustrator
26. Logo Design Project Step by Step Walkthrough
27. How to Create a Trendy Retro Type Treatment
28. Design a Print-Ready Beer Label in Adobe Illustrator
29. Tips for Working with the Gradient Mesh Tool In Illustrator
30. How to Design a Classic Heraldic Figure
31. 10 Free and Extremely Useful Illustrator Scripts
32. Creating Sketchy-Style Vectors
33. Creating A Wood Grain texture
34. Creating Brushed Metal Texture
35. How to Create a Stylized Vector Grasshopper
36. Make 3D Yet Flat Looking Shopping Basket Icons
37. Make a Torn Vector Desktop Wallpaper with Angled Text
38. How to Create Colorful Abstract Artwork in Illustrator
39. Use the power of Illustrator to create cool 3D infographics
40. Master painting in Illustrator
41. Adobe Illustrator Tutorial #1 - Adding Texture
42. Adobe Illustrator Tutorial - Cutaway Technical Illustration
43. Creating Vector Hair
44. Create an envelpe icon with a satin feel
45. How to Create a Vector Safari Compass in Illustrator
46. Create camouflage patterns
47. Create a Themed Repeating Pattern in Illustrator
48. Creating geometric patterns in Illustrator
49. Illustrator: The Tilde Trick
50. From Sketch to Vector Illustration

see all the collections via Think Design

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