Illustrator

An illustration is a decoration, interpretation or visual explanation of a text, concept or process, designed for integration in published media, such as posters, flyers, magazines, books, teaching materials, animations, video games and films. Contemporary illustration uses a wide range of styles and techniques, including drawing, painting, printmaking, collage, montage, digital design, multimedia, 3D modelling. Most illustrators work on a freelance basis.

Depending on the purpose, illustration may be expressive, stylised, realistic or highly technical. Specialist areas include:, Architectural illustration, Archaeological illustration, Botanical illustration, Concept art, Fashion illustration, Information graphics, Technical, illustration, Medical illustration, Narrative illustration, Picture books, Scientific illustration, Technical and scientific illustration. In this selection you can find some of the best illustration designs which boost your illustration knowledge.

1. Voodoo Doll in Adobe CC Illustrator Tutorial 2016

You must be a lover of all things Halloween related if you are here, so let’s have some fun and create a not-so-scary voodoo doll in Adobe Illustrator. We will start with the shape of the body and, after that, you’ll learn how to create the burlap texture. With highlights and shading we’ll give dimension to the body, and after that we’ll add the stitches. At the end, we’ll sew the eyes and the heart patch and poke it with as many needles as you want. Let’s have some fun with this one!

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2. How to Draw a Festive Winter Landscape With Glowing Lamps in Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use the Mesh Tool in Adobe Illustrator to create a vector evening winter background!

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3. How to Draw a Festive Theatre Stage in Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use the Mesh Tool and Transparency settings in Adobe Illustrator to create a beautifully lit performance stage!

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4. How to Create a Rainbow Umbrella in Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use the Mesh Tool in Adobe Illustrator to create a vector concept background!In this tutorial, you will learn how to use the Mesh Tool and Transparency settings in Adobe Illustrator to create a beautifully lit performance stage!

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5. How to Create a Candy Monster Character in Adobe Illustrator

There are plenty of techniques used throughout the entire tutorial, from textures to small details, a new Blend Art Brush, masking techniques, reverse spine blending options, and even a 3D effect. Not to mention the colorful candy and jelly worms that are fun to draw.

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6. Tracing Photo

Full detailed tutorial on how to draw and trace people from a photo. Learn how to create realistic illustration with just simple gradient fill. No massive Gradient Mesh!

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7. Create a Slam Dunk Cat With Textured Background in Illustrator

In this tutorial I’m going to show you how to create a unique background texture for my slam dunking cat, as well as some great tips along the way to improve your illustration work in Adobe Illustrator.

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8. How to Design a Flat Sci-Fi Blaster in Adobe Illustrator

Are you a hardcore sci fi fan? Well if that’s the case, you’ll absolutely love this tutorial since Yulia Sokolova will help you design your very own space blaster using nothing more than some geometric shapes which you will adjust here and there.

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9. How to Create a Traditional Chinese Bird and Flower Painting Using Gradient Mesh

Chinese painting has a tremendously long history, with distinctive characteristics and style that set it apart from other artistic schools. While the old European masters were particularly fond of rendering bowls of fruit and posed models in painstaking detail, the Chinese masters focused on themes that primarily landed in one three categories: people (renwu), scenery (shanshui—literally “mountains and waters”), or “birds and flowers” (huaniao). We’ll be tackling the latter today.

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10. How to Create a Vibrant Day of the Dead Portrait in Adobe Illustrator

Day of the Dead is very beautiful and inspiring Mexican holiday. We’ll create a female portrait using different methods and techniques for a great result. You can use this tutorial as a reference for your own picture.

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In this tutorial you will learn how to create branch of a tree with a sitting bird in adobe illustrator, It is step by step tutorials guide for your help after this tutorial complete you are able to use a custom brush tools, shape, opacity and some overly effects.

Tutorials by mart-art

You guys must have seen lots of amazing typographic Portrait, But you know? how it is possible to create it in adobe illustrator. If you have ever wondered how to go on about creating one for yourself, this instructable collection of tutorials for you.

1. Design a cool Typography Portrait in Adobe Illustrator

This time we are going to learn how to create cool portraits made entirely from type. This is a time consuming technique but not too difficult to learn. We are going to use Adobe Illustrator and most of the time we will work with the Envelope Distort feature on text.

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2. How to create a Typographic Portrait in Illustrator

I am sure you guys must have seen the amazing typographic portraits artist have made all over the world featuring eminent personalities and famous stars. If you have ever wondered how to go on about creating one for yourself, this instructable is for you.

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3. Make yourself an Amazing Typographic Portrait

The tutorial is made after receiving a reader’s request. As we know, typographic portrait art takes a huge amount of work. Here is a much simpler version I made, which hopes to give beginners an idea on how to start. This tutorial will show how to create custom brushes and fill patterns. Also you will learn more about selection and posterize tool.

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4. Create a Typography Illustration in Adobe Illustrator CS6

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a typography for your Illustration using Adobe Illustrator CS6. The Type functionality which Illustrator offers is a massive topic. In this article we are using the following tools: Type on a Path Tool, Vertical Type Tool, Area Type Tool, Vertical Area Type tool to create the typography.

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5. Super Easy Typographic Portrait in Photoshop

So in this tutorial I will show you how to create a really cool and super easy typographic portrait in Photoshop. We will use the Displace filter and some Blend Modes to achieve the effect. The whole process is quite simple but it might take you some time to add the texts and elements, but once you do that the rest is very straight forward.

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6.Illustrator: Type and Text

In this installment of Illustrator Insider Training, author Mordy Golding shows how to create type that’s both beautiful and communicative, whether it’s destined for logos, brochures, signs, infographics, or simple documents. This course covers core typography concepts, such as working with Unicode and OpenType fonts, applying character and paragraph settings, managing text with styles and text threads, placing text along a path, and wrapping text around graphics.

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7.Typeface Portrait of Steve Jobs: How It Was Done

Remember the fantastic portrait of Steve Jobs using Apple’s classic typefaces from last week? Here’s a step-by-step guide showing exactly how designer Dylan Roscover created it in Illustrator and Photoshop. It was 24-hours of work, he says, with no sleep.

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8.How To Create Typography Illustrations the Easy Way

Hand lettering typography illustrations are really cool, but it takes a lot of skill to craft authentic artworks by hand with pen and paper. Typically this style of art is created by elite illustrators, but I’ve found an entirely digital technique that allows us mere mortals to create cool looking artwork too! Follow this step by step Illustrator tutorial to learn how to manipulate text within a silhouette shape and add texturing to produce a realistic hand drawn style typography illustration.

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Gradient Mesh tool is a powerful tool in Adobe Illustrator, it is allows the user to divide almost any shape into a mesh. Each intersection of two lines Horizontal or Vertical, can be colored with a solid color. In this collection we have focused over Gradient Mesh tool

1. Simple Drawing Manikin with Gradient Mesh in Illustrator

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2. Simple Flowers With Gradient Mesh in Adobe Illustrator

Follow this tutorial and learn how to create beautiful flowers with the help of the Gradient Mesh function in Adobe Illustrator. We will start with the shape of the petal then using the Gradient Mesh we will add the mesh points and color it. After this, we will compose the flower followed by the stamens in the center.

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3. Working with the Gradient Mesh Tool In Illustrator

One of the most amazing and confounding tools in Adobe Illustrator is probably the Gradient Mesh tool. Working with this feature allows the user to divide almost any shape into a mesh. Each intersection of two lines (horizontal/vertical) can be colored with a solid color. This tutorial takes a different format than some of our other tuts, and will help you work with the Mesh tool better.

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4. Make a Shiny Gum Ball Machine with Mesh Gradients

In this tutorial, we’ll explain how to create a gum ball machine with mesh gradient. We’ll create the base, the glass casing, the money slot, and the opening where the bubble gum balls come out. This is an advanced tutorial and the pace is fairly quick. Intermediate Illustrator knowledge is required.

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5. Detailed Tulips With Gradient Mesh, Without the Mesh Tool in Illustrator

We’re celebrating spring in this tutorial! Here you will learn how to draw beautiful tulips in a vase. We’ll start with a 3D base and then go on to create tulips with Gradient Meshes without the Mesh Tool, all in Adobe Illustrator. So let’s take a closer look.

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6. THE MESH TOOL IN ADOBE CS5 ILLUSTRATOR

If you’re creating art in Adobe Creative Suite 5 (Adobe CS5) Illustrator you can turn to the handy Mesh tool to create smooth tonal variations in your illustration. Choose to blend one color into another and then use the Mesh tool to adjust your blend. Now in Illustrator CS5, you can apply varying levels of transparency to these mesh points.

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7. Draw a Realistic Mango With the Mesh Tool

Follow this Adobe Illustrator tutorial if you want to learn how to draw a realistic mango. Everything here is made using the Mesh Tool therefore if you want to master this tool better, this is your chance. Let’s get started!

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8. How to Illustrate a Vector Tomato Using Gradient Mesh Tool

You will use Meshes, Gradients and Blends for creating the resulted picture. The skills you will learn here can easily be transferred to creating various objects. So let’s get started!

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9. Illustrator Gradient Mesh Tool – Creating Realistic Vector Art

The Adobe Illustrator gradient mesh tool is often ignored because it can be unwieldy and confusing to use at first. If you persevere though it is incredibly useful, and some great effects can be achieved. This is my attempt to get to grips with it by creating an illustration of a metallic fishing lure for a design project.

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10. Vectors Imitate Life with Gradient Mesh

To start things off, we need a source image to serve as our template for this gradient mesh image. For this tutorial I’ll be using a light bulb photograph from the stock.xchng. I chose this particular image because it has clearly defined edges, as well as components that the subject it can be separated into. The outline of the light bulb as a whole is crisp.

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11. Gradient Meshes in Adobe Illustrator

Whilst creating a new vector for the Switchplane logo, I started experimenting with the gradient mesh tool in Illustrator. I realised, as I edited the gradient in the Switchplane balls, that so much can be done with the gradient mesh tool! So many people overlook it, using it only for shape or button gradients.

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