From Sketch to Vector
Amazing guide as to how professional illustrators go from sketch to vector illustration.

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SKETCH TO VECTOR BIRD
Today I am going to illustrate a 'bird' from sketch to vector. To do this tutorial, you need to have some basic of illustrator drawing technique.

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Create A Cute Vector Octopus
In this Illustrator tutorial, we will learn how to Create A Cute Vector Octopus in Illustrator with Simple Shapes.

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How to Create a Cute Vector Bear T-Shirt Design
One of the great things about designing with vector shapes is that any design, especially characters, can be developed out of basic shapes, giving a simple and stylized style. Lets get busy with Adobe Illustrator and design a cute bear character and surrounding scenery in just two colors, ready for use as a cool t shirt design.

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Monster Character Series Part 1 - Flying Bat Ghost
How to create a set of simple monster characters. Hopefully these will be easy enough to follow by Illustrator beginners, with mostly the basic tools and shapes being used.

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Create a Rolling Stones Inspired Tongue Illustration
The bright red Rolling Stones tongue and lips logo is a graphic design icon, and has been a pop culture fav for years! I don't think you can beat it, so well not create a direct copy of the original in this tut. Instead, lets take a look at drawing our own Stones inspired tongue graphic, starting with a quick pencil sketch and finishing with a vector based graphic in Adobe Illustrator.

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Turn a sketch into a Crazy Santa
This tutorial will show you how to create a Crazy Santa illustration from sketch that Ive made for it. This is also a complex guide for creating characters from sketch .

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Draw a happy monster illustration
This is a tutorial on how to draw a complex monster illustration.

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Design a Cute Hamster Avatar
In this tutorial we will see how to create a cute hamster in Illustrator.

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How to Create a Crafts Inspired Vector Kids
Learn how to create a couple of cute and simple kids illustrations of a car and airplane using Adobe Illustrators basic shapes. Take inspiration from hand crafted artwork to give each graphic a plaid effect fabric texture and stitching effect .

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Create a Cute Baby Seal
In this tutorial we are going to learn how to create a super cute baby seal.

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How to Draw the Vector Style Icons
In this tutorial, I'll show you how to create a vector error icon using Adobe Illustrator.

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How to Create a Vector Goldfish in Six Steps
In this tutorial I'll show you the process I use for creating a vector goldfish in six easy steps. The steps are a bit condensed so Intermediate Illustrator users will benefit greatly, though beginners will be able to get similar results, you'll just need to experiment a bit more with these tools and techniques. The vector goldfish is created with the use of the Mesh, Blend and Symbol Tools.

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Vector Book From Scratch
In this tutorial I will show you how to create a vector book. This book was created without reference and therefore you should be able to use the pen tool well.

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Vector Handphone
In this tutorial, I'll show you how to draw a vector mobile phone by using simple shapes and gradients.

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Stylish Vector Flower
Learn how to create stylish vector/line flower with Illustrator Blend Tool. This Adobe Illustrator tutorial is great for creating background and large print illustration.

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Create A Les Paul Guitar Vector
In this tutorial I will be showing you how to create a Les Paul Electric Guitar Vector Image in Adobe Illustrator.

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Create A Vector Art Twitter Bird Character Icon In Adobe Illustrator
Quick and easily create your own twitter bird character in vector

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How to Create Vintage Vector Bottle Caps
In this tutorial I will show you how to create a vector bottle cap in Illustrator CS4 using some basic shapes, gradients, and effects. This tutorial is for beginners and is quite simple. It will demonstrate how the layering of shapes with different gradients applied to them can give you a nice sense of depth.

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Create a Chaotic Particle Design with Vector Scatter Brushes
Vector scatter brushes are a great way to create a lot of chaos & small particles with a minimum of effort. In this tutorial we'll learn all about scatter brushes in Illustrator & even download 14 free ones to get started.

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How To Build a Vector Clock Graphic
If you're looking to develop your Illustrator skills, here's a tutorial for you! Follow this walkthrough to see the how adding layer after layer of vector shapes, along with a range of gradients and a spot of texture can quickly create a great looking icon-style clock graphic.

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When Vector Meets Photo
Mixing vector and photo is one of the hottest trends in the illustration industry today. We've seen this effect used in national ad campaigns from Anheuser-Busch to Hawaiian Tropic. In this tutorial, we'll take a look at how to create this effect in Illustrator. Before you begin, keep in mind that you can download the Illustrator source file used in this column.

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Make Abstract Typography Art
The design will be done in Illustrator and will be a vector so that we can scale the design up or down depending on where you want to use it, coming out with a vector image that will allow you to apply the design anywhere you'd like.

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IMAGE INTO VECTOR
Today I am going to show the basic way to illustrate and image into vector.

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Create a Vector Tree with Custom Brushes and the Gradient Mesh Tool
In this tutorial you will learn how to create a leaf-filled, vector tree - step by step. Some of the techniques we'll use are custom made brushes to create the leaves, and Gradient Mesh Tool for creating light and shadows.

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Learn to Create a Financial Crisis, Vector Illustration
Fitting for these tough financial times, learn step by step how to create this turbulent vector illustrations. Numerous Illustrator tools are used to create this illustration. We'll use Symbols to add texture to the land are, the Mesh Tool for the sky, 3D effect to compose the skyscrapers, the Twirl Tool for the tornado, and Warp effect for the dollars. We'll cover alot of ground in this tutorial, faster than a businessman escaping to the bahamans!

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Stylish Vector Flower
This tutorial provides you necessary steps for creating Stylish Vector Flower using Adobe Illustrator.

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The Anatomy of a Vector Illustration Paty One
Illustrations created in all major vector drawing programs have a definite anatomy and share a common pattern. Whether you use Deneba Canvas, Adobe Illustrator, CorelDRAW or Macromedia FreeHand you will find that this pattern exists even though each program may define the parts differently.

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Make vector car from photo
Detailed tutorial of how to make a vector car from photo in Adobe Illustrator .

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Imitating A Scanner Darkly
Using Illustrator's pencil tool and shapes of solid color, you can imitate the graphic novel styling of A Scanner Darkly. An animator from the film shows us how.

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Draw a concept car
We will show you how to render a car in Illustrator starting with a rough sketch.

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Pixel Perfect Tracing
In this tutorial, I will be taking you through the actual Steps that were used to convert one of these hand-drawn cartoons into colorized vector art. I will discuss Placing the cleaned-up scan into Illustrator, using Live Trace Presets and Options, converting the Tracing object into a Live Paint Group, using Gap Detection, Expanding the Paint Group into vector, and adding color to finish up the cartoon.

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Gradient Meshes Introduction
Mastery of Illustrator's gradient mesh functionality is the holy grail of vector graphic design. Although difficult to learn and time consuming to set up, gradient meshes can give your vector images an illusion of photorealism and detail that will bring your artwork to new levels of excellence. This introduction will take you through the basics of gradient mesh design and give you pointers on more advanced aspects to explore.

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Sexy Holiday Vector Pin-Up Girl Tutorial
A great tutorial which we are going to show you how to draw Sexy Holiday Vector Pin-Up Girl.

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Create a Cute Retro-Flavored Teddy Bear with the Gradient Mesh Tool
In this tutorial, you'll learn how you can easily add a retro feeling to your creations. We'll also cover techniques such as using gradient mesh tool to add inner shadows to your objects, which gives them a subtle rounding while keeping your artwork scalable. Let's learn how to make a character head of a retro circus bear, then you can apply these techniques in your own work!

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Create a Set of Shiny Character Eyes
This tutorial will teach you how to create detailed vector eyes that can be used for all sorts of character design projects. The techniques used here are basic and the processes quick and simple, but the result looks great.

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Make Vector 3D Logo with Illustrator CS2
Make Vector 3D Logo with Illustrator CS2

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Vector Flower
Making Flowers Booming.

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Create a Steam Powered Typographic Treatment
Whether or not you're a Steampunk fan, this two part tutorial is sure to test your knowledge on Illustrator, Cinema 4D and Photoshop. In the first half, we're going to customize a Blackletter font and create 3D text with vector shapes. There's lots to do, so let's start with the first part of this two-part series!

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Illustrate a Malevolent Skull in 8 Steps
In the tutorial I will go over how to create a cool looking malevolent skull that can be used for bands, t-shirts, or just vector art of your choosing.

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