How to Create a Recycling, Paper Bag Icon
In this tutorial, we'll explain how to create an eco-friendly paper icon with simple shapes and gradients. This tutorial is great for beginners to get started with icon design, as this is a fairly simple icon to create.

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How to Create Smoky Brushes and Type
In this tutorial, I explain how to create realistic smoke, make it into a brush and use it for type.

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The Hidden Power of the Average Command: Creating Swirly Type
In this tutorial we will explore the "Average" command in Adobe Illustrator, and learn how to use it in rather unusual way. In this case, we'll create abstract swirls using relatively simple methods and apply it to type.

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Drawing a Butterfly
You will show how to draw a paper-style butterfl.

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Graph Paper Practice with
This lesson is meant as an exercise in multiple path selections, created dashed lines, adjusting stroke weights, and in creating swatches.

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Type on a Path with Adobe Illustrator
Sara Froehlich It's easy to add text to a circle in Illustrator. You just draw a circle, choose the Path Text Tool, click the circle and type.

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Create a Cute Vector Monster from a Pencil Sketch
Follow this Adobe Illustrator walkthrough on the creation of a cute little vector monster character, beginning with a quick pencil sketch on paper.

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Create incredible 3D type-based infographic art
Learn how to use Illustrator to create 3D technical-style illustrated lettering for artwork and infographics.

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Learn how to Illustrate funny cartoon animals
In this tutorial you will be learning the techniques in illustrating your own colorful cartoon drawings using Adobe Illustrator. This is a simple step by step procedure, and can be applied to any drawings that you have done.

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3D Typography in Photoshop
We'll be using a combination of Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop to create this intense 3D type treatment.

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Area Type
Sometimes its hard to add text to your complex shapes, but there is a solution! Learn how to use area typing to add text into any kind of shape.

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Creative Arabic Calligraphy in Adobe Illustrator
This tutorial will guide you on how to draw creative Arabic fonts in Adobe Illustrator, this type of calligraphy is called "Free Calligraphy" as it is not "restricted" to a strictly set of rules on how the letters should be drawn and connected as with other forms of Arabic Calligraphy.

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Three Ways to Create Celtic Knots
In this tutorial, we'll explain how to create magical Celtic knots. Ornaments accompanied Celts in life and in death. Ornaments decorated clothes, books, furniture, ware, weapons, and gravestones. I'll show you three ways to create Celtic knots in vector - from simple to the difficult. The last techniques allows one to create knots of any complexity.

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How to Create Stereo Headphone Plugs
In this tutorial, we'll explain how to create a headphone plugs with cables using gradients. The techniques covered in this tutorial can be used to create other types of wires and electrical equipment as well.

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Create an arrow through a heart icon
In this tutorial we are going to create a vector/icon heart with an arrow going through it, using Adobe Illustrator. This tutorial will teach you to take simple shapes and use them to create more complex objects, as well as several other techniques.

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How to Create a Photorealistic iMac and Magic Mouse
This tutorial is about using Adobe Illustrator's Mesh Tool (U) and several basic techniques to create a vector style monitor and mouse, with a similar design as Apple's brand new iMac 27" with magic mouse. You can use these techniques to create other monitors and mouse designs as well.

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Create a 3D Pill
All those long hours and sleepless nights designing can really get to you. With this tutorial you'll learn how to create a 3D pill to cure your design headaches!.

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Create a 3D Pill
All those long hours and sleepless nights designing can really get to you. With this tutorial you'll learn how to create a 3D pill to cure your design headaches!.

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Glassy Orbs
This tutorial, you'll not only know how to create those nice glass orbs, but you'll also have learned how to create gradients with opacity, which is not a standard feature in Illustrator.

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Create realistic glass surfaces
Create a wine glass from scratch in Illustrator using transparency and translucency settings

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Easily Create Sticker Text and Graphic Effect
In this tutorial, I will show you how to create sticker style effect in Adobe Illustrator. Sticker effect is quite common and I am sure, you might have seen it used in various designs. So lets get started and let me tell you, it is quite easy and you can create a sticker style text in no minutes and you can apply the same technique for any graphic illustration as well.

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Creating Swirly Vectors
An illustrator video quick tip tutorial on how to create swirly vectors in illustrator. The techniques can be used to create swirly illustrator vectors, which could also be imported into Photoshop in order to create Photoshop brushes or vector patterns. Leave your thoughts and comments about tutorial in a comment below.

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How to create funny swirls
This is an Illustrator tutorial that explains how to create decorative swirls that can be easily integrated in your works. The creative process is easy to follow and the result is a vivid, outstanding image.

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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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Create a Stylized Avocado
In this tutorial, we'll explain how to create a cut avocado with simple shapes, blends, and textures. We'll design both the outer skin, yummy light green avocado filling, and the inner core.

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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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Create 3D Vase With 3D Revolve + Map Art
This tutorial shows you how to create a nice 3D vase in 5 minutes with Illustrator CS2 3D Revolve Tool.

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Glassy Orbs
If you think Illustrator has the same look & feel as Photoshop, you couldn't be more wrong. After this tutorial, you'll not only know how to create those nice glass orbs, but you'll also have learned how to create gradients with opacity, which is not a standard feature in Illustrator.

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Cartoon clouds
Light and fluffy clouds are easy to create in Illustrator and I'll show you one way to create them. This tutorial introduces you to a few of the Pathfinder filters and will familiarize you with the Drop Shadow stylize effect in Illustrator 9.

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Create Spirograph
In this tutorial we are going to learn how to create a Spirograph in illustrator.

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How To Create A Realistic Pendrive
In this easy to follow tutorial I´ll show you how to create a realistic pendrive only using shapes and gradients in Adobe Illustrator. Observation to details like lights and shades can make all the diference. Hope you enjoy it!

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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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Create cool character art
In this tutorial you will learn how to create a charmingly appealing character art in Illustrator.

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Create Flash Animations
you can create simple Flash animations without ever leaving the familiar confines of Illustrator, and without any knowledge of Flash. Here are two easy ways to get things moving.

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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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Create an old TDK cassette
In this tutorial I'll show you to create a standard D-C60 TDk cassette in just some minutes.

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Intricate Patterns in Illustrator
Create amazingly detailed patterns in Illustrator. Without this technique it would take you hours to create this effect by hand! Step by step tutorial as well as a video.

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Animated Egyptian Eye
This is an intermediate level tutorial. You will need a drawing program to create the frames and an animation program to assemble them. This tutorial uses CorelDRAW to create the frames, but you could also use Adobe Illustrator, Macromedia FreeHand or Deneba Canvas.

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Create A Briefcase Icon
In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a briefcase icon with rectangles, ellipses, and gradients. This briefcase icon is great for web designs and user interfaces. Moreover, you can easily apply these techniques to other icons, logos, and illustrations.

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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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