Abstract Shapes
Abstract shapes can be used on wallpapers, logos, pretty much anything you'd like. Making abstract shapes aren't all that hard either. Here's a few methods for creating some quick and easy abstract shapes!

---

Abstract Shapes
Abstract shapes can be used on wallpapers, logos, pretty much anything you'd like. Making abstract shapes aren't all that hard either. Here's a few methods for creating some quick and easy abstract shapes!.

---

Abstract Shapes
Abstract shapes can be used on wallpapers, logos, pretty much anything you'd like. Making abstract shapes aren't all that hard either. Here's a few methods for creating some quick and easy abstract shapes!

---

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.

---

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.

---

Blending shapes
Learn how to blend shapes.

---

Transforming Shapes
This tutorial was designed to teach you how to modify and transform shapes with ease in Illustrator . If you need help with it, or find it confusing, don't hesitate to e-mail me, the information is at the bottom of the page.

---

Combining Shapes To Make Compound Shapes
A tutorial on combining shapes to make compound shapes.

---

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

---

Draw a funny snowman
In this simple tutorial I will explain the process of drawing a snowman in Illustrator using mostly basic shapes and pen tool.

---

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.

---

Creating Twisted Star Shapes
In this lesson learn to create twisted star shapes.

---

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.

---

Divide with/without The knife
The divide action is way useful and helpful, you can create great forms from simple shapes with the help of it . There is two ways to get this done. #One by using the knife tool #The other is using the path finder option

---

Creating a swoosh by using the Trim in Adobe Illustrator
A very simple tutorial, but for alot of beginners the pathfinder palette can be quite unknown and is a such an important tool in creating shapes in Illustrator, so if you are an intermediate to advanced user of this application, you will problably want to just pass this one over.

---

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.

---

Creating a Cylinder
You can create three-dimensional effects in Adobe Illustrator using a few simple shapes. Scale a one-dimensional object and then add a bottom, sides, and shading to give it a three-dimensional look. The Illustrator Smart Guides and Pathfinder palette help you draw the object accurately.

---

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 .

---

How to Create an Electronic Piano
In this tutorial, I'll show you how to make your own realistic, electronic piano in Illustrator. We'll create quite a few shapes and apply various gradients and blends to make this vector instrument. Even though it's a bit of work to put all this together, the techniques used in this tutorial are fairly simple. Set aside a couple hours for this one!

---

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.

---

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

---

Better Titles
One of the coolest aspects of Illustrators Text tool is its flexibility once the text is outlined. You can then edit the text just like any other Illustrator path, moving the letters around and even the lines and shapes around .

---

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.

---

Draw an angry little samurai
I'll show you how to draw a samurai in Illustrator using shapes.

---

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.

---

How to create a funny insurance agent
In this tutorial I'll teach you how to draw a funny insurance agent using just basic shapes and pen tool. Intermediate knowledge of Adobe Illustrator is advised.

---

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!

---

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!

---

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.

---

CS4 Quicktip: Pathfinder
While the Pathfinder functions themselves have not changed inside of Illustrator CS4 what has changed is their default behavior and this might cause some confusion. In previous versions of Illustrator you could select two shapes and click a Pathfinder button to create a compound shape

---

Smoothly Shift Winter Colors
Handle color changes and variations with ease by following this intermediate level tutorial. This is a special tutorial sponsored by Astute Graphics that incorporates the use of their high-quality Phantasm CS range Illustrator Pugins. We'll work with Phantasm's color shifting tools: Hue/Saturation and and Shift to Color, while we learn to contrast shapes when composing natural, vector scenes!61

---

Tansition between two objects
If you're looking for a way to create a smooth transition between objects, try blending the objects in Adobe Illustrator. You select starting and ending objects, and Illustrator adds a series of intermediate shapes and colors between them, distributed evenly along a path. Then you can edit the blend path using standard Illustrator editing tools. Follow along with this quick tip to learn how to blend two objects, and to curve the path created by the blend.

---

Manipulating Guides in Illustrator CS
If you use Illustrator regularly, no doubt one of your first steps when working on a new document is to set up your guides. The process, though, can take some time, especially if you like to create a grid made up of guides or want your guides perfectly centered.

---

Text Tool Tips
So you are a keyboard shortcut junkie, working on a design. You need to add text. You select the Text tool in Photoshop, Illustrator or InDesign and add your text.

---

A simple way to wrap an object in Illustrator
This tutorial will show you how to wrap an object around another object using Adobe Illustrator. It is very simple and it looks really cool.

---

Create an Eco friendly logo
It is pretty simple, in seven step you can create your own simple but eye catching eco friendly logo.

---

Company Rounded Logo Design
Make a simple logo using Abobe Illustrator 10.

---

Company Rounded Logo Design
Make a simple logo using Abobe Illustrator 10.

---

Stylish Face
Learn how to draw a face with simple brush stokes.

---

Easy 3d Text
This is a simple tutorial. Here you will learn how to utilize illustrators 3d effect filter to produce some nice 3-dimentional text.

---