3D Effects Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

Twisting Abstract Wallpaper
In this video tutorial we learn how to make a wallpaper featuring a twisting bar of colors in Illustrator.

Give personality to character art
You'll learn how to create the characters from scratch, including the thought processes and sketching help, as well as developing your own ideas. You'll also learn some creative techniques in Illustrator to help give your characters some distinguishing attributes, as well as gaining new confidence with its much-feared Pen tool and the Pathfinder palette to create shapes.

Make Sandwich Vector Using 3D Illustration Techniques
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a 3D sandwich using easy to understand steps and techniques. We will use the 3D Extrude and Revolve Tool with some simple shapes to make a tasty looking BLT sandwich.

Create a Delicious 3D Lollipop in easy steps
In this tutorial I will show you how to illustrate a delicious lollipop using Adobe Illustrators 3D effects.

3D Pixel Text Effect
Here is a beautiful and amazing text effect created using Adobe Illustrator. You'll learn several command while making this effect.

Create a battered, sketchy, 3D text effect
In this tutorial I will show you how to use live effects on text to create a sketchy 3D text effect.

The Making of a Chocolate Bar Character
You'll learn the process of making a fun loving character based on a clear concept.

How to Make an Animated Paper Robot
In this tutorial we'll go through the steps of designing and making an animated paper robot character. Not just a picture, this is a moving character that will sit nicely on top of your computer monitor. Push the robot body up and down and he stretches out his robot claws! We'll start with the lines ready and learn the craft of coloring and then physically putting this paper character together.

How to Create a Shiny Bucket Icon
In this tutorial you will learn how to make a realistic vector bucket icon. You will learn to use the 3D Revolve function, how to add realistic light effects and how to draw different objects to form a composition.

Master dynamic gradient techniques
In this tutorial, you'll learn how to build up many elements to create a vector image with real depth and richness. Zutto explains: "I spend most of the time picking out colours that match each other to form harmonic colour composition. It takes a lot of time, but it's worth the effort."

Draw 3D Dice
Today I have seen the 3d dice tutorial during surfing on net very difficult way, so I have decided to make it easy but look wise quit 3D. let's start to make Dice by the help of the tutorial.

Draw Guitar
I am back here with a new tutorial that is guitar and so interested to teach you my experience during drawing guitar by this example, it has complete steps those are helpful and sure you can also draw guitar by using them so follow now.

Create a Simple Storefront Icon
In this tutorial I will show you how to create a simple storefront icon using some rectangles, Illustrator Effects, and gradients. This icon is great for use in e-commerce sites and the techniques in this tutorial can easily be applied to other icons, illustrations, and logos.

Illusion of transparency - Vector rays
In this tutorial we will create cool rays with gradients without using ANY transparency settings, ideal for .eps files, which do not have a support for gradient-on-gradient transparency.

How to Create a Vector Optical Illusion
In this tutorial we'll learn to create three types of optical illusions. Learn how easy it is to fool our brains. You'll not believe there is no curved lines on the chessboard.

Create and color an eco easter egg
In this tutorial you will learn how to prepare an eco colored egg for easter. Eco for there are no artificial colorants used. I wanted to recreate the look of a traditional polish egg: cooked in onion rinds with wax decors to be scratched off afterwards. In the first part of this tutorial I explain how to create a decor, in the second one how to create a 3D naturaly looking egg.

Create a Stylized First Aid Icon
In this tutorial we'll use a combination of craft and Illustrators 3D tools to create a first aid icon. You can use the techniques you learn in this tutorial to create realistic rounded box icons of your choice. This works well for complex icons at large sizes and scales down nicely .

Applying the 3D Revolve Effect
In this tutorial we'll quickly show you how to apply the awesome 3D revolve effect in Illustrator.

Use Illustrator to Create a Fun, 3D, Character Logo
In this tutorial we'll use illustrators 3D tool to create text with depth. We'll give the letters personality by placing them at angles and choosing a fun font. We'll add a crazy rabbit character and unify all the colors as we add simple shading. Lastly, we'll give this fun logo a sticker effect.

Dot Matrix Effect
Here is a technique for creating dot matrix style images which is helpful for learning about selection tools and the basics in Illustrator.