50 Best Illustrator Design Tutorials From 2010. Adobe Illustrator Tutorials – Best Of - Smashing Magazine. Advertisement Over years Adobe Illustrator has become the standard application when it comes to illustration design. Artists, illustrators and graphic designers use Illustrator to create vector-based graphics which — contrary to raster-based editors such as Adobe Photoshop — can be easily rescaled without the loss of quality. E.g., Illustrator is often used to quickly transform hand-drawn sketches on a sheet of paper into lively and colorful digital images. However, to master Adobe Illustrator isn’t easy; and the creating process of professional illustrations requires both time and patience.
Therefore tutorials can turn out to be real life- and time-savers as they show exactly what needs to be done in order to create professional illustrations and how masters of illustration actually manage to do their magic. One year ago we’ve presented a hand-picked collection of Illustrator tutorials. Please notice that Illustrator Tutorials Skull TutorialAn alien skull tutorial. Sources and Resources. Adobe Illustrator Tutorials. Illustration, from sketch to finish - Part One. This time there is nothing much to explain.
Well, it’s actually hard to explain how you draw bezier curves in Illustrator. I had the urge to do some sketches and I believe I owe it to myself, it’s been too long since I had this kind of fun. So I grabbed my sketchbook and started drawing. Once my sketch was finished, I scanned it as a grayscale image and placed it into Illustrator (CS2). This is a perfect opportunity to show you how to use the Pen tool in Illustrator and how these bezier curves work. If you see it it will make more sense, so here is a movie for you to watch me drawing. Watch the Bezier at Work (ZIP 16MB) Download QuickTime movie In Part Two I'll show you how we fill the illustration with colors. Vector. Real World Illustrator. Adobe Illustrator.