40 Best Illustrator Tutorials from 2009

• December 28th, 2009
• Illustrator

I think if i was asked to a round-up of illustrator tutorials this time last year i think i would of struggled simply because of lack of good illustrator tutorials for designers. This year there has been several new illustrator tutorial blogs appearing out of the wood work each producing high quality tutorials.

This is a compilation of the top 40 best illustrator tutorials created in 2009, a great resource for designers an essential list for experts and even for beginners starting out learning illustrator. I hope you enjoy this post an feel free to leave a comment on which is you favourite illustrator tutorial form 2009.

The Creative Nerds team also run another blog called Design Chair which features the best Photoshop tutorials, illustrator tutorials and resources for designers worth checking out if you have some spare all want to search for a specific design tutorial.

1. Draw a Cute Purse Using Simple Shapes

2. How to Create a Smokin’ Western Type Treatment in Illustrator

3. Illustrator Tutorial: How to Make an Icy Cocktail

4. Create a Bright Retro Grunge Vector Illustration

5. Create a Character Mascot with Adobe Illustrator CS4

6. Rad Pattern in Illustrator that Makes you Dizzy

7. Create a Vintage TV Set Icon in Illustrator

8. how to create cute Hippo Character

9. Create a Fun Icon of Frozen People on Ice

10. Illustrator Tutorial: Sketching a Boat with Graphics Tablet

11. How to Design a Skate Deck with a Cool Skull Pattern

12. Create a Cute Furry Vector Monster in Illustrator

13. How to Create a Golden, Vector Compass in Illustrator

14. How to Make a Vector Diamond Ring in Illustrator

14. Create a Cute Panda Bear Face Icon

15. Illustrator Tutorial: How to Draw a Vector Kiwi

16. Quick Tutorial: Gradient Strokes

17. How to Create a Vector Goldfish in Six Steps

18. How to Create a Rocketing, Vector Aircraft Shuttle

19. Create a Happy Sun Character

20. How to Create a Landscape Wallpaper for your Desktop

21. Geometric Flower Effect Logo in Illustrator

21. how to created a Diamond necklace

22. How to Create Shiny, Vector Dice in Illustrator

23. Create An Awesome Space Rocket Avatar in Illustrator

24. How to Make a White Holiday Scene in Illustrator

25. Draw an angry little samurai in Illustrator

26. Create a Realistic Candy Bar in Illustrator

27. Create an unique twitter bird for your website

28. create a retro type treatment

29. Complex Symbols with Pathfinder

30. Quick tip: Creating Swirly Vectors Using Illustrator

31. How to Create an Hourglass Icon in About an Hour

32. create a a retro television icon

33. Design a Cute Hamster Avatar

34. How to draw an USB Flash Drive

35. Create a Rolling Stones Inspired Tongue Illustration

36. Create an old TDK cassette

37. Illustrator Tutorial: Gradient Mesh Flower

38. How to Turn A Pair Of Glasses into a Great Geek Icon

39. How to Create a Stained Glass Effect in Illustrator

40. Create A Grisly Zombie Illustration With A Pen Tablet