20 best Illustrator tutorials from 2023

December 4th, 2023
Tutorials

This is an awesome collection of illustrator design tutorials, carefully selected and put together throughout the year 2023. It’s a comprehensive roundup that covers a wide range of tutorials, including text effects and illustrations. It’s the ultimate compilation of tutorials that caters to all skill levels, from beginners looking to master illustrator to experienced experts who have been using illustrator for a long time. Tutorials are a great way to expand your design knowledge and keep improving your design skills. We hope you enjoy and find great value in this carefully curated roundup that we have put together with a lot of care and thought.

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Illustrator tutorials 2023:

1. How to Create an Art Deco Pattern in Illustrator

Have you ever wondered how to make an Art Deco fan pattern in Illustrator? In the following tutorial, you’ll learn how to create an Art Deco fish scale pattern in Illustrator, in a couple of steps. Once you have finished creating the Art Deco geometric pattern, you’ll be able to design your own with ease.

2. How create grass text effect in Illustrator

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use the Warp Tool in Illustrator. The Warp Tool is great for distorting your shapes to fit a particular shape or for creating the illusion of motion and fluidity.

3. How to Easily Make a Cubic Pattern in Illustrator

Patterns are a great resource that designers often use to fill large areas of a design, either on a background or as a texture over any object. But sometimes the simplest pattern seems to be a bit difficult to make. Today, I will show you how easily you can make a cubic pattern in Illustrator in less than 5 minutes and using only the default Illustrator tools.

4. Intuitive drawing with the Curvature tool

Work quickly and intuitively to create and edit paths—making drawing easier without switching between different tools to work quickly and precisely with paths.

5. Illustrator Typography: How to Create Custom Script Type

Usually custom typography pieces would be drawn by hand, but today I’ll share the secret of how you can still create trendy lettering by customising ready-made fonts in Adobe Illustrator. If you are a whizz at illustrating your own script text, the same vector shading techniques can be applied to your artwork once it has been traced to give it more impact with vibrant colours.

6. How to Make a Vintage Movie Title Text Effect in Illustrator

When it comes to creating a compelling movie title effect, many designers may immediately turn to Photoshop as their go-to tool. However, Illustrator can be just as effective, particularly when it comes to achieving a vintage or retro aesthetic. Today, I will show you how easy it is to create a vintage movie title text effect in Illustrator with a very simple technique and just a few default Illustrator tools. With this method you can achieve a stunning result that captures the essence of classic cinema. Follow along and learn how to transform a flat text into a movie title with a touch of nostalgia and charm.

7. How to Create a Hanging Monkey Illustration in Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to draw a hanging monkey in Illustrator. As usual, we’ll use basic shapes, warp effects, and the Pathfinder panel. We’ll also move some anchor points and learn how to use the Line Segment Tool and the Arc Tool.

8. How to create a 3D long text effect

9. How to Create the Guardians of the Galaxy Logo Text Effect

10. Create artwork with the Paintbrush and Pencil tools

11. How to Use the Warp Tool in Illustrator

12. How to Easily Make a Vortex Text Effect in Illustrator

Avortex text effect can be made in less than 5 minutes if you use the right tools and there are many different ways to make it. Today I will show you how you can make a vortex text effect using a very simple technique that uses only the default Illustrator tools so you don’t have to download or install any kind of plugin.

13. Pump up your lettering in 3D with Adobe Illustrator.

Creative director Daniel Escudeiro shares his tips and techniques for achieving a luscious lettering style that’s total eye candy.

14. How to Move Artboards in Illustrator

Artboards are like a blank canvas in Illustrator, giving you the space to create your designs. In this tutorial, you will learn how to move, copy, reorder, and rearrange your artboards in Adobe Illustrator.

15. How to Easily Make an Editable Chiseled Text Effect in Illustrator

As you may already know, there are many diefferent ways to achieve particular effects in Illustrator. But with the latest updates, there is a feature inside Illustrator that is particularly useful to make chiseled text effects – One you can edit even after the effect is made! This can all be done in less than 5 minutes and without the need to draw paths, shapes, or even change the colors for the shadows and highlights. Today, I will show you how quickly you can make a chiseled text effect in Illustrator, keeping your text fully editable using only the new and improved 3D and Materials available in Illustrator.

16. How to create a spirograph effect using illustrator

This is a short video illustrator tutorial where we will be showing you how you can create a stunning spirograph effects using illustrator. This is a great technique where the possibility’s are simply endless the results that can be produced using this technique.

17. How to Quickly Make a Grass Background in Illustrator

As you may already know, there are many different ways to achieve the same end result in almost any design software. And Illustrator is no exception to the rule, because you can use many different methods to make a simple circle or a very complex pattern. Today, I will show you an alternative (and quick) method to make a vector grass background you can use on any of your designs starting with a single circle and using one of the default Illustrator effects.

18. How to Merge Layers in Illustrator

In the following tutorial, you will learn how to merge layers in Illustrator. First, you will learn how to combine layers in Illustrator, and then how to merge all layers in Illustrator.

19. How to Replicate the Neumorphism Style in Illustrator

Neumorphism can be seen as a hybrid style of flat design and skeuomorphism that has been around for a couple of years. Although you don’t see too many works using this style today, it is still an excellent resource that deserves to be taken into account and should be on any designer’s toolbox. This style can be made in a wide range of apps (including Photoshop). It is also a good idea to know how this effect can be replicated in Illustrator and have it in a vector format in case we need to use it on poster or other larger print formats. So today, I will show you how you can replicate the Neumorphism Style in Illustrator in 10 easy to follow steps.