How To Skew A Dot Pattern with Adobe Illustrator

Here we have a great video tutorial for Adobe Illustrator explaining how to use the Free Transform, Shear, Skew and Reflect tools to create vector logo types and icons in perspective

Important shortcuts to remember:
*Mac OS
Cmd + Opt + Shift + Drag with the Free Transform Tool = Shear
Cmd + Shif + Drag with Free Transform Tool = Skew

*Windows
Ctrl + Alt + Shift + Drag with the Free Transform Tool = Shear
Ctrl + Shif + Drag with Free Transform Tool = Skew

More about using the "Free Transform Tool" here.

The "Live Color" Feature in Adobe Illustrator CS4

Learn how to use the "Live Color" feature in Adobe Illustrator. Video tutorial by Colin Boyd.

"Adobe Illustrator CS4 Tutorial Video on using Live Color. Learn from an expert from the comfort of your own desk, this Adobe Illustrator Tutorial video uses clearly laid out examples to help you follow along..."

From Sketch To Digital Art. Adobe Illustrator And Photoshop Tutorial

A great comprehensive video tutorial from TutCandy. Click the play button and learn how to convert a sketch into digital artwork using Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator. If you pay attention you may also learn some useful shortcuts.

"In this tutorial we will show you how to go from sketch to vector and maintain that hand-drawn look. We start off cleaning the image in Photoshop, don't freak if you haven't got it, all photo editing software should have very similar functions.
Then take it into illustrator and use the automated live trace tool, which I normally think auto anything does a pretty terrible job but for rough hand-drawn linework it will work just perfectly."

Sketch to vector Illustrator Tutorial from che mcpherson on Vimeo.

What is Typography?

A lesson by from the Vancouver film school. www.multimedia.edu

Typography is the art and technique of arranging type, type design, and modifying type glyphs. Type glyphs are created and modified using a variety of illustration techniques.

The arrangement of type involves the selection of typefaces, point size, line length, leading (line spacing), adjusting the spaces between groups of letters (tracking) and adjusting the space between pairs of letters (kerning). Read more

Vector Art Retrospection (1963)

The video below was discovered by a twitter search query for the key phrase "vector art" "Alan Kay presenting Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad, one of most influencial programs in the history of graphical user interfaces...

Sutherland developed Sketchpad in 1963. This video was extracted taken from a longer one in" Thanks t to zapatoche.

Vector Skyline Adobe Illustrator Tutorial

A video tutorial by Liron Tocker, explaining the stages of creating a vector skyline illustration using Adobe Illustrator. The tutorial is useful for beginner artists to understand the process of tracing graphic elements using the Pen Tool...

3D Vector Logo Tutorial

A logo design video tutorial from Layers Magazine, covering a few gradient techniques and using the "3D extrude and bevel" effect in Adobe Illustrator...

Even though it is considered as a logo design tutorial, the skills shown can be applied many areas of digital illustration. Video Tutorial Link

Vector Flames Tutorial

TUTVID.com is another great source of Video tutorials for digital illustration with Adobe Products. You can visit and subscribe to their Youtube channel here. Click on "continue reading" to access the video.

Below you can have a look at a tutorial for Adobe Illustrator that shows you an useful technique for drawing vector flames.

Serif Christmas

Typographyc animation by Matt Jake. (via meddesign)

From Sketch to Vector Illustration

Episode 10 - Sketch to Vector from videopixil on Vimeo.

Manipulating Images in Adobe Illustrator

Illustrator: Importing Images from Mike Wiggins on Vimeo.

Intro to Gradients in Adobe Illustrator CS3

An eye-opening video that might be helpful for Adobe Illustrator beginners. It explores the use of linear and radial gradient in Adobe Illustrator CS3...

Random Tips: Dragging and dropping around the new panels can get kind of confusing. Make sure you always have your objects properly selected. When you create multiple color gradients save them as swatches, it is a big time saver.
Basic Gradients in Illustrator from Tom on Vimeo.

Creating Fonts with Adobe Illustrator CS3

Here we have a great video tutorial from GoMedia, that explains how you can use Adobe Illustrator for designing your own Typeface.

The video also stresses on using pathfinders to merge your shapes...



Tutorial: Creating fonts in Illustrator and Fontlab - Part 1 from Go Media on Vimeo.

Speed Tracing with Adobe Illustrator

Gradients through text in Adobe Illustrator CS3

Another informative video tutorial for Adobe Illustrator CS3. Here you will learn how to apply linear and radial gradients on type elements using vector clipping masks...



from skratch.hedgehogmedia.co.uk on Vimeo.

Speed Ilustration

Process as Drawing - 12 from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

Gradients in Adobe Illustrator CS4

Adobe Illustrator CS4 adds some functionality to gradients. Watch the video for examples of opacity control and the new gradient annotator.

from Go Media on Vimeo.

Typolution

Animated film with typographical environmental minimalist flavor, punctuated by "Ratatat-Nostrand".

Graphic Design Olivier Beaudoin.

Done in Adobe After Effects. Écodesign 2007 de St-Pétersbourg Via www.kalomnie.ca ...

Masking object with Adobe Illustrator CS4

Adobe CS4 Video Presentation