The Top 10 Vector Premium Tutorials of All Time
Vector Premium launched in late September 2008. Since then we’ve added dozens of tutorials for Premium members and hundreds of Illustrator and InDesign source files. Over 6,000 members have formed our unique Premium community.
Vector Premium tutorials have been some of the best on the site, and in this post, we highlight the 10 most popular Vector Premium tutorials of all time, based on traffic, number of downloads, and comments. There may be a few here you’ve never seen before!
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Here are the top 10 Vector Premium tutorials of all time!
1. Producing an Informative Map In Perspective with Illustrator
Ian Yates teaches some wonderful lessons on drawing illustrated maps in perspective. He goes into minute detail on all aspects of creating this very popular map format (I know I have seen them in the streets around the Envato HQ office in Melbourne!)
2. Create a Green Landscape Website in Adobe Illustrator
Illustrated web designs are all the rage at the moment, but none more so than illustrated landscape designs! This tutorial will deconstruct the process of creating a gorgeous illustrated website and add some extremely valuable skills to your web design arsenal.
3. Utilizing Perspective and Depth of Field in Your Character Creations
Brent Nelson teaches an underutilized but extremely effective depth of field effect for your illustrations. This technique will help bring a dull image to crackling life.
4. Design a Custom Lettered Spring Graphic
Jonathan shows you to create funky colorful lettering with a practical use in logo and web design.
5. Creating the “Samurai Werewolf” Poster
Tom Whalen shows you how to recreate an incredible Japanese-style poster from sketch to final vector product. The techniques here are applicable in both poster design and print design.
6. Professional Caricature Illustration Tutorial by Von Glitschka
Von Glitschka shows you how to create a delightful Barack Obama caricature in Illustrator, from rough sketch to final polished and print-ready product.
7. How to Create a Stylish Vector Image from a Photo Reference
Guide Schetters shows you how to illustrate from photo reference, creating a look similar to animations like A Scanner Darkly. Being able to turn a photo into an attractive illustration is a valuable skill for any digital illustrator.
8. How to Create Original Wire Typography
Rodrigo Francisco demonstrates a useful typographic technique for funky logo design. You will learn how to take your typography from rough sketch to a polished final product.
9. Design a Print-Ready Accordion Fold Document in Adobe InDesign
Many Vectortuts+ readers are avid Adobe InDesign users. Here Jonathan shows you the process for creating an attractive and professional-looking brochure in InDesign.
10. The Creation of a Winged Vector Monster
One of our first Vector Premium tutorials remains a classic. This tutorial shows you how to create an 80s style horror illustration reflecting a style that is extremely popular in apparel today. If you are interested in T-shirt design, this tutorial is a must read!
Bonus: Top Vector Premium Brush Pack
These gorgeous floral deco brushes are our most popular vector pack ever.
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Great Tutorial Collection
. Thanks!
Great Stuff!
Loving the map, looks pretty hard though. That landscape is pretty awesome too Ive seen that on design shack (I think) before and wondered how they did it. Thanks for the knowledge!
First comment aswell….now I know I’m a vector geek!
Er… No, you don’t have the first comment…
Unless you’re FrankRose…
Yeah, the map looks cool! Keep up the good work, fellas.. Love the tuts!
I can’t believe it’s not even a year since Vectortuts launched! So many great tutorials.
My favourite is number 1.
Yeah, the map is really cool. I’m glad some of mine made it!
my top 10 would be diffrent
thanks for getting my tut on the list,
pretty honored!
these are far from being a “top 10″.
most of them are just examples of bad illustration.
in the first one the perspective is wrong in some of the houses.
and why do you need a tut to create an accordion document in indesign? (which should be called concertina and not accordion document…).
and do you really need help to trace a photo?
you want to do amazing designs and illustration go and study for a degree.
these are just examples for tuts for unprofessional made by unprofessional.
what a waste! i give it a thumb down on “stumble!” big time!
Wrong.
Several of these tuts are in fact created by professionals, like myself. I have a degree in visual communications and if you follow the site you’d know that the 19,000+ subscriber base seems to like what we’re producing.
Amazing collection. Samurai Werewolf and the Custom Map alone are worth the $9 per month for the membership.
A lot of hard work and many hours went into these tutorials. Don’t listen to anybody who complains about bad illustration, they obviously don’t know what they’re talking about.
Thank you for the tutorials guys.
Wow you never cease to amazme me missy. Ijust got back into town a weekk ago, lets do lunch…
Great tutorials.. I’ll go trough all of these.. Really picky collection, with precise touch..