Vectips Best of 2009
Inspiration | December 31st, 2009
Wow, I can’t belive it is almost 2010. This year flew by! I think it has been a great year for vector art and Illustrator tips, tricks, and tutorials. Listed below are some of Vectips favorites. There was many tutorials and articles to pick from so if we missed something, leave a comment letting us know what we missed.
Best Tutorials of 2009
Craft a Delicious Chinese Food Icon
Design a Vintage Nintendo-style Controller and Cartridge
Illustrator Tutorial: Gradient Mesh Flower
How to create a paisley seamless vector pattern
Design a Clean Corporate Website With Illustrator
How to Create a Web Site Mascot
How to Create an Abstract Vector Design in Illustrator
How to Create a Stinking Zombie Flesh-Eater in Illustrator
How to Add Decorative Glamour to Your Ordinary Script Font
How to Create a Gearbox Settings Icon Using Simple Shapes
How To Create A Vector Wacom Tablet In Illustrator
Create a 3D Vector Labyrinth
Best Tips and Tricks of 2009
Tips for Working with the Gradient Mesh Tool In Illustrator
10 Awesome features in illustrator CS4 that increase creativity to MAX!
Lets Get Started : A Guide to Learning Illustrator
Mysteries of the Eraser Tool — Revealed!
A Comprehensive Guide to Illustrator’s Live Trace Tool and More
Mastering Illustrator Effects
20 More Useful Adobe Illustrator Menu Tips
Ten Illustrator power moves you MUST know
Create Flash Animations Entirely in Illustrator
Everything You Ever Want to Know About Creating Seamless Patterns in Illustrator
Best Vector Freebies of 2009
10 Incredible Seamless Destroyed Vectors
iPhone UI Vector Elements
Painting meadow
Official Classic Free Vector Set 1
200+ Free Exclusive Vector Icons: ‘Primo’
Colorful Abstract
90’s Technology Vectors
Free Vector Illustration Set: Tweevil, The Dark Twitter Bird
Best Vector Inspiration and Articles for 2009
Charlene Chua: rendering a spacegirl in Illustrator
Meet Adobe Illustrator 88 (1987) – History lessons
Do’s and Dont’s for Microstock
Photoshop vs. Illustrator: Part 1
20+ Inspirational Vector Flickr Groups, and a Truckload of Awesome Vector Art
I love the illustrator 88 videos, im on the second part now, an i’m hooked… even though its the most simple stuff – i find it mesmerising to see how its changed compared to today.
Nice roundup!
I met some of those tutorials and articles earlier and found them useful, now it’s good to take another look on them and refresh the knowledge that I learned from them! Thanks and keep rockin’ in 2010!
Great tutorials. There are different techniques involved and is essential to see all so you can create your own unique technique. Thanks for this! Keep the good work in 2010 too.
It’s been a fantastic year, Ryan! Thanks for all the ace tutorials, tips and freebies you’ve offered – Vectips has been (and will remain) a great source of information regarding Illustrator!
I love the Painting Meadow.
Good summation of the year’s passed tuts and stuff.
Great list! like the first version of the Illustrator video)
Thanks for including my tutorial for creating a Vector Wacom Tablet. I’m honored that you have included my work in your 2009 Best Of.
Cheers and have a great 2010.
Hot Damn this is a fantastic list!
Thanks for putting out such great Vector info! look forward to more great things in 2010!
wow, truly amazing!
i cant belive i almost left this behind from last year! i got loads to get through here, big learning curve with illustrator.
thanks a bunch!
Brilliant collections.