The Best Illustrator tutorials for Creating Detailed Portrait Illustrations

The Best Illustrator tutorials for Creating Detailed Portrait Illustrations



Make Watercolour style portraits



With
this tutorial, youare going to work through ways of creating digital
portrait illustrations that have a unique and somewhat tactile feel of
marker and watercolor. This tutorial will focus on using a drawing
tablet and Adobe Illustrator. There will be a focus on technique and
technical settings, but the overall product will rely on your own
personal style and taste.
Modeling the Human Face in Illustrator


With
a simple and direct methods described in this tutorial, you can create a
female portrait easily. This process will have you creating
anatomically correct human faces in no time.
Vector Tutorial for Illustrator



A great tutorial for creating an illustration portrait of David tenant.
How to Create a Mosaic Portrait from a Photograph



This
is a fun way to turn a photograph into an interesting vector portrait.
Get sophisticated results with just a few easy steps, then modify it
using a wide range of Illustrator’s live effects.
How to Create a Glamorous Portrait Using Adobe Illustrator


The final result will be 100% vector;
therefore will retain its scalable properties. This walk through is
ideal for those an intermediate to advanced knowledge of Illustrator.
Illustrator CS5 was used for the tutorial although you can do the
majority of the elements in the majority of vector programs. A Wacom
Bamboo A5 tablet was also used, however you can achieve the same results
with a mouse.
Creating a Portrait Using Only Four Colors!


This portrait tutorial uses professional techniques that will allow you to create stunning illustrations.
How To Create a Beautiful Vector Portrait in Illustrator



Follow
this step by step tutorial for the making of my first vector art
portrait of Tron Legacy’s Quorra. Learn how the portrait is carefully
traced and vectorized in Adobe Illustrator to create an interesting
vexel style design
Create an Inspirational Vector Political Poster


This tutorial is inspired by Sheppard Fairey’s famous political poster series
for the Obama campaign in the US. We’ll be showing you how to create
this style of design. We’ll start with basic image editing techniques in
Photoshop to get our guide layers setup, and then we’ll jump into
Illustrator. You don’t need any fancy equipment to do this. I used an
older mouse that still has the rubber ball.
Create a Sparkly Female Portrait in Illustrator


In
this step-by-step tutorial you will learn how to create a sparkly
female portrait through playing with transparency and overlapping vector
shapes. In this tutorial you’ll also learn to experiment with colors
and just letting go of your creativity.