tutorial fun: 3d glossy type

I like tutorials like these because there is always something you can take from them. [link] on tutsplus.

good illustrator techniques

Create a vintage label via Abduzeedo

camo patterns x 4

Illustrator and photoshop camouflage patterns, including: woodland, desert, urban and digital.  Free and on the Spoon

free labels + make a book

Fun and simple "labels" on Poppytalk & HowTo: Turn your paperbacks in to hard covers on ohdeedoh. via lifehacker

watercolor walkthrough Ai

Make watercolor and marker style portraits with illustrator on DesignInstruct

illustator swatches

Customize your default swatches in Illustrator via Colorburned

If you are not doing this, you are not saving time.

Illustrator text tutorials

40 Adobe Illustrator text effect tutorials on Noupe

vector plaid patterns

20 seamless plaid patterns for illustrator on Colorburned

vector guitar tuner / gold!!!

Gold vector guitar tuner on Vecteezy via wgsteele.

I really haven't a need for a guitar tuner, but it is quite amazing. I do like to experiment with "faux gold" elements and this file gives you a ton of swaches and gradients to play with.

Use the swatch palette options (the little arrow in the top right) to "select all unused" and trash those, then "add used colors". This gives you a cleaner look at only the colors you need.  I saved that swatch library as "Gold" :)

Custom text distresser/eroder/spatter additive

Apply, text splatter font from YouWorkForThem.  How nifty! (I straight up used their image, cause it's perfect)

40 icon tuts...

40 tutorials for creating highly detailed icon designs - On BlogSpoon

Another great pattern from Pattern Head.

30 text effect illustrator tutorials on Vandelay Design

on Vectortuts

Wow, how wonder full are these? The answer is very. Download them Here on Vecteezy from PerfectDecember

"Retro Geometric shapes; Vector-to-Photoshop Tutorial" on Abduzeedo.

Floral vector seamless (almost) pattern. This one has a few stragglers that need to be deleted before it's seamless.
By sergeypoluse on deviantArt. Via VectorArtBlog

If there is 1 thing I know, it's how to "Prepare artwork for shirt printing" and
this list sound advice for anyone submitting shirt designs. The printers will thank you

On JustCreativeDesign

On Vector Art Blog, that ribbon was also one of the brushes,

It could (and did) come in handy

I don't ever need to make bar graphs... Ever! But if I did, they'd look like this

on Vectortuts