Adobe Illustrator for Beginners!

A year ago, i had never used Adobe Illustrator and was a pro on photoshop, since i came to university... my photoshop skills are still good but i have become awesome on Illustrator, i love it!
Here is some of my work that i have done on Adobe Illustrator:

These are just some that i did for fun for my facebook, they are quite sketchy. 

Illustrator is so accurate and easy to draw things in it, once you get the hang of it that is. At first i was like... nu uh! My advice is to persevere with it, it is deffinately one of those if at first you dont succeed try again times...

So i thought as it can be quite difficult sometimes especially to find a good tutorial, i thought maybe i ought to try making one...

This is my first time doing a tutorial so please any criticisms and questions will be great to help me improve and make better tutorials in the future. Ofcourse because im fairly new to illustrator myself i don't know everything! I'm not that much of a pro. But when if and when i do learn something new..  i'll deffinately blog about it.

So okay firstly i'll blog about the basics of Illustrator... the tools. I am using CS5 Adobe Illustrator, so i apologize if my diagrams look different to yours if your using another CS.

Here is an diagram of what i think are the most important illustrator tools and what they do:

These are just a few of the tools that i have explained, i hope they are helpful. I found a good tutorial site for people who want to know more. 

More Illustrator Tutorials

Thanks for reading i hope it helps whoever reads this blog, and if you want me to do a tutorial on anything else please ask. 

Catushka Roze x