Illustrator Creative Challenges. July 2025

Below you’ll find a collection of all of the Illustrator Creative Challenges on Adobe Live from July 2025. The starter files, videos, and final art are included, if you want to create along with me!

Building Brushes

Skills Challenge; Create a set of brushes! We’ll go over pattern brushes, scatter brushes, and art brushes, and use them in a dog party design.

Adobe Illustrator Challenge 1, brushes. Invitation mock-up top left. Brush elements bottom right, confetti, triangle bunting, and corgi brushes. Right side card design, off-white background, multi-colored bunting at the top, and multi colored confetti falling. "sit, stay play, it's Al's birthday," placeholder copy. Corgi dog, brown, looping around design to frame text.

How to Build Reusable Symbols

Skills Challenge; Build a reusable set of nature icons, save them to a library for future use, and create symbols to easily edit and update all of the instances in your design, and paint with them using the symbol sprayer.

Adobe Illustrator Challenge 2, map. Stylized map using earth tones, yellow roads, brown cabins, teal lake, multicolored tents, and green trees.

Graphic Styles and Patterns

Skills Challenge; Create Memphis-style designs using simple graphic styles and patterns that you can apply to different shapes and editable text to create a cohesive look that can be easily changed.

Adobe Illustrator Challenge 3, Memphis style pattern design. Left, pattern, dark purple background, pink curved lines, white and teal triangles, pink hatched line rectangles, teal and green circles, teal lines. Right, pattern mock-up on a tote bag.