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It’s one thing to create an illustration in Illustrator, but these tutorials take you one step further and teach you a variety of ways to create 3D vectors for all kinds of cool uses.
50 Excellent 3D Adobe Illustrator Tutorials – Smashing Magazine.

Another great list of Illustrator Tutorials.  Some of these require Photoshop and/or other tools as well.  Fun!
Vector Illustration: 60 Illustrator Tutorials, Tips and Best Practices – Noupe.

It’s really amazing how real things can be made to look in Illustrator.  Check out the tut for working with the gradient mesh tool – that shoe is unreal.
For those of you that follow me on Twitter, you’ll probably recognize the tut I used to create my avatar.
22 Very Useful Adobe Illustrator Tutorials | Tutorials.

You should know that there are some repeats among these lists, but even so, they are still worth checking out.
Emma Alvarez Blog: 65 Adobe Illustrator Tutorials.

One of the reasons that I am newly addicted to Illustrator is because it’s truly mind bottling what can be done with it, what people are doing with it, and frankly, regardless of the number of tools and options it has, how easy it really is.  I’m not saying I’ve created anything great yet, but [...]

Illustrator is my addiction.  I’m just learning it, and am by no means an expert at it or any design tool (heck I’m a sculptor -but falling in love with graphic design). I really love these types of posts, because it gives me a lot of choices on what to learn on my own time.
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