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Introduction To Adobe Illustrator CC for beginners
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Overview
- You will need a copy of Adobe Illustrator 2018 or above. A free trial of the software can be downloaded from Adobe.com.
- 39 lectures 5+ hours of well structured content.
- Drawing with Shapes & Lines
- Drawing with the Shape Builder
- Creating a custom logo
- Working with Brushes
- Drawing with the pen, pencil & curvature tool
- Learn how to work with type & fonts.
- How to mask images & graphics.
- How to distort, bend, warp & liquefy illustrations.
- How to make your own repeating wallpaper patterns.
- How to create stencil style images from real drawings.
- How to use free Illustrator templates.
- How to save, print & export for Print, web & social media.
- Lots of real world exercises for you to practice.
- Loads or class projects for you to complete.
- Printable PDF Cheat sheet.
- You will get the finished files so you never fall behind.
- Downloadable exercise files.
- Forum support from me.
- Techniques used by professional graphic designers.
- Professional workflows and shortcuts.
- A wealth of other resources and websites to help your accelerate your career.
- No previous Adobe Illustrator experience is necessary.
- This course is for people completely new to Illustrator. No previous design, drawing or illustration experience is necessary.
- This is a relaxed, well paced introduction that will enable you to produce a large range of drawing, illustration & logo work. Only basic computing skills are necessary - If you can send emails and surf the internet then you will cope well with this course.
Course duration 8 hours + your study.
Daniel Scott
Founder of Bring Your Own Laptop & Chief Instructor
instructorI discovered the world of design as an art student when I stumbled upon a lab full of green & blue iMac G3’s. My initial curiosity around using the computer to create ‘art’ developed into a full-blown passion, eventually leading me to become a digital designer and founder of Bring Your Own Laptop.
Sharing and teaching are a huge part of who I am. As a certified Adobe instructor, I've had the honor of winning multiple Adobe teaching awards at their annual MAX conference. I see Bring Your Own Laptop as the supportive community I wished for when I was first starting out and intimidated by design. Through teaching, I hope to bring others along for the ride and empower my students to bring their stories, labors of love, and art into the world.
True to my Kiwi roots, I've lived in many places, and currently, I reside in Ireland with my wife and kids.
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Hi there, my name is Dan. I'm an Adobe Certified Instructor, and an Adobe Certified Expert in Adobe Illustrator.
Now together, me and you, are going to go through this course, and make beautiful art work together, using Illustrator.
During this course, you won't just learn how to use this tool, we'll work through real world practical projects. Now this course is aimed at people completely new to Illustrator and maybe to Design, in general. We're going to start absolutely right at the beginning and work our way through step by step.
We'll start with the techniques that you'll need to create just about anything in Illustrator. We'll customize shapes, use the wonderful Shape Builder tool and the simple to use Curvature tool. We'll form lines, and brushes, plus your soon to be favorite, Width tool.
You'll master how to use and manipulate Types. I'll show you all the sneaky secrets that Illustrator has, to discover and use beautiful colors, like a seasoned designer. You'll learn how to push, pull, cut, and repeat, just like this.
There's even a section in here where we'll hone our skills by practicing, redrawing these real world brands. We won't forget the essentials like proper saving, and exporting, plus so much more.
So if you've never opened up Illustrator before, or you've opened it, and you've struggled a little bit, follow me, I'll show you how to make beautiful art work together, in Illustrator.
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