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Course contents

SECTION: 1

Getting Started 21:21

1. Intro to the Illustrator Essentials Course FREE

2:31

2. Getting Started FREE

1:46

3. How to earn your certificate FREE

2:28

4. What is Illustrator used for & when to use Photoshop vs InDesign FREE

3:40

5. A quick tour around Illustrator FREE

10:56

SECTION: 2

Drawing 1:52:44

1. How to draw rounded rectangles, triangles & tracing images in Illustrator FREE

14:46

2. Quiz question 1

3. How to draw lines, arcs & stars in Illustrator

16:50

4. Quiz question 2

5. Scaling Stroke & Effects & Corners

6:37

6. Quiz question 3

7. Saving to the Creative Cloud versus locally on my desktop

6:51

8. Exporting your images 101

3:27

9. Quiz question 4

10. Class Project 01 - Your First Creature

8:26

11. How to draw using the Shape Builder tool in Adobe Illustrator CC

9:42

12. Quiz question 5

13. Class Project 02 - Icons Using the Shape Builder

2:18

14. Completed - Class Project 02 - Icons Using the Shape Builder

18:49

15. How to use layers in Illustrator

11:07

16. Align distribute rotation & math in fields - Impossible Triangle

12:44

17. Quiz question 6

18. Quiz question 7

19. Class Project 03 - Impossible Triangle

1:07

SECTION: 3

Artificial Intelligence 8:18

1. How to use Text to Vector in Illustrator

6:52

2. Class Project 03b - Ai Creature

1:26

SECTION: 4

Pen & Curvature Tool 2:01:42

1. How to draw anything using the Curvature Tool in Adobe Illustrator

13:55

2. Quiz question 8

3. Mixture of curves and straight lines using the Curvature tool

7:41

4. Quiz question 9

5. Class Project 04 - Curvature Tool

3:21

6. Combining shapes curvature & shape builder tools into Fox shadows

10:04

7. How to draw using the Pen Tool in Adobe Illustrator CC

15:55

8. Quiz question 10

9. Class Project 05 - The Dreaded Pen Tool

1:18

10. Dan tidying up students work

12:59

11. Class project 06 - Pen Tool Redemption

1:46

12. Awake Fox Combining Tools & Skill Stacking

18:34

13. Quiz question 11

14. Class Project 07 - Skill Stacking Practice

3:56

15. AI Generative Recolor FREE

6:51

16. Quiz question 12

17. How to make a Mood Board in Illustrator

4:39

18. Class Project 08 - Make your Mood Board

19. Class Project 09 - Your New Creature

4:39

20. T-Shirt Making

15:25

SECTION: 5

Stroke, Pencil & Brushes 1:26:12

1. Drawing with the Pencil Tool in Adobe Illustrator CC

6:13

2. Quiz question 13

3. Class Project 10 - Pencil Tool Drawing

2:11

4. Adjust your stroke corners profile and mitres

9:14

5. Quiz question 14

6. How to make an arrow in Illustrator

5:44

7. Quiz question 15

8. How to Make a Dotted or Dashed Line in Illustrator

4:00

9. Quiz question 16

10. How to use Brushes in Adobe Illustrator CC

15:40

11. Quiz question 17

12. Class Project 11 - Brush Doodles

1:40

13. How to Simplify paths in Illustrator

7:16

14. How to draw lines with the Width Tool in Adobe Illustrator

9:17

15. Quiz question 18

16. Class Project 12 - Width Tool

1:32

17. How to Join two lines together in Illustrator

8:01

18. Quiz question 19

19. How to use Intertwine in Illustrator

5:27

20. Class Project 13 - Intertwine

3:05

21. How to Expand Appearance in Illustrator

6:52

22. Quiz question 20

SECTION: 6

Type & Fonts 1:26:26

1. How to create a postcard document in Illustrator

4:24

2. How to add type in Illustrator us Area vs Point text

6:00

3. How to pick fonts in Illustrator

5:59

4. Quiz question 21

5. How to use Adobe Fonts in Illustrator

10:21

6. How to make Adobe Font Pairing

2:36

7. Class Project 14 - Postcard Fonts

3:11

8. How to find & use Glyphs in Illustrator

5:51

9. Class Project 15 - Logo Type

3:14

10. How to curve text in Illustrator

11:54

11. How to put type around a circle badge using Illustrator

13:18

12. Quiz question 22

13. Class Project 16 - Type on a Path

1:20

14. How to break apart & outline text in Illustrator

5:31

15. Adjusting an existing drawing using the pencil tool

4:50

16. Quiz question 23

17. Class Project 17 - Heavy Metal Band Logo

1:18

18. How to Intertwine text monogram in Illustrator

4:14

19. Class Project 18 - Monogram

2:25

SECTION: 7

Color 54:18

1. What is RGB & CMYK & HSB & HEX colors in Illustrator

9:17

2. Quiz question 24

3. How to steal colors from an image using Eyedropper in Illustrator

4:17

4. Creating a reusable color swatch in Illustrator

3:43

5. Quiz question 25

6. Transparency & Opacity and darkening images in Illustrator

2:36

7. How to use CC Libraries in Adobe Illustrator CC

7:43

8. Quiz question 26

9. How to find amazing colors in Illustrator using Adobe Color

7:16

10. Class Project 19 - Color Variants

2:38

11. How to use AI Generative Recolor in Illustrator

4:53

12. Class Project 20 - Generative Recolor

1:25

13. How to make Gradients in Illustrator

10:30

14. Quiz question 27

SECTION: 8

Images & Masking 33:02

1. Missing images and relinking and embedding

3:30

2. Quiz question 28

3. How to crop an image in Adobe Illustrator

4:37

4. Quiz question 29

5. Class Project 21 - Postcard Finish

1:58

6. How to cut holes in shapes using Compound Shapes in Illustrator

6:15

7. Quiz question 30

8. How to separate Compound & Masked shapes in Illustrator

7:26

9. How to make a Paper cut effect in Illustrator

8:18

10. Class Project 22 - Papercut Effect

SECTION: 9

Artboards 11:18

1. Using artboards in Illustrator to make double sized business cards

5:00

2. Quiz question 31

3. Class Project 23 - Business Card

6:18

SECTION: 10

Effects 55:43

1. How to use Liquify, Distort, Wrinkle, Bloat & pucker in Illustrator

6:42

2. Class Project 24 - Liquify Type

1:48

3. Quiz question 32

4. Sliced text effect in Illustrator

3:32

5. Class Project 25 - Sliced Text

1:13

6. How to Bend & Warp shapes in Adobe Illustrator

5:38

7. How to Bend & Warp type in Illustrator

1:49

8. Class Project 26 - Established Flag Warp

1:38

9. Completed - Class Project 26 - Established Flag Warp

13:11

10. How to convert a sketch into vector and color it in illustrator

5:03

11. Quiz question 33

12. How to vectorize an image in illustrator

6:10

13. Quiz question 34

14. How to convert photo into a stencil Silhouette in Illustrator

4:23

15. How to make a Anaglyph effect in Illustrator

2:23

16. Class Project 27 - Live Trace

2:13

SECTION: 11

Patterns 19:11

1. Drawing amazing flower with repeating shapes in Illustrator

4:23

2. Class Project 28 - Repeating Pattern

1:10

3. How to make repeating patterns with Geometric Marquetry in Illustrator

11:46

4. Quiz question 35

5. Class Project 29 - Pattern Making

1:52

SECTION: 12

3D 34:34

1. How to make 3D Type extruded type in Illustrator

12:00

2. Quiz question 36

3. Class Project 30 - Black Friday Sale

1:21

4. How to use Inflate to make cool 3D in Illustrator

11:21

5. Class Project 31 - Inflate

1:28

6. How to realistically Mockup your design in Illustrator

7:52

7. Class Project 32 - Mockup

SECTION: 13

Exporting 45:35

1. How to Share for Review your Illustrator designs

4:05

2. Quiz question 37

3. How to embed images in illustrator

2:56

4. Quiz question 38

5. Understanding all the ways to export files from Illustrator

13:57

6. WebP vs SVG vs PNG vs JPG vs PDF vs AI vs EPS vs Tiff in Illustrator

10:43

7. Quiz question 39

8. Class Project 33 - Spoonflower

13:54

SECTION: 14

Shortcuts 9:06

1. The best shortcuts in Adobe Illustrator

9:06

SECTION: 15

What Next 13:51

1. Distinction Certificate Project

6:35

2. How to request your certificate FREE

3. What Next

6:17