How to get AI feedback on your designs

Overview

Join Adobe Certified Professional and Adobe MAX Master Award winner Dan Scott on an incredible journey into Adobe Illustrator! This course is tailor-made for anyone new to Illustrator and the world of design. Dan starts from scratch and unravels the secrets and techniques that let you create anything your creative heart desires, from icons, logos, and postcards to beautifully hand-drawn illustrations.

It's a relaxed, well-paced introduction, and Dan's approach is simple: start with shapes. A surprising amount of professional vector work begins as a few basic shapes combined and subtracted with the Shape Builder. Once that clicks, you'll be ready to conquer the Pen, Pencil, and Curvature tools like a pro and dive into the wonderful world of fonts.

Together with Dan, you'll learn how to:
- Master the art of drawing with simple shapes and lines
- Combine and subtract shapes to build custom logos and graphics
- Draw with confidence using the Pen, Pencil, and Curvature tools
- Pair fonts and style type that suits your design
- Choose color combinations with a designer's eye
- Export your creations for print, web, social media, and more

You'll practice on real-world projects from icons and logos to postcards and hand-drawn illustrations, then bring everything together in a complete Farmers' Market brand built from your own mini-brief. You'll gather inspiration with a mood board, design the logo and graphics, and present it all in realistic mockups. Dan also walks through Illustrator's hidden gems, including the mind-blowing Generative AI and AI Assist features. Turn rough sketches into polished vectors with Concept to Vector, generate artwork from a text prompt, get AI feedback before you share your designs, and keep your layers tidy. Dan shows you where these tools save you time, and where they're not worth the effort.

Plus, you'll get a handy printable PDF cheat sheet, forum support from the BYOL Teaching Assistant team, and a treasure trove of additional resources and websites to supercharge your career. Whether you've never even opened Illustrator or you've struggled with it in the past, Dan is here to show you the easy way to create breathtaking artwork and portfolio projects you'll be proud of. Let's go from Illustrator zero to Illustrator hero!

Requirements
- Adobe Illustrator installed (sign up for a free trial here)
- No prior Illustrator, design, or drawing experience required
- Basic computer skills (if you can send an email and browse the web, you're ready)

Who this course is for
- Absolutely no previous Adobe Illustrator experience is required
- This course is designed for newcomers to Illustrator and design in general, so no prior design, drawing, or illustration experience is necessary
- This is a relaxed, well-paced introduction, perfect for producing a wide range of drawings, illustrations, logos, and portfolio projects
- Only basic computer skills are necessary; if you can send emails and surf the internet, you're more than capable of mastering this course!

What you'll learn
- Drawing with shapes and lines
- Combining and subtracting shapes with the Shape Builder tool
- Designing custom logos and vector graphics
- Mastering the Pen, Pencil, and Curvature tools
- Working with brushes, strokes, and the Width tool
- Working confidently with type and fonts
- Curving and warping text
- Picking fonts faster with AI Assist
- Choosing effective color combinations
- Embedding and masking images and graphics
- Removing image backgrounds with one click
- Tracing images and converting hand-drawn artwork into vectors
- Creating stencil-style artwork from real drawings
- Creating overlapping artwork with Intertwine
- Distorting, bending, warping, and liquefying artwork
- Creating simple 3D illustrations
- Viewing 2D artwork from new angles with Turntable
- Designing seamless repeating patterns
- Turning rough sketches into polished vectors with Concept to Vector
- Generating vector artwork from a text prompt with Generate Vector
- Getting AI feedback on your designs before you share them
- Organizing layers automatically with AI Assist
- Gathering inspiration with mood boards
- Building a complete Farmers' Market brand from your own mini-brief
- Presenting your work with realistic mockups
- Exporting artwork for print, web, social media, and clients
- Multiple hands-on class projects you can add straight to your portfolio
- Practical workflows, shortcuts, and techniques used by professional graphic designers