Adobe Illustrator Design Graphic & Illustration

Introduction to Adobe Illustrator

About This Course

Do you want to learn the best tool for design, digital illustration, and prototyping? Perhaps you are a designer moving towards a digital practice? Maybe you are someone who wants to create beautiful artwork? Do you want to be able to create everything from logos to realistic illustrations, to digital paintings? If so, then Introduction to Adobe Illustration is for you.

You’ll start the course immediately by making your first graphic in illustrator. As you work through the course, you’ll work through activities that have you draw complex shapes, add depth to your designs, work with typography, create charts and create your own logo. This is NOT a course where you’ll just watch the instructor– You’re invited to open Illustrator and complete every activity demonstrated.

Learning Objectives

You will learn the difference between a raster file and a vector file and about the different color systems.

You will learn how create a new document and use layers.

You will learn what the basic tools do.

You will learn how to draw and color a simple shape.

You will learn how to add text to a document and style it.

You will learn how to add imported graphics.

You will learn how to create and apply custom patterns and gradients.

You will learn how to create cool custom charts.

You will learn to combine shapes.

You will learn how to save and collect your files for print or web.

Curriculum

80 Lessons

Introduction to Adobe Illustrator

About This Course

Learning Objectives

Curriculum

Saving Files for Different Medias

Saving Files for Different Medias00:00:36

Saving for Print 100:4:2

Saving for Print 200:1:29

Collecting a File00:2:29

Saving as a PDF00:3:27

Saving for Web00:3:45

Getting your Art Online00:9:4

You are Ready to Play00:00:27

Starting Files and Layers

Lets’s Get Tsarted00:00:57

Start a New File00:1:15

A Little About Layers00:4:28

Tools Pallets00:3:28

Saving Files00:00:55

Working with Layers00:3:26

Layers: Check00:00:29

Starting Files and Layers00:1:4

Working with the Shape Tool

Working with the Shape Tool00:00:45

Cursor and Direct Selection Tool00:3:12

The Square Tool00:2:5

Other Shapes00:5:46

Other Shape Part200:5:30

Strokes00:7:22

Strokes00:7:22

Graphics and Basic Shapes00:5:00

Now You Know the Basics00:00:29

Drawing in Illustrator

Drawing in Illustrator00:00:44

The Pen Tool 100:2:53

The Pen Tool 200:2:27

Adding and Deleting Points00:2:17

Changing Points00:2:29

Paint Brush Tool00:4:41

Wrap up Chapter 400:4:52

Adding To / Subtracting From to a Shape

Adding To / Subtracting From to a Shape00:00:38

Part 200:00

Creating Multiples of Single Shape00:5:34

Blending Shapes00:4:10

Creating Separate Shape00:2:20

Blending Shapes00:6:26

Adding Complexity00:00:34

Gradients and Patterns

Gradients and Patterns00:00:38

Creating a Drop Shadow00:5:45

Draft Lesson00:5:5

Using Pattern Fills00:5:2

Resizing a Pattern Fill00:10:38

Resizing a Pattern Fill 200:4:31

Creating a Custom Pattern for Your Shape!00:11:18

Gradients and Patterns Oh My!00:00:30

Creating Style with the Type Tool

Creating Style with the Type Tool00:00:39

The Type Tool00:4:37

The Type Palette00:3:42

Typing Inside Shapes00:4:7

Trying on a Curve00:6:51

Outlining Type00:4:35

Ready, Set Type!00:9:52

Final Thoughts on Type Design00:00:22

Creating Custom Charts in Illustrator

Creating Custom Charts in Illustrator00:00:41

Making a Bar Chart00:5:2

Making a Pie Chart00:5:2

Making a Line Chart00:4:10

Making your Chart into a Customisable Graphic00:5:29

Bring that Chart to Life00:8:18

Exploded Pie Chart00:4:57

Uses for your Custom Chart00:00:40

Working with Photos

Working with Photos00:00:32

Bringing in an Existing Photo00:3:54

Sizing and Cropping00:2:10

Distorting Image00:5:40