Adobe Illustrator - Beginner to Guru - 2021
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Learn to Create Beautiful Graphics on this Comprehensive Adobe Illustrator Course
This is a comprehensive Adobe Illustrator on the Desktop course, with over 12 hours of lessons and projects. It starts from scratch for complete beginners, through to advanced techniques. Even if you are already an occasional Illustrator user, you will still find numerous techniques to speed up your workflow.
Using the CC 2020 and CC 2021 versions, I show you the techniques and concepts within the software. You do not have to be able to draw to be able to create beautiful graphics on this Adobe Illustrator course.
I will demonstrate a number of techniques for you to try and then give you exciting real life example projects to carry out so you can easily put these into practice for your own artwork, graphic design work and marketing materials. Whether you want to get paid for your Illustrator skills, or you’re doing this for fun / self-improvement, this course and the projects will help you build confidence to be able to work effectively and creatively.
Here’s a précis of what you will learn!
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Understand the Adobe Illustrator workspace and tools
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Create and edit amazing graphics
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Create beautiful typography
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Create infographics
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Create your own patterns and symbols
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Learn how to create and apply special effects and styles
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Create custom brushes to enhance your artwork
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Understand color
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Create logos and icons
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Understand the Live tools
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Learn how to use Perspective tools
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Work with 3D shapes
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Make sense of Masks and Layers
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Export for web or print
Written and presented by Tim Wilson who is an Adobe Certified Expert and Adobe Certified Instructor as well as a university lecturer for honours degree design courses in the UK. He has over 20 years of experience in training and is also a prolific designer and illustrator.
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Intro to Creating Simple Shapes -
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Basic shapes / Fill & Stroke / Selection tool / Outline Mode
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Ellipse / Polygon / Lines / Stars
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Direct Selection tool / points / corner widgets
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Introducing Handles on Points
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Pathfinder
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Shapebuilder tool
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Project 1: Make an apple logo
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Project 2: Make a whale logo
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Intro to Creating Complex Shapes
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Pen tool introduction and basic lines and curves
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Click and drag to make curves
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Click last point to create custom shape, draw fish
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Breaking the handles for full control of curves
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Use alt techniques to create a simple drawing
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Add another point and outline mode
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Delete anchor point
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Pencil tool and redrawing shapes
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Smoothing tool and Erase tool
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Curvature tool
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Eraser tool, Scissor tool and Knife tool
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Join Points, Average Point, Join tool
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Blob brush, Paint brush
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Simplify paths and smoothing
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Project: Poster, Part 1 - Poster for Festival
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Project: Poster, Part 2 – draw in details with pen. Cut in half
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Project: Poster, Part 3
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Intro to T-shirt and Logo and Surprise Infographic Dial - Repetition
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Transform again – inc rotate copies, scale copies
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Transform again - move registration point
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Transform again and clipping mask
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Align Objects
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Scale, Rotate, Shear and Mirror
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Project 1: T-shirt Logo, Part 1 – Create Logo
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Project 1: T-shirt Logo, Part 2 – Create Logo
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Project: T-shirt Logo, Part 3 - Create Logo and Add Logos
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Project 2: Infographic, Part 1 – Create basic shape
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Project 2: Infographic, Part 2 – Add color and detail
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Project 2: Infographic, Part 3 - Add Text Detail
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Project 2: Infographic, Part 4 – Save for Social Media
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Intro to Arranging Artwork and Precision Working
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Arranging artwork bring to front
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Cut and paste in front of or behind and in place.
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Group / Ungroup and double click to get isolation mode
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Nested groups and isolation mode
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Layer introduction – Lock, make new layers and move
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Layers in use to select objects
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Artboards – make artwork variations by copying artboards
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Artboards – using the Artboards panel
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Libraries – introduction to work with libraries
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Project: Map, Part 1 – Create doc and place image
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Project: Map, Part 2 - Draw roads with Pen or Pencil tools
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Project: Map, Part 3 – draw rivers with Pencil tool
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Project: Map, Part 4 – draw parks with pencil. Use Arrange to restack objects
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Project: Map, Part 5 - Create background, add layers and text
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Project: Map, Part 6 – Clean up objects, and Save
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Project: Map, Part 7 – Add colors by importing swatch and clipping mask
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Project: Map, Part 8 – Make trees
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Project: Map, Part 9 – Make 3D building
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Project: Map, Part 10 – Export
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Intro to Masking
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Clipping Masks - Make & Release
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Clipping Masks - Adjust Contents
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Clipping Masks - with a Photo and Edit
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Opacity Mask - Basics
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Opacity Mask - with Varying Shades of Grey and Effects
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Project: Instagram Post, V1 - Blend Photos with Opacity Mask Gradient
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Project: Instagram Post, V2 - Variation of Last Project
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Project: Instagram Post - Export as JPG / PNG
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Color Intro
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RGB & CMYK - What are They?
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Color Swatch 1 - Create Your Own Color Sets
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Color Swatch 2 - Make Your Own Colors
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Spot Colors
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Global Colors - How and Why You Need Them
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Saving Swatches - Use Them in Other Docs
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Color Guide - Helping You Choose Color Sets and Harmonies
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Recolor Artwork - Copy Trimmed Artwork and Make Color Variations
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Recolor Artwork - Use a Photograph to Recolor Your Artwork
