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Adobe Illustrator CC - Essentials Training Course by Udemy
Learn Adobe Illustrator CC graphic design, logo design, and more with this in-depth, practical, easy-to-follow course!
Course Highlights
- You will be able to add Illustrator to your CV
- You will be able to start earning money from your Illustrator Skills.
- You will have over 30 of your own projects to add to your portfolio.
- Feel comfortable using Adobe Illustrator to design your own graphics from scratch.
- Navigate Adobe Illustrator CC like a pro.
- Design your own graphics, without any experience.
- Draw beginner to advanced shapes and icons.
- Learn all of the key skills of Illustrator: shapes, text, masking, effects, and exporting.
- Master advanced Illustrator tools and techniques.
- Export your projects for print, web, or other design projects.
- Make your ideas come to life.
- Create your own logos.
- Draw existing famous logos.
- Illustrate animals.
- Draw with paint brushes.
- Draw with pens & pencils.
- Create custom typography.
- Take hand drawings and recreate them using Illustrator.
- Create a logo badge with text that wraps around.
- Create type that follows a curving line.
- Put images inside of text for cool effects.
- Create beautiful gradients and apply them to icons, text & illustrations.
- Find the secrets to choosing color combinations for your work.
- Create a paper cut effect.
- Pull, push & cut text to make interesting styles.
- Repeat patterns to create vector flowers.
- You will redraw yourself as an illustration.
- Create many different icons styles.
- Build a repeating pattern to be used as wallpaper or fabric designs.
- Find many templates for posters, stationery & UI designs to save you time.
- You'll build create assets like colors, patterns & drawings using the Illustrator mobile app.
Skills you will learn!
Curriculum
4 Topics
Intro to the Illustrator Essentials Course
Getting Started
What is Illustrator used for & when to use Photoshop vs InDesign
A quick tour around Illustrator
15 Topics
How to draw rounded rectangles triangles & tracing images in Illustrator
How to draw lines arcs & stars in Illustrator
Scaling Stroke & Effects & Corners
Saving to the Creative Cloud versus locally on my desktop
Exporting your images 101
Class Project 01 - Your First Creature
Class project 01 - Brief & Creature
How to draw using the Shape Builder tool in Adobe Illustrator CC
Class Project 02 - Icons Using the Shape Builder
Completed - Class Project 02 - Icons Using the Shape Builder
Class project 02 - Icons Using the Shape Builder
How to use layers in Illustrator
Align distribute rotation & math in fields - Impossible Triangle
Class project 03 - Impossible Triangle
Class project 03 - Impossible Triangle
21 Topics
How to draw anything using the Curvature Tool in Adobe Illustrator
Mixture of curves and straight lines using the Curvature tool
Class project 04 - Curvature Tool
Class project 04 - Curvature Tool
Combining shapes curvature & shape builder tools into Fox shadows
How to draw using the Pen Tool in Adobe Illustrator CC
Class project 05 - The Dreaded Pen Tool
Class project 05 - The Dreaded Pen Tool
Dan tidying up students work
Class project 06 - Pen Tool Redemption
Class project 06 - Pen Tool Redemption
Awake Fox Combining Tools & Skill Stacking
Class Project 07 - Skill Stacking Practice
Class project 07 - Skill Stacking Practice
AI Generative Recolor
How to make a Mood Board in Illustrator
Class Project 08 - Make your mood board
Class Project 08 - Make your mood board
Class Project 09 - Your New Creature
Class project 09 - Your Amazing Creature
T-Shirt Making
18 Topics
Drawing with the Pencil Tool in Adobe Illustrator CC
Class project 10 - Pencil Tool Drawing
Class project 10 - Pencil Tool Drawing
Adjust your stroke corners profile and mitres
How to make an arrow in Illustrator
How to Make a Dotted or Dashed in Illustrator
How to use Brushes in Adobe Illustrator CC
Class project 11 - Brush Doodles
Class project 11 - Brush Doodles
How to Simplify paths in Illustrator
How to draw lines with the Width Tool in Adobe Illustrator
Class Project 12 - Width Tool
Class project 12 - Width Tool
How to Join two lines together in Illustrator
How to use Intertwine in Illustrator
Class project 13 - Intertwine
Class project 13 - Intertwine
How to Expand Appearance in Illustrator
21 Topics
How to create a postcard document in Illustrator
How to add type in Illustrator us Area vs Point text
How to pick fonts in Illustrator
How to use Adobe Fonts in Illustrator
How to make Adobe Font Pairing
Class Project 14 - Postcard Fonts
Class Project 14 - Postcard Fonts
How to find & use Glyphs in Illustrator
Class Project 15 - Logo Type
Class Project 15 - LogoType
How to curve text in Illustrator
How to put type around a circle badge using Illustrator
Class Project 16 - Type on a Path
Class Project 16 - Type on a Path
How to break apart & outline text in Illustrator
Adjusting an existing drawing using the pencil tool
Class Project 17 - Heavy Metal Band Logo
Class Project 17 - Heavy Metal Band Logo
How to Intertwine text monogram in Illustrator
Class Project 18 - Monogram
Class Project 18 - Monogram
16 Topics
Draw Your Own Animal with Shapes & Lines
What is RGB & CMYK & HSB & HEX colors in Illustrator
How to steal colors from an image using Eyedropper in Illustrator
Creating a reusable color swatch in Illustrator
Design a Modern Swan with the Shape Builder Tool
Transparency & Opacity and darkening images in Illustrator
How to use CC Libraries in Adobe Illustrator CC
Color in the Impossible Triangle
How to find amazing colors in Illustrator using Adobe Color
Class Project 19 - Color Variants
Class Project 19 - Color Variants
How to use AI Generative Recolor in Illustrator
Class Project 20 - Generative Recolor
Class Project 20 - Generative Recolor
How to make Gradients in Illustrator
Drawing with the Pencil Tool
10 Topics
Missing images and relinking and embedding
The LOVE Design
How to crop an image in Adobe Illustrator
Class Project 21 - Postcard Finish
Class Project 21 - Postcard Finish
How to cut holes in shapes using Compound Shapes in Illustrator
How to separate Compound & Masked shapes in Illustrator
How to make a Paper cut effect in Illustrator
Class Project 22 - Papercut Effect
Class Project 22 - Papercut Effect
3 Topics
Using artboards in Illustrator to make double sized business cards
Class Project 23 - Business Card
Class Project 23 - Business Card
17 Topics
How to use Liquify distort wrinkle bloat & pucker in Illustrator
Class Project 24 - Liquify Type
Class Project 24 - Liquify Type
Sliced text effect in Illustrator
Class Project 25 - Sliced Text
Class Project 25 - Sliced Text
How to bend & warp shapes in Adobe Illustrator
How to Warp & Bend type in Illustrator
Class Project 26 - Established Flag Warp
Class Project 26 - Established Flag Warp
Completed - Class Project 26 - Established Flag Warp
How to convert a sketch into vector and color it in illustrator
How to vectorize an image in illustrator
How to convert photo into a stencil Silhouette in Illustrator
How to make a Anaglyph effect in Illustrator
Class Project 27 - Live Trace
Class Project 27 - Live Trace
11 Topics
Drawing amazing flower with repeating shapes in Illustrator
Create a Stencil Cutout of an Image
Class Project 28 - Repeating Pattern
Design a Badge Logo
Design Your Own Font
Design Your Own Pattern
Design a Lovely Repeating Shape Graphic
Class Project 28 - Repeating Pattern
How to make repeating patterns with Geometric Marquetry in Illustrator
Class Project 29 - Pattern Making
Class Project 29 - Pattern Making
15 Topics
How to make 3D Type extruded type in Illustrator
Class Project 30 - Black Friday Sale
Class Project 30 - Black Friday Sale
How use Inflate to make cool 3D in Illustrator
Class Project 31 - Inflate
Class Project 31 - Inflate
How to realistically Mockup your design in Illustrator
Class Project 32 - Mockup
Class Project 32 - Mockup
Exporting
How to embed images in illustrator
Understanding all the ways to export files from Illustrator
WebP vs SVG vs PNG vs JPG vs PDF AI vs EPS vs Tiff in Illustrator
Class Project 33 - Spoonflower
Class Project 33 - Spoonflower
1 Topic
The best shortcuts in Adobe Illustrator
1 Topic
What Next
Adobe Illustrator CC - Essentials Training Course
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