Adobe Illustrator Essentials for Character Design

Adobe Illustrator Essentials for Character Design, available at $59.99, has an average rating of 4.85, with 40 lectures, based on 911 reviews, and has 11910 subscribers.

You will learn about Use Adobe Illustrator to transform your paper drawings into finished products that you can sell You will be able to master techniques to design with a drawing tablet or, achieve the same awesome results with a mouse You will learn to the Overshoot Technique, in which you color your artwork with fine lines and then add shadows easily This course is ideal for individuals who are This course is for animators or designers who want to learn how to use Adobe Illustrator to design their characters or For beginners or people who don't know how to use Adobe Illustrator or Artists who want to learn how to trace their paper drawings into digital form It is particularly useful for This course is for animators or designers who want to learn how to use Adobe Illustrator to design their characters or For beginners or people who don't know how to use Adobe Illustrator or Artists who want to learn how to trace their paper drawings into digital form.

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Summary

Title: Adobe Illustrator Essentials for Character Design

Price: $59.99

Average Rating: 4.85

Number of Lectures: 40

Number of Published Lectures: 40

Number of Curriculum Items: 40

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 40

Original Price: $39.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Use Adobe Illustrator to transform your paper drawings into finished products that you can sell
You will be able to master techniques to design with a drawing tablet or, achieve the same awesome results with a mouse
You will learn to the Overshoot Technique, in which you color your artwork with fine lines and then add shadows easily

Who Should Attend

This course is for animators or designers who want to learn how to use Adobe Illustrator to design their characters
For beginners or people who don't know how to use Adobe Illustrator
Artists who want to learn how to trace their paper drawings into digital form

Target Audiences

This course is for animators or designers who want to learn how to use Adobe Illustrator to design their characters
For beginners or people who don't know how to use Adobe Illustrator
Artists who want to learn how to trace their paper drawings into digital form

Do you want to learn how to use Adobe Illustrator to Design and Present your characters?

Well, what can I say, you are reading this, and that means that you are interested in learning Adobe Illustrator. It also means that probably you looked for free tutorials on the internet on how to use it, and picked up some tips here and there, but you are looking for an organized course that guides you through this awesome software step by step.

This course is for either character designers or animators who want to learn the basics of this software to use the new set of skills on their projects.

You will learn all the essentials you need to trace images, turn paper drawings into presentable products that you can sell, and everything you need for character design.

If you are a beginner, you will love it, you will go from zero to hero if you follow along practicing the exercises. And if you are a savvy user, then you might as well benefit from some secret gems here and there, missed tools and techniques that you probably knew they existed.

How do I know that? Because of the reviews from early testers, my designer friends who checked this course to give it the thumbs up, who have been using Illustrator for years, and they confessed they didn’t know about 30% of the techniques covered in this course.

You will learn:

All the basic interface, and navigations.
All the essential panels.
Then the drawings tools.
What tools to use if you have a Wacom Tablet, or for those who don’t have a drawing tablet, then what tools to use when designing with a mouse.
All the basic drawing tools in detail
How to create a color palette
How to paint your work using the live paint feature
How to add shadows and highlights easily

This course has many exercises that you can follow to understand every bit of knowledge.

Enroll today and start developing a new skill that can help you sell your work and get some extra income.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction and Overview

Lecture 2: Downloading Illustrator

Lecture 3: Download Project Files

Lecture 4: Setting up the Workspace

Lecture 5: Creating a New Project

Lecture 6: Zoom and Navigation

Lecture 7: Difference Between Vectors and Pixels

Chapter 2: Essential Tools and Options

Lecture 1: Selection Tools

Lecture 2: Transforming Shapes With The Selection Tools

Lecture 3: Paths, Fills and Strokes

Lecture 4: Stroke Caps and Corners

Lecture 5: Variable Stroke Width

Lecture 6: Anchor Points

Lecture 7: Bezier Handles and Anchors

Lecture 8: Expanded Strokes

Lecture 9: Layers Panel

Lecture 10: Layer Contents and Groups

Chapter 3: Drawing Tools

Lecture 1: The Pencil Tool

Lecture 2: Modifying a Line with the Pencil Tool

Lecture 3: The Pen Tool

Lecture 4: The PaintBrush Tool

Lecture 5: The Blob Brush Tool

Lecture 6: The Smooth Tool

Lecture 7: Text Tool

Lecture 8: Convert Text to Path or Vector

Chapter 4: Painting Tools

Lecture 1: Creating a Color Palette

Lecture 2: Expand Appearance

Lecture 3: Live Paint

Lecture 4: Convert Live Paint into Paths

Lecture 5: Recolor Artwork

Lecture 6: Adding Shadows with the Knife Tool

Chapter 5: Tracing a Character Tutorial

Lecture 1: Introduction to Tracing a Character Tutorial

Lecture 2: Importing Images

Lecture 3: Prepare Image for Tracing

Lecture 4: Outlining a Character

Lecture 5: Cleaning The Lines

Lecture 6: Coloring the Character

Lecture 7: Shading the Character – Adding shadow and Highlights

Lecture 8: Challenge

Lecture 9: BONUS LESSON: "What's Next?"

Instructors

2D Animation 101 Courses
Animation Courses for Beginners

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1 stars: 15 votes
2 stars: 10 votes
3 stars: 61 votes
4 stars: 231 votes
5 stars: 594 votes

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