Adobe Illustrator CC – Essentials Training Course

Adobe Illustrator CC – Essentials Training Course, available at $99.99, has an average rating of 4.74, with 163 lectures, based on 28734 reviews, and has 119357 subscribers.

You will learn about 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. This course is ideal for individuals who are Anyone who wants to start using Illustrator in their career & get paid for their Illustrator skills. or Newbies, amateurs, graphic designers, motion graphics artists and any creatives who want to design their own graphics from scratch. It is particularly useful for Anyone who wants to start using Illustrator in their career & get paid for their Illustrator skills. or Newbies, amateurs, graphic designers, motion graphics artists and any creatives who want to design their own graphics from scratch.

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Summary

Title: Adobe Illustrator CC – Essentials Training Course

Price: $99.99

Average Rating: 4.74

Number of Lectures: 163

Number of Published Lectures: 113

Number of Curriculum Items: 206

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 156

Original Price: $199.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

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.

Who Should Attend

Anyone who wants to start using Illustrator in their career & get paid for their Illustrator skills.
Newbies, amateurs, graphic designers, motion graphics artists and any creatives who want to design their own graphics from scratch.

Target Audiences

Anyone who wants to start using Illustrator in their career & get paid for their Illustrator skills.
Newbies, amateurs, graphic designers, motion graphics artists and any creatives who want to design their own graphics from scratch.

Are you frustrated trying to teach yourself Adobe Illustrator?! This course will quickly allow you to start getting paid for your Illustrator skills.

Hey there, I’m Dan, and I’m not just a designer, but an Adobe Certified Professional and Adobe MAX Master Award winner. Join me as we embark on an incredible journey together learning Adobe Illustrator!

Jane:“It’s just a GREAT course! I LOVE IT! And I will advise this course to everyone who wants to learn Adobe Illustrator! Daniel is a great teacher… no! Daniel is the perfect teacher! Thank you, Daniel, for this awesome course!”

Create logo design, icons, characters, textures, text-based graphics, illustrations & full graphic design skills in Adobe Illustrator CC!

This course was designed for the complete beginner, with practice files and fun projects to get you taking action. Throughout this Illustrator CC course, you’ll be designing your own real-world projects that are professional and inspire you to do even more!

Keith: “This course is outstanding! I stayed away from Illustrator for many years because I was intimidated by it. Now, I am excited by it and what it can do and am finding the lessons to be very informative and educational. Am definitely looking forward to finishing this course and seeing where I can go from here…”

This course is tailor-made for those who are new to Illustrator and the world of design, as we start from scratch on our journey to becoming Illustrator superheroes! Together, we’ll unravel the secrets and techniques that enable you to create anything your creative heart desires – from icons, logos, and postcards to beautifully hand-drawn illustrations.

Get ready to dive into the mesmerising world of Adobe Illustrator, where we’ll craft stunning looking graphics. But we won’t stop at just learning the tools; we’re about to unleash our creative powers by creating real-world, practical, and portfolio-ready projects.

Together we will learn to:

Master the art of drawing with simple shapes and lines.
Unleash your creativity by combining and subtracting shapes using the Shape Builder.
Create advanced custom logos and graphics.
Explore the world of creative brushes, lines, and strokes to elevate your designs to the next level.
Use the Width tool to enhance your lines and strokes adding a style.
Conquer the pen, pencil, and curvature tools like a pro.
Dive into the wonderful world of fonts and the art of mastering type.
Use the intertwine feature to create interesting overlapping illustrations.
Learn the art of masking images and graphics.
Discover the magic of distorting, bending, warping, and liquefying illustrations.
Select and use color combinations like a true master of design.
Craft your own unique repeating patterns.
Transform real drawings into captivating stencil-style images.
Export your creations for print, web, social media, and more.
Acquire the techniques used by professional graphic designers.
Work with your own mini-brief – creating a unique Farmer’s Market brand and bringing it to life.
Harness the power of Adobe’s Generative AI features to push your creative boundaries.
Working with mood boards to gather inspiration.
Create realistic mockups to enhance your designs even further.
Engage in a wealth of class projects to put your skills to the test.
Stay ahead with a handy printable PDF cheat sheet.
Access downloadable exercise files to help you practice and refine your skills.
Benefit from forum support provided by the BYOL Teaching Assistant Team.
Discover professional workflows and shortcuts to work more efficiently.
Gain access to a treasure trove of additional resources and websites to supercharge your career.

But that’s not all! I’ll unveil Illustrator’s hidden gems that will transform you into a pro at discovering and utilizing breathtaking vector based graphics. We’ll dive into the latest Illustrator tools, including the mind-blowing Generative AI features that allow us to craft illustrations that were once thought impossible.

Whether you’ve never even opened Illustrator or have struggled with it in the past, I’m here to show you the easy way to create breathtaking artwork and portfolio projects to be proud of. Join me as we go from Illustrator zeros, to Illustrator superheroes!

Requirements

All you need is a copy of Adobe Illustrator, you can get a free trial from Adobe.

Who is this course 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 & Lines
Drawing with the Shape Builder
Creating a custom logo
Working with Brushes
Drawing with the pen, pencil & curvature tool
Learn how to work with type & fonts.
How to vectorise an image in Illustrator
How to curve text in illustrator
How to trace an image in illustrator
How to warp text in illustrator
How to embed images in illustrator
How to mask images & graphics.
How to distort, bend, warp & liquefy illustrations.
How to make 3D illustrations.
How to make your own repeating patterns.
How to create stencil style images from real drawings.
How to save, print & export for Print, web & social media.
Lots of real world exercises for you to practice.
Loads or class projects for you to complete.
Printable Cheat sheet.
You will get the finished files so you never fall behind.
Downloadable exercise files.
Techniques used by professional graphic designers.
Professional workflows and shortcuts.
A wealth of other resources and websites to help accelerate your career.

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Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Getting Started

Lecture 1: Intro to the Illustrator Essentials Course

Lecture 2: Getting Started

Lecture 3: What is Illustrator used for & when to use Photoshop vs InDesign

Lecture 4: A quick tour around Illustrator

Chapter 2: Drawing

Lecture 1: How to draw rounded rectangles triangles & tracing images in Illustrator

Lecture 2: How to draw lines arcs & stars in Illustrator

Lecture 3: Scaling Stroke & Effects & Corners

Lecture 4: Saving to the Creative Cloud versus locally on my desktop

Lecture 5: Exporting your images 101

Lecture 6: Class Project 01 – Your First Creature

Lecture 7: How to draw using the Shape Builder tool in Adobe Illustrator CC

Lecture 8: Class Project 02 – Icons Using the Shape Builder

Lecture 9: Completed – Class Project 02 – Icons Using the Shape Builder

Lecture 10: How to use layers in Illustrator

Lecture 11: Align distribute rotation & math in fields – Impossible Triangle

Lecture 12: Class project 03 – Impossible Triangle

Chapter 3: Artificial Intelligence

Lecture 1: How to use Text to Vector in Illustrator

Lecture 2: Class Project 03 – Ai Creature

Chapter 4: Pen & Curvature Tool

Lecture 1: How to draw anything using the Curvature Tool in Adobe Illustrator

Lecture 2: Mixture of curves and straight lines using the Curvature tool

Lecture 3: Class project 04 – Curvature Tool

Lecture 4: Combining shapes curvature & shape builder tools into Fox shadows

Lecture 5: How to draw using the Pen Tool in Adobe Illustrator CC

Lecture 6: Class project 05 – The Dreaded Pen Tool

Lecture 7: Dan tidying up students work

Lecture 8: Class project 06 – Pen Tool Redemption

Lecture 9: Awake Fox Combining Tools & Skill Stacking

Lecture 10: Class Project 07 – Skill Stacking Practice

Lecture 11: AI Generative Recolor

Lecture 12: How to make a Mood Board in Illustrator

Lecture 13: Class Project 08 – Make your mood board

Lecture 14: Class Project 09 – Your New Creature

Lecture 15: T-Shirt Making

Chapter 5: Stroke, Pencil & Brushes

Lecture 1: Drawing with the Pencil Tool in Adobe Illustrator CC

Lecture 2: Class project 10 – Pencil Tool Drawing

Lecture 3: Adjust your stroke corners profile and mitres

Lecture 4: How to make an arrow in Illustrator

Lecture 5: How to Make a Dotted or Dashed in Illustrator

Lecture 6: How to use Brushes in Adobe Illustrator CC

Lecture 7: Class project 11 – Brush Doodles

Lecture 8: How to Simplify paths in Illustrator

Lecture 9: How to draw lines with the Width Tool in Adobe Illustrator

Lecture 10: Class Project 12 – Width Tool

Lecture 11: How to Join two lines together in Illustrator

Lecture 12: How to use Intertwine in Illustrator

Lecture 13: Class project 13 – Intertwine

Lecture 14: How to Expand Appearance in Illustrator

Chapter 6: Type & Fonts

Lecture 1: How to create a postcard document in Illustrator

Lecture 2: How to add type in Illustrator us Area vs Point text

Lecture 3: How to pick fonts in Illustrator

Lecture 4: How to use Adobe Fonts in Illustrator

Lecture 5: How to make Adobe Font Pairing

Lecture 6: Class Project 14 – Postcard Fonts

Lecture 7: How to find & use Glyphs in Illustrator

Lecture 8: Class Project 15 – Logo Type

Lecture 9: How to curve text in Illustrator

Lecture 10: How to put type around a circle badge using Illustrator

Lecture 11: Class Project 16 – Type on a Path

Lecture 12: How to break apart & outline text in Illustrator

Lecture 13: Adjusting an existing drawing using the pencil tool

Lecture 14: Class Project 17 – Heavy Metal Band Logo

Lecture 15: How to Intertwine text monogram in Illustrator

Lecture 16: Class Project 18 – Monogram

Chapter 7: Color

Lecture 1: What is RGB & CMYK & HSB & HEX colors in Illustrator

Lecture 2: How to steal colors from an image using Eyedropper in Illustrator

Lecture 3: Creating a reusable color swatch in Illustrator

Lecture 4: Transparency & Opacity and darkening images in Illustrator

Lecture 5: How to use CC Libraries in Adobe Illustrator CC

Lecture 6: How to find amazing colors in Illustrator using Adobe Color

Lecture 7: Class Project 19 – Color Variants

Lecture 8: How to use AI Generative Recolor in Illustrator

Instructors

Video School
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Phil Ebiner
Top-Rated Udemy Instructor, 3 Million+ Students
Daniel Walter Scott
Adobe Certified Instructor & Adobe Certified Expert

Rating Distribution

1 stars: 85 votes
2 stars: 126 votes
3 stars: 1011 votes
4 stars: 6924 votes
5 stars: 20588 votes

Frequently Asked Questions

How long do I have access to the course materials?

You can view and review the lecture materials indefinitely, like an on-demand channel.

Can I take my courses with me wherever I go?

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