Beginners Guide to Adobe Illustrator : The Essentials

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Free Online Course: Beginners Guide to Adobe Illustrator : The Essentials provided by Skillshare is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 2-3 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Beginners Guide to Adobe Illustrator : The Essentials is taught by Kate Silver.

Overview
  • Adobe Illustrator CC Course for Beginners: Create Illustrations, Icons, Logos, Flyers, Posters. Master the Pen Tool, Vectors, Image Trace, Gradients, shortcuts and more.

    This Adobe Illustrator CC course is the same course as I teach at the UK's leading Adobe Training Centre in London. 

    What we will cover:

    - Pixels Vs. Vectors

    - Creating Icons

    - The Pen Tool

    - Illustrations

    - Work with Colour 

    - Cool Text Styles

    - Image Trace

    - Creating A Flyer

    - Duplicate & Blend 

    - Gradients & Symbols

    - Saving & Exporting

    This course is aimed at complete novices, so don't worry you don't need to have any prior Illustrator knowledge!

    Are you ready to commence your journey into the world of being a designer?

    Note: To download the course files please go to the 'Projects & Resources' Tab

Syllabus
    • Let's get Started
    • Pixels vs. Vectors
    • A Tour of the Interface
    • Working with Layers
    • What is the Blend Tool?
    • Drawing Basic Shapes
    • Drawing Icons with Basic Shapes
    • Drawing Icons Continued
    • What is The Pathfinder Tool?
    • The Pathfinder Tool Explained
    • The Pathfinder Tool: Icon Design
    • Let's Talk Colour
    • Saving Colour Swatches
    • Working with Colour
    • What is the Pen Tool?
    • Mastering The Pen Tool
    • Creating an Illustration ( Pen Tool)
    • What is Image Trace?
    • Using Image Trace
    • Let's Talk Text
    • Working with Text
    • Let's Talk Flyer
    • A Flyer: Adding Gradients & Symbols
    • A Flyer: The Pen Tool
    • A Flyer: Using Image Trace
    • A Flyer: Adding the Text
    • Let's Talk Saving
    • Saving & Exporting
    • What's Next?