Creating Icons with Illustrator

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Free Online Course: Creating Icons with Illustrator provided by LinkedIn Learning is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 3-4 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from LinkedIn Learning. Creating Icons with Illustrator is taught by Bart Van de Wiele.

Overview
  • This beginner-level course gives you an overview of what an icon is and its key characteristics, then enables you to design and export your icons in Illustrator.

Syllabus
  • Introduction

    • Fast and efficient icon creation
    • About challenges
    1. Understanding Core Concepts
    • The concept of an icon
    • Screen versus printed icons
    • Icon styles and sets
    • Things to help you get started
    • Challenge
    • Solution
    2. Setting Up Illustrator
    • How to correctly set up a document
    • Creating a custom toolset
    • Setting grid preferences
    • How to use the pixel grid
    • Creating artboards
    • Challenge
    • Solution
    3. Going from Paper to Digital
    • Sketching icons
    • Importing a sketch as a template
    • Auto-tracing a sketch
    • Capturing and importing a sketch using Adobe Capture
    • Reducing the number of points and cleaning up
    • Challenge
    • Solution
    4. Understanding Design Techniques
    • Designing with basic shapes
    • Setting stroke options
    • Using the Pathfinder panel
    • Understanding compound shapes
    • Mastering the Shape Builder tool
    • Discovering the Appearance panel
    • Useful filters and effects
    • Power tips
    • Advanced techniques: Creating a winter icon
    • Advanced techniques: Creating a summer icon
    • Advanced techniques: Creating a fall icon
    • Advanced techniques: Creating a spring icon
    • Challenge
    • Solution
    5. Saving and Exporting
    • Common icon sizes
    • How to export for web
    • How to export as SVG
    • Bulk exporting via Export for Screens
    • Bulk artwork export via Asset Export panel
    • Exporting for print
    • Exporting to Adobe Photoshop
    • Challenge
    • Solution
    Conclusion
    • Thank you