Adobe Illustrator: A 100% Practical Art & Design Course

Course Overview

Description

I believe in learning through practice.

To that end, I am super excited to present to you this 100% practical course on Adobe Illustrator. The focus of this course is to teach you the technical skills you need to be an awesome designer. AND, to do that, I will walk you through the process of creating various designs.

You will learn to:

• Design T-shirts using basic shapes and tools
• Size and export the T-shirt designs for various online stores and platforms
• Design clean logos, as well as how to present and export them like a pro
• Design cool cartoon characters and the tools and techniques you need to create clean digital art

To accomplish these goals, you will get to learn a bunch of cool features and tools within AI, such as, but not limited to:

• The selection tool
• The direct selection tool
• The pen tool
• The knife, scissors and eraser
• The brush tool
• The blob brush tool
• The various basic shape tools such as ellipse, rectangle and rounded rectangle
• Layers and art-boards and how to use them efficiently
• Live paint bucket
• The gradient mesh tool
• & much more...

Oh, one more thing: to help you in your freelance endeavors, I also added a few lectures on the online presence requirements for graphic art and design freelancers, as well as a bonus lecture on how to make the most of one of the more popular freelance platforms out there: Up-work.

I can't wait to see you on the other side!

Basic knowledge

• You need to be conversational or better in English in order to go along with the content of this course
• Must have access to Adobe Illustrator
• Ideally, you would also have a graphic tablet