Intro to Adobe Illustrator – Joseph Caserto

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Intro to Adobe Illustrator

Get up and running with the design world’s standard software for drawing logos, icons, and all types of vector artwork.

Every professional designer who wants to be marketable MUST know Adobe Illustrator, the industry standard software for drawing icons, logos, and vector artwork. Vectors are the curves that you draw with Illustrator, and they can be enlarged many times over without loosing quality, unlike raster art, which uses pixels on a grid, and distorts if it gets too large. Illustrator’s vector files can be exported to raster formats, like .jpg, .gif, or .png, for projects that need them, like websites. I’m Joseph Caserto, a graphic designer with over two decades of professional experience, and I’ve been creating vector artwork that whole time. In this course, I’ll help you master the basics of drawing simple vector shapes. Once you’ve got those essentials down, we’ll move on, and use them to help you learn more intermediate ones. You’ll build a solid foundation, which you can use beyond the course, to develop your own projects that showcase your skills in this application that’s critical to know if you’re going to be competitive in the professional design world.

What You’ll Find Inside

• A curriculum that lets students build confidence and skills by starting with essential techniques, moving on to fundamentals, and finishing with advanced methods.
• Downloadable files for students who want a hands-on learning experience, allowing them to follow along with lectures.
• Six hours of instruction through 50+ high-quality, downloadable HD videos that have clear audio and easy to see menus and windows.
• A quiz at the end of each section so students can review their knowledge before moving on.

Course Curriculum

Introduction

• Welcome (1:00)

Getting Started with Adobe Illustrator

• Adobe Illustrator Interface and Workspaces (8:08)
• Setting Preferences (3:18)
• Creating and Working with Documents (10:08)
• Grids, Rulers and Guides (5:17)
• What are Picas and Points?
• Quiz: Getting Started with Adobe Illustrator

Working with Objects

• What Are Shapes? (10:03)
• Rectangles (5:40)
• Color Swatches and Groups (7:07)
• Stacking Order (3:51)
• Rotating Objects (4:42)
• Ellipses; Drawing Techniques, Adding a Stroke (7:14)
• The Star Tool (7:25)
• The Polygon Tool (7:02)
• Let’s Try Recreating an Example (7:22)
• Quiz : Working with Objects

Aligning Objects

• Smart Guides (8:20)
• The Align Panel (10:56)
• Quiz : Aligning Objects

Color Swatches

• Creating and Applying Swatches (7:17)
• Global Swatches (8:46)
• Managing Swatches (4:41)
• PANTONE® Swatches (4:38)
• Quiz: Color Swatches

Gradients

• Creating, Applying, and Editing Gradients (9:03)
• Applying a Gradient Swatch to a Stroke (4:23)
• Quiz: Gradients

Layers

• Introduction to Layers (7:39)
• Using Layers as a Layout Tool (7:00)
• Quiz: Layers

Type

• Type Essentials (9:43)
• Kerning and Tracking; Applying Color (5:08)
• Halfway Done! (0:10)
• Placing and Styling Text (8:45)
• Transforming Type (6:08)
• Converting Type to Outline (4:24)
• Quiz: Type

Drawing and Painting

• The Paintbrush Tool (6:02)
• Paintbrush Libraries (8:03)
• The Pencil Tool (3:13)
• Quiz: Drawing and Painting

Drawing Vectors with the Pen Tool

• The Pen Tool (4:12)
• Drawing Paths (8:07)
• Drawing Simple Geometric Shape (5:41)
• Drawing a Heart with the Pen Tool (9:19)
• Drawing an Organic Shape with the Pen Tool (3:59)
• Quiz: Drawing Vectors with the Pen Tool

Modifying Vector Paths

• Adding, Deleting, and Converting Anchor Points (10:18)
• Isolation Mode (1:42)
• The Knife and Scissors Tools (8:29)
• Joining Paths (6:59)
• Quiz: Modifying Vector Paths

The Pathfinder Panel

• Shape Modes: Combining Shapes with the Pathfinder Panel (11:14)
• The Divide Pathfinder (8:44)
• The Remaining Pathfinders (3:37)
• Drawing Simple Symbols Using the Pathfinder Panel (5:31)
• The Pathfinder Panel

Intermediate Drawing Techniques

• Creating Compound Paths (7:19)
• Compound Paths: Design Application; Releasing (3:09)
• Creating and Releasing Clipping Masks (7:55)
• Effects (10:05)
• Intermediate Drawing Techniques

Outputting Documents, Placing Artwork, and Saving As Other File Formats

• Outputting a Document (6:20)
• Placing Artwork Created in Other Applications (4:48)
• Smart Objects: Placing Artwork Created in Adobe Illustrator (10:26)
• Quiz: Outputting Documents, Placing Artwork, and Saving As Other File Formats

Review and Closing

• A Brief Review (2:15)