Course

Adobe Illustrator Creative Cloud: Essentials for Creating Projects

Creative Live

Updated Mar 15, 2019

The world’s top designers use Adobe® Illustrator® for its powerful, vector-based drawing environment – and now you can gain fluency in it, as well! Join Brian Wood for a dynamic course on everything you need to know about Adobe Illustrator.

By walking you through a series of projects on Adobe Illustrator, Brian will give you a comprehensive toolkit that will answer any need, including:

Getting started in Adobe Illustrator and familiarizing yourself with its workspace
Creating color using a variety of methods
Creating and transforming artwork, working with text, and importing images
Tricks and techniques for drawing: selecting and editing, and working with layers
Creating custom patterns, brushes, and symbols
Exploring built-in visual effects libraries

You’ll also tackle more advanced Adobe Illustrator topics, like the perspective grid, Creative Cloud libraries, effects, live paint groups and selection, blends, and the shape builder tool.

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Software Used: Adobe Illustrator CC 2015.3.1

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