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1.1 Welcome to the Course
Welcome to this free course, which will teach you how to use Adobe Illustrator from the ground up. In this video, I’ll introduce myself and give a brief outline of what is covered in this Illustrator basics course.
1.Introduction2 lessons, 07:41
1.1Welcome to the Course01:43
1.2Getting Started05:58
2.How to Draw in Illustrator9 lessons, 1:51:08
2.1Setting Up Our Document04:27
2.2Drawing With Shapes and Lines21:19
2.3Grouping and Arranging13:24
2.4Drawing With the Shape Builder Tool14:17
2.5Exercise: Draw a Custom Logo10:18
2.6How to Use the Curvature Tool in Illustrator17:43
2.7How to Use the Pen Tool in Illustrator11:44
2.8How to Use the Pencil Tool in Illustrator10:24
2.9Using Brushes07:32
3.Color2 lessons, 14:43
3.1Working With Color08:08
3.2How to Use the Gradient Tool in Illustrator06:35
4.Type and Fonts1 lesson, 10:08
4.1How to Use Type and Fonts in Illustrator10:08
5.Effects and Patterns in Illustrator4 lessons, 40:43
5.1Liquifying and Distorting in Illustrator11:17
5.2Bending and Warping Shapes and Text06:53
5.3How to Make a Pattern in Illustrator11:44
5.4How to Vectorize an Image in Illustrator10:49
6.Exporting1 lesson, 11:05
6.1Exporting for Print and Web11:05
7.Conclusion1 lesson, 01:34
7.1What Next?01:34
1.1 Welcome to the Course
Hi there, my name is Dan Scott, and I am an Adobe certified instructor for Illustrator here at Envato Tuts+. And together, you and me are gonna learn the basics of Adobe Illustrator. Now this course is for beginners, there is no need to have any previous knowledge in Adobe Illustrator, or design or drawing or illustration. Okay, we're gonna start right at the beginning and work our way through, step by step. During this course we're gonna work through practical real-world projects together. Learning the tips and techniques necessary to make each of those projects happen. We'll start with the techniques that you'll need to create just about anything in Illustrator, including custom shapes, the wonderful shape builder and the simple to us curvature tool. We'll explore lines and brushes. You'll master how to use and manipulate type. We'll use our new type skills to make our print flyer. We'll work through how to create your own custom logos and icons. I'll show you the sneaky secrets Illustrator has to discover and use beautiful colors and gradients. You’ll learn how to push, pull, cut and manipulate artwork like this. We’ll take our drawings and make repeatable patterns like this. And I’ll easily show you how to redraw these images in this vector style. Last but not least, we’ll make sure that you can save and export your print and web documents like a professional. Also throughout the course I set lots of class exercises so that you can practice all the tips and tricks and techniques you are learning as you move through the course. So if you've never opened up Illustrator, or you have and you struggled a little bit with it. Follow me and I will show you how to make beautiful artwork in Adobe Illustrator.