Course Details

Course content:

Getting to know the Illustrator workspace and preferences

Making a custom Tool panel

Understanding paths, views, selection tools, fills, and strokes

Setting up preferences and colour settings

Creating basic geometric shapes with the Shape tools

Live Corners and reshape segment techniques

Using the enhanced features in the Pencil tool

Using a grid and/or Smart Guides to aid symmetrical drawing

Using the Bézier Pen, Direct Selection tool, and Anchor Point tool efficiently

Applying and editing colour gradients to filled regions

Creating and using swatches, tints, gradients, and patterns on filled regions

Transform tools including scaling, rotating, distorting, shearing, and reflecting

Using the Pathfinder panel to make complex shapes

Working with the Blend tool/command and its options

Creating a compound path