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