Course Outline
- Brief Review
- Setting on screen workspaces and Illustrator’s preferences
- Document set up and using the artboard tool
- Working with Appearances and Patterns
- Working with multiple fills, stokes and effects
- Working with patterns on fills and stokes
- Creating Complex Illustrations and Advanced Techniques
- Working with Illustrator’s colour tools
- Working with the different modes of the Brush tool
- Working with the Blob Brush tool
- Drawing inside other objects
- Using the Bristle Brush to produce realistic painting techniques
- Using effects and transformations to duplicate and position shapes
- Working with blends to create complex gradients and to merge shapes together
- Working with gradient meshes to reproduce realistic shading effects
- Using clipping masks to create frames for objects
- Drawing with the Perspective Grid
- Understanding the basics of 2-point perspective drawing
- Adding and modifying a perspective grid
- Drawing and transforming objects using the grid
- Working with Transparency Effects
- Using the different types of transparency effects (opacity and blending modes)
- Working with transparency on multiple objects and groups
- Using various pixel-based transparency effects (drop shadows, glows and blurs) and adjusting the settings
- Transparency effect considerations
