Adobe Illustrator for Creative Minds

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Khalil Ibrahim

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Khalil Ibrahim, aka "Abraham", Studied Arts, Advertising & Graphic design in the faculty of Applied Arts Helwan University. Then worked as a designer & Got promoted to be a Chief design officer in International Advertising Agencies in many countries like DDB, TBWA & Sahara Petroleum Services. Then switched to freelancing while working in the Aviation field to pursue his passion for Flying & to travel the world (check Instagram for interesting photos) while learning about different Art directions, Trends & design schools. Also getting a great experience from seeing different cultures.Currently running Design Academy & Helping people around the world in more than 171 country to learn Design & Art easily in a creative way. Hoping to take part in changing people’s lives and also enjoying teaching people around the world Creating Artwork & Spreading Beauty!

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Skills you will gain

1. Master the Different drawing & illustrations tools & techniques 2. Learn about colors & how to control them from different illustrator panels 3. Master different illustrator Brushes & create your own brushes 4. Know the details of Glyphs, Stylistic Sets, Variable fonts 5. Design with images & learn how to vectorize & enhance them 6. Learn about creating different graphic styles & Art directions in illustrator 7. Learn to speed up your workflow & speed up Illustrator performance as well 8. Master Typography after learning it's anatomy & theories 9. Know the Latest design trends & Art directions through this creative illustrator journey 10. Learn the sneaky & tricky settings & options of illustrator to use it like a third hand 11. Designing Confidently with illustrator after Practicing on downloadable illustrator exercises & videos

Course description

Adobe Illustrator is the smartest & most creative design application you can try. As you can start from scratch inside Illustrator cc and design Logos, Branding designs, Posters, infographics, illustrations, Typography, Printing & Screen designs including Web design and much more plus it's so precise & neat. You will really understand Illustrator & your Creativity will be increased by the end of this course : Through a few sections covering all the Illustrator cc aspects alongside with downloadable Artistic exercises, you will be Mastering the Illustrator cc in a very Artistic & Creative way along with the Technical side just like a creative professional. It is Very Practical & Engaging Course! At the End of Each Module there is One big Exercise covering the Module's skills and main concepts along with it's Downloadable exercise Illustrator file (Ai) including the final result as well in a separate layer so you can check any specific step and you can use this Artistic design later after tweaking it a bit to add your Creative signature in your Portfolio to either enhance or build your Portfolio. Also, some lessons have their own dedicated exercises to make sure you are sharpening those tricky illustrator skills. Who this course is for: - Want to Master Adobe illustrator from scratch in Artistic & Creative way - Have already some illustrator knowledge & want to Advance your experience - Interested in Design or Art - Want to do your own business designs - Interested in creating illustrations & vector arts to express creativity

Course content

This section is for introduction to Adobe Illustrator course.

The Power of Adobe illustrator

Achieve the best learning experience

2h 33m

Illustrator Documents

Illustrator Workspaces & Properties Panel

12m

Artboards

12m

Illustrator Navigation & Zooming

Illustrator Preferences & Settings

11m

Illustrator Basic Geometric Shapes

15m

Illustrator Transformation & Rotation (resized)

11m

Illustrator Pathfinder & Shape builder tool

11m

Illustrator Selection tools & methods

Grouping Elements in illustrator

Illustrator Layers & Arranging elements

Illustrator Align & Distribute panel

Illustrator Guides, Grids & Rulers

11m

Exercise (layers, selection, pathfinder, guides, coloring, art boards)

17m

Illsutrator Stroke Panel

1h 3m

Illustrator color panels ( color, swatches, themes, guide)

18m

Illustrator Gradient colors panel

12m

Illustrator Appearance & Graphic style panels

Illustrator effects

14m

Exercise (Appearance, Graphic Style, Gradients, strokes)

2h 59m

Illustrator pencil tool

Illustrator Brush tool

Drawing modes & blob brush tool

17m

Illustrator Pen Tools

13m

Illustrator curvature tool

Pen Tools & curvature tool exercise

18m

Illustrator drawing modifying tools

13m

Illustrator Transform & Liquify tools

Illustrator puppet warp tool

Illustrator envelope distort

Drawing Symmetric Shapes

Drawing Concentric Symmetrical design

11m

Illustrator Clipping Masks

11m

Illustrator Opacity Masks

Illustrator live paint bucket tool

Recolor Artwork

Exercise Complex Drawing

Illustrator Complex Drawing techniques explained

14m

1h 0m

Illustrator Art Brushes

13m

Illustrator Scatter Brush

Illustrator Bristle Brush

Illustrator Calligraphic brush

Illustrator Pattern brush

Illustrator Images brushes

Exercise (Brushes)

44m

Handling images in Illustrator

15m

Images modifications before tracing

Tracing images in illustrator

12m

Enhancing traced Vectors & Coloring hints

Exercise (Images)

1h 30m

Illustrator Typography Anatomy & Character control

14m

Illustrator Paragraphes control

12m

Illustrator Character & Paragraph styles panels

11m

Illustrator Fonts (filtering, variable, glyphs, stylistic sets, open type panel, svg.)

15m

Illustrator Touch type tool

Illustrator type on a path tools

Clipping Typography Masks

Illustrator Typography Art directions & trending visual effects

14m

Illustrator type envelope distort

Illustrator text wrap

Exercise (Typography Composition)

1h 6m

Illustrator blend tool

10m

Illustrator perspective drawing

12m

Illustrator Symbols

11m

Creating Patterns in Illustrator

Illustrator Graphs

14m

Illustrator gradient mesh

31m

Exporting illustrator files & save for web

Preparing & exporting illustrator file for printing

Illustrator Asset Export panel

Creative cloud & libraries

Illustrator export for screens, save for web & archiving files

Illustrator Image Exercise

Live paint exercise

Recolor Artwork Exercise

Characters drawing model exercise

Clipping & Opacity Mask Exercise

Complex Drawing Exercise

Drawing Basic geometric shapes

Brushes Exercise

Requirements

1. Adobe illustrator ( recent version is preferable ) 2. No Previous experience needed

All levels

11h 41m

English

Flex

^$39

Assist

Concierge

Video lectures

Study materials