What will you learn

Skills and knowledge you will gain after completing this course:

  • Illustrator Fundamentals: Master basic navigation, document setup, workspaces, and essential tools.

  • Shape Creation & Transformation: Learn to draw basic geometric shapes and apply transformations like rotation and scaling.

  • Colour & Appearance: Understand how to use colour panels, gradients, and apply appearance effects and graphic styles.

  • Drawing Tools Proficiency: Gain expertise with the Pencil, Brush, Pen, and Curvature tools, including advanced drawing techniques.

  • Image Integration: Discover how to modify images for tracing and convert raster images into scalable vectors.

  • Advanced Typography: Control character and paragraph styles, utilise features like font filtering, and apply advanced text effects.

  • Export & Finalisation: Learn to prepare and export artwork for various uses, including professional printing and web.

Course curriculum

    1. Illustrator Course Outline

    2. The Power of Adobe illustrator

    3. Achieve the best learning experience

    1. Illustrator Documents

    2. Illustrator workspaces & Properties Panel

    3. Artboards

    4. Navigation & zooming in illustrator

    5. New Illustrator cc 2019 view features

    6. Illustrator Preferences & Settings

    7. illustrator Basic Geometric shapes

    8. Illustrator Transformation & Rotation

    9. illustrator Pathfinder panel & Shape Builder tool

    10. Illustrator Selection tools & methods

    11. Grouping elements in illustrator

    12. Illustrator Layers

    13. Illustrator Align & distribute panel

    14. Illustrator Guides, Grids & Rulers

    15. Exercise: Drawing Basic Geometric shapes

    16. Illustrator Stroke Panel​​

    1. Illustrator color panels (color, swatches, themes, guide)​​

    2. Illustrator Gradient colors panel

    3. Free form gradient ( Illustrator 2019 users)

    4. Illustrator Appearance & Graphic style panels

    5. Illustrator effects

    6. Exercise: Appearance, graphic style, gradients

    1. Illustrator Pencil Tool

    2. Illustrator Brush tool

    3. Illustrator Drawing modes & blob brush tool

    4. Illustrator Pen Tools

    5. Illustrator curvature tool

    6. Pen Tools & curvature tool exercise

    7. Illustrator drawing modifying tools

    8. illustrator Transform & distort tools (Liquify Tools)

    9. Illustrator Puppet Warp tool

    10. Illustrator Envelope Distort

    11. Drawing Symmetric Shapes

    12. Drawing Concentric Symmetrical design

    13. Illustrator Clipping Masks

    14. Illustrator Opacity Masks

    15. illustrator live paint bucket tool

    16. Recolor Artwork

    17. Complex Drawing Exercise

    18. Illustrator Complex Drawing techniques

    1. Illustrator CC 2021 New Features & Updates

    1. Illustrator Art Brushes

    2. Illustrator Scatter Brush

    3. illustrator Bristle Brush

    4. Illustrator Calligraphic brush

    5. Illustrator Pattern brush

    6. Illustrator Images brushes

    7. Illustrator brushes exercise

About this course

  • £19.99
  • 80 lessons
  • 12 hours of video content

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You'll learn from

Design & AI Mentor Khalil Ibrahim

Khalil Ibrahim studied Arts, Advertising & Graphic Design at the Faculty of Applied Arts, Helwan University. He then worked as the Chief Design Officer in top-tier Advertising Agencies such as DDB, TBWA & Sahara Petroleum Services, across several countries. He passionately runs Design Academy Online, teaching over 240,000 learners worldwide from more than 207 countries in Design and Art, delivering a creative and professional approach in both Design and AI.

Course FAQ

  • I'm a complete beginner. Is this Adobe Illustrator Masterclass suitable for me?

    Absolutely! This masterclass starts with Illustrator fundamentals and basics, guiding you through setting up documents, understanding workspaces, and mastering essential tools before moving to advanced topics. You'll build your skills from the ground

  • What key skills will I gain from completing this Adobe Illustrator CC Masterclass?

    You'll gain a comprehensive understanding of Illustrator, including creating geometric shapes, mastering drawing tools like the Pen and Curvature tools, working with colours and gradients, advanced typography, image tracing, and preparing artwork for various outputs like print and web.

  • How does Illustrator handle complex designs for different uses, like web and print?

    Mastering Illustrator opens doors to diverse careers such as Graphic Designer, Illustrator, UI/UX Designer (for vector assets), Brand Identity Designer, Packaging Designer, and Digital Artist, enabling you to create professional-grade visuals for any industry.

  • What is Adobe Illustrator CC, and why is it essential for design professionals?

    Adobe Illustrator CC is the industry-standard vector graphics software, allowing you to create scalable designs that never lose quality, from intricate logos and illustrations to detailed infographics and print layouts. It's crucial for anyone aiming for a career in graphic design, branding, or digital art.

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