Fun with Adobe Illustrator
Access a whole new world of illustrating children's books!
This course will teach you everything there is to know about Adobe Illustrator! In 6 sessions you will be on your way to creating shapes, choosing thick or thin lines to draw with, applying a dotted or dashed look to them, and much, much more! Illustrator is a drawing and illustration program made by Adobe. It is the industry standard software for vector art images, and is used in applications for print and web media.
Why Illustrator instead of Photoshop?
Photoshop and Illustrator are both popular graphics programs, and there are obvious advantages in creating artworks using them.
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While Photoshop’s filters and image editing tools are more impressive than Illustrator’s, you can create an illustration in Illustrator and enhance it in Photoshop!
There are several children’s book artists who use illustrator for their artworks, such as Road Work Ahead by Jannie Ho, My Pet Book by Bob Staake, Ganesha's Sweet Tooth by Sanjay Patel, Eli No! by Katie Kirk & Nathan Strandberg, Hank finds inspiration by Craig Frazier, and the cover of Alien Alby by Sophie Rohrbach, among others.
There are several children’s book artists who use illustrator for their artworks, such as Road Work Ahead by Jannie Ho, My Pet Book by Bob Staake, Ganesha's Sweet Tooth by Sanjay Patel, Eli No! by Katie Kirk & Nathan Strandberg, Hank finds inspiration by Craig Frazier, and the cover of Alien Alby by Sophie Rohrbach, among others.
Here's A Quick Peek!
Session 1: Session one is all about introducing you to Adobe Illustrator! You be given an overview of the Adobe Illustrator interface, learning the basics and all of the output options from Adobe Illustrator, setting Illustrator preferences, and importing your digital files.
Session 2: Your Workspace, Creating Shapes, Fun with Tracing
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Session 3: Stroke It Baby, Amazing Brushes, Drawing from Scratch and Color!!
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Session 4: Bezier Curves (don’t be scared), Groovy Gradients (that don’t look hokey), Painterly Gradient Meshes, and Awesome Effects
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Session 5 The Wonderful World of Type (including how to tweak fonts for a hand lettered look), Symbols, Patterns, Textures, and Masks
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Session 6 Next Steps Taking Your Illustrator Art into Other Formats, Making a Picture Book Dummy, Making Fun Little Animations.
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