Discover how to create amazing works of art and design with Illustrator CC 2018. Learn the fundamentals of Illustrator: working with artboards, drawing, and painting.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome to One-on-One
- A few important items before we begin
- A first look at Illustrator
- Opening from the Windows desktop
- Opening from the Macintosh Finder
- Introducing the Start screen
- Creating a new document
- The units of design: Points and picas
- The advanced document settings
- Modifying your new document
- Saving your changes
- Closing open documents on the PC
- Closing open documents on the Mac
- Pages of any size, at any angle
- Using the Artboard tool
- Undo, Redo, and Revert
- Selecting multiple artboards
- Creating and duplicating artboards
- Five ways to resize artboards
- Introducing the Artboards panel
- Navigating between artboards
- Aligning and distributing artboards
- Automatically tidying up your artboards
- Artboards and rulers
- Navigating your artwork
- Zooming in and out
- Using the more precise Zoom tool
- Zooming on a selection (or not)
- Animated zooming and GPU Performance
- Scrolling (or panning) a document
- Specifying a custom zoom level
- Working with multiple open documents
- Customizing your panels (important!)
- Saving your custom panels as a workspace
- Cycling between screen modes
- Now, we draw
- Creating center guides
- Using the Line Segment tool
- Drawing straight lines
- Duplicating and extending
- Using the Move command
- Introducing the Scissors tool
- Joining your line segments
- Using the Arc tool
- Using the Rectangular Grid tool
- Using the Polar Grid tool
- Using the Spiral tool
- Adding a circular end to a spiral
- Adjusting the curvature of an arc
- Centering all artwork on an artboard
- And now, we draw better
- Creating a time-saving template
- Using the Ellipse tool
- Live ellipses and pies
- Drawing two perfectly aligned circles
- Creating compound paths
- Using the Rectangle tool
- The dynamic round corner controls
- Adding some simple reflections
- Rotating your artwork into position
- Using the Polygon and Star tools
- Working with live polygons
- Creating the perfect five-pointed star
- Repeating stars in alternating rows
- Introducing the Group Isolation mode
- Adding a drop shadow to a layer
- Using the crazy Flare tool
- The top-secret tilde key trick
- How color works
- The color modes: RGB vs. CMYK
- Hue, saturation, and brightness
- Selecting a color from the spectrum ramp
- Creating and applying swatches
- Working with global swatches
- Searching swatches by name
- Auto-deleting and adding swatches
- Using the Eyedropper tool
- Loading swatches from another document
- The rich world of strokes
- Adjusting the line weight
- How strokes align to path outlines
- Caps, joins, and miter limit
- Making practical use of caps and joins
- Dashes and arrowheads
- Variable-width strokes
- Numerically adjusting Width points
- Custom aligning strokes to paths
- Creating a custom Width Profile
- Creating a classic round-dotted outline
- Drawing a quick-and-dirty gear
- Combining multiple strokes
- Offsetting strokes to simulate depth
- Text at its best
- Setting up page margins
- Placing and flowing text
- Creating multicolumn text frames
- The Smart Punctuation command
- Working with point type
- Formatting display text
- Fitting headline and optical kerning
- Formatting body copy
- Creating a drop cap
- Wrapping text around a graphic
- Resolving widows and orphans
- Working with the Glyphs panel
- Hunting down elusive characters
- Creating a paragraph style
- Redefining a paragraph style
- Creating type on a path
- Join and the Shape Builder
- Using the Join command
- Using the Join tool
- Using the Shape Builder tool
- More ways to use the Shape Builder
- Creating a real-world project
- Creating an inset reflection
- Coloring a path with the Shape Builder
- Sculpting with variable-width strokes
- Converting text to path outlines
- Gap detection and path splitting
- Drawing with the Shaper tool
- Combining paths with the Shaper tool
- Editing paths inside a Shaper group
- The world's best freeform drawing tool
- Drawing freeform path outlines
- The Smooth tool and Path Eraser
- Extending and connecting paths
- Drawing straight and perpendicular lines
- Creating a tracing template
- Combining the Pencil with a drawing tablet
- Coloring your Pencil tool art
- The best tools for painting
- Painting with the Blob Brush
- Fusing path outlines together
- Introducing the Eraser tool
- Reassigning keyboard shortcuts
- Merging selected paths
- Releasing compound paths
- Erasing and smoothing lumps
- Painting with a few simple clicks
- Reducing the roundness value
- Painting with a drawing tablet
- Drawing one point at a time
- Drawing with the Curvature tool
- Working with smooth and corner points
- Curvature tool curiosities
- Creating quick smooth shapes
- Tracing a custom path outline
- Drawing slender, organic forms
- Adding line-art embellishments
- Creating a paint-splattered background
- The tool that can draw anything
- Creating corner points
- How smooth points work
- Drawing smooth points
- Creating cusp points
- Using the Anchor Point tool
- Real-world drawing with the Pen tool
- Drawing perspective edges
- Drawing a few distress marks
- Drawing a long perspective shadow
- Getting smooth results from smooth points
- Giving a letter a 3D beveled edge
- Combining curved and straight segments
- A preview of round corners
- Making corners smooth
- The round corner widget
- Rounding off corner points
- Changing the corner type
- Rounding characters of type
- Absolute vs. relative rounding
- Drawing with rounded rectangles
- Drawing an iPhone
- Decorating an iPhone screen
- Drawing a leather smart phone case
- Colorizing a line art template
- Turning corners into organic curves
- Reshaping rounded paths
- Saving for devices and the web
- Aligning objects to the pixel grid
- Aligning objects as you draw or modify them
- Aligning text to the pixel grid
- Introducing the Save for Web command
- Scaling your art to suit its destination
- For devices and presentations, use PNG
- Saving an 8-bit graphic
- Saving a JPEG image
- Saving vector-based SVG files
- Assigning a copyright
- Using the Export for Screens command
- Using the Asset Export panel
- Asset Export timesaving tricks
- Until next time
Taught by
Deke McClelland
