What you'll learn:
- Vector Design
- Sketching your ideas
- Establishing grids
- Creating simple shapes, paths, and strokes to make complex icons
- Creating custom shapes with the pen tool
- Using Transparency
- Practical graphic design skills that can be used in Illustrator, Affinity Designer, Sketch, Figma and dozens of other design tools
- Exporting icons in PNG, SVG, JPG, PDF and more
Learn how to design visually engaging and cohesive icon sets in any program. I'll teach best practices on brainstorming icons, finding the right metaphors, sketching your ideas, and finally designing high resolution icons and simple icon versions that will work on smaller screens.
Although I'll be teaching you in Adobe XD (because it is free), I'm going to cover tools that are also found in your favorite design programs including:
Adobe Illustrator
Sketch
Figma
Affinity Design
Invision Studio
and many more
The concepts you learn here can be put into practice for web graphics, web design, interaction design, graphic illustration and much more.
Things you will learn in this course include:
Overview of Adobe XD
Understanding types of icons and when to use them
Creating a design brief and planning your icons to have a consistent style and colors.
Researching icon metaphors and sketching your ideas
Setting up your workspace for icon design
Creating and merging shapes to create complex icons
Using Transparency
Balancing icon sizes and positions
Creating a simple icon set
Converting a filled icon set to outlines
Exporting icons
and more.
