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Illustrator 2020 One-on-One: Fundamentals

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Overview

Explore techniques for using Illustrator 2020, the flagship vector graphics design application from Adobe.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome to One-on-One
1. Documents
  • A first look at Illustrator
  • Opening from the Windows desktop
  • Opening from the Macintosh Finder
  • Introducing the Home screen
  • Creating a new document
  • The units of design: Points and picas
  • The advanced document settings
  • Activate missing fonts
  • Modifying your new document
  • Saving Illustrator artwork
  • Closing open documents on the PC
  • Closing open documents on the Mac
2. Artboards
  • 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
3. Navigate
  • Getting around your artwork
  • Zooming in and out
  • Using the more precise Zoom tool
  • Zooming on a selection
  • GPU Performance and Animated Zoom
  • 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
  • Trim View and Presentation Mode
4. Lines
  • It’s time to draw
  • Guidelines and center guides
  • Positioning guides numerically
  • Using the Line Segment tool
  • Working with and without the bounding box
  • Moving and duplicating objects
  • Select Similar and Global Edit
  • Introducing the Scissors tool
  • Joining your line segments
  • Introducing the Eyedropper tool
  • Using the Arc tool
  • Using the Spiral tool
  • Using the Polar Grid tool
  • Duplicating and scaling spirals
  • Using the Rectangular Grid tool
  • Auto-blending fill colors
  • A preview of shape building
5. Shapes
  • 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
6. Color
  • How color works
  • The color modes: RGB versus CMYK
  • Hue, saturation, and brightness
  • Selecting a color from the spectrum
  • 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
7. Strokes
  • 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
8. Type
  • Text at its best
  • Placing and flowing text
  • Converting between area and point type
  • Modifying the text frame
  • Creating custom margins guides
  • Changing the font and type style
  • Introducing variable fonts
  • Paragraph alignment
  • Type size and leading
  • Dialing in custom variable styles
  • Creating your own custom italics
  • Kerning characters of type
  • Roman Hanging Punctuation
  • Filling and stroking text
9. Building
  • Join and the Shape Builder tool
  • Using the Join command
  • Using the Join tool
  • Object > Path > Outline Stroke
  • 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
10. Pencil
  • Freeform drawing at its best
  • Drawing freeform path outlines
  • The Smooth tool and Path Eraser tool
  • 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
11. Paint
  • The best tools for painting
  • Painting with the Blob Brush tool
  • Fusing path outlines together
  • Blob Brush size and strategies
  • Introducing the Eraser tool
  • Reassigning keyboard shortcuts
  • Painting background paths
  • Erasing all kinds of paths
  • Erasing and smoothing lumps
  • The Blob Brush and the opacity value
  • Painting with a drawing tablet
  • Using the Simplify command
12. Curvature
  • Drawing a path one point at a time
  • Drawing with the Curvature tool
  • Working with smooth and corner points
  • Creating and editing open path outlines
  • Tracing a photographic detail
  • Adding a basic textured fill
  • Shape-building a castle wall
  • A first look at gradients
  • Editing a shape with the Curvature tool
  • A first look at object blends
  • Duplicating and scaling a complex object
  • Drawing a custom letterform
  • Creating a rippling line segment
  • Adding a piece of vector-based clipart
13. Pen
  • The tool that can drawing anything
  • Creating corner points
  • Adding and deleting anchor points
  • How smooth points work
  • Drawing smooth points
  • Drawing cusp points
  • Using the Anchor point tools
  • Real-world drawing with the Pen tool
  • Drawing a very complex path outline
  • Copying and repurpose path segments
  • Drawing a lot with very few points
  • Creating dimension with shadows
  • Shading the eye, ear, and nose
  • Drawing smoothly waving path outlines
14. Corners
  • Making corners smooth
  • The round corner widget
  • Rounding off corner points
  • Changing the corner type
  • Rounding characters of type
  • Absolute versus relative rounding
  • Drawing with rounded rectangles
  • Drawing an iPhone
  • Decorating an iPhone screen
  • Drawing a leather smartphone case
  • Colorizing a line art template
  • Turning corners into organic curves
  • Reshaping rounded paths
15. Screen
  • 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 time-saving tricks
Conclusion
  • Until next time

Taught by

Deke McClelland

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