Illustrator Draw: Working Mobile

Introduction

• Welcome
• Adobe Ideas, Adobe Line, and Illustrator Draw
• Draw! What is it good for?
• Connected Creative Cloud
• Exercise files
• What the author is using in this course
• Feature support (March 2017)

1. Getting Started

• Signing in to Draw
• Built-in tutorials
• Inspiration from the community gallery
• Interface tour: Projects and drawings
• Interface tour: The drawing interface

2. Using a Stylus

• Your native tools vs. a stylus
• What to look for when choosing your stylus
• Pairing a stylus

3. Starting Out Drawing

• The basic round brush
• The basic taper brush
• The basic flat brush
• The basic chisel brush
• The Eraser tool
• Changing brush behavior
• Changing brush size and opacity
• Brushes in practice

4. Colors

• Choosing colors from the Color Picker
• Using color harmonies
• Accessing color themes
• Colors in CC libraries
• Colors from the screen

5. Drawing Assistance

• Using Touch Slide
• Using the basic shapes and polygons
• Using the French curves
• Using stamps
• Shapes from CC libraries
• Adding a grid
• Adding a perspective grid
• Editing or disabling a grid
• Snapping behaviors

6. Draw Layers

• Adding a draw layer
• Naming a layer
• Changing layer opacity
• Transforming layer contents
• Deleting or duplicating a layer
• Merging layers
• Drawing exercise with transformations

7. Image Layers

• Adding an image layer
• Transforming an image layer
• Perspective from image layers
• Using image layers from other apps
• Using image layers for tracing

8. Advanced Drawing Techniques

• What are blend modes?
• Layer strategies
• Instant fills and deletions
• Changing the color of objects
• Drawing exercise

9. Beyond Illustrator Draw

• Using Capture to make a shape
• Using drawings in other apps
• Sending your work to Illustrator
• Sending your work to Photoshop
• Sharing your work to Behance
• Other sharing options

Conclusion

• Deliberate practice
• Keep Up-To-Date
• Bye for now!