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Digitize Your Lettering with Adobe Illustrator

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Overview

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I'm sharing my process for digitizing my lettering and bonus!! simple illustrations, using my preferred program, Adobe Illustrator. I'll walk you through how to use lettering on paper or from Procreate or a similar iPad drawing app.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

Digital lettering and artwork is EVERYWHERE! If you have a dream of creating your own logo or designing for products, you'll need...

  • To be familiar with basic controls and tools in Illustrator
  • How to image trace your artwork FAST and efficiently
  • How to manipulate your art to look streamlined and professional
  • How to recolor your artwork from a custom color palette, and add finishing touches
  • The importance of saving your file properly
  • BONUS: simple illustrations to take your art to the next level

This course is designed to give you confidence to learn the basics of Illustrator. By the end of this class, you'll have a wonderful jumping off point for familiarizing yourself with AI and know you can move forward to learn even more advanced techniques inside the program.

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Syllabus

  • Introduction to Digitize Your Lettering
  • Lesson 1: Starting with Pen and Paper
  • Lesson 2: Starting with Procreate
  • Lesson 3: Getting Started with Illustrator
  • Lesson 4: Image Trace your Lettering
  • Lesson 5: Smooth Tool + Pen Tool Functions
  • Lesson 6: Add Color and Other Touches
  • Lesson 7: Save Your Files
  • BONUS: Digitize Simple Illustrations

Taught by

Kiley Bennett

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