Illustrator Draw: Working Mobile

Course details

With Illustrator Draw—a vector drawing app from Adobe that's a companion to Illustrator—you can create illustrations on your iPhone, iPad, iPad Pro, or Android phone or tablet. In this course, Tony Harmer shows how to get started with this versatile app. Tony explains how to choose and pair a stylus and start drawing using the different brushes available in the app. He demonstrates how to choose colors, use French curves, and work with both draw layers and image layers. He also takes you through advanced drawing techniques such as using blend modes and several drawing tips. To wrap up the course, he goes beyond Illustrator Draw and explains how to send your work to Illustrator, Photoshop, and Behance.

Learning objectives
Choosing a stylus
Using the basic round, taper, and flat brushes
Changing brush behavior
Choosing colors from the Color Picker
Using stamps
Adding a draw layer and an image layer
Using Capture to make a shape
Using drawings from other apps

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome
02 - Adobe Ideas, Adobe Line, and Illustrator Draw
03 - Draw What is it good for
04 - Connected Creative Cloud
05 - Exercise files
06 - What the author is using in this course
07 - Feature support (March 2017)

1. Getting Started

08 - Signing in to Draw
09 - Built-in tutorials
10 - Inspiration from the community gallery
11 - Interface tour - Projects and drawings
12 - Interface tour - The drawing interface

2. Using a Stylus

13 - Your native tools vs. a stylus
14 - What to look for when choosing your stylus
15 - Pairing a stylus

3. Starting Out Drawing

16 - The basic round brush
17 - The basic taper brush
18 - The basic flat brush
19 - The basic chisel brush
20 - The Eraser tool
21 - Changing brush behavior
22 - Changing brush size and opacity
23 - Brushes in practice

4. Colors

24 - Choosing colors from the Color Picker
25 - Using color harmonies
26 - Accessing color themes
27 - Colors in CC libraries
28 - Colors from the screen

5. Drawing Assistance

29 - Using Touch Slide
30 - Using the basic shapes and polygons
31 - Using the French curves
32 - Using stamps
33 - Shapes from CC libraries
34 - Adding a grid
35 - Adding a perspective grid
36 - Editing or disabling a grid
37 - Snapping behaviors

6. Draw Layers

38 - Adding a draw layer
39 - Naming a layer
40 - Changing layer opacity
41 - Transforming layer contents
42 - Deleting or duplicating a layer
43 - Merging layers
44 - Drawing exercise with transformations

7. Image Layers

45 - Adding an image layer
46 - Transforming an image layer
47 - Perspective from image layers
48 - Using image layers from other apps
49 - Using image layers for tracing

8. Advanced Drawing Techniques

50 - What are blend modes
51 - Layer strategies
52 - Instant fills and deletions
53 - Changing the color of objects
54 - Drawing exercise

9. Beyond Illustrator Draw

55 - Using Capture to make a shape
56 - Using drawings in other apps
57 - Sending your work to Illustrator
58 - Sending your work to Photoshop
59 - Sharing your work to Behance
60 - Other sharing options

Conclusion

61 - Deliberate practice
62 - Keep Up-To-Date
63 - Bye for now