Introducing Illustrator

You’ve heard Adobe Illustrator is the most powerful drawing program on the planet. But every time you launch the program, you can’t figure out how to make even a simple drawing. In this course, acclaimed instructor and Illustrator expert Deke McClelland will teach you the most essential stuff you need to know, in the order you need to know it. You can learn how to comprehend the interface, manage artboards, and draw a perfectly smooth curve just to your liking. You can also learn how to make complex shapes from simpler ones, apply your intended color and appearance, and create any text that you need. Illustrator can be fun, and by the end of this course, the program will be your reliable ally for creating the illustration you want.

Topics include:
Creating a new Illustrator document
Resizing artboards and setting guides
Drawing a perfectly smooth curve
Creating and formatting text
Applying color and other visual attributes
Building complex shapes from easy, simple ones
Managing paths so they behave the way you want
Using the Transform command for talent-free drawing
Adjusting paths and moving anchor points
Drawing with the Pen tool
Tracing existing illustrations or photos inside Illustrator
Using Live Paint better than some experts do