Adobe illustration 2021 for beginners | Graphics design adobe illustration

Ø Graphics design adobe illustration for beginners

 

Here we learn the basics of Adobe Illustrator.

Now this course is for beginners, there is no need to have any previous

Knowledge in Adobe Illustrator, or design or drawing or illustration.

Start right at the beginning and work our way through,

step by step.

 

adobe illustration 2021

Ø Tips and Techniques:

 

You'll need to create just about anything

in Illustrator, including

·        Custom shapes

·        The wonderful shape builder

·        The simple to us curvature tool

·        Lines and brushes.

 

 

Ø             First up,

 Let's open up a file, find the Exercise Files, Exercise Files Illustrator.

Now find the file called Getting Started, and

then click the Open button.

All right, so the first thing we need to do is we need to reset our workspace,

just so that we're all looking the same.

And we can do it along the top here.

There's this little app bar, okay, and

yours might say something different in here.

But drop this down, and what you want to do is you want to click on Essentials.

You want to see if there's a tick next to it, so click on it.

Penguins

Ø Second step:

 

Go to Reset Essentials.

And that will just put it back to kind of a default setting.

Click and start typing.

So that's going to be a fun game if you're using, say, CS6 or CS5.

So just make sure you have it set to Essentials and that you've reset them.

Next thing, let's look at the units and increments.

And just click off in this grey area here, just so that nothing is selected.

When  select on something, this Properties panel changes.

But when click on the background here, into kinda no-man's-land,

it gives kind of general overall settings for the document.

In this case, it's currently set to centimeters.

Penguins water colour vector

 

Ø Web or  UI design work in Illustrator:

 

·        Click on pixels

·        Pick inches

·        Click on zoom too

·        Hold down the space bar

·        Set up document

Web or UI design work in illustrator

 

Ø Design a mobile phone kind of a website:

 

·        Pick letter

·        Change our units to inches

·        Make it landscape

·        Cover the full differences between RGB and CMYK

 

Mobile phone design

Ø Eventually become a commercial illustrator:

 

You probably need to research a little bit more the differences between the two.

But the short version is just use IGB, even if you go into commercial print,

printers have some amazing software to convert it to IGB,

which they need and often it can give you a better result.

So RGB, perfect for pretty much all circumstances these days.

Let's click create, all right  and save document.

Commercial illustration

 

Go on a Mac, click little arrow to see a few more of the options.

 

Now hand drawn a penguin, and

redraw over the top of it.

Is that it's easier to draw in notebook, take a photo of it or rescan.

And actually just draw on top of it in illustrator.

Space tour illustration

 

Ø So how everyone works?

 

You can go straight into illustrator but it's gonna give us at least template to

draw over the top of, just to make it a bit easier .

So to make that happen, let's go to File and let's go to Place.

Place is the word, it's interchangeable with import.

Illustrator likes to call it Place, though, so File, Place,

we'll bring in our image.

Let's find the exercise files that you've downloaded, and

in there should be one called penguin.jpg.

 

Let's make sure a template is clicked, let's cut and place, and click off in the background.

 

Layer one is where we're gonna do our drawing.

This layer, here, called Template, you can kinda see Template Penguin.

What it's done is, it's created a layer, and has locked it.

 

Ø Draw circles:

 

·        Add some color

·        Go to Act tool

·        Adding fills, messing with strokes, resizing strokes,

     grouping, arranging

·        turn off our trace layer

·        turn the eyeball off

·        clicking the little blue line

·        One thing you will run into is something called isolation mode and

this is where most people get lost in Illustrator.

Circle symbol illustration

 

      Let’s get stuck into the list, tricks to understand the adobe illustration,

·        Don’t be afraid of pen tool

·        Master clipping masks

·        Become one with the Pathfinder Panel

·        Embrace the Appearance Panel

·        Learn how to make brushes

·        Practice layer Panel Zen

·        Fall in love with color

·        Have fun with pattern option

·        Save your Vector art correctly

·        Accept it doesn’t happen overnight