Lynda – Illustrator CC 2018 One-on-One Fundamentals

Design and create amazing works of art using Adobe Illustrator CC 2018, the powerful vector-based drawing program. This comprehensive training is the first in a series of three courses by industry pro Deke McClelland. Learn how to work with artboards; how to draw anything you can imagine with the Pen, Pencil, and Curvature tools; and how to start adding color to your artwork with swatches. Deke also covers drawing shapes, adjusting strokes, formatting text, and painting digitally, with or without a tablet. Each chapter should leave you with a new set of skills - and a sense of accomplishment.

As Creative Cloud evolves, this course gets updated. Check back for new videos, new feature reviews, and new ways to work.

Topics include:

• Opening, creating, saving, and closing documents
  
• Working with artboards
  
• Zooming and panning
  
• Drawing lines, arcs, grids, and spirals
  
• Drawing shapes
  
• Creating compound paths
  
• Working in RGB vs. CMYK color modes
  
• Creating and applying swatches
  
• Adjusting the line weight of strokes
  
• Formatting text
  
• Building custom paths with the Shape Builder and Join tools
  
• Freeform drawing with the Pencil
  
• Painting and erasing artwork
  
• Drawing with the Curvature tool
  
• Reshaping rounded paths
  
• Making screen graphics