Adobe Illustrator CC - Advanced (ILL201)

Take your Illustrator expertise to the next level with this advanced course delving into intricate illustration techniques. Elevate your designs by mastering grids and guides, complex shape combinations, layers, and perspective drawing. Enhance your workflow with in-depth exploration of painting tools, transparency, blending modes, meshes, and patterns. Discover sophisticated color customization, advanced type formatting, and the power of effects, graphic styles, masks, and symbols. Finally, learn professional best practices for preparing artwork across print, web, video, and other applications, while ensuring compliance with copyright and project management principles.

1. Drawing Complex Illustrations
   1. Apply the Grid, Guides, and Info Panel
   2. Combine Objects to Create Complex Illustrations
   3. Organize Artwork with Layers
   4. Create a Perspective Drawing
   5. Trace Artwork
2. Enhancing Artwork Using Painting Tools
   1. Paint Objects Using Fills and Strokes
   2. Paint Objects Using Live Paint Groups
   3. Paint with Custom Brushes
   4. Add Transparency and Blending Modes
   5. Apply Meshes to Objects
   6. Apply Patterns
3. Customizing Colors and Swatches
   1. Manage Colors
   2. Customize Swatches
   3. Manage Color Groups
   4. Adjust Color
4. Formatting Type
   1. Set Character Formats
   2. Apply Advanced Formatting Options to Type
5. Enhancing the Appearance of Artwork
   1. Apply Effects to an Object
   2. Create Graphic Styles
   3. Apply a Mask to an Object
   4. Apply Symbols and Symbol Sets
   5. Work with 3D Objects
6. Preparing Content for Deployment
   1. Prepare Artwork for Printing
   2. Prepare Transparency and Colors for Printing
   3. Create Slices and Image Maps
   4. Save Graphics for the Web
   5. Prepare Documents for Video
   6. Prepare Files for Other Applications
7. Setting Project Requirements
   1. Identify the Purpose, Audience, and Audience Needs
   2. Determine and Evaluate Standard Copyright Rules for Artwork, Graphics, and Graphics Use
   3. Determine and Evaluate Project Management Tasks and Responsibilities

Each student receives a comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all class examples.

Experience in the following is required for this Illustrator class: