Adobe & Design Private On-Demand

Illustrator Training (ILL.CERT)

3 days
Illustrator

Learn to create, organize, and refine professional vector artwork with Adobe Illustrator.

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Price per student
$149.85 or 3 vouchers
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  • Readings, Video Presentations, Exercises
  • Quizzes to knowledge check
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Course Overview

Learn to create, organize, and refine professional vector artwork with Adobe Illustrator. This course introduces the Illustrator interface and essential drawing tools, then builds practical skills for working with shapes, colors, layers, artboards, typography, paths, brushes, gradients, patterns, and reusable design components. Hands-on exercises throughout the course give you opportunities to apply these tools while developing complete design projects.

You will also explore advanced Illustrator features such as Pathfinder, Shape Builder, Live Paint, Intertwine, graphic styles, linked and embedded content, CC Libraries, and Adobe Firefly-powered generative tools for recoloring, vector creation, and pattern generation. By the end of the course, you will be able to prepare artwork for sharing, printing, exporting, and packaging while applying fundamental design-industry concepts related to composition, typography, copyright, client goals, and project management.

Course Benefits

  • Navigate the Illustrator interface and configure documents, preferences, guides, grids, and artboards.
  • Create and modify vector artwork using shapes, drawing modes, selection tools, the Pencil tool, and the Pen tool.
  • Apply colors, swatches, fills, strokes, gradients, brushes, patterns, and graphic styles to artwork.
  • Organize complex projects with layers, grouped objects, multiple artboards, and reusable design components.
  • Build and reshape artwork using Pathfinder, Shape Builder, Live Paint, transformation tools, and alignment controls.
  • Create and format typography using text styles, tab stops, glyphs, variable fonts, and outlined type.
  • Use Adobe Firefly and generative Illustrator features to recolor artwork and generate vectors and patterns.
  • Import, link, embed, and reuse artwork, text, styles, brushes, and Creative Cloud Library assets.
  • Proof, print, export, package, and prepare Illustrator projects for different delivery formats.
  • Apply design-industry fundamentals including client and audience considerations, visual composition, typography, copyright, licensing, and basic project management.

Delivery Methods

Private Class
Delivered for your team at your site or online.
On-Demand
Learn at your own pace with 24/7 access.

Course Outline

  1. The Illustrator Interface
    1. Illustrator Home Screen
    2. Creating New Documents
    3. Inserting a Shape
    4. The Illustrator Interface
    5. Setting Preferences
    6. Zooming
    7. Panning
    8. Rulers, Guides, and Grids
    9. Firefly and Generative AI in Illustrator
    10. Contextual Task Bar and Generative Menu
  2. Getting Started
    1. Creating a Project
    2. Create New Document (Exercise)
    3. Creating Basic Shapes
    4. Selection
    5. Creating and Modifying Shapes (Exercise)
    6. Using Drawing Modes
    7. The Alignment Tools
    8. Draw Components of the Project (Exercise)
    9. Working with Colors
    10. Working with Swatches
    11. Fill and Stroke Attributes
    12. Generative Recolor
    13. Format Artwork (Exercise)
  3. Organizing a Project
    1. Organizing a Project
    2. Work with Layers (Exercise)
    3. Artboards
    4. Artboards and Duplication (Exercise)
  4. Creating Advanced Illustrations
    1. The Pencil and Pen Tools
    2. Drawing with the Pencil Tool (Exercise)
    3. More on the Pen Tool
    4. Drawing with the Pen Tool (Exercise)
    5. Using the Line Tools
    6. Adding Spirals (Exercise)
    7. Transforming Objects
    8. Align and Distribute Objects
    9. Tools for Reshaping
    10. Intertwine
    11. Working with Grouped Objects
    12. Manipulate Project Components (Exercise)
    13. Generating Vectors and Patterns
  5. Advanced Management of Shapes
    1. Appearance Panel
    2. Appearance Panel (Exercise)
    3. Working with Pathfinder
    4. Working with Shape Builder Tool
    5. Path and Shape Builder Tools (Exercise)
    6. Live Paint
    7. The Paintbrush Tool
    8. Creating Patterns
    9. Brushes and Patterns (Exercise)
    10. Using Gradient Tools
    11. Gradients (Exercise)
    12. Working with Graphic Styles
    13. Styles (Exercise)
    14. The Mockup Tool
  6. Working with Type
    1. Working with Type
    2. Format Text
    3. Creating Types of Text (Exercise)
    4. Working with Styles
    5. Using Tab Stops
    6. Styles and Tabs (Exercise)
    7. Working with Glyphs
    8. Variable Fonts
    9. Converting Type to Outlines
    10. Type to Outlines (Exercise)
  7. Managing Project Components
    1. Project Components
    2. CC Libraries and Share for Review
    3. Custom Art Brush
    4. Reuse (Exercise)
    5. Import Text and Thread Text Frames
    6. Import Styles
    7. Import Artwork
    8. Import (Exercise)
    9. Manage Linked and Embedded Project Components
    10. Working with Linked Content (Exercise)
  8. Sharing Your Project
    1. Proofing Your Project
    2. Preview Project
    3. Proof (Exercise)
    4. Printing
    5. Export Options
    6. Save for Video
    7. Package a Project
  9. Working in the Design Industry
    1. Client Goals and Audience
    2. Communicating about Design Plans
    3. Basic Project Management Concepts for Designers
    4. Copyright, Permissions, and Licensing
    5. Digital Image Terminology
    6. Typography
    7. Visual Composition

Class Materials

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

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