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Adobe Illustrator Essentials for Character Design

Do you want to learn how to use Adobe Illustrator to Design and Present your characters? Well, what can I say, you are reading this, and that means that you are interested in learning Adobe Illustr...

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Course Description

Do you want to learn how to use Adobe Illustrator to Design and Present your characters? Well, what can I say, you are reading this, and that means that you are interested in learning Adobe Illustrator. It also means that probably you looked for free tutorials on the internet on how to use it, and picked up some tips here and there, but you are looking for an organized course that guides you th...

Do you want to learn how to use Adobe Illustrator to Design and Present your characters? Well, what can I say, you are reading this, and that means that you are interested in learning Adobe Illustrator. It also means that probably you looked for free tutorials on the internet on how to use it, and picked up some tips here and there, but you are looking for an organized course that guides you through this awesome software step by step. This course is for either character designers or animators who want to learn the basics of this software to use the new set of skills on their projects.

What you’ll learn
  • All the basic interface, and navigations.
  • All the essential panels.
  • Then the drawings tools.
  • What tools to use if you have a Wacom Tablet, or for those who don’t have a drawing tablet, then what tools to use when designing with a mouse.
  • All the basic drawing tools in detail
  • How to create a color palette
  • How to paint your work using the live paint feature
  • How to add shadows and highlights easily

Covering Topics

1
Section 1 : Introduction
2
Section 2 : Essential Tools and Options
3
Section 3 : Drawing Tools
4
Section 4 : Painting Tools
5
Section 5 : Tracing a Character Tutorial

Curriculum

      Section 1 : Introduction
1
Introduction and Overview Preview
2
Download Project Files Here
3
Downloading Illustrator
4
Setting up the Workspace
5
Creating a New Project
6
Zoom and Navigation
7
Difference Between Vectors and Pixels
      Section 2 : Essential Tools and Options
8
Selection Tools Preview
9
Transforming Shapes With The Selection Tools
10
Paths, Fills and Strokes
11
Stroke Caps and Corners
12
Variable Stroke Width
13
Anchor Points
14
Bezier Handles and Anchors
15
Expanded Strokes
16
Layers Panel
17
Layer Contents and Groups
      Section 3 : Drawing Tools
18
The Pencil Tool Preview
19
Modifying a Line with the Pencil Tool
20
The Pen Tool
21
The PaintBrush Tool
22
The Blob Brush Tool
23
The Smooth Tool
24
Text Tool
25
Convert Text to Path or Vector
      Section 4 : Painting Tools
26
Creating a Color Palette Preview
27
Expand Appearance
28
Live Paint
29
Convert Live Paint into Paths
30
Recolor Artwork
31
Adding Shadows with the Knife Tool
      Section 5 : Tracing a Character Tutorial
32
Introduction to Tracing a Character Tutorial Preview
33
Importing Images
34
Prepare Image for Tracing
35
Outlining a Character
36
Cleaning The Lines
37
Coloring the Character
38
Shading the Character - Adding shadow and Highlights
39
Challeng

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