Illustrator Advanced Course

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Illustrator Advanced

Our Advanced Illustrator course lets you build on your existing skills and explore some of the more advanced techniques available when working with this increasingly powerful software package.

Whether you’re a large corporation or a small studio, you can take advantage of the power of Illustrator CC to create distinctive vector artwork, using features like the gradient mesh tool, perspective drawing, beautiful strokes and lots more.

Illustrator CC Advanced Techniques is focused on people who have used Illustrator for some time, or have already attended our beginners Illustrator training course.

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£495.00

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The Advanced Illustrator course covers a wide range of topics and we try hard to ensure any specific requirements you might have are met. The standard topics we cover are listed below.

Illustrator Advanced Techniques

Symbols

  • Creating symbols
  • Editing symbols
  • Saving symbols
  • Using the symbol tools

LivePaint groups

  • LivePaint groups
  • Detecting Gaps
  • Painting strokes and fills
  • Live paint bucket and Live paint selection tools

Blob brush tool

  • Painting with the blob brush
  • Merging and keep selected options
  • Tolerances and options

Perspective Grid Tool

  • Introduction
  • Presets and settings
  • Drawing in perspective
  • Attaching & releasing objects
  • Bringing in objects
  • Selecting objects
  • Transforming objects
  • Adding text and symbols

Colour

  • Recolouring your artwork
  • Creating swatches from your artwork
  • Applying swatches to your artwork
  • Colour groups

Gradients

  • Creating gradients
  • Applying gradients to shapes
  • Applying gradients to strokes
  • - along the length, across the width, within the stroke

Gradient Mesh

  • Creating mesh objects
  • Editing mesh objects
  • Mesh points and mesh patches
  • Using transparency

Tracing Images

  • Image trace
  • Presets
  • Mode
  • Using a palette
  • advanced options

Brushes

  • Art brushes
  • Scatter brushes
  • Bristle brushes
  • Pattern brushes

Custom Brushes

  • Creating your own brushes
  • Using your custom brushes

Patterns

  • Defining your pattern
  • Creating your pattern
  • Applying your pattern

The Appearance Panel

  • Organising your effects
  • Moving your effects
  • Multiple strokes
  • Multiple fills

The Illustrator Advanced Techniques course introduces a wide range of more advanced skills for those who already have some experience of using Adobe Illustrator

You will learn

  • A variety of shortcuts to enable you to work more effectively
  • How to make your own symbols and use them properly
  • To quickly re-colour your artwork
  • How to create artwork in perspective
  • To create and work with colour groups
  • How to create your own custom brushes and use them properly
  • How to use the Gradient Mesh tool to make your artwork more realsitic
  • To trace photographs and convert them to vector shapes
  • How to create your own patterns and how to use them
  • How to apply mulitple effects and multiple strokes and fills onto your shapes

Who should attend this course

This Illustrator course is suitable for anybody who already has experience of working with Illustrator. You should have already attended our Illustrator Getting Started training course or have equivalent experience.

If you are unsure which Illustrator course is most suitable then why not try our free Illustrator Skills Test to help you test your current skills.

Comments from delegates that attended

"Very good, answered all questions, engaged and knowledgeable, pleasant, welcoming friendly"
Comms Officer, NHS

"very knowledgeable and very creative in answering questions - very inventive at teaching certain techniques which helped me too understand easier"
Contractor, daBOOM

"Alex was a good teacher & engaging. I found that he went through things at our pace & was helpful with questions we had."
Design Technician, First City Care

"Good, able to be flexible to respond to desired subjects from participants"
Senior Design Manager, Nokia

"Clear and concise content, easy to follow, trainer happy to discuss specific areas relevant to each trainee."
Originations Project Manager, FFP

"Really great training experience - I learnt a lot! He is a great teacher, easy-going, open to questions and very patient."
Senior Comms Officer, Southern Health NHS

"Brilliant! Very helpful and taught at a pace that we could all keep up"
Operations Manager, UAN

"Always asking if we understand and willing to help when we had questions"
Print Services, Litmus

"He is a knowledgeable instructor and was happy to answer any questions I had. I'd highly recommend the courses to anyone looking to further their knowledge of Illustrator."
Marketing Graphic Designer, Deep Sea Electronics

"Great, very useful and informative..thank you. Would highly recommend him in the future."
Print Graphic Designer, Lipsy

"It was detailed but also allowed plenty of time to practice what we learned."
Motion Graphics Designer, Bank of England

The Advanced Illustrator course covers a wide range of topics and we try hard to ensure any specific requirements you might have are met. The standard topics we cover are listed below.

Illustrator Advanced Techniques

Symbols

  • Creating symbols
  • Editing symbols
  • Saving symbols
  • Using the symbol tools

LivePaint groups

  • LivePaint groups
  • Detecting Gaps
  • Painting strokes and fills
  • Live paint bucket and Live paint selection tools

Blob brush tool

  • Painting with the blob brush
  • Merging and keep selected options
  • Tolerances and options

Perspective Grid Tool

  • Introduction
  • Presets and settings
  • Drawing in perspective
  • Attaching & releasing objects
  • Bringing in objects
  • Selecting objects
  • Transforming objects
  • Adding text and symbols

Colour

  • Recolouring your artwork
  • Creating swatches from your artwork
  • Applying swatches to your artwork
  • Colour groups

Gradients

  • Creating gradients
  • Applying gradients to shapes
  • Applying gradients to strokes
  • - along the length, across the width, within the stroke

Gradient Mesh

  • Creating mesh objects
  • Editing mesh objects
  • Mesh points and mesh patches
  • Using transparency

Tracing Images

  • Image trace
  • Presets
  • Mode
  • Using a palette
  • advanced options

Brushes

  • Art brushes
  • Scatter brushes
  • Bristle brushes
  • Pattern brushes

Custom Brushes

  • Creating your own brushes
  • Using your custom brushes

Patterns

  • Defining your pattern
  • Creating your pattern
  • Applying your pattern

The Appearance Panel

  • Organising your effects
  • Moving your effects
  • Multiple strokes
  • Multiple fills

The Illustrator Advanced Techniques course introduces a wide range of more advanced skills for those who already have some experience of using Adobe Illustrator

You will learn

  • A variety of shortcuts to enable you to work more effectively
  • How to make your own symbols and use them properly
  • To quickly re-colour your artwork
  • How to create artwork in perspective
  • To create and work with colour groups
  • How to create your own custom brushes and use them properly
  • How to use the Gradient Mesh tool to make your artwork more realsitic
  • To trace photographs and convert them to vector shapes
  • How to create your own patterns and how to use them
  • How to apply mulitple effects and multiple strokes and fills onto your shapes

Who should attend this course

This Illustrator course is suitable for anybody who already has experience of working with Illustrator. You should have already attended our Illustrator Getting Started training course or have equivalent experience.

If you are unsure which Illustrator course is most suitable then why not try our free Illustrator Skills Test to help you test your current skills.

Comments from delegates that attended

"Very good, answered all questions, engaged and knowledgeable, pleasant, welcoming friendly"
Comms Officer, NHS

"very knowledgeable and very creative in answering questions - very inventive at teaching certain techniques which helped me too understand easier"
Contractor, daBOOM

"Alex was a good teacher & engaging. I found that he went through things at our pace & was helpful with questions we had."
Design Technician, First City Care

"Good, able to be flexible to respond to desired subjects from participants"
Senior Design Manager, Nokia

"Clear and concise content, easy to follow, trainer happy to discuss specific areas relevant to each trainee."
Originations Project Manager, FFP

"Really great training experience - I learnt a lot! He is a great teacher, easy-going, open to questions and very patient."
Senior Comms Officer, Southern Health NHS

"Brilliant! Very helpful and taught at a pace that we could all keep up"
Operations Manager, UAN

"Always asking if we understand and willing to help when we had questions"
Print Services, Litmus

"He is a knowledgeable instructor and was happy to answer any questions I had. I'd highly recommend the courses to anyone looking to further their knowledge of Illustrator."
Marketing Graphic Designer, Deep Sea Electronics

"Great, very useful and informative..thank you. Would highly recommend him in the future."
Print Graphic Designer, Lipsy

"It was detailed but also allowed plenty of time to practice what we learned."
Motion Graphics Designer, Bank of England

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