Basic Shapes and Transformation Tools

Manipulating Paths

• Student Work - creative shape examples
• Videos
  • Video - Manipulating Paths in Illustrator
  • Video - Path Adjusting Power User Tricks
  • Video - Placing a Sketch for Tracing in Illustrator

The Pen Tool

• Videos
  • Video - Pen Tool Tutorial
  • Video - Pen Tool Helpful Hints
  • Video - Pen Tool - The Other Stuff

More Pen Tool

• Videos:
  • Video - Pen tool review
  • Video - Dinosaur 1 video
  • Video - Dinosaurs 2-5
• Student Work - Still life illustration

In Depth Fill and Stroke

• Videos:
  • Video - Color Theory and Adobe Illustrator
  • Video - Gradients in Adobe Illustrator
  • Video - Drawing the Easter Island head
  • Video - Expert draws a pirate skull

The Type Tool

• Videos:
  • Video - The Character Panel
  • Video - Type on a Path

Type Outlines and Compound Paths

• Videos:
  • Video - Type - Create Outlines
  • Video - Compound Paths
• Optional Videos:
  • Video - Making the Gold Ring
  • Video - Making the Coffee Cup
• Student Work - Label Designs

Blend Tool

• Optional Videos:
  • Video - How to draw the picket fence
  • Video - How to draw the caterpillar

Gradient Mesh

• My Pinterest mesh board
• Videos:
  • Video: Gradient Mesh Pepper
  • Video: Gradient Mesh Pepper Background

Shape Builder Tool & Pathfinder and Effects

• Student Work - icon sets
• My Behance collection of icon sets

Web Images

• Handout - Illustrator and Web Images (pdf)

Final Project

• Student work - Animal Illustration

Course Content and schedule are subject to change