Adobe Illustrator CC - Advanced

Adobe Illustrator CC - Advanced (ILL201)

Course Length: 1 day
Delivery Methods: Multiple delivery options
Course Overview

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.

Course Benefits
  • Use Adobe Illustrator to create complex illustrations, format illustrations and type, and prepare documents for print and web.
  • Draw complex illustrations.
  • Enhance artwork using painting tools.
  • Customize colors and swatches.
  • Format type.
  • Enhance the appearance of artwork.
  • Prepare content for deployment.
  • Set up project requirements.
Available Delivery Methods
Public Class
Public expert-led online training from the convenience of your home, office or anywhere with an internet connection. Guaranteed to run .
Private Class
Private classes are delivered for groups at your offices or a location of your choice.
Course Outline
  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
Class Materials

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

Class Prerequisites

Experience in the following is required for this Illustrator class:

Basic Illustrator Skills

Prerequisite Courses

Courses that can help you meet these prerequisites:

Live Public Class
$387.10 / student
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Live Private Class
  • Private Class for your Team
  • Live training
  • Online or On-location
  • Customizable
  • Expert Instructors
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