Adobe illustrator training. Adobe Illustrator Course

Over a hundred Adobe Illustrator lessons have accumulated on our blog. And looking at all this wealth, I somehow thought that a full-fledged course could turn out. You just need to select lessons from simple to complex with topics that cover the basic functionality of Illustrator as much as possible. That's how the free course for beginners "Adobe Illustrator Fundamentals" appeared.

The first enrollment for the course "Fundamentals of Adobe Illustrator" has already been successfully completed. You can find all classes, homework for them, as well as the results and feedback from students in the vk group - Fundamentals of Adobe Illustrator.

The course is now available for individual study. You can study without a group on your own at a pace that suits you. The Adobe Illustrator Fundamentals course is very easy to understand. Each lesson will take 30-60 minutes to complete. And you will master the basic functionality of Adobe Illustrator quickly and easily.

All lessons of the course "Fundamentals of Adobe Illustrator" are made for the English version of Illustrator. If you have a Russified version, then here you can download the translation of the menu and commands - press me. But it's actually better to learn from the English version of Ai, because most of information on the web is laid out according to the original Illustrator. According to the Russian-language version, there are fewer lessons and instructions.

The Adobe Illustrator Fundamentals course is free. But if you like the lessons, you can help in the development of our project - make reposts and tell your friends.

Below you can find the lesson plan. Follow the links to the lessons and good luck in your creative endeavors.

Adobe Illustrator Fundamentals - Course Outline:

In this tutorial, we'll get started with Adobe Illustrator. Via simple figures and some tricks we will draw a heart shaped icon.

In this tutorial we will draw a character, a cute girl in Flat style. Rectangles, ellipses and triangles - this will be enough to complete the task. And at the end, add some text.

It's time to work with color. We will draw an owl icon and choose colors for the illustration. Adobe Illustrator has a lot of interesting gadgets for this.

In this tutorial we will work with gradient fills, transparency and blending modes. To do this, Illustrator uses the Gradient and Transparency panels.

Gradient Mesh is a very powerful tool in Adobe Illustrator. You can do a lot of cool visual effects with a mesh, and of course realism in the illustration.

In this tutorial, we will learn how 3d effects work in Adobe Illustrator. With the help of simple modeling, you can create a 3D image of a mug with a funny smiley.

In this tutorial, we'll take a look at the Appearance panel in Adobe Illustrator. Yes, yes, this is the same panel, thanks to which you can make graphic styles.

You can do a lot with symbols. interesting things in Illustrator. In this tutorial we will create a winter background with snowflakes. And the symbols will help us a lot in this.

In this tutorial we will draw a mandala using the Pattern Brush. To be honest, you can’t call it drawing, because we will build the mandala on a circle using the capabilities of a brush.

10. Seamless patterns in Adobe Illustrator
This time, follow the link for a video tutorial on how to make a pattern in Ai. The topic of seamless textures in Illustrator is quite extensive, so I chose the video format for this tutorial.

It looks like you are ready to draw something cool. I propose to make an illustration of a drone from the movie Oblivion. The Flat style suits the theme well, and the oblique shadows add drama.

Course support

If you have any questions, then ask them in the comments to the lessons. I am happy to advise and help in difficult moments.

If you want me to check your illustrations for lessons, then the course provides paid support. As part of this support, you will be able to send your vector files to me by email. I will give feedback what turned out well, and where it is worth tightening up or even correcting technical errors in the vector. If your goal is to pass the exam on Shuttesrtock or other microstocks, then I will check your exam papers and help you pass the exam. So if you really need support on the course, then the button is below. On the payment page, select the currency that is convenient for you, the payment method and fill in the contact information.

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Evening groups -Classes are required to attend 2 times a week on weekdays from 19.00 to 22.00
Day groups -Classes are required to attend 2 times a week on weekdays from 14.00 to 17.00
Weekend group -Classes are required to attend on Saturdays from 12:00 to 18:00. State exam - work with your first customer.
Professional Retraining Diploma.
Employment - Design Bureau of the Russian State University. A.N. Kosygin.

Profession illustrator

The main thing in the profession of an illustrator is the ability and desire to draw. Unlike many other design specializations, this job does not require a narrow-profile knowledge. Mastering the specialty of an illustrator is quite within the power of anyone who loves and knows how to draw. A new career path for an illustrator can be a creative team leader or director of an art agency.

The curriculum includes master classes:

"Creating comics" and "Creating illustrations" leading Russian and foreign comics artists and illustrators.
Master classes will be held monthly, the presenters will be announced within school year. You can get acquainted with the participants of last year's master classes and their topics on our website. Also, for graphic designers-illustrators, it is recommended to attend master classes in the "Photo Artist" program and in the "Graphic Design" program. All workshops are free for our students.

Courses Graphic designer - illustrator. Academic plan.

Name of sections and disciplines	Clock	Teacher
Must-see items:	376
Information technology in design: Adobe Photoshop CC. Adobe Illustrator 2000-18. Adobe Design.	76	Dankov A. Petrov N.M. Panov R.S. Murashkin I.S. Belikova Zoya Chernikovich Ilya
Comic book creation Scenario. Storyboard, scene sketches and character development. Leaf composition. The basis. Drawing. Coloring. Metranpage.	40	Velitov Alim
Development of printing products and preparation of advertising and graphic materials for printing. Technologies and materials in printing industry. Formation of the book as a system. Modular grid. Measurement systems in polygraphy.	24	Murashkin I.S. Belikova Zoya Dragunskaya I.D. Chernikovich Ilya
The Psychology of Perception. Stereotypes and archetypes, their use in design. Psychological patterns of visual perception. visual illusions. Psychology of perception of form and color.	12	Volodina E.B.
Drawing and Painting. Linear and observational perspective. sighting. Drawing of simple geometric shapes. Hatching, tone stretching. Graphic drawing, ink drawing. Sketches. Still life. Plans. Stylization. Work with gouache, acrylic.	72	Kolpakova A.Yu. Titova O.A. Bulanova A.E. Kalinicheva A.
Composition and Color Science. composition tools. Form, elements of shaping. Equilibrium. The law of unity and subordination. Physics of color. Physiology of color. Color circle.	48	Shubina A.V. Volodina E.B.
History of Graphic Design. Book-classical visual culture.	16	Belikova Zoya
Creativity management and development of an advertising and graphic product. Principles for solving creative problems. Brain maps. Brainstorm. Synectic assault. Method of focal objects. Morphological analysis. General principles advertising concept development.	20	Khokhlovkin D.V. Belikova Zoya Chernikovich Ilya
Typography. Story. Parts of a letter. Antiqua. Point, line, plane. Unity of text and form. Font and image.	20	Murashkin I.S. Belikova Zoya Dragunskaya I.D. Chernikovich Ilya
Branding. Logo and corporate identity. Image and sign. Types and functions of logos. Stages of creating a logo. Modern trends in the construction of the logo. Basic elements of corporate identity. Brandbook.	12	Khokhlovkin D.V. Belikova Zoya Chernikovich Ilya
Disciplines that we recommend that you attend optional: The structure of the creative department and step-by-step production technology creative works, Packaging, Creation of comics, 3ds Max, Creation of website design. Additional classes in Drawing, Painting and Information technology in design.	180
Independent work	164
Master classes: Advertising development, Portfolio creation.	8	Vadim Petrov Alexander Nuvariev
Final qualifying work. Themes: 1. Illustrations, design and layout of the book. 2. Illustrations, design and layout of the magazine. 3. Development and layout of the comic. 4. Development and layout of a series of greeting cards. 5. Creation of storyboards for a series of commercials.	32	Khokhlovkin D.V. Belikova Zoya
graduation protection qualifying work	4
Total:	720

The essence of the profession of an illustrator:

A modern illustrator is not only an artist who creates drawings for the text of books or makes a storyboard (a series of drawings) for films and cartoons. Today, illustrators are also engaged in storyboarding commercials (they make so-called storyboards), create illustrations for Internet sites, wallpapers (wallpapers), web icons and avatars.

The customer (most often, a publishing house editor or manager) studies the portfolio, chooses an illustrator, sends a text to be illustrated, or briefly retells its content and describes the wishes general. He may ask to depict the characters of the material or the situation, prescribe to the illustrator the style of clothing and interior or the degree of dressing of the characters. Sometimes you have to reckon with the restrictions set by the publication's lawyers: the publisher may prohibit depicting famous people in a distorted form or insist on the image of a certain age group.

The editor will never write a lengthy letter describing the plot: "A girl in a green dress, standing with her foot on the bottom step, while the other rests on a rug, in right hand holds a glass, in the left - and a cigarette, about 3 cm from the nose ... "

In a children's book, the unity of the cognitive, moral and aesthetic principles is especially important. The active influence of the illustrated book on the emerging aesthetic taste of the child, on his imagination and fantasy sets high creative tasks for the artist. When illustrating children's books, the main artistic method is the figurative disclosure of content, the use of metaphorical means, since figurativeness lies in the nature of children's thinking. Figurative means stimulate the development of imagination in children, form their emotions, and bring up a culture of perception.

The principles of design and illustration of books are primarily due to age characteristics children's perception. For each of the age stages that a child goes through in his development, certain features of assimilation of information are characteristic, which significantly affect the design of the book, the quality of illustrations, the solution of type compositions, etc. Special combinations of illustrations and text in the book are also associated with the age characteristics of children. It is important to emphasize that in a child each age has a self-contained value, representing an organic whole, determined by the laws of internal development. We cannot talk about the subordination of one phase to another, about the service, preparatory role of childhood in relation to adolescence, adolescence - to adulthood.

At the same time, the illustrations and design of the book do not passively follow the development of the child, but promote, stimulate its development, awakening in the child his Creative skills. There are no sharp boundaries between the age periods of the child, and therefore the qualities that are important and necessary for one age group may remain relevant for other age periods of the child's development.

You can find free training, courses and lessons on Adobe Illustrator, but how much do you think authors invest in this?

In addition, most of the courses on the Internet are presented on English language, and without special knowledge don't figure it out. To close this issue, the authors at VideoSmile have prepared Course "Super Illustrator" in Russian.

Course "Super Illustrator"

The program of the course "Super Illustrator"

The program of the Super Illustrator course includes 71 lessons, consists of 12 chapters and 11 homework.

Chapter 1.

Includes 5 lessons.

You will learn in what areas you can use vector graphics, what is its essence, and also understand the capabilities of the program.

Includes 12 lessons and 1 homework.

The course will help you get to know the most simple forms, as well as learn how they are applied in web design.

In addition, you will learn how to create simple icons for social networks. Homework includes creating a set of 5 icons based on simple shapes.

Includes 8 lessons and homework.

Talks about the main tools used to create a vector - a pen and Bezier curves. As homework, use the described tools to draw a sketch on the topic "Travel".

Includes 6 lessons and homework.

The topic of the section is text as a vector object. In this chapter of the illustrator training course, you will learn how to work with texts, create posters and posters.

They will tell you how to select fonts, work with line and letter spacing, prepare text to fit into a composition, and design various illustrations using text. As homework, you need to design an illustration for a T-shirt using text. Any font can be used as a basis.

Includes 6 lessons on the topic of bitmaps and masks.

The lessons will help you quickly incorporate photographs and other bitmaps into your illustrations. Additional knowledge will help you create even more vivid and original compositions.

In this chapter, you will learn about clipping masks, blending modes, tracing complex objects, and in the end, create a wonderful postcard using all the skills you have learned. Homework: music poster design.

10 lessons on the topic “Isometry. Alignment, simple and polar grids.

Lessons will teach you how to create presentations, infographics, align objects in several ways, work with isometry and polar symmetry. Homework: drawing a postcard with a vector image created in isometric.

4 lessons, united by the theme of working with colors and gradient.

You'll learn how to match colors to your work, use and customize complex gradients, and add various effects to texturize your illustrations. Homework: Drawing an illustration based on gradients and noise.

Includes 4 lessons about seamless patterns.

As a result, you will learn how to create packaging for various products, select textures, colors, and make seamless bases. Homework will be the creation of a pattern as an element of corporate identity.

Includes 5 lessons about brushes and creating textured vector brushes.

If the capabilities of the standard pen are not enough, you need to create your own brushes with the original texture. As a result, you will learn how to implement projects of almost any complexity, and you can hone your skills by creating your own T-shirt design with a character. Homework: Sketching with brushes.

Consists of 6 lessons.

Allows you to hone the theory and practice on the topic "Volume Effects, 3D and Perspective". You will learn about more advanced effects such as glow, shadow, warp, blending. Based on this, you will create 6 posters. Homework: drawing an advertising flyer for a cultural event.

Includes 2 lessons , the theme of which will be vector realism.

Thanks to this, you will learn how to create realistic portraits using the mesh tool and gradient mesh. Homework will be drawing a vector portrait from a photograph.

Based on 2 lessons working with logos.

To consolidate your knowledge, together with the teacher you will create 3 logos using different techniques. Homework: self-development of a logo for the company.

Bonus Chapter Illustrator vector graphics course on motion design and animation. The bonus section consists of 6 lessons that show you how to prepare an illustration for animation and bring it to life in After Effects.

Training Adobe course Illustrator will allow you to create 25 real works for your portfolio. It is enough to place them on a site like Behance to attract the first customers and find a job.

Who can benefit from a vector graphics course in Adobe Illustrator?

The course will be useful if you:

• Want to learn how to create illustrations and graphics.
• Level up.
• Dreaming of becoming a web designer and creating icons and other website elements.
• Motion designer or someone who wants to create animation.
• Somehow connected with the world of design.

Since the birth of the most powerful editor adobe illustrator, the efficiency of artists and designers around the world has increased to unprecedented heights. This amazing program has become a real flagship in the sea of ​​digital painting. Thanks to the advanced features of this amazing tool, art went to new level development. But even the most advanced tool will not create a masterpiece without the skillful hand of a master who has sufficient knowledge of its use. It is in obtaining the necessary knowledge that the following materials will help you.

Adobe Illustrator Tutorials for Beginners

A detailed course of study with an emphasis on the theoretical part. The author explains in detail the purpose of the main elements of the program, without delving into the wilds of advanced functionality. The course consists of 21 video lessons in Russian, with a total duration of 3 hours 58 minutes. During this time, you will gain a solid knowledge base, and most importantly, learn how to confidently use the illustrator.

To get acquainted with the format of training, we lay out the first 5 lessons. You can download the entire course from the links below.

Adobe Illustrator - Online Course for Stockers

A more dynamic course aimed at practical consolidation of knowledge. Also, it starts with basic functions, but covers more advanced functionality. The training takes place in a cast format, in which the author clearly demonstrates the use of various functions and simultaneously answers important questions from students.

During the 21 lessons, with a total duration of 21 hours and 50 minutes, you will learn how to use all the tools of the editor, as well as master advanced drawing techniques. A very valuable course for serious immersion in Adobe Illustrator CC.

As usual, we post 5 lessons to assess the quality of the video and present information. Links to download the full tutorial are below.