Digital Illustration Advanced Digital illustration brings out each artist's unique personal style. Creating illustrations, icons, and graphics in a vector illustration program like Adobe Illustrator can be challenging, but it is an expressive and highly respected skill in the graphic design field.
Learn advanced illustration and Adobe Illustrator techniques for communicating your creative concepts. Through detailed, step-by-step lectures, you'll learn how a professional illustrator approaches creating editorial illustrations, icons, retro poster designs, 3D illustrations, and restaurant identity designs.
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Digital Illustration Advanced |
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Start Date: |
Classes start daily.
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Class Length: |
Six months of access to class materials and instructor feedback. |
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Instructor: |
Andrew Shalat |
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Self-paced, online, 24 access to online learning environment |
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Class Instructor Bio:
Andrew Shalat is an author, designer/illustrator, educator, and Mac expert. Since 1985 he has been designing and writing articles about Macintosh, Mac software, and publishing technologies that have appeared in Macworld, maccentral.com and macweek.com (for which he was a columnist writing "Shalat's Web"). He has been a regular speaker/faculty member at Macworld Expo since 2001 and has written three books: How to Do Everything with Online Video (McGraw-Hill, Osborne), Do It Yourself Mac Projects (McGraw-Hill), and MacDesign Out of the Box (Peachpit). Andrew is a regular contributor to design and Macintosh related sites including Inside Mac Radio, InDesign Magazine, and Creativepro.com. His design work covers a large range of media including book, CD and DVD covers, brochures, catalogs, outdoor signage, print ads, artwork, logos, Flash and Web design, and grocery lists. Over the past two decades, Andrew has taught literature, writing, Web design, and print design.
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Class Projects and Objectives:
This online training class is packed with Adobe Illustrator projects. Students will meet the following objectives:
- Create editorial illustrations, icons, retro poster designs, 3D illustrations, and book title designs in Illustrator.
- Develop and sketch illustration concepts to prepare them for digital creation.
- Use shape and freehand drawing tools to create complex shapes and patterns.
- Use gradients to create lighting and shadow effects.
- Import bitmap and vector art into Illustrator and create guides for illustration.
- Create simple iconographic illustrations and shapes.
- Develop proficiency in drawing or tracing using the Pen tool.
- Create illustrations inspired by 1930s era WPA-style posters.
- Create objects with 3D proportions and lighting effects and place them in perspective on a plane.
- Create a sequential illustration that repeats certain features and colors over a series of frames to maintain a consistent look.
- Design a symmetrical title or identity that integrates repeated graphic elements and typography.
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- Computer with Internet connection (56 Kbps modem or faster).
- Adobe Illustrator CS4 or CS5.
- Basic experience in drawing and Illustrator.
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