Digital Illustration Training Advanced

Adobe Illustrator projects

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.

Once you've mastered the basics in Adobe Illustrator, it's time for a greater self-challenge. In this 6-lesson course, you'll learn advanced methods for communicating your creative concepts. Through step-by-step lectures, you'll explore how expert illustrators create characters, line art, icons, sequences, and much more. You'll develop your own work with its own artistic flair, culminating the course with a powerful and personal pièce de résistance.

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Class Title: Digital Illustration Advanced Start Date: Classes start daily. Enroll today and gain immediate access. Class Length: Three months of access to class materials and instructor feedback. Instructor: Young Mo Yoon Other details: Self-paced, online, 24 access to online learning environment
	Tuition: $803

Class Projects and Objectives:

This online class is packed with projects and tips.  Students can expect to: 

• Learn to come up with illustration concepts.
• Use the Pen tool to create complex curves and shapes.
• Create shadows and highlights using solid fills and gradients.
• Learn how supporting elements can be used to bolster an illustration.
• Use a supporting element to tie two illustrations together visually and conceptually.
• Choose a concept and sketch out drawing ideas to accompany it.
• Consider how a given illustration can be used to convey a concept.
• Learn how line drawings can have volume and interest using paths.
• Work with many types of simple and complex paths using the Pen tool.
• Create illustrations of a bee and a pin holder.
• Choose a fruit and roughly sketch it on paper.
• Draw the main lines in Illustrator using just the Pen tool and the color black.
• Vary line thicknesses to give drawings volume.
• Add details to reinforce shape.
• Explore how a living thing can become inspiration for an illustration.
• Create a line drawing of an airplane using the Pen tool.
• Add interest to an illustration with color-filled paths.
• Discover how negative space can be used to create highlights.
• Select a car to illustrate from given photos or outside resources.
• Incorporate human or animal characteristics to give a car "life."
• Draw a pair of shoes with realistic lighting and perspective.
• Discover how midtones, highlights, and shadows work together to create dimension.
• Experiment with shadows to create shapes and detail.
• Explore the relationship between colors and perspective.
• Choose a product category and find photos of relevant items.  
• Sketch a composition of two items to determine placement and shape.
• Study the purpose and preparation of sequential illustrations.
• Create a drawing to be used over a series of illustrations.
• Draw additional artwork to accompany each scene of a sequence.
• Compile drawings into three final compositions in sequence.
• Design a character and choose three actions for him or her to perform.
• Draw the character performing each action using Illustrator.
• Repeat certain features and colors to give a consistent look.
• Compose illustrations using a consistent shape, outline, and/or clipping mask.
• Work with a theme to create a relevant composition.
• Use repeated elements to add interest and save time.
• Apply strong color contrast to make objects stand out.
• Learn the usage of the blend tool for gradients and shapes.
• Experiment with drawing text.
• Create a main element and repeat it at least once in a composition.
• Use the Blend tool and/or intermediate gradient stops.
• Create a background for a composition.
• Use the Pathfinder to create complex shapes with ease.
• Create richer gradients by adding intermediate color stops.