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After covering all of the basics from the Adobe Illustrator Basics course, we can get started on our project.
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Overview and Pre-requisites
After covering all of the basics from the Adobe Illustrator Basics course, we can get started on our project.
When to use
The basics of Illustrator can be applied to any Adobe Illustrator project and it is recommended that you have at least some experience and familiarity with the program before starting this course.
Instructions
- This particular lesson does not require specific instruction other than checking out the Adobe Illustrator Basics Course.
Hints & tips
- Prior to starting this video course make sure that you are comfortable with certain tools and menus such as the Pen Tool, the Text Tool, and the Pathfinder.
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- 00:04 Hey guys, Eric Vasquez here and welcome to the Adobe Illustrator advanced course.
- 00:09 Now before we jump into it, I just wanted to take a couple of minutes to talk to you
- 00:12 guys about some of the prerequisites and
- 00:15 a little bit of an overview of what we're gonna cover in this course.
- 00:18 Now, before you jump right in to this, I would definitely recommend checking out my
- 00:22 Adobe Illustrator basics course if you are somebody who's new to Illustrator.
- 00:26 And the reason for that is because some of the techniques that we're going to be
- 00:29 covering in this more advanced course may be a little bit, too advanced for
- 00:34 some of you guys who aren't familiar with the interface and things like that.
- 00:38 But the course is really great, it's gonna take you guys through all of the ins and
- 00:41 outs, from the very first time that you start Adobe Illustrator.
- 00:45 Now, a lot of the stuff that I cover shows you guys how to use the presets,
- 00:48 the templates, the differences between RGB and CYMK, artboards and how to use them.
- 00:54 And then once you're actually inside of the Illustrator interface,
- 00:57 you guys will also know how to use all of the tools, menus and
- 01:01 panels that are available to you.
- 01:03 Now, why is this important?
- 01:04 Well, once we start working in the advanced course, I'm gonna be doing some
- 01:08 stuff that may seem a little unfamiliar to you if you don't have that foundation in
- 01:12 place first, and the last thing I wanna do is lose you guys while I'm working.
- 01:17 So, a lot of the tools that we'll be using will be things like the pen tool,
- 01:21 we'll be using the swatches palettes and the type tool and
- 01:24 doing some different stuff with outlines and things like that.
- 01:27 But it's gonna be a lot of fun and I'm really excited to share it with you guys.
- 01:30 And we're also going to be using some original sketches that I've created
- 01:34 just for this course, just for
- 01:35 you guys, so that we have a base and a starting point to use for our logo design.
- 01:40 So again, for those of you guys who have not used Illustrator before,
- 01:43 I would highly recommend doing the basics course prior to jumping into this
- 01:46 advanced tutorial.
- 01:48 Now, as I mentioned, we're gonna be using a sketch, and
- 01:51 we're gonna be using a pen tool to trace the sketch.
- 01:53 Before we do things like color it, we're gonna be merging shapes or
- 01:56 subtracting shapes using the pathfinder.
- 01:59 We'll be converting things to outlines and expanding these shapes.
- 02:02 And these are some of the terms and things like that that I would want you guys to be
- 02:06 familiar with so that you don't feel like you're lost or if I'm going too fast.
- 02:11 But I think that a lot of those questions that you guys might have
- 02:14 will be answered in the basics course.
- 02:17 So I just wanted to take a few moments to kind of talk about those prerequisites and
- 02:20 give you guys an overview so
- 02:22 that you know what you can expect from this Adobe Illustrator advanced course.
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