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>> Hello and welcome to the
complete beginners guide
to Adobe Illustrator, brought
to you by tastytuts.com.
This is a course created for
beginners to Adobe Illustrator.
The topics that are
going to be covered
in this course are the basics.
So whether you have the most up
to date version of Illustrator
or you are using an older
version, you should be able
to follow along just fine.
For this course, I will be
using Adobe Illustrator CC.
In this series, we will be
starting from the very beginning
and working our way across 19
episodes to learn all the basics
and create an illustration
project.
To help break down the process,
I have structured the course
in three main sections --
introduction, essential
practice and test project.
In the introduction section,
I will be introducing you
to Illustrator and bringing
you up to speed with some
of the things you need to be
aware of before we continue
onto the essential
practice section.
In the essential practice
section, we are going
to look closely at some
of the creative tools
and principles in Illustrator.
Here you will have the
opportunity to get hands
on with the various worksheets
I have designed and prepared
for you to practice with.
When we get to the test project
section, we will be using all
that we have learned in the
essential practice section
to create a project
from scratch.
After watching this
series, you will be able
to create your very own
vector artwork ready to print.
Now, if you wish to follow
along with this course,
you can download the entire
project folder for free.
The link is in the description.
This folder contains
all the worksheets,
fonts and project files
necessary to follow along.
If you wish to skip ahead or
back at any point in the course,
you can find every episode link
in the descriptions
of each video.
Also, I suggest you
download the PDF worksheet.
You can save this
to your computer
and come back at any point.
This is an interactive PDF,
which has been designed
to enhance this course
experience.
This contains all
the relevant video
and project download links.
So I recommend you
download this PDF.
And you can also find
the download link
for this in the description.
So what is Adobe Illustrator?
Well Adobe Illustrator is part
of the Adobe Creative Suite.
And in recent years has
become industry standard
for creating vector artwork and
the simple layout for print.
If you need to create logos,
illustrations, posters,
infographics, T-shirt
designs and flyers,
Illustrator is a program
to create them in.
The tools in Illustrator
make it very easy to create
and modify shapes and strokes
to build your compositions
and bring your design to life.
You can also import pixel based
images to add to your layouts
as part of your designs.
So what are we going to
create on this course?
Now for all you artists,
illustrators and designers
out there who love to
draw and sketch on paper,
hopefully this course is
really going to help you.
We are going to bring
a hand drawn sketch,
which has been scanned and
placed into Illustrator
and converted into
vector artwork.
Then, we are going to
use this vector artwork
in a poster and T-shirt design.
So why a T-shirt
and poster design?
Well we are going to
explore a scenario
where we are going
to design for print.
So we are going to be working
with CMYK colors for the poster.
Though, for the T-shirt
design, we will need to stay
within a budget and
use only Pantone colors
that the printer requires.
So we are going to explore
how to incorporate pantones
and CMYK swatches
into our artwork.
So let's take a look at
the finished document.
So here we are in
Adobe Illustrator.
And here you are looking
at the finished artwork document
we are going to build up to.
So this document consists
of four art boards.
The first two art boards
contain the development stages
in our project.
And the last two art boards
contain the finished designs.
On art board one, we have a
vector drawing composition,
which was traced from a sketch
drawing, which was scanned
and placed into our document.
This complex composition
contains multiple shapes
and stroke vectors.
On art board two, we
have the same artwork,
but this is a single
flat vector.
The artwork from the first
art board has been compounded
into a single vector here.
On art board three is the
finished poster artwork.
Here we have lots of colors,
gradient effects,
and type objects.
On the last art board
is the T-shirt design.
And here we can also see
our pantone references,
which we are going to use
to incorporate correct pantone
colors into our artwork.
Once we have finished the
poster and T-shirt design,
we are then going to export the
artwork to the correct format
for a printer to print the
design to specification.
Here are two PDF's we
are going to finish with.
If we look carefully at
the first PDF on the left,
we can see that this
is just one page.
And we can see a number of marks
and guides around the outside.
Now these are bleed and crop
marks that the printer is going
to use to correctly
trim the artwork.
Also, we have some color squares
to help the printer collaborate
the colors accurately
with their printers.
All these marks and guides have
been generated upon exporting
the artwork from the
Illustrator document.
And we will be taking a
look at how to do this
at the end of the course.
Over to the right, we have
the T-shirt artwork PDF.
Now this is a little different
from the poster example.
This artwork is going to
be printed onto a T-shirt.
So we can see here
that the artwork is set
on a white background.
And some of the color in the
skull artwork is also white.
This is where the color of
the T-shirt is going to come
through and fill these areas.
Notice on this example, we do
not have any marks and bleeds.
Well, this design is not
going to be printed on paper.
This will become a transfer
that will be heat pressed
onto a T-shirt so we do not
need marks and bleeds here.
So that is everything
we are going build
up to on this course.
So once you have downloaded
the project folder,
let's get into it.
And we are going to begin with
the first video in the course.
Interface introduction
to Adobe Illustrator.
So I will see you
in the next video.
