Adobe Illustrator

Overview
This Illustrator course builds practical, hands-on skills in Adobe Illustrator’s core toolset over 20 hours across eight sessions. You will start with setting up a new document and navigating the workspace, then move step by step through drawing, path editing, text, color, and finishing effects.
Each session builds on the last, from your first traced image through a logo and stationery project, and on to more advanced tools like the pathfinder, gradients, mesh, blends, and live paint, ending with a full revision session.
What You Will Learn
- How to set up new documents and navigate the Illustrator workspace
- Drawing with shape tools, the pen tool, and the pencil tool
- Selecting and editing paths with direct selection, anchor points, and the curvature tool
- Working with layers, text tools, masking, and clipping masks
- Using the pathfinder, align tools, and multiple artboards
- Applying brushes, gradients, mesh, blend modes, and effects to finished artwork
Course Curriculum
| Module | What you cover |
|---|---|
| Getting Started and Basic Drawing | Setting up a document, navigating the interface, and drawing with shape and pen tools; first exercise tracing an image. |
| Selection Tools and Path Editing | Direct selection, magic wand, lasso, and anchor point tools, plus a logo and stationery project. |
| Text Tools and Masking | Working with text and its properties, and using masking, clipping masks, and image cropping. |
| Advanced Tools and Multiple Artboards | Eraser, line segment, slice and scissor tools, the pathfinder, align tools, working with multiple artboards, and exporting projects. |
| Brushes, Gradients, Mesh and Blend | Using the brush, gradient, mesh, and blend tools to add depth and texture to artwork. |
| Effects, Live Paint and Final Revision | Applying effects, live paint bucket and selection tools, symbols, tables, the perspective grid, and a final course revision. |