Adobe Illustrator CC : Graphic Design tools in Illustrator (Udemy.com)

Learn how to expertly use Adobe Illustrator for Vector Graphic Design. Explains every illustrator tool in full detail.

Created by: Prem Chand

Produced in 2019

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What you will learn

  • Gain a clear understanding of how each tool works inside Adobe Illustrator CC.
  • Design Vector graphics artwork that does not lose quality when you scale it up.
  • Start out on the path of becoming a professional Graphic Designer.
  • use mutiple techniques and create their own unique style of work
  • become a complete graphic designer, who will be capable of actually making a living with this skill
  • conceive and innovate different graphic styles, patterns, and text effects
  • At the end of my course, students will be able to...

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Overall Score : 90 / 100

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Course Description

>> The most comprehensive Adobe Illustrator course on Udemy. Very active instructor who responds to any question within a day. Uses Adobe Illustrator CC 2016 Creative cloud version. Updated as of December 2016. New content to be added soon for the Adobe IllustratorCC2017 version and will be included for free in this course! <45 )Jerusha DeVargas says: "I am a complete novice to Illustrator and the instructor makes me feel like a pro. I understand the topics and it is broken up in a way that is not overwhelming. I can pause the videos and use Illustrator at the same time so I am not lost. I look forward to other courses"Rochelle Turner says: "Prem was wonderful. I learned a lot from this course. Easy to follow along and well worth it! Thank you."William Fewtrell says: "I can tell the guy knows what he's talking about, he's clear, concise, and overall very informative."Why should you learn Vector Graphic Design?
Graphic Design is an 11 billion dollar industry in the United States alone.
An average graphic designer makes upwards of $70,000 every year. The best of us make more than $140,000 every year.
To become a graphic designer, you need to have thorough knowledge of a vector graphics program,which offers far more flexibility in design than a pixel based editor likephotoshop.
The best program available for graphic designers to use, is Adobe Illustrator. Illustratoris also the industry standard tool for vector graphic design. This course teaches you Adobe Illustratorcompletely, from scratch. You will get a strong foundation ofIllustrator andGraphic Design which you can build upon.
You need not know anything about the software. You will learn every tool, technique and trick in the book. You will learn about the most widely used tools as well as the rarely used but quite useful tools. You will become familiar with Graphic Design terminologies and learn how to work with vector graphics.
Specifically, this course will teach you:
Basic components of theIllustratorinterface like the navigator, panels, work spaces and Screen modes.
Working with art boards insideAdobe Illustrator.
The concept of layers and working with multiple layers insideAdobe Illustrator.
The various versatile drawing tools insideIllustratorlike Paths, Lines and Curves, Spirals, Ellipses and Rectangles, Pencil tool and also the different Drawing modes insideIllustratorThe variousselection and arrangement tools insideIllustrator like theDirect Selection tool, Scale, Rotate, Transform, Reflect, moving and duplicatingand the concept of Isolation mode.
ThePen tool.
Typing, printing and exporting your work.
The course covers everything listed, and more, in minute detail.
Whenever necessary, i have provided project files that you could take a look at, before re-creating the files yourself.
The course is structured in a systematic way, beginning with an introduction about Illustrator and a tour of its Graphic Design Essentialsinterface. From there, we will move forward and introduce the tools available in Illustrator, one by one. You will learn how to work with each tool and the minor details and tricks involved in using these tools. As you learn each tool, you will create a unique illustratordocument to showcase the ability of that tool. At the end of the course, you will have worked with all the important tools.
Ihave also provided a bonus section where i demonstrate the use of these techniques to create actual project files. I will keep adding more content to this course. This course will be expanded and updated regularly. You will need about 6.
5 hours to complete this course, the way it is now. I have enabled preview for some of the lectures. You will find that they are loaded with information and are incredibly concise. If you are interested in graphic design, this is thecourse that you should take. Go ahead. Invest in yourself.
Who this course is for:
If you know enough English and are interested in learning this amazing skill, go ahead and take the courseThe course is best-suited for aspiring designers, or people who are interested in graphic designIf you are interested in creating movie posters, logos, graphics, web page mockups etc:
If you are an alien from outer space , or someone who doesn't speak English, this course is not for you.

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Instructor Details

Prem Chand



About Me:
I am interested in many areas and i strive to learn as much as i can about each of them, and so should you if you think you are amultipotentialitetoo. If not, that isfine too! We need all kinds of people:)
Here is what i have done so far in life:
>>Born in the 90's. Grew up in a middle class family, in the tropical paradise, calledKerala.Google it.
>>Was put into the regular school system, just like most kids. We did not know any other route, and neither did our parents.
>>Went to University. Studied Civil Engineering, and then took my Masters in Computer Applicationsandanother masters inStructural Engineering and Construction Management.
>> Worked at a big construction company in India, as a Structural Engineer. I liked the work, but i wanted to do a lot more.Iam a high-energy person. Iworked for about 8 hours a day, and was bored for the rest of the day because i did not have much else to do. Therefore,I started learning about whatever i was interested in.
>>Interests include :Software, Programming and Web Development,Business, Marketing, Graphic Design. Cinema, Video and Audio Production, VFX, 3D Modelling and Animation,

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Reviews

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By Gloria Macri on 7/7/2018

The course starts a bit too fast and I was hoping we might be given instructions to practice, to try it out ourselves

By Rituja Jadhao on 4/22/2018

I just loved this course. Before starting I was completely blank in my mind up there about so many things in Illustrator but once I started watching it everyday, slowly everything became clear. Prem explained it really well in depths and was engaging.

By June Beveridge on 10/3/2017

Liking it so far

By Jono Charles Davey on 9/17/2017

I'm taking a break from Udemy for a while so before I forget, I want to leave a review for what I've watched so far. It isn't my intention to be offensive and I'm going to try and go a in-depth and suggest improvement.
The first thing of note is your level of English. I understand that learning a second language is difficulty, I gave up learning Italian. I don't claim to speak more than my native language, but I think you would get more sales and more students if people had confidence that you were experienced and professional - and that means having a thorough script to follow in your lectures. On that note I would highly recommend proofreading your description, maybe hire a native English speaker on People Her Hour to do this for you. I'd suggest Fiverr but it's full of idiots and con-artists. I mention this because while you're targeting an English audience, you should try and practice the language so your content will be easier to digest.
Moving on - and this is related to the script I mentioned above - I highly recommend rehearing your videos. It might sound silly, but I noticed you tripped up and apologised quite a few times in your videos. This isn't a bad thing, nobody's perfect but I would highly suggest treating each lecture like a video on YouTube that you want everybody to watch, give it 110%. It's easy to assume everybody does it right first time, but even experts will make mistakes and the only reason lecturers don't do this in their video is because they purposely leave it out to make a point. Doing it by accident leaves room for awkward silences! You don't want to do that.
I don't know if you had a cold during the recording of this batch of videos, but I heard you sniffing heavily a lot. I'd simply edit out the little sniffles, it doesn't come off as hygienic but I can totally understand if you were ill during the recording. It isn't your fault, but don't feel too proud to re-record and re-upload, a lot of lecturers update their course whenever a service updates itself or has a redesign. You can imagine how much this "How to be successful on YouTube" course is changing!
This point should be an obvious one, and I'm not complaining too much because it didn't stop you delivering the lectures, but getting better equipment would do wonders for any course you upload to Udemy. I've seen people complain about the sound quality, and while I think they were a little rude about it, I do agree that you should try and save up for a better microphone to better compete in the market. I'm not the best when it comes to picking equipment but it'll be worth your time to do a bit of research on that front. Your screen recording is fine and does the job so this isn't something to worry about, but I think using a software like OBS to have live footage of yourself speaking in the corner of the screen would give people the confidence that you're genuine. If you don't know what I mean, you can find loads of livestream examples on YouTube, or just look up OBS tutorials.
I also recommend setting up a dedicated studio, even if it's just an empty room. I heard people walking around in the background in some of your lectures. I personally don't mind, but this is a small detail that will add to your professional appearance. People are fickle, and will assume you haven't put much effort into creating a space for your work.
Somewhat related to the last paragraph is the course thumbnail. While it's cool that you're using the relevant logo for Adobe Illustrator and a picture of yourself smiling, I think it gives off the impression that you haven't spent much time on the thumbnail. For all I know you could have drawn the background yourself, but to me it looks like you cut out a selfie and pasted it into the corner of a generic Illustrator picture. I'm not being offensive here, and I apologise if you take it that way, but I might not be the only person thinking this. It's just something to think about. I think leaving these little details might help you grow on here.
I could be wrong, but I think your curriculum is formulaic to the point of being a little too inspired by other courses on Adobe Illustrator. With the problems I've mentioned above, I can understand why people would get the impression that not much effort has been put into putting the course together, and that bits and pieces have been regurgitated from other courses. And, look, I get it, you're trying to be successful and want people to give you feedback and more exposure, but begging people to leave you reviews at the end of every single video like a mantra is not going to make you more likely to get reviews - Udemy takes care of that to an extent by reminding people. Not everybody wants to take time out of their day to review digital products, it's not a nice fact but it's true. But on the other hand if your course quality speaks for itself, the reviews come in droves talking about how amazing it is!
I don't know what Udemy's policy is about piracy, but I don't think a higher-up is going to be very happy if they saw you downloading a torrent. I know you can't predict when a download will finish, or at least not very well with seeds and peers coming and going, but it wouldn't have been difficult to at least edit out the evidence or just record the entire video again. Not only are you walking by eggshells by leaving this clip open, it leaves you exposed to being fined. Got to take this stuff seriously.
All that sounds a little negative, and I'm only being honest with my rating, but it isn't all bad. I liked that you spent a while solidifying the instructions to the viewer, even if it comes off as repeated and slow. I learnt quite a few things from you, even though I think the presentation has a lot to be desired. You did put effort into the course, there's no doubt in that, and it's a good course! But I think you'll ace it and get much more customers by taking this feedback into account. :)

By Sarawut Supakwong on 8/10/2017

first chapter, Is good enough knowning for Basic and easy to listening

By Cheryl Dixon on 6/9/2017

I really liked how speaker took the time to show us how to trace the image. It can be a time consuming process. It would be helpful to know if he used a drawing tablet to do this.

By Rochelle Turner on 5/20/2017

Prem was wonderful. I learned a lot from this course. Easy to follow along and well worth it! Thank you.

By Maria Lucinskas on 3/22/2017

Thank you Prem for my very first proper and comprehensive lessons in Graphics design. I enjoyed your course and learnt a lot. Each course was just long enough and you have explained them just at the right speed for me. Great for complete beginners or those like me who have started with AI by myself but get frustrated remembering or not having someone to ask how do I do this or that. Now, I can just refer back to this course easily for reference until I get used to them. Practice makes perfect and I need more practice. I am in my early 50's, so if I can learn it, anyone can. My only criticism is to try to record in a quiet environment as I could sometimes hear a dog or pans banging. Lol. Also, not nice to hear someone talking and sniffling from a cold. For what I paid, it is definitely worth it and would highly recommend. Best of luck.

By Riri on 2/2/2017

It is a very informative course ,,, everything is well explained ,, but it would be even better if the instructor spoke slower.

By Dan Thibeault on 1/25/2017

Prem is a very good instructor and he has created a true step by step introduction to the functions of each tool and feature of Illustrator. The segments are short, clear and progressive. I am only a quarter through the course and I am confident that I will be able to use Illustrator with skill and confidence after completing this course. I took another beginner course on Illustrator from Udemy and the instructor went too fast and verbally announced the use of keyboard short-cuts for everything he did. I just couldn't follow along with that one, it was confusing. This course is much better, especially for a beginner, because Prem selects the tools using the pointer and you can SEE what he is doing at all times. Highly recommended.

By Aliz Juhsz on 1/1/2017

The course is useful for a beginner, as it provides a good base that you can develop further.

By Tuy Phina on 11/23/2016

Great course for those who just start to use Illustrator.