Discover how to design and create amazing works of art using Adobe Illustrator CC 2019, the world’s most powerful vector-based drawing program. This comprehensive training course is the first in a series of three courses by industry pro Deke McClelland. Learn how to work with artboards; how to draw anything you can imagine with the Pencil, Curvature, and Pen tools; and how to start organizing color in your artwork with the help of swatches. Deke also covers drawing shapes, adjusting strokes, formatting text with variable fonts, and painting freeform artwork, with or without a tablet. Each chapter leaves you with a new set of skills—and a real sense of accomplishment.

Topics include:

Opening, creating, saving, and closing documents

Working with artboards

Zooming and panning

Drawing lines, arcs, grids, and spirals

Drawing shapes

Working in RGB vs. CMYK color modes

Creating and applying swatches

Adjusting stroke and line weight

Formatting text with variable fonts

Building custom paths with the Shape Builder and Join tools

Freeform drawing with the Pencil

Painting and erasing artwork with the Blob brush

Drawing with the Curvature tool

Illustrator’s best: the Pen tool

Reshaping rounded corners for artistic effect

Exporting screen graphics

Homepage:

https://www.lynda.com/Illustrator-tutorials/Illustrator-CC-2019-One-One-Fundamentals-Revision/784289-2.html

Part 1

Part 2