Illustrator Advanced Course

Illustrator Advanced Course

This Illustrator Advanced Course shows the sophisticated techniques and methods use to produce illustrated digital art.  On our Illustrator Advanced Course learn indepth control of the tools, control artwork, produce line drawings, use 3D grid for buildings.

 

Illustrator Advanced Course - Courses related to:

Illustrator Introduction Course
Illustrator Course for Fashion Design 
Photoshop Introduction Course 
Photoshop Intermediate Course

 

Illustrator Courses

All our Adobe Courses can be adapted, elements from the Illustrator Introduction course can be mixed with the Illustrator Advanced course or with other Adobe Training courses such as the Photoshop Introduction course or Illustrator Introduction course.

 

Illustrator Advanced Course - Locations

The Illustrator Advanced Course is delivered onsite throughout the Midlands, Birmingham, Nottingham, Leeds, Leicester, Sheffield, Manchester, Cambridge,Yorkshire, Oxford, Lancashire, Notts, Milton Keynes, Liverpool, Lincoln, Chester, Derby, Warwickshire, Stratford on Avon, Tamworth, Peterborough, Northampton

 

Illustrator Advanced Course - Overview

Layout
Object guides/smart guides
default workspaces
exact positioning
alignment and distribution of Illustrator objects

 

Illustrator Brushes
Creating and customising brushes (art, scatter, calligraphic)
Brush libraries
Type Tool
Paragraph / Character Styles
Outlined Text
Curved Text
Cutting Text paths
Open Text

 

Illustrator Pen Tool
Using pen, add lines, curves – add & remove anchor points
Scissors & knife tools
Average/Splitting paths
Tips and tricks to manipulate the curves lines and speed up the pen workflow

 

Illustrator Live Trace
Using the auto-trace tool
Trace options
Expanding livetrace
Converting artwork to paths
Edit & recolouring artwork

 

Illustrator and Colour
Using advanced colour modes
Colour palettes and swatches
Gradients and advanced use of the colour picker

Illustrator Filters – 3D effects
Illustrator filters to change light, shade, bevelling on objects
Revolving, rotation and mapping

 

Illustrator Compound paths/shapes and Clipping Masks
Creating and releasing compound paths
Transparency control
Editing compound paths, pathfinder palette.
Creating and releasing a clipping mask, modifying a clipping mask.

 

Creating a chart
Importing your chart data
Formatting chart data
Customising your chart
Combining chart types
Working with graph designs
Styling and updating your graph
Ungrouping your graphs

 

Illustrator Symbols
Using symbols, creating new symbols
Using symbols to place artwork, symbol tools', symbol instances, symbol control, symbol sprayer, creating symbols from scratch, managing symbols, symbol libraries.

 

Illustrator Print and export
Print environment, printing from Illustrator, sending to PDF, Global PDF options

 

Prices for Illustrator Advanced Course - our price is per course per day

the more persons on the course the more you benefit - ALL PRICES INC VAT

Standard rate for one person is £275.00 inc VAT

Second person £50.00 inc VAT

Additional persons £40.00 inc VAT

 

We are Midlands based so depending on your location in the UK travel expenses for the Illustrator Advanced Course may be incurred.  The above price includes 6 months post course support.  We like to build rapport with our clients so any Illustrator Advanced Course support is directly with the Illustrator Trainer who ran the Illustrator course.  This includes all course materials and access to our online training tips & tutorials section.

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