Discover the essential features and creative applications of Adobe Illustrator including: core drawing and shape tools, transformation and reshaping features, text manipulation, and the pen tool.
Discover the essential features and creative applications of Adobe Illustrator including: core drawing and shape tools, transformation and reshaping features, text manipulation, and the pen tool. This course is for individuals with no prior knowledge or experience with Illustrator or any of its predecessors.
Course assignments are application based; at the end of the course, you may be able to use some of this work to build your portfolio.
The software used in this course is Adobe Illustrator CC, which may be downloaded from Adobe at student pricing. No prior versions are taught or reviewed.
By completion of this course, successful students will be able to:
Topics:
To provide high-quality educational opportunities for lifelong learners, regionally and globally, thereby empowering people and transforming communities for a better future.
Vision
To champion the University of Calgary as a leader in continuing and lifelong learning.
Mandate
To expand access to lifelong learning.
To offer a wide range of seminars, courses, and programs for individuals and organizations seeking professional development, academic preparation, and personal enrichment.
To work across the University of Calgary to develop and deliver innovative continuing education programs for professionals, scholars, artists, and members of the community at large.
To partner with industry, educational institutions, governments, and non-profits to deliver mutually beneficial initiatives, programs, and services.
This course focuses on Adobe Illustrator CC, the component within CC used to create graphics, while enabling its users to integrate content from other domains (such as photo-oriented graphics and animation, which belong to Adobe Photoshop and Flash).
Illustrator has a lot of unique drawing features. We’ll focus on the basic ones here -- the ones you will use often. After this workshop you can start using Illustrator, with complete confidence, to create logos, illustrations, floorplans, posters, and banners. Students are encouraged to tell us ...
Adobe Illustrator is a program used by both artists and graphic designers to create professional quality vector graphics, artwork, logos and more. These images can be used in both print and digital form.
Many use Illustrator to create marketing collateral too. Step by step, you will be working hands-on in this course. Illustrator has such a rich and robust feature set that we encourage students to tell us exactly how they want to use it. We will make sure you learn everything you need.
Prepare for a creative career where your ideas count! Dawson’s Illustration Program will focus on improving your drawing and painting abilities while introducing you to 2D and 3D software applications.
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