Digital Illustration: Art With Digital Tools! Adobe Illustrator Level 1
Intro Fundamentals Course on how to create graphic art & creative illustrations using Adobe Illustrator
Alixandra L. Mullins
Average rating:
4.8
Number of reviews:(29)
What's included
6 live meetings
5 in-class hoursHomework
1-2 hours per week. Students will have art / design related work to do on the digital demonstration file. Students can drop their finished work into forum discussion / drop box on external website. Students will have digital art projects based around the learning lessons.Assessment
Progress is assessed by completion of the digital design art files & a final project.Class Experience
For older students who enjoy drawing and sketching, learn to take your drawings to a whole new level with Adobe Illustrator. Turn your ideas into cool graphics that can be printed on t-shirts & more. Draw your own characters for storybooks, games or trading cards. Students will learn to draw with professional illustration tool Adobe Illustrator from a professional Artist. Students learn how to edit their illustrations with colors and strokes, manipulate vector paths, draw with shapes, and apply colorful paint or gradient effects, and how to incorporate Typography into their designs for finished artwork.. Once they have mastered the digital tools in this Intro level 1A class, the advanced classes teach students to take pencil drawing roughs and turn them into finished illustrations, as well as how to take photos to incorporate into their illustration imagery. Classes are structured so that students first download a digital practice file, then watch a demonstration using zoom video screen share, on what to do with their digital file, once the demonstration is finished, then they work on and complete the digital artist illustration file using adobe illustrator on their home computers while the instructor stays on the video call and screens shares with students as their work is in progress. Important * STUDENTS NEED A WORKING COPY OF ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR INSTALLED ON THEIR COMPUTERS! *
Learning Goals
The Illustrator Level1 Fundamentals class is very similar to what you will get studying Digital Illustration / Graphic Design in high school or college & is focused on learning the software. Level 1 is where the sequence starts which goes over the fundamental tools. As students complete Level 1, they can continue learning and advance to Level 2 where more in advanced lessons are taught building on what has already been learned.
During the school year, I usually teach 16 week semester long classes at "regular school". Level 1 is the first 4 weeks of learning in my high school and college freshman class. Level 2, is weeks 4-8. Students should really start with Level 1 so that they can get the fundamentals down. Unless they have taken a different high school or college level class in Adobe Illustrator, you will want them to start at the beginning so they have a solid foundation. Students who jump into Level 2, without my specific skill set learned in Level 1, may have some learning gaps. Students who may have had a little Adobe Illustrator should still take Level 1, so they have a solid background foundation in it and can really excel.
Students will Learn:
1) How to open, create a new file & save their .AI (adobe illustrator files)
2) How to navigate the illustration software (move around)
3) How to select design art elements (Selection Tool), to Move, Rotate and Scale the design art elements
4) Students will gain an understanding of Fills & StrokeStudents will Learn:
1) How to open, create a new file & save their .AI (adobe illustrator files)
2) How to navigate the illustras in Vector Artwork
5) How to change the colors of the fills & strokes of vector artwork
6) How to access the color picker and the swatch, gradient & pattern libraries
7) How to use the Illustration software to create vector shapes for their designs (polygons,circle, stars etc.)
8) How to modify their shapes and drawing by using the Direct Selection Tool for further control over their illustrations
9) How to use the Paintbrush tool to draw directly inside of Adobe Illustrator using a mouse or Stylus drawing tablet
10) How to export their Adobe Illustrator Artwork for web (as a jpeg) so it can be displayed on social media or printed
Projects for Level 1 (Intro to Illustrator) are focused around creating a beginning illustration using the tools & techniques.
Other Details
Supply List
Students need to have: 1. Laptop or Desktop Computer with web cam, access to Zoom Video platform 2. Working copy of Adobe Illustrator CC - Adobe Illustrator subscriptions must be purchased and installed separately, independent of this class, This class does NOT include an Adobe software subscription. Software demonstrated in this class, is available from Adobe for students are $20.99 a month for the single application or its available as part of the entire Creative Cloud bundle for $52.99. 3) Recommended but not required: Wacom Drawing style Pen . You can easily take the class without a Stylus Pen though!.
External Resources
In addition to the Outschool classroom, this class uses:
- Adobe Illustrator
- Suggested: Wacom Drawing Tablet
- Google Drive Resource Links
Joined March, 2020
4.8
29reviews
Teacher expertise and credentials
I have taught Digital Illustration for the last 5 years, in a college setting for highschool & college age groups, as well as a modified for kids version of a similar illustration class as a Summer Camp for jr.high age group - highschool.
My personal experience is that I am a professional artist & also enjoy teaching as an art based technology instructor. I have BA Degrees in Media arts / Digital Media Communications & have worked as professional Graphic Artist for 20 years.
I am offering this class as a unique offering because suddenly I am finding myself teaching ALL my illustration classes online & am currently home due to the nationwide school shut-down. I have 3 elementary aged children and have been putting them in all sorts of cool classes, when it occurred to me that I could share my illustration course to lots of artist who are jr.high & highschool age kids & teens who may also be currently affected by the school shut - down. Reviews
Live Group Class
$89
for 6 classes2x per week, 3 weeks
50 min
Completed by 65 learners
Live video meetings
Ages: 13-18
3-12 learners per class
