디지털 일러스트레이션: 디지털 도구를 사용한 예술! Adobe Illustrator 레벨 1 - KIDS

Geared for Older Elementary & Jr.High Ages 9-12 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. 

Class 1) How to open, create a new file & save their .AI (adobe illustrator files), 
 How to navigate the illustration software (move around) , How to select design art elements (Selection Tool), to Move, Rotate and Scale the design art elements

Class 2) Colors, Strokes, Gradients, patterns ,  Students will gain an understanding of  Fills & Strokes in Vector Artwork,  How to change the colors of the fills & strokes of vector artwork, How to access the color picker and the swatch, gradient & pattern libraries

Class 3)  How to use the Illustration software to create vector shapes for their designs  (polygons,circle, stars etc.),  How to modify their shapes and drawing by using the Direct Selection Tool for further control over their illustrations

Class 4)  How to use the Paintbrush tools, adjust paintbrush sizes, to draw directly inside of Adobe Illustrator using a mouse or Stylus drawing tablet

Class 5) How to place, import your sketches or photos into Illustrator so you can create a Tracing / Painting from your own drawings

Class 6) Live Paint, Paint Bucket Color drops into line drawings, How to export their Adobe Illustrator Artwork for web (as a jpeg) so it can be displayed on social media or printed


Important * STUDENTS NEED A WORKING COPY OF ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR INSTALLED ON THEIR COMPUTERS! *
* Please Note this is the Similar Level 1 Class I teach for Older Kids, at a slower pace for younger learners *