Informative Pages
A collection of links to helpful online content.
Understanding the impenetrable Adobe Creative Cloud Student License
All of Illustator's key commands
When all else fails, or Illustrator is misbehaving, try this.
There are four, not three primary colors!
Remember, you get what you pay for — especially if it's free
Class Pages
- Bureaucracy
- Getting To Know You
- Syllabus Review
- Assignments Review
- Lab Review
- History!
- Of Print
- Of Paste-up
- Of Desktop Publishing
- Current Tools
- What is Illustrator For?
- Types of Graphics: Vectors vs. Bitmaps
- First Look Tour
- A First Look Tour Continued
- The User Interface
- Tools
- Panels
- Viewing Artwork
- Art Boards
- Multiple Documents
- Getting Help
HOMEWORK 1: Fool'n Around assigned
- Creating & Editing Shapes
- Creating & Editing Shapes with the Shape Builder Tool & Pathfinder Panel
- The Path Tool/Bézier Curves Intro (if time)
HOMEWORK 1 DUE
- Typography
- The Art of Type
- The Case of a Font
- Font Classifications
- Font Properties
- Useful Font Websites
- Font Semiotics
- Creating Ligatures for Assignment 01
- Scanning A Letterform
- OpenType & Glyphs
- Proper Kerning and Tracking
- Creating Type on a Path or in a Shape
- Type On Path Editing Gestures
- Making Sketches
- Proper Kerning and Tracking
- Creating Type on a Path or in a Shape
- Type on Path Editing Gestures
- Adding Strokes to Type
- Advanced Strokes
HOMEWORK 2 DUE
ASSIGNMENT 1: Personal ID assigned
- Developing the Digital Art & Animation Logo
- Scanning a Letterform
- OpenType and Glyphs
- Proper Kerning & Tracking
- Strokes on Text (a no-no)
- Color in Illustrator
- Painting
- More Tools
ASSIGNMENT 1 DUE
ASSIGNMENT 2: Tattoo assigned
- Working with Shaper/Pencil/Smooth tools
- Fun with Brushes: Scatterbrush
- Gradients
- Pattern Brush
- Saving Appearance as Graphic Style
- Practical Scatter-Brush
- Practical Artbrush
- BLENDING!
- Clipping Masks
- Distribution & Alignment
- Working With The Color Guide
- Blending Objects Continued
- A Cool Trick For Measuring
- The Magical Appearance Panel
- Saving Appearance Settings As A Graphic Style
- Clipping Masks
- Using The Distribution & Align Panel
- Practical Distribution
- Illustrator & Color II
- Working With The Color Guide
- Changing Colors With The Recolor Artwork Button
- Recolor Artwork Videos
- Adobe Color CC
- Crit Assignment 02: Tattoo
- Assignment 03: Beverage Bottle assigned
- Labels
- Beverage Label preparatory technique
- Illustratore & color
- CMYK: A closer look
- Working with the Color Guide
- Changing colors with the Recolor Artwork button
- Adobe Color CC
- More on Gradients
- Stroke vs. Scaling
- FX!
- Symbols
ASSIGNMENT 2 DUE
ASSIGNMENT 3: Beverage Bottle assigned
- A Better Way To Paint
- Setting Bleeds
- Die Cut Bleeds
- Yin Yang Trick
- Cool Gradient S
- Working with the Color Guide
- Changing Colors with the Recolor Artwork Button
- Adobe Color CC
- FX's
- FX Continued
- Working with Symbols
- Envelope Distort
- Repeat Function
- Crit Assignment 3
- Assign Assignment 4
- Patterns
- Pattern Brush
- Practical Applications for Brushes
- Scatter-Brush
- Art-Brush
- Pattern Brush
- Medallions
- How to make a Banner
- Khazar Wine Labels
- Cool Clips
ASSIGNMENT 3 DUE
ASSIGNMENT 4: Concert Poster assigned
- Previous Assignment 4's
- Lessons Learned from Assignment 3
- Setting Up Assignment 4
- Bitmap Sizing
- My YouTube Illustrator Playlist
- Cool Clips
- Drawing in Illustrator for Characters
- How to make a Banner
- 3D Lettering Tricks
- Some Medallions
- Khazar Wine Labels
- Bring in questions about Illustrator and design in general
- Leftover Bits