Illustrator 2021 One-on-One: Fundamentals

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Learn how to use Adobe Illustrator 2021 in the first of three comprehensive training courses.

 

Expert demonstrates how to work with artboards; how to draw with the Pencil, Curvature, and Pen tools; and how to organize color with swatches, also covers drawing shapes, adjusting strokes, formatting text with variable fonts, painting freeform artwork with or without a tablet, and more.

 

Contents

 

Introduction
Welcome to One-on-One

 

1. Open
A first look at Illustrator

Opening a document by double-clicking it

Introducing the Home screen

Creating a new document

The units of design: Points and picas

Creating very large artwork

Overriding units of measure

The advanced document settings

Activating missing fonts

Modifying your new document

Saving Illustrator artwork

Saving a cloud document

 

2. Artboards
Pages of any size, at any angle

Using the Artboard tool

Undo, Redo, and Revert

Selecting multiple artboards

Creating a new artboard

Copying, pasting, and duplicating artboards

Five ways to resize artboards

Introducing the Artboards panel

Navigating between artboards

Aligning and distributing artboards

Automatically tidying up your artboards

Artboards and rulers

 

3. Navigate
Getting around your artwork

Zooming in and out

Using the more precise Zoom tool

Zooming on a selection (or not)

GPU Performance and Animated Zoom

Scrolling (or panning) a document

Specifying a custom zoom level

Working with multiple open documents

Customizing your panels: Do not skip!

Saving your custom panels as a workspace

Cycling between screen modes

Trim View and Presentation Mode

 

4. Lines
Now, you draw

Guidelines and center guides

Positioning guides numerically

Using the Line Segment tool

Working with and without the bounding box

Moving and duplicating objects

Select Similar Objects and Global Edit

Introducing the Scissors tool

Joining your line segments

Introducing the Eyedropper tool

Using the Arc tool

Using the Spiral tool

Using the Polar Grid tool

Duplicating and scaling spirals

Using the Rectangular Grid tool

Auto-blending fill colors

A preview of shape building

 

5. Shapes
And now, you draw better

Creating a time-saving template

Using the Rectangle tool

Creating a rectangle by the numbers


Using the Ellipse tool

Creating a circle by the numbers

Live pies and custom guides

Creating a pie with numerical accuracy

Using the Polygon tool

Using the Star tool

Creating a star of a specific size

Creating a series of evenly spaced rays

Using the crazy Flare tool

The top-secret tilde key trick

 

6. Color
How color works

The color modes: RGB vs. CMYK

Hue, saturation, and brightness

Selecting a color from the Spectrum Ramp

Creating and applying swatches

Working with global swatches

Searching swatches by name

Auto-deleting and adding swatches

Using the Eyedropper tool

Loading swatches from another document

 

7. Strokes
The rich world of strokes

Adjusting the line weight

How strokes align to path outlines

Caps, joins, and miter limit

Making practical use of caps and joins

Dashes and arrowheads

Variable-width strokes

Numerically adjusting width points

Custom aligning strokes to paths

Creating a custom width profile

Creating a classic round-dotted outline

Drawing a quick-and-dirty gear

Outline Stroke and Compound Path

Combining multiple strokes

Offsetting strokes to simulate depth

 

8. Type
Text at its best

Placing and flowing text

Converting between area and point type

Modifying the text frame

Creating custom margins guides

Changing the font and type style
Introducing variable fonts

Paragraph alignment

Type size and leading

Dialing in custom variable styles

Creating your own custom italics

Kerning characters of type

Roman hanging punctuation

Filling and stroking text

Vertical alignment and justification

Snapping objects to characters of type

 

9. Build
Join and the Shape Builder

Using the Join command

Using the Join tool

Object > Path > Outline Stroke

Using the Shape Builder tool

More ways to use the Shape Builder tool

Creating a real-world project

Creating an inset reflection

Coloring a path with the Shape Builder tool

Sculpting with variable-width strokes

Converting text to path outlines

Gap detection and path splitting

Drawing with the Shaper tool

Combining paths with the Shaper tool

Editing paths inside a Shaper Group

 

10. Pencil
Freeform drawing at its best

Drawing freeform path outlines

The Smooth tool and Path Eraser tool

Extending and connecting paths

Drawing straight and perpendicular lines

Creating a tracing template

Combining the Pencil tool with a drawing tablet

Coloring your Pencil tool art

 

11. Paint
The best tools for painting

Painting with the Blob Brush

Fusing path outlines together

Blob Brush size and strategies

Introducing the Eraser tool

Reassigning keyboard shortcuts

Painting background paths

Erasing all kinds of paths

Erasing and smoothing away lumps

The Blob Brush and the opacity value

Painting with a drawing tablet

Using the Simplify command

 

12. Curvature
Drawing one point at a time

Drawing with the Curvature tool

Working with smooth and corner points

Creating and editing open path outlines

Tracing a photographic detail

Adding a basic textured fill

Shape building a castle wall

A first look at gradients

Editing a shape with the Curvature tool

A first look at object blends

Duplicating and scaling a complex object

Drawing a custom letterform

Creating a rippling line segment

Adding a piece of vector-based clipart

 

13. Pen
The tool that can draw anything

Creating corner points

Adding and deleting anchor points

How smooth points work

Drawing smooth points

Drawing cusp points

Using the Anchor Point tool

Real-world drawing with the Pen tool

Drawing a very complex path outline

Copying and repurpose path segments

Drawing a lot with very few points

Creating dimension with shadows

Shading the eye, ear, and nose

Drawing smoothly waving path outlines

 

14. Corners
Making corners smooth

The round corner widget

Rounding off corner points

Changing the corner type

Rounding characters of type

Absolute vs. relative rounding

Drawing with rounded rectangles

Detailing your iPhone

Combining round-corner shapes

Create better, faster with round corners

Turning corner points into organic curves

Reshaping rounded paths

 

15. Screen
Saving for devices and the web

Aligning objects to the pixel grid

Aligning objects as you draw or modify them

Aligning text to the pixel grid

Introducing the Save for Web command

For devices and presentations, use PNG

Saving an 8-bit graphic

Saving a JPEG image

Saving vector-based SVG files

Assigning a copyright

Using the Export for Screens command

Using the Asset Export panel

Asset Export time-saving tricks

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