Creating Icons with Illustrator

45 Video Lessons

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About this Course

This course provides an overview of what an icon is and its key characteristics, then teaches you how to design your own icons using Adobe Illustrator.

Expert explores why you need icons, how you use them, and why scalability is important. Expert steps you through how to set up your Illustrator document before you begin your design process, and describes how to organize your work using Illustrator artboards for arranging, naming, and exporting your icons. Bart walks you through ways to import your sketch into Illustrator, then goes over how to clean up your sketch digitally, and shows you how to use simple, complex, and compound shapes to build your logo digitally, then explores several more advanced techniques.

In conclusion, expert covers best practices for exporting your icons for the web, for print, and for use in other applications like Photoshop.

 

Contents


Introduction
Fast and efficient icon creation

About challenges

 

1. Understanding Core Concepts
The concept of an icon

Screen versus printed icons

Icon styles and sets

Things to help you get started

Challenge

Solution

 

2. Setting Up Illustrator
How to correctly set up a document

Creating a custom toolset

Setting grid preferences

How to use the pixel grid

Creating artboards

Challenge

Solution

 

3. Going from Paper to Digital
Sketching icons

Importing a sketch as a template

Auto-tracing a sketch

Capturing and importing a sketch using Adobe Capture

Reducing the number of points and cleaning up

Challenge

Solution

 

4. Understanding Design Techniques
Designing with basic shapes
Setting stroke options

Using the Pathfinder panel

Understanding compound shapes

Mastering the Shape Builder tool

Discovering the Appearance panel

Useful filters and effects

Power tips

Advanced techniques: Creating a winter icon

Advanced techniques: Creating a summer icon

Advanced techniques: Creating a fall icon

Advanced techniques: Creating a spring icon

Challenge

Solution

 

5. Saving and Exporting
Common icon sizes

How to export for web

How to export as SVG

Bulk exporting via Export for Screens

Bulk artwork export via Asset Export panel

Exporting for print

Exporting to Adobe Photoshop

Challenge

Solution

1. Language: English. 

2. Secure download. 

    Video file format: MP4.

3. Learn anywhere. Switch between

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4. Practice while you learn

    with exercise files.  

5. Secure payment by PayPal.

6. 30 days refund.

7. No subscription needed.

8. Lifetime access.

9. This course without a sponsored ads.

 

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