How and WHY to Use Artboards in Adobe Illustrator CC

You might have heard about artboards in Illustrator, but what's the PURPOSE of them? I go over that and how to use them in this week's video!

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[temidayoamure]

Your content on Artboards is straight to the point. Thank you so much.

[erickm]

I really appreciate how thoroughly you explain artboards and how and when to use them!

[Teamshmo]

I'm making a book and need around 30 pages that are so similar. Never used artboards before but this made it easy to understand and will make my life much easier. Thanks

[SarahNenniDaher]

Thank you so much for this tutorial! New subscriber - I love how simple you make things.

[keeganwebb]

Good clear explanation with no time wasting, thank you, Anne.

[zara-jmvw]

this was very helpful, thankyou so much!

[preptplus]

Hi Anne, thank you for your awesome tutorial. I have subscribed now. I have drawn 32 full page illustrations in 32 files for a book for children. I am going to copy and paste each illustration into one file now so I can work on preparing them for pre-press, e.g. converting all rich black strokes to weak black and so on. I will also use the new file to check for trapping. I am hoping that this will speed up the process. I never intended to be a graphic designer, but I have learnt so much that I quite like it. I have always been a pen and paper illustrator but moving to digital there are just so many possibilities. Thank you for your help.

[felixsmittick]

Thank you. This will be good for organizing my assets for social media.

[WalterTheBalter]

so grateful for this. Thank you so much.

[TotalPraise]

Great video no fluff straight to the point Thanks

[mrlunastudio]

Thank you. Exactly I wanted to clarify.

[KingdomThoughtLeaders]

Very helpful. I never the how and why. This helped a lot!

[erveyilmaz]

Thank you for all videos! ^.^ I'm following you ^.

[ravikumarkrishnan]

Thank you so much, to make work simple, easy to understand

[kkruger]

Thank you! Greatly informative -- you rock!

[changyongfan]

This is a great video. I have another question about artboards: how to organize layers with multiple artboards? In Sketch or Figma, each artboard has separate layer, but in Illustrator, there's no relation between artboard and layer. So in practice, if you create multiple artboards in one file, and by default, there's only one layer across all artboards, this means that all objects of these Artboards are mixed together. This is very annoying...

[bhogalandson]

This is awesome! Based on your advice, I am now using whiteboards in Adobe Illustrator for a book I am writing. My book has a child's name customized on each page of the book. Do you know of some way where I can have it so I can edit the name in one story board and have the name updated in all of the other story boards?

[madnessofmymind]

Just wondering why the cursor is so jumpy in comparison to your skillshare video? And so much extra movement with it. I have a bit of a vision problem and all the jumpiness is difficult. Still super love listening and learning. I've learned so much in 2 days already from your videos. Thank you for helping others out on their journey to Illustrator joy!

[ave]

Let say, I have 5 artboards in a file and I want to place 3 artboards from that file to another file. How to do it once?
Because I did it one time but I don't have an idea 'how'. I place a file then I saw number 5/5 and using arrow left and right I can pick what artboard to place. After trying to do it again, I have no luck. Now I'm staring to think that was a bug.

[genevahines]

Thank you so much this vid was amazing. I was wondering how were you able to split your artboards into sections in the layers bar on the right? Ex: Artboard 1, Artboard 2 etc. For me I can see all the shapes I have made but they are not seperated into artboard folders which makes it difficult to oraganize for animation purposes. Thanks so much again.