Adobe Illustrator Tutorial for Beginners

This course is tailor-made for those who are Adobe Illustrator Beginners and new to the world of design, as we start from scratch on our journey to becoming Illustrator superheroes! Together, we'll unravel the secrets and techniques that enable you to create anything your creative heart desires - from icons, logos, and postcards to beautifully hand-drawn illustrations.

Get ready to dive into the mesmerising world of Adobe Illustrator, where we'll craft stunning looking graphics. But we won't stop at just learning the tools; we're about to unleash our creative powers by creating real-world, practical, and portfolio-ready projects. Together we will learn to:

• Master the art of drawing with simple shapes and lines.
• Unleash your creativity by combining and subtracting shapes using the Shape Builder.
• Create advanced custom logos and graphics.
• Use the Width tool to enhance your lines and strokes adding a style.
• Conquer the pen, pencil, and curvature tools like a pro.
• Learn the art of masking images and graphics.
• Discover the magic of distorting, bending, warping, and liquefying illustrations.
• Select and use color combinations like a true master of design.
• Craft your own unique repeating patterns.
• Transform real drawings into captivating stencil-style images.
• Export your creations for print, web, social media, and more.
• Acquire the techniques used by professional graphic designers.
• Harness the power of Adobe's Generative AI features to push your creative boundaries.

But that's not all! I'll unveil Illustrator's hidden gems that will transform you into a pro at discovering and utilizing breathtaking vector based graphics. We'll dive into the latest Illustrator tools, including the mind-blowing Generative AI features that allow us to craft illustrations that were once thought impossible.

Whether you've never even opened Illustrator or have struggled with it in the past, I'm here to show you the easy way to create breathtaking artwork and portfolio projects to be proud of. Join me as we go from Illustrator zeros, to Illustrator superheroes!

Who this course is for

• Absolutely no previous Adobe Illustrator experience is required.

What you'll learn

• Drawing with Shapes & Lines
• Drawing with the Shape Builder
• Creating a custom logo
• Working with Brushes
• Drawing with the pen, pencil & curvature tool
• Learn how to work with type & fonts.
• How to vectorise an image in Illustrator
• How to curve text in illustrator
• How to trace an image in illustrator
• How to warp text in illustrator
• How to embed images in illustrator
• How to mask images & graphics.

0:00 - Introduction to Adobe Illustrator for Beginners Course
1:11 - Getting started with this Adobe Illustrator for Beginners Course
2:58 - What is Adobe Illustrator used for?
6:38 - Quick tour of Adobe Illustrator
17:34 - Draw rounded rectangles in Adobe Illustrator
32:20 - How to draw lines in Adobe Illustrator
49:10 - Scaling stroke effects in Adobe Illustrator
55:48 - Saving to the Creative Cloud in Adobe Illustrator
1:09:39 - Exporting images from Adobe Illustrator
1:06:07 - Class Project 1
1:14:34 - Shape builder tool in Adobe Illustrator
1:25:09 - Class Project 2
1:46:17 - Layer in Adobe Illustrator
1:57:24 - Math in fields in Adobe Illustrator
2:10:09 - Class Project 3
2:11:16 - Curvature Tool in Adobe Illustrator
2:25:12 - Curves & straight lines in Adobe Illustrator
2:32:53 - Class Project 4
2:36:14 - Combining shapes in Adobe Illustrator
2:48:18 - Pen tool in Adobe Illustrator
3:02:14 - Class Project 5
3:03:32 - Daniel Tidying up
3:16:32 - Class Project 6
3:18:18 - Combining tools in Adobe Illustrator
3:36:53 - Class Project 7
3:40:50 - Ai Generative recolouring in Adobe Illustrator
3:47:41 - Mood boards in Adobe Illustrator
3:52:21 - Class Project 8
3:53:00 - Class Project 9
3:57:40 - Printing T-shirt made in Adobe Illustrator

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[AKMShamsuddin-htmk]

This guy is absolute genuine person. I love the way he teaches. Best tutorial I've ever found in YT.

[phatbi]

Sir, I want to thank you, your design tutorials changed my life. I graduated with a degree in Petroleum Engineering, and believe me when I tell you that I never had any desire or interest in it. But switching my career to a Product designer gave me a purpose, It made me do what I always loved to do as a kid which is art design. Thank you again sir you inspire me. 🙏🏾♥️

[Heartwords_ScienceofReading]

Dan is an amazing teacher. Absolutely no fluff. No blabbing. Nuggets of knowledge through out the course. Do not skip ahead, watch every minute.

[PaulRacz]

I don't often leave comments on videos, but I had to on this one. I've been a hobbyist graphic designer for over 20 years mainly using a program called NeoPaint (ever heard of it?) and occasionally a very old version of Paint Shop Pro 7. Ancient stuff, I know. I've been using Photoshop for about two years now and just two weeks ago I decided to dive into Illustrator. That first day was overwhelming, despite my history in design. As mentioned, I have been using ancient programs, but I always found "my" way to do things, so jumping into something so modern felt like a lot. Thanks to tutorials like (and especially) yours I've actually become relatively proficient in my first two weeks, though I do forget things from time to time and need to look back at tutorials. So why am I writing this? Just wanted to pass along that I'm super impressed with the way you teach. Your methods offer frequent reminders of how to actually navigate around and do things without coming across as annoying or repetitive. That's a real talent and I can't tell you how much I appreciate it as someone who is very particular about the way they learn new skills.

[tino_tiller]

Student From Mozambique 🇲🇿
The nicest teacher I've ever seen ❤

[RXUANXUAN]

You are the nicest teacher I’ve ever seen.

[vankuscarce]

I can't explain how thankful I am for you. Without over exaggerating, you explain things the best of all the people I watched on YT. I have a friend of mine who really needs a proper photoshop tutorial, so If you find it as something you'd do it would mean A LOT for many people. You're an amazing human being and I wish you all the best in life. Thank you!

[tahsinreza]

I’m from Bangladesh 🇧🇩 I wanted to learn design in Ai because i wanna create my own design and put it on Cloths. Thank you so much. I’ll start today. Much love.

[squareggs]

I really recommend accessing the course with the resources and class projects to really practice those skills and put them into practice, you upload your work to your own dashboard. It takes time, it’s not a day or 5 day course, but it’s worth it and getting the certification to place on your cv is great too. Dan is a great trainer, I have tried other illustrator courses and this is the only one I stuck with!

[dgralnik]

I'm chipping away at this course bit by bit and it's great!

[earningwithnico]

Liked and followed for how great this is. I would say that the way you show us how to do things is like telling someone to open a door by grabbing the doorknob with their fingers, squeezing the knob, rotating their wrist clockwise then pulling open the door. That's exactly how I need to be taught and you've done a great job of it. Thank you so much!

[maxinemilky]

I cannot believe the amount of skills that this has taught me. I have paid so much for online courses & this, by far, has taught me the most. Thank you so much.

[dimitribabunadze]

Dan you are the beeeest!!! I am 17 and i am trying to learn this profession and all of the courses i took yours are always best THANK YOU for making this highest quality courses available for free!

[Techquest-hb]

Guys this is an INSANE tutorial I would definitely suggest this to people of every kind, no experience to pros, u will definitely learn something no matter how experienced u are.

[brazilfan]

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[Studio]

I´m a 3D animator and videographer and although i studied graphic design a little bit, i always felt like i never quite understood the tools and the world of designers, i always had trouble with this part in my projects and also many client projects.
But THIS is what i needed!
GRACIAS!
Greetings from Ecuador.

[wailghaoui]

I'm now an expert in Adobe illustrator, i started my journey with you Denn, thank you❤

[RoodyH]

I've been touting myself as a Graphic Designer for almost 20 years, done OK by the way!...

I've never used Illustrator. I taught myself Photoshop and went on from there. I always managed to get what I needed from just using PS.

Lately I had to unpick someone else's very detailed and quite complex .ai files and make some amends to/from them. The Illustrator interface scared the **** out of me... but I needed to learn it, its tools, quirks and functions asap.

I found this video and have had the biggest awakening/lightbulb moment of all time - If I had known how to use Illustrator 20 years ago, I think I'd be a richer man!

Geniune thanks for this! It's been a pleasure to watch, learn along with and has spurred some creative ideas that would've taken me hours and hours to create in PS alone!

Yours truly,

A new Ai convert!

[JudeMod]

INCREDIBLE tutorial. Best one I've ever seen for such a complex program. You made this so much easier than any other tutorial I've seen on Adobe stuff. Another thing that I love about this is that there's no blaring music that is completely distracting and off-putting.

[creahansandra]

This course literally saved me! I had to teach a graphic design class to high school students and couldn't have done it without Daniel's tutorial!