
Adobe Illustrator with Alice Thorpe Online Course
As an artist or illustrator, you want to express your idea through art. You don’t want to spend time figuring out how your design program functions or where to find the supplies you need.
Earn quick knowledge by enrolling in this simple-to-follow online course from Alice Thorpe, a graphic design professional. Study Illustrator quickly as Alice instructs you in the shortcuts, methods and techniques that will maximise the benefits of this top design program.
Follow the steps in this course with videos that will help you to create a professional brand and create stunning artwork, such as business cards, flyers, posters, dynamic web banners and infographics. Get advice on making money using Adobe Illustrator. This video series is self-paced and pays for itself multiple times. By the end, you will have produced beautiful art that will be of great value to your portfolio.
Recommended Study Duration: 30 hours. The goal is to complete the training with 30 CPD points. See the Accreditation section for more information and to learn about all of the possible certification options.
Module 1: A Beginning To Illustrator
Discover the creator: Alice Thorpe, a graphic designer's daughter, and YouTube star.
What is the purpose of Adobe Illustrator? Is it simple to utilise? (Hint: YES!)
Personalising your space: software and hardware
The instruments: what they do and simple shortcuts
How to create a new document and perform simple operations
Module 2: Beginning: A Practical Class
Working with figures: pen tool, figure creator, align, Bézier
Improve your endeavour: colours, lighting and shadows, patterns, brushes and more.
Working with fonts: creating your own fonts, and having fun with the font effects.
Apply and edit effects: Stylise, Distort, Warp, 3D
Combining different components: compound path, clusters, layers.
Module 3: Create Your Own Logo: From Beginning To End
How to write: improving the quality of your ideas and inspiration.
Describe your designs using the image or pen method.
Accurate your design: anchors, handles, mirrors, and cut and paste.
Convert your design into a living colour with the CC colour system, or colour wheel.
Present your job in different ways for different purposes.
Module 4: Create a Professional Brand with Illustrator
Create your brand's identity: logo variants, font choices, and colour combinations.
Create business cards with both sides that are ready for printing.
Create a flyer or poster.
Create a dynamic web banner that contains images and graphics: edit, trim, and remove.
Create an infographic
How to properly preserve and export graphics to your website, social media, and print.
Module 5: How To Make Money Using Adobe Illustrator
Illustrator initiatives that you can participate in and profit from.
How to value your work and receive payment for it.
Recruiting clients and growing your business
How to precisely regulate your procedure and achieve deadlines.
Helpful advice and methods that design experts enjoy.
Last thoughts and goodbye
Who is this educational program intended for?
All digital artists and graphic designers must understand the leading provider of graphics editing and design tools.
Existing users of Illustrator who want to learn quickly what the program can do, including shortcuts and the different tools' capabilities.
Any small business owner or entrepreneur who wishes to market their product or create their own website.
Social media managers who want to create interesting infographics and posters in order to engage the audience.
Career route
Anyone who specialises in marketing will profit from the knowledge of how to utilise Illustrator to create promotional art like fliers, posters and brochures for print, the web or social media.
Web developers and bloggers can create their own banners, custom buttons and original art.
Social media managers can create graphs, ads and other content for their posts.
Having the ability to utilise Illustrator will be beneficial in any profession - you can be the go-to individual when they require worksheets, promotional materials, invitations, and anything else creative.