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Adobe® Illustrator Courses
£325 per delegate. This may be less for special offers on specific course dates and in-company training courses
Duration: 1 day
Trainer: G083IH
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Overview
Our one day Illustrator for Fashion course is aimed at designers working in the fashion industry, that have completed the Illustrator Getting Started beginners course or have equivalent experience and wish to learn specific techniques for Fashion design.
During this course you will learn how to use Illustrator to create flats, drawing items such as shirts, skirts, and trousers. You will cover working with custom brushes to create things like zippers, stitching, lacing and more. Illustrator features covered include things like custom brushes, symbols, libraries and patterns as well as many others. In addition to the regular tools found in Illustrator you will also be introduced to a number of extensions which lend themselves to using Illustrator for fashion design.
Who Should Attend?
If you have never used the pen tool, and have not worked with paths or adjusted curves before, you should take a look at the Illustrator Getting Started course. If however you are comfortable with this kind of thing and are looking to develop more specific skills that relate to the fashion industry then this course is aimed at you. You don't need to be an Illustrator expert, and this course is best suited to those who are at an intermediate level and want to move beyond the basics of Illustrator.
The course is very much hands on, and our class sizes are capped at a maximum of 8 delegates in London and 5 in York, ensuring plenty of one to one attention. The course is also available as a closed course at your own location.
What You Will Learn
The Illustrator for Fashion course introduces a variety of skills for those who already have some experience of using Adobe Illustrator and are working in a fashion related area.
You will learn:
- How to turn your sketches into basic vector shapes
- How to colour-in your sketch
- How to create sketches from scratch within Illustrator
- How to create flats within Illustrator
- How to add features like eyes, nose, mouth, and hair to your sketch
- All about the different brushes available within Illustrator
- How to make your own, custom brushes
- The best ways to organise your work effectivley using artboards and layers
- How to use a graphic tablet with Illustrator
- About some very useful plugins for Illustrator that lend themselves to Fashion work
- How to print, export, and share your work
Topics Covered
The Illustrator for Fashion course covers a range of intermediate Illustrator topics which are especially suitable for those working in a fashion design environment. The standard topics we cover are listed below.
Image Tracing and Reporting
- Tracing your sketch
- Colouring-in your sketch
- Sketching directly within Illustrator
Drawing Flats
- Drawing a T-Shirt
- adding sleeves
-drawing the back view
-adding the neckline
- Drawing skirts, trousers or dresses
- Drawing a blazer or jacket
Drawing A Croquis
- Drawing a figure
- Tracing a Croquis
- Using multiple fills and strokes
- Adding features, eyes, nose and mouth
- Drawing hair
- Highlights and shading
Working With Custom Brushes
- Types of brushes
- Using and editing brushes
- Creating stitches
- Making a zigzag brush
- Making an overlock brush
- Making a zipper brush
- Saving and loading brushes
- Using the Blob Brush to create drawstrings and lacing
- Creating brushes with Adobe Brush CC
Working With Symbols
- The benefits of using symbols
- Saving and loading symbols
- Creating rivet and eyelet symbols
- Creating a basic button symbol
- Creating a zipper pull symbol
- Creating buttonhole symbols
- Creating symbols for drawstrings and lacing
Organising Your Work
- Using guides
- Using layers to organise designs more efficiently
- Creating customised colour palettes for swatches and pattern tiles
- Working with Libraries
- Using the text tool to annotate final designs
Extending Illustrator
- Using a graphics tablet
- Drawing your shapes with a pen
- Useful Illustrator extensions for fashion designers
- VectorScribe
- DynamicSketch
- MirrorMe
- Phantasm
- InkScribe
- Denimaker
- ColliderScribe
Sharing and Output
- Presenting and Sharing Your work
- Presentation and layout styles
- Saving for print and email
Our one day Illustrator for Fashion course is aimed at designers working in the fashion industry, that have completed the Illustrator Getting Started beginners course or have equivalent experience and wish to learn specific techniques for Fashion design.
During this course you will learn how to use Illustrator to create flats, drawing items such as shirts, skirts, and trousers. You will cover working with custom brushes to create things like zippers, stitching, lacing and more. Illustrator features covered include things like custom brushes, symbols, libraries and patterns as well as many others. In addition to the regular tools found in Illustrator you will also be introduced to a number of extensions which lend themselves to using Illustrator for fashion design.
Who Should Attend?
If you have never used the pen tool, and have not worked with paths or adjusted curves before, you should take a look at the Illustrator Getting Started course. If however you are comfortable with this kind of thing and are looking to develop more specific skills that relate to the fashion industry then this course is aimed at you. You don't need to be an Illustrator expert, and this course is best suited to those who are at an intermediate level and want to move beyond the basics of Illustrator.
The course is very much hands on, and our class sizes are capped at a maximum of 8 delegates in London and 5 in York, ensuring plenty of one to one attention. The course is also available as a closed course at your own location.
What You Will Learn
The Illustrator for Fashion course introduces a variety of skills for those who already have some experience of using Adobe Illustrator and are working in a fashion related area.
You will learn:
- How to turn your sketches into basic vector shapes
- How to colour-in your sketch
- How to create sketches from scratch within Illustrator
- How to create flats within Illustrator
- How to add features like eyes, nose, mouth, and hair to your sketch
- All about the different brushes available within Illustrator
- How to make your own, custom brushes
- The best ways to organise your work effectivley using artboards and layers
- How to use a graphic tablet with Illustrator
- About some very useful plugins for Illustrator that lend themselves to Fashion work
- How to print, export, and share your work
Topics Covered
The Illustrator for Fashion course covers a range of intermediate Illustrator topics which are especially suitable for those working in a fashion design environment. The standard topics we cover are listed below.
Image Tracing and Reporting
- Tracing your sketch
- Colouring-in your sketch
- Sketching directly within Illustrator
Drawing Flats
- Drawing a T-Shirt
- adding sleeves
-drawing the back view
-adding the neckline
- Drawing skirts, trousers or dresses
- Drawing a blazer or jacket
Drawing A Croquis
- Drawing a figure
- Tracing a Croquis
- Using multiple fills and strokes
- Adding features, eyes, nose and mouth
- Drawing hair
- Highlights and shading
Working With Custom Brushes
- Types of brushes
- Using and editing brushes
- Creating stitches
- Making a zigzag brush
- Making an overlock brush
- Making a zipper brush
- Saving and loading brushes
- Using the Blob Brush to create drawstrings and lacing
- Creating brushes with Adobe Brush CC
Working With Symbols
- The benefits of using symbols
- Saving and loading symbols
- Creating rivet and eyelet symbols
- Creating a basic button symbol
- Creating a zipper pull symbol
- Creating buttonhole symbols
- Creating symbols for drawstrings and lacing
Organising Your Work
- Using guides
- Using layers to organise designs more efficiently
- Creating customised colour palettes for swatches and pattern tiles
- Working with Libraries
- Using the text tool to annotate final designs
Extending Illustrator
- Using a graphics tablet
- Drawing your shapes with a pen
- Useful Illustrator extensions for fashion designers
- VectorScribe
- DynamicSketch
- MirrorMe
- Phantasm
- InkScribe
- Denimaker
- ColliderScribe
Sharing and Output
- Presenting and Sharing Your work
- Presentation and layout styles
- Saving for print and email
Course Times
Usually 9.30am - 4.00pm. Course times will be confirmed in the joining instructions once the course has been booked.
The course either has new dates in data loading, or is only run as a dedicated or In Company course.
Telephone Hotline
01933 233884
(Monday to Friday - 8:00am to 5:30pm).
