If you want to make original illustrations in Adobe Illustrator but think you cannot draw, this quick and dirty course shows you simple techniques to create professional looking illustrations in minutes. It covers a crash course on Illustrator basics, working with layers and brushes, using free stock images and royalty free resources, and proper file saving techniques.

This Course Offers

• A Simple, No Drawing Required Approach: You will learn how to make powerful illustrations using simple techniques and basic principles, even if you cannot draw.
• A Crash Course on Illustrator Basics: The course includes a quick introduction to the most common Illustrator windows and tools, and how to get started drawing and setting up a new file.
• Practical Copyright and Resource Guidance: You will understand best practices regarding copyrights and using free stock images, original photos, and royalty free images.
• A Focus on Real World Applications: You will develop the ability to make illustrations for web, video, or print, and learn how to save and make money creating illustrations for yourself and others.

Why We Love This Course

1. It is free. You can learn Illustrator illustration techniques without any financial commitment.
2. It is designed for non-drawers. There are a huge number of graphic designers who cannot draw, and this course shows you how to make up for it using simple techniques.
3. It is taught by an experienced educator. The instructor has taught at universities on four continents and has a proven approach of turning complex information into something simple and memorable.
4. It is well reviewed. Students praise the course as wonderful, fantastic, and easy to follow, with one student noting it makes you quickly self sufficient.

If you are a newcomer to Illustrator or a beginner who wants to learn simple, practical techniques for getting started illustrating on the computer without needing to draw, this free course provides an easy, step by step approach.

• Newcomers to Illustrator as well as beginners interested in learning simple and basic techniques for getting started illustrating on the computer.
• Advanced traditional fine artists and illustrators looking for ways to take their natural drawing talents from sketchbooks to a computer environment.
• Anyone who thinks they cannot draw but wants to create illustrations for web, video, or print.
• Please note this is not an in depth Adobe Illustrator course; students looking for intermediate to advanced training would be better off with a longer course.

• This mini course requires a computer and an appropriate software program like Illustrator (free trials are available from Adobe).
• No drawing skills are required.
• A willingness to learn simple, practical techniques is essential.

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