Adobe Illustrator for Beginners

Adobe Illustrator is a powerful program that allows you to draw digitally. It does take some time, however, to master. 

For today's assignment, you must:

• Create two 8x10 artboards
• Draw your name in bubble letters on one art board using the pen tool. Draw a heart or shield using the pen tool. Make sure both are filled in with colors and have outlines.
• Do the same exact thing on the second artboard using the BRUSH tool.
• Save your file as an yourfullname.illustrator.eps and yourfullname.illustratodra.ai file.

Intro Tips

• Changing units to inches
• Scaling strokes & effects

• Creating documents
• Saving documents
• The artboards
• Showing the ruler
• Layers
• Space bar changes to a hand
  

Beginning Tips

• The pen tool
  
• The brush tool
• Closing and filling shapes
• How to format text
• Anchors and handles
• The direct selection tool
• Fill & stroke
• Bringing forward & sending backwards
  

Secondary Tips

• Placing files (linking and embedding them)
• Alignment
  
• Effects
• Guides
• Text transform
• Exporting files
  

Advanced Tips

• Clipping masks
• Paths
• Appearances