Adobe Illustrator CC 2026

Adobe Illustrator CC 2026

Adobe Photoshop Essentials course will teach you Illustrator , The Most powerful tool for Vector Shapes and Drawing .

What You Will learn

• You will be able to add Illustrator to your CV
• You will be able to start earning money from your Illustrator Skills.
• You will have over 30 of your own projects to add to your portfolio.
• Feel comfortable using Adobe Illustrator to design your own graphics from scratch.
• Navigate Adobe Illustrator CC like a pro.
• Design your own graphics, without any experience.
• Draw beginner to advanced shapes and icons.
• Learn all of the key skills of Illustrator: shapes, text, masking, effects, and exporting.
• Master advanced Illustrator tools and techniques.
• Export your projects for print, web, or other design projects.
• Make your ideas come to life.
• Create your own logos.
• Draw existing famous logos.
• Illustrate animals.
• Draw with paint brushes.
• Draw with pens & pencils.
• Create custom typography.
• Take hand drawings and recreate them using Illustrator.
• Create a logo badge with text that wraps around.
• Create type that follows a curving line.
• Put images inside of text for cool effects.
• Create beautiful gradients and apply them to icons, text & illustrations.
• Find the secrets to choosing color combinations for your work.
• Create a paper cut effect.
• Pull, push & cut text to make interesting styles.
• Repeat patterns to create vector flowers.
• You will redraw yourself as an illustration.
• Create many different icons styles.
• Build a repeating pattern to be used as wallpaper or fabric designs.
• Find many templates for posters, stationery & UI designs to save you time.
• You’ll build create assets like colors, patterns & drawings using the Illustrator mobile app.

Course Outlines

Drawing

• How to draw rounded rectangles triangles & tracing images in Illustrator
• How to draw lines arcs & stars in Illustrator
• Scaling Stroke & Effects & Corners
• Saving to the Creative Cloud versus locally on my desktop
• Exporting your images 101
• How to draw using the Shape Builder tool in Adobe Illustrator CC
• Completed – Class Project 02 – Icons Using the Shape Builder
• How to use layers in Illustrator
• Align distribute rotation & math in fields – Impossible Triangle

Artificial Intelligence

• How to use Text to Vector in Illustrator

Pen & Curvature Tool

• How to draw anything using the Curvature Tool in Adobe Illustrator
• Mixture of curves and straight lines using the Curvature tool
• Combining shapes curvature & shape builder tools into Fox shadows
• How to draw using the Pen Tool in Adobe Illustrator CC
• Dan tidying up students work
• Awake Fox Combining Tools & Skill Stacking
• AI Generative Recolor
• How to make a Mood Board in Illustrator
• T-Shirt Making

Stroke, Pencil & Brushes

• Drawing with the Pencil Tool in Adobe Illustrator CC
• Adjust your stroke corners profile and mitres
• How to make an arrow in Illustrator
• How to Make a Dotted or Dashed in Illustrator
• How to use Brushes in Adobe Illustrator CC
• How to Simplify paths in Illustrator
• How to draw lines with the Width Tool in Adobe Illustrator
• How to Join two lines together in Illustrator
• How to use Intertwine in Illustrator
• How to Expand Appearance in Illustrator

Type & Fonts1

• How to create a postcard document in Illustrator
• How to add type in Illustrator us Area vs Point text
• How to pick fonts in Illustrator
• How to use Adobe Fonts in Illustrator
• How to make Adobe Font Pairing
• How to find & use Glyphs in Illustrator
• How to curve text in Illustrator
• How to put type around a circle badge using Illustrator
• How to break apart & outline text in Illustrator
• Adjusting an existing drawing using the pencil tool
• How to Intertwine text monogram in Illustrator
• Draw Your Own Animal with Shapes & Lines

Color

• What is RGB & CMYK & HSB & HEX colors in Illustrator
• How to steal colors from an image using Eyedropper in Illustrator
• Design a Modern Swan with the Shape Builder Tool
• Creating a reusable color swatch in Illustrator
• Transparency & Opacity and darkening images in Illustrator
• Color in the Impossible Triangle
• How to use CC Libraries in Adobe Illustrator CC
• How to find amazing colors in Illustrator using Adobe Color
• How to use AI Generative Recolor in Illustrator
• Drawing with the Pencil Tool
• How to make Gradients in Illustrator

Images & Masking

• Missing images and relinking and embedding
• How to crop an image in Adobe Illustrator
• Class Project – Postcard Finish
• How to cut holes in shapes using Compound Shapes in Illustrator
• How to separate Compound & Masked shapes in Illustrator
• How to make a Paper cut effect in Illustrator

Artboards

• Using artboards in Illustrator to make double sized business cards
• Class Project – Business Card

Effects

• How to use Liquify distort wrinkle bloat & pucker in Illustrator
• Sliced text effect in Illustrator
• How to bend & warp shapes in Adobe Illustrator
• How to Warp & Bend type in Illustrator
• How to convert a sketch into vector and color it in illustrator
• How to vectorize an image in illustrator
• How to convert photo into a stencil Silhouette in Illustrator
• How to make a Anaglyph effect in Illustrator
• Class Project – Live Trace

Patterns

• Create a Stencil Cutout of an Image
• Drawing amazing flower with repeating shapes in Illustrator
• Design a Badge Logo
• Design Your Own Font
• Design Your Own Pattern
• Class Project 28 – Repeating Pattern
• Design a Lovely Repeating Shape Graphic
• Class Project 28 – Repeating Pattern
• How to make repeating patterns with Geometric Marquetry in Illustrator

3D in Illustrator

• How to make 3D Type extruded type in Illustrator
• Class Project 30 – Black Friday Sale
• How use Inflate to make cool 3D in Illustrator
• How to realistically Mockup your design in Illustrator
• How to embed images in illustrator
• Understanding all the ways to export files from Illustrator
• WebP vs SVG vs PNG vs JPG vs PDF AI vs EPS vs Tiff in Illustrator