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Creating Icons with Illustrator

Offered By: LinkedIn Learning

Tags

Adobe Illustrator Courses Graphic Design Courses Icon Design Courses Artboards Courses Vector Graphics Courses Digital Illustration Courses

Course Description

Overview

This beginner-level course gives you an overview of what an icon is and its key characteristics, then enables you to design and export your icons in Illustrator.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Fast and efficient icon creation
  • About challenges
1. Understanding Core Concepts
  • The concept of an icon
  • Screen versus printed icons
  • Icon styles and sets
  • Things to help you get started
  • Challenge
  • Solution
2. Setting Up Illustrator
  • How to correctly set up a document
  • Creating a custom toolset
  • Setting grid preferences
  • How to use the pixel grid
  • Creating artboards
  • Challenge
  • Solution
3. Going from Paper to Digital
  • Sketching icons
  • Importing a sketch as a template
  • Auto-tracing a sketch
  • Capturing and importing a sketch using Adobe Capture
  • Reducing the number of points and cleaning up
  • Challenge
  • Solution
4. Understanding Design Techniques
  • Designing with basic shapes
  • Setting stroke options
  • Using the Pathfinder panel
  • Understanding compound shapes
  • Mastering the Shape Builder tool
  • Discovering the Appearance panel
  • Useful filters and effects
  • Power tips
  • Advanced techniques: Creating a winter icon
  • Advanced techniques: Creating a summer icon
  • Advanced techniques: Creating a fall icon
  • Advanced techniques: Creating a spring icon
  • Challenge
  • Solution
5. Saving and Exporting
  • Common icon sizes
  • How to export for web
  • How to export as SVG
  • Bulk exporting via Export for Screens
  • Bulk artwork export via Asset Export panel
  • Exporting for print
  • Exporting to Adobe Photoshop
  • Challenge
  • Solution
Conclusion
  • Thank you

Taught by

Bart Van de Wiele

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