Creating Icons with Illustrator
Offered By: LinkedIn Learning
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
- The concept of an icon
- Screen versus printed icons
- Icon styles and sets
- Things to help you get started
- Challenge
- Solution
- How to correctly set up a document
- Creating a custom toolset
- Setting grid preferences
- How to use the pixel grid
- Creating artboards
- Challenge
- Solution
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Thank you
Taught by
Bart Van de Wiele
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