Illustrator Draw: Working Mobile

Get started with Illustrator Draw, the vector drawing app from Adobe that allows you to create illustrations on your iPhone, iPad, iPad Pro, or Android phone or tablet.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Adobe Ideas, Adobe Line, and Illustrator Draw
• Draw! What is it good for?
• Connected Creative Cloud
• Exercise files
• What the author is using in this course
• Feature support (March 2017)

1. Getting Started

• Signing in to Draw
• Built-in tutorials
• Inspiration from the community gallery
• Interface tour: Projects and drawings
• Interface tour: The drawing interface

2. Using a Stylus

• Your native tools vs. a stylus
• What to look for when choosing your stylus
• Pairing a stylus

3. Starting Out Drawing

• The basic round brush
• The basic taper brush
• The basic flat brush
• The basic chisel brush
• The Eraser tool
• Changing brush behavior
• Changing brush size and opacity
• Brushes in practice

4. Colors

• Choosing colors from the Color Picker
• Using color harmonies
• Accessing color themes
• Colors in CC libraries
• Colors from the screen

5. Drawing Assistance

• Using Touch Slide
• Using the basic shapes and polygons
• Using the French curves
• Using stamps
• Shapes from CC libraries
• Adding a grid
• Adding a perspective grid
• Editing or disabling a grid
• Snapping behaviors

6. Draw Layers

• Adding a draw layer
• Naming a layer
• Changing layer opacity
• Transforming layer contents
• Deleting or duplicating a layer
• Merging layers
• Drawing exercise with transformations

7. Image Layers

• Adding an image layer
• Transforming an image layer
• Perspective from image layers
• Using image layers from other apps
• Using image layers for tracing

8. Advanced Drawing Techniques

• What are blend modes?
• Layer strategies
• Instant fills and deletions
• Changing the color of objects
• Drawing exercise

9. Beyond Illustrator Draw

• Using Capture to make a shape
• Using drawings in other apps
• Sending your work to Illustrator
• Sending your work to Photoshop
• Sharing your work to Behance
• Other sharing options

Conclusion

• Deliberate practice
• Keep Up-To-Date
• Bye for now!