Adobe Illustrator Fundamentals: Complete Beginner to Intermediate Design Guide is designed to give you a solid foundation in vector-based design while gradually building your skills to an intermediate level. You’ll begin with an introduction to the Illustrator interface, learning how to navigate the workspace, manage panels, and set up your first projects. This early focus on tool mastery ensures you can work confidently and efficiently from the start.

In the drawing tools section, you’ll explore the Pencil Tool, Illustrator Brushes, Width Tool, and Blend Tool to create custom strokes, smooth transitions, and expressive line work. You’ll then move on to exporting designs for both print and web, understanding essential file formats and color modes such as RGB and CMYK to ensure your work looks perfect in any medium. The course also covers swatches, gradients, and advanced color techniques, enabling you to create visually striking designs.

Typography is another key focus, with lessons on adding, editing, and creatively manipulating text to enhance branding and layouts. You’ll learn masking and clipping mask techniques, as well as 3D tools for transforming flat artwork into dynamic, dimensional designs. The Photoshop & Illustrator effects module introduces creative distortions, transformations, and stylization methods, while the object and shape pattern section shows you how to create repeats, gradient meshes, custom patterns, and vectorized line art from raster images.

To ensure you can apply your skills in real-world scenarios, the course includes practical projects such as designing iconic logos like Twitter, Google, and Instagram, as well as creative pieces like a skull line art poster and the Animal Planet logo. By the end of the course, you’ll have a strong grasp of Illustrator’s core tools and features, as well as the ability to design professional-quality graphics for a variety of purposes.