From the course: Illustrator One-on-One: Mastery

Welcome to this One-on-One course - Illustrator Tutorial

From the course: Illustrator One-on-One: Mastery

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Welcome to this One-on-One course

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- Hello, this is Deke McClelland. Welcome to Illustrator One-on-One Mastery, the final installment in a series of three video courses devoted to your absolute and unflinching command of the world's most powerful vector-based drawing software, by which I mean the one, the only Adobe Illustrator. As you know by now, the one-on-one promise is to turn you into the best illustrator user you know. Give me your time and attention and I'll show you everything you need to know in the order you need to know it. No crowded classroom. No scheduling conflicts. It's just you and me, one on one, any time that it's convenient for you to learn. Now, by now, you're a pretty advanced user so you're ready for the big guns. We'll begin by installing dekeKeys, which are a regimen of customized keyboard shortcuts that'll turn you into a lean, mean, illustrating machine. Next, we'll explore the world of blend modes and opacity masks, which allow you to blend the colors of big things like entire layers or little things like individual fills and strokes. We'll lose ourselves in the vast and flexible realms of custom art brushes, seamlessly repeating tile patterns, and multicolor, organic, even photorealistic gradient mesh. I'll show you how to use the puppet warp tool, which lets you take a piece of artwork and instead of having to redraw it, you can re-compose it like it's some kind of fluid model. For those of you who need to graph the occasional data, I'll show you how to do it in eye-popping pictographic style. I devote an entire chapter to logos and specialty type effects. And we'll wrap things up with a look at 3D. The result is a contextualized learning program in which you learn by doing. Illustrator's features make sense because you apply them to clearly defined tasks. If I've done my job, you'll leave each chapter with a sense of real, satisfying, tangible accomplishment that you can apply to your own highly-marketable projects. Learn how to do this and you'll be able to do so much more. And with that, I release you to experience Illustrator's most powerful and rarefied features as I truly hope you've never experienced them before. Welcome to Illustrator One-on-One Mastery.

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