Nick Saporito – The Illustrator Explainer Series
The Illustrator Explainer Series is a comprehensive series of 100+ videos where I go over every tool, feature and function in Adobe Illustrator and explain what it is, how it works, and why it’s useful. Think of it as a guided tour, in video format, that you can refer to any time you want and can sign in to ask questions.
Your Instructor
I’ve been a freelance graphic designer since 2011, mostly using open source design software like Inkscape and GIMP.
I’ve also made hundreds of design tutorials for YouTube that have been viewed over 10 million times, amassing a following of over 140k subscribers.
The Logos By Nick blog is another learning resource I’ve created. It hosts hundreds of written tutorials and articles relating to design and brings in over 3,000 visitors per day on average.
Course Curriculum
- Welcome!
- Introduction To Illustrator (5:31)
- Workflow Setup & Overview (8:37)
- Basic Controls (9:08)
- View Modes (7:45)
- Saving & Exporting Your Work (11:50)
- Snapping (7:08)
- Grids (1:31)
- Guides (3:27)
- Align & Distribute (10:00)
- Grouping (3:01)
- Layers (5:31)
- The Selection Tool (7:38)
- Transform (5:28)
- Color (6:21)
- Stroke (10:45)
- Gradient (9:44)
- Pathfinder/Boolean Operations (5:40)
- Compound Paths (4:29)
- Expand/Expand Appearance (5:14)
- Clipping Masks (2:30)
- Masking (Transparency Menu) (4:41)
- Direct Selection Tool (4:02)
- Group Selection Tool (2:06)
- Magic Wand Tool (4:47)
- Lasso Tool (1:44)
- Pen Tool (8:16)
- Add/Delete Anchor Points Tool (2:30)
- Anchor Point Tool (1:51)
- Curvature Tool (2:55)
- Type Tool (6:30)
- Area Type (4:06)
- Type On A Path (5:38)
- Vertical Type (3:33)
- Touch Type (2:15)
- Line Segment Tool (3:32)
- Arc Tool (2:59)
- Spiral Tool (4:35)
- Rectangular Grid (4:46)
- Polar Grid (4:24)
- Rectangle Tool (2:18)
- Rounded Rectangle (2:05)
- Ellipse (1:13)
- Polygon (1:54)
- Star (2:49)
- Flare (3:44)
- Paintbrush Tool (5:13)
- Blob Brush (2:06)
- Shaper (1:20)
- Pencil (3:30)
- Smooth (2:50)
- Path Eraser (2:07)
- Join (1:39)
- Eraser (2:43)
- Scissors (1:07)
- Knife (1:30)
- Rotate (3:28)
- Reflect (1:22)
- Scale (2:49)
- Shear (1:22)
- Reshape (1:23)
- Width (2:08)
- Distortion Tools (2:36)
- Free Transform (3:01)
- Puppet Warp (2:03)
- Shape Builder (2:50)
- Live Paint Bucket (2:20)
- Live Paint Selection (1:29)
- Perspective Grid & Selection (4:00)
- Mesh (4:05)
- Eye Dropper (1:49)
- Measure (1:46)
- Blend (5:45)
- Symbol Tools (5:34)
- Charts and Graphs (10:38)
- Artboard Tool (4:28)
- Slice Tool (3:34)
- Hand & Rotate View (2:35)
- Zoom Tool (1:40)
- Envelope Distort (6:45)
- 3D (7:24)
- Distort & Transform (4:49)
- Stylize (5:24)
- Recoloring Your Artwork (3:15)
- Text Wrapping (4:07)
- Creating Patterns (2:57)
- Actions (2:37)
- Appearance (2:52)
- Asset Export (2:06)
- Color Guide (2:18)
- Image Trace (7:20)
- Info (2:22)
- Links (1:23)
- Navigator (1:37)
- Properties (2:19)
- Feedback & Questions
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