Illustrator for Fashion - Beginners

 

Immerse yourself in a set of 4 intensive workshops, tailored for the designer who has little to no knowledge of Illustrator, but would like to learn to create fashion flats, seamless patterns and brushes, simple line sheets, callouts for tech packs, recolor artwork and more.  

You'll learn best practices from the start including setting up template files, creating libraries that can be reused and building efficient files.

While this course is for beginners, it is immersive and covers a lot of content in a short period of time.  The course moves at a swift pace and content builds on itself from one night to the next.  Each session is 2.5 hours with an additional 30 minutes available at the end of each class for students to practice what they've learned and get one on one support (this time is optional but highly recommended).  

Homework is assigned and students are expected to complete assignments and practice in between sessions in order to absorb content to its fullest and get the maximum out of the course.  

While no experience in Illustrator is required, it is expected that you have fundamental computer skills in order to keep up with the class.

All attendees will recieve a Sketching template, a Shortcuts Cheat Sheet and an Illustrator Brushes library with 50 great brushes.

Topics Covered:
• Workspace and Navigation
• Objects and Color
• Selection and Drawing Tools
• Layers, Grouping, Locking and Hiding 
• Mastering the Pen Tool
• Stitches and Brushes
• Fashion Flats Sketching
• Advanced Sketching tricks (Ribs, bindings, etc)
• Seamless pattern repeats
• Image Trace
• Live Color
• Symbols
• Libraries and Templates 
• and more 

Cost: $449 (Sign up before 9/12 for Special Early pricing of $399)

Trainer: Sew Heidi

Style: Lecture/Hands-On (MAC laptops provided. Feel free to bring your own)

We will be training on CS6; however, we do have CC on our workstations as well for those of you who have upgraded. Most topics span all versions since Illustrator 10.