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In this intermediate level 2 course, you will learn further tools and features that take your fashion flats from basic to detailed and professional.
In this intermediate level 2 course, you will learn further tools and features that take your fashion flats from basic to detailed and professional.
Learn essential skills required by the fashion industry
Having spent over a decade implementing and training software technologies into fashion brands and retailers across the globe, I spent a lot of time working with the designers. Over the years there seemed to be a common theme in the design room - lots of designers were using Illustrator well but many either couldn't use it at all or couldn't use it very well. They also didn't adhere to any drawing standards or best practises so had problems such as not being able to easily edit each other's drawings, create colourways quickly or create reusable components properly, making them inefficient.
Illustrator 4 Fashion training has been specifically tailored for fashion, with the needs of the industry in mind. The training can be taken by company design employees, freelance designers, fashion design students and anyone else looking to learn or improve their fashion drawing with Adobe Illustrator.
Course Overview
Most Adobe Illustrator manuals and online training courses are industry generic with many modules not relevant to fashion drawing. It can be hard to know which features to learn and how to develop techniques to draw professional fashion designs. Illustrator 4 Fashion only teaches you the features and techniques relevant to drawing fashion flats, illustrations and garment components.
The Illustrator 4 Fashion course is split into 3 levels; beginner, intermediate and advanced. This level 2 intermediate course is aimed at students that have a basic working knowledge of fashion drawing with Adobe Illustrator. This course builds on the foundations learnt in Level 1, progressing to more advanced skills and techniques to bring fashion flats to life. Students will learn how to build powerful trim and brush libraries to improve design efficiency and accuracy. Level 2 also looks more in depth at the use of colour, patterns, fabric fills and embellishments, to add dynamism and realism to drawings. The final section of this course features a selection of garment drawing tutorials, putting the skills and techniques learnt in the first part of the course into real life practise.
Every lecture includes supporting Illustrator work files so that students can follow the lecture exactly.
This video introduces you to the structure of the intermediate course:
In this lecture we learn how to join paths using the join tool.
In this lecture we learn how to manipulate paths and objects using the shape builder tool.
In this lecture we learn how to skew objects and patterns using the sheer tool.
In this lecture we learn how to widen paths using the width tool.
In this lecture we learn how to paint objects using the blob brush tool.
Topics covered in this lecture are:
Topics covered in this lecture are:
Topics covered in this lecture are:
Topics covered in this lecture are:
Topics covered in this lecture are:
In this lecture we will cover how to draw the following components:
Continued from Building Trim Symbol Libraries - Part 1
In this lecture we will cover how to create the following brushes:
Continued from Building Brush Libraries - Part 1
Continued from Building Brush Libraries - Part 2
In this lecture we revisit the t-shirt we drew in the beginners course workshop and enhance it with the following techniques:
- Pattern swatch (stripes)
- Pattern options (star print)
- Random repeats (daisy print)
- Clipping masks (plaid)
For students that did not complete the level 1 beginners course, please see the downloads area for this lecture where you will find a t-shirt drawing Illustrator file so that you can follow along.
Continued from T-Shirt - Part 1
In this lecture we revisit the shirt we drew in the beginners course workshop and enhance it with the following techniques:
- Edit symbol instances
In this lecture we revisit the jeans we drew in the beginners course workshop and enhance it with the following techniques:
-Pattern swatches from raster files
- Draw inside
- Bristle brush
- Art brush
- Scatter brush
- Blending and transparency
Techniques and functions:
Continued from Jogging Bottoms - Part 1
Techniques and functions:
Continued from Sport Jacket - Part 1
Continued from Sport Jacket - Part 2
Techniques and functions:
Continued from Drapey Top - Part 1
Course summary and links/discount codes for level 3
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