This class is broken down in to three sections, with bite sized lessons in each one. That way, you can easily navigate through the class, step away when you need to, and refer back to key tools in the future. Take a look below, at what you'll learn...
In the first part of class, I will introduce you to the tools I use to both create, and organize, my florals shapes. You will learn...
Multiple ways to Power Duplicate fills and strokes to quickly create floral shapes.
How Symbols can help you quickly create, and adjust multi petal florals, allowing you to create them in less time.
The difference between Groups, Destructive Joins and Compounds, and the pros and cons of each
How the Assets studio is not only a powerful tool to organize your complete floral shapes but can also help quickly build a library of floral, "parts," that you can combine in future illustrations and designs.
How to use the Style Picker tool to quickly copy color, fills, strokes, and more to multiple shapes and,
How to use the Contour Tool, to create unique shapes for your florals, or create an offset when you need to, "bulk up," your shapes.
In this section, we'll begin building the flat base of our flower, leaf and vase shapes. You will learn...
How to use special control nodes, built in to Designer's built in shapes, to create beautiful floral shapes simply by dragging a series of nodes and
I'll also walk you through the basics of using Pressure Settings, as well as various pitfalls when using pressure settings and show you how to either avoid them, or fix them, when you can't.
How you can use those same pressure settings in multiples to add a hand drawn feel to the shapes you create with them.
We'll use what we learn about pressure settings to create beautiful, organic, flower, leaf and even vase shapes.
In the final section of class, we will take our flat shapes and add beautiful depth and dimension with gradients, warp and, of course, texture! You will learn...
How Warp Groups can be used singularly, or in multiples, to add a bit of, "wonkiness," to our too perfect shapes, giving them a more natural feel.
How to use both the Fill tool and the Vector Flood Fill tool to quickly add gradients and texture from the Stock studio, external folders, and the Assets studio.
How you can use built in, or imported, vector texture brushes to add an even more organic feel to your floral shapes and,
How to DRAW with single stroke textures using the Pen and Pencil tool
Welcome to Class!
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Power Duplicate & the Transform Panel
Working with Symbols
Groups Layers and Boolean Operations
Assets Panel
The Appearance Panel
The Style Picker
The Contour Tool
Creating Florals with Built in Shapes
Basics of Stroke Pressure
Leaves with Pressure Settings
Avoiding or Fixing Issues with Pressure
Creating Flowers with Pressure Settings
Warp Groups
Gradients with the Fill Tool
Bitmap Textures with the Fill Tool
Vector Flood Fill Tool
Adding Texture with Vector Brushes
Drawing with Textured Strokes
Final Thoughts
Join instructor Tracey Capone in class, and create your own, beautiful, textural floral assets for illustrations, surface pattern designs and graphic design projects.
