Digital Illustration: Design Your Avatar

Looking to push your skills in Adobe Illustrator? Want to take the self portrait to the next level? Join artist Ryan Putnam for a fun, 45-minute class on designing your own custom avatar!Ryan walks you through his own process of breaking down the subject matter (his face) into simple shapes and line weights that create a cohesive avatar. This class will teach you how to create and avatar with likeness to your face, and you'll work with essential, basic illustrator tools to achieve a sophisticated look.

Difficulty Level: Introductory

Looking to push your skills in Adobe Illustrator? Want to take the self portrait to the next level? Join artist Ryan Putnam for a fun, 45-minute class on designing your own custom avatar!

Ryan walks you through his own process of breaking down the subject matter (his face) into simple shapes and line weights that create a cohesive avatar. This class will teach you how to create and avatar with likeness to your face, and you'll work with essential, basic illustrator tools to achieve a sophisticated look.

Whether you're a designer looking to explore and push your style, or you just want to create a fun avatar for your social media account, this class will inspire you to open Adobe Illustrator and get to work!

Want to check out more from Ryan Putnam? Learn some fun illustration exercises to improve your work in his illustration styles class.

How to Draw Comic Style Mouths - Step by Step

In this class you will learn how to draw comic style mouths from basic shapes to rendering techniques. We will talk about gestures and expressions, creating studies in a productive way, and how to stretch the imagination with what you learn here!

Editorial Illustration: Draw Idioms the "Designy" Way

Get out your pens and paper! Join acclaimed "designy" illustrator Mikey Burton for a 45-minute funfest on bringing an editorial illustration to life. Bite-sized lessons show each step of his sketching, illustrating, and texturing process — and then challenge you to illustrate a fun idiom of your own.

Throughout the class, Mikey illustrates an idiom, shares how he got started in editorial illustration, and talks through work for clients as diverse as Converse, ESPN, TIME magazine, and the New York Times. Plus, each lesson is brimming with insights on creative confidence and the value of creating work you love.

The class is perfect for illustrators, designers, and everyone who loves that perfect interplay of pictures and words. All you need is pen, paper, and brain. Let's go!

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20 Things New Illustrator Users Need to Know - A Graphic Design for Lunch™ Class

Graphic Design for Lunch™ is a series of short video courses you can study in bite size pieces such as at lunchtime. In this course you'll learn 20 things about Illustrator that new users need to know. I'll explain why certain things happen in Illustrator and how to manage them, how to find tools and settings and how to tame Illustrator to work better for you, and how to perform everyday tasks in Illustrator. By the end of the class, you'll have learn techniques and skills you can use immediately in your everyday work in Illustrator. While I have used Illustrator CC 2018 most of these techniques and skills can be applied to any version of Illustrator.

Head Drawing Basics / Portrait Drawing & Illustration / Sketching Realistic Faces

This portrait drawing course will teach you how to draw beautiful, realistic portraits that capture the subject's likeness.

Mastering Gradients in Adobe Illustrator

Level up your gradient skills with our special tips, tricks & techniques ranging from beginner to advanced Illustrator levels!

Portrait Drawing: Fun Practice in Expression, Personality and Mood

Learn to draw diverse portraits with a fun sketchbook practice! Capturing the personality, expression and mood of a human face can be a challenging subject to master for artists. Following tips and insights gained over years of my artwork practice, you and I will find out what it takes to capture the likeness of someone. We’ll debate the different approaches to portrait drawing, figurative Vs. stylized, and come up with a finely reasoned conclusion. But most importantly we'll enjoy the time we set up for ourselves for drawing!

Fundamentals of Adobe Illustrator for Web Design: Getting Started with the Basics (I)

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Adobe Illustrator can be a wonderful and effective tool for designing for the web. In this beginners level class, you'll learn how to get started using Illustrator to design your own site.

This class is perfect for anyone looking to learn more about Adobe Illustrator, get started in web design, or for those who already know Illustrator but wanted to use it for web design as well.

What You'll Learn

Getting Started. We'll walk through setting up your artboards, the workspace, and specific panels that are helpful for web design tasks.

Self-Care Through Creativity: Turn Your Anxiety Into Art

Art can be an incredibly powerful tool for working through difficult emotions. Join animation director, illustrator and human Sarah Beth Morgan to learn how to turn your anxiety into artwork.

This class is all about the process. It’s about taking your internal struggles - your emotions and especially your anxiety - and breaking them down to create art. Along the way, maybe we’ll even relieve some of that nervous energy that’s been wrapped up inside of you.

You’ll feel your way through emotional art-making, while learning more about yourself and your anxieties along the way. We’ll start by exploring our inner emotions and following a few actionable creative exercises. Then, we’ll bring those emotions into the physical realm - using whatever medium you feel most comfortable with. You’ll end up with a new art piece - and hopefully a little less anxiety!

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LCIEducation: Introduction to Illustrator

Create your own logos, icons, diagrams and other visual content according to graphic design industry standards with this introductory course to Adobe Illustrator.