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Learning illustrator
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Depends on what you are trying to do. Simple line art, complex blending and such? Anyways it isn't that difficult. Best bet would be to get the Classroom in a Book for your version of illustrator. It comes with some great tutorials and a cd of the projects which is a great help. Nothing beats schooling and training to use it but the classroom in a book is by far a good way to start.
Also have you used any programs similar to Illustrator or are you going into it blind?
It all depends how advanced you wanna go, anyway, there are some great tutorials available for free online such as www.tutorialized.com
Just spend time in it and you will learn. Don't focus on trying to make something you are thinking about, just use the various tools and see what result you get.
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Illustrator is difficult to learn, but it's the ideal tool for advanced work.
Learning the path tools and keyboard shortcuts is absolutely critical to working efficiently in illustrator.
Tutorials are very helpful for learning intermediate concepts, such as how and when to use blends and gradients, and developing efficient path construction techniques.
A good exercise for learning the path tools would be to draw an accurate path around a complex object, such as a ferris wheel or other object with lots of holes, curves and details. Once you can do this, everything else will come easy.
Learning the path tools and keyboard shortcuts is absolutely critical to working efficiently in illustrator.
Tutorials are very helpful for learning intermediate concepts, such as how and when to use blends and gradients, and developing efficient path construction techniques.
A good exercise for learning the path tools would be to draw an accurate path around a complex object, such as a ferris wheel or other object with lots of holes, curves and details. Once you can do this, everything else will come easy.
Draw in complete shapes. You build your image up by laying one shape on top of another. Each new shape will automatically be drawn in front of what you have drawn previous.
To get my students heads around creating an image in shapes I get them to use Fuzzy Felt or bits of coloured card.
To get my students heads around creating an image in shapes I get them to use Fuzzy Felt or bits of coloured card.
definitely a great site for learning photoshop...illustrator...all that good stuff
I learned illustrator in a month or so. it's not that hard to use