Adobe Illustrator for Beginners | FREE COURSE
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Learn how to use Adobe Illustrator for beginners in this free course.
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Start by mastering the Illustrator basics, and then learn to create effects, patterns, and more. This free Adobe Illustrator course is aimed at helping beginners learn how to use Adobe Illustrator easily and quickly. You don’t need any previous knowledge of the software, and you don’t need design or illustration skills. We’ll start right at the beginning and work our way through each topic step by step. If you’ve never opened Illustrator before—or maybe you’ve opened it and struggled—this course is for you! By the end, you'll know how to draw in Adobe Illustrator, how to make a pattern in Illustrator, and so much more.
This has been really helpful! Thank you so much. Do you have any follow on tutorials?
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Almost half way in. This is so helpful, better than paid courses I bought on Udemy ♥️
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HI :) i don't know if you do see the comments. thank you so much for the guide, it's been so much fun to follow and it's all clear. I am not done yet so maybe i'll have an answer when I delve further into the course. But I tried making my own letter logo by making an A. The thing is I don't get the intersection part at all, the logo looks good and all, but then I tried to round some corners just for the funsies, and even though i grouped the parts of the letter into one object, some corners are roundable but others not, as if all the parts weren't together. Thank you :)! I hope it makes sense haha
1 Introduction
00:00:00 1.1 Welcome to the Course
I just searched for Adobe Illustrator and this One popped out.
I hope I will get the whole knowledge I wanted 😊😊
00:01:43 1.2 Getting Started
2 How to Draw in Illustrator
Teacher, I didn't send my homework... cause mother went to jail... brother is in hospital... and by the time I was ready, house was on fire... anyway THANK YOU and greetings from Greece
00:07:42 2.1 Setting Up Our Document
00:12:10 2.2 Drawing With Shapes and Lines
This video is very important my life ❤
00:33:30 2.3 Grouping and Arranging
00:46:54 2.4 Drawing With the Shape Builder Tool
01:01:12 2.5 Exercise: Draw a Custom Logo
01:11:31 2.6 How to Use the Curvature Tool in Illustrator
Finally, a tutorial that explains how to use the pen tool without making me want to throw my computer out the window. 🙏
01:29:14 2.7 How to Use the Pen Tool in Illustrator
01:40:58 2.8 How to Use the Pencil Tool in Illustrator
2025! still kicking~~ I just finished the Penguin part and I am loving it.....
01:51:23 2.9 Using Brushes
3 Color
Wow… loving it
01:58:55 3.1 Working With Color
02:07:04 3.2 How to Use the Gradient Tool in Illustrator
It's 2025 😅
Anyone here ❤
4 Type and Fonts
02:13:39 4.1 How to Use Type and Fonts in Illustrator
new Ai Illustrator beginner here in 2025 and this is so far the best class i have taken! Your class really helped me feel very comfortable with the program! thanks so much!!
5 Effects and Patterns in Illustrator
02:23:47 5.1 Liquifying and Distorting in Illustrator
i learnt more through this video than i did form a 3 month course i paid for!!!!!!! Amazing.
02:35:05 5.2 Bending and Warping Shapes and Text
02:41:59 5.3 How to Make a Pattern in Illustrator
dude, this was made 5 years ago but it feels like it was made just yesterday?? your teaching is incredibly clear and easy to follow, i think i’ve spent 4+ hours following this tutorial side by side taking notes on everything and doing each exercise, thank you so so much for helping me feel confident and comfortable with illustrator 🙏 you are a godsend!!!
02:53:44 5.4 How to Vectorize an Image in Illustrator
6 Exporting
This is great but it’s way…… to quick, I had to keep going back. Like it be good if it was slowed down a bit because these are very specific instructions but it makes it hard cause if you literally don’t have the time to react to do the steps you have to go back. So that was very agitating. It made me want to click out the video many times. I found pausing it to be the best way to make sure I got everything. These is about a bazillion steps but very grateful for this free tutorial. It is intimidating, but it’s always something I wanted to learn, especially with making business logos. there was another course that six hours long so after I’ve done this, I’m going over to that one. I’m very serious about this. So thank you. 🙏 even though this is 5 years old not much has changed in this illustrator maybe the AI stuff but other than that it’s about the same.
03:04:33 6.1 Exporting for Print and Web
7 Conclusion
I can't find the source files.
03:15:39 7.1 What Next?
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Please how do I get the excersise files
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If anyone had trouble with the fill and stroke not appearing when creating the box for the penguine (press cntrl + y for pc or cmnd + y for mac). You are in outline mode.
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Thank you so much for providing us all with this awesome tutorial. This has been such a great education on Illustrator.
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Been struggling with the pathfinder, thanks to bro for introducing the shapebuilder tool
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Am I the only one who doesn’t have sleeping fox in their exercise file
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Hi sir , I hope you can answer my question immediately cause I needed it , I can't find the round things at the square corner , because my ai is in earlier version, is there any other way?😢thank you
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Who can help me get the exercise file please🥺
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hats off bruh
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You're awesome man ❤
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i love the humor
@Olaogun.quadriI just saw that I apparently have AI in my adobe pack, so I decided to learn it. I'm loving this class, it's one of the best ones I've seen here
@Peixos.He is one of the graphic design king on internet . this tutorial is still gold standard . thanks teacher for this lovely tutorial
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i have problem ,please
i can not open the files that you upload it
Yooh This is the best❤
@officialmaich8500thank you so much for this video
@ezegraphics9140where is the link of exercise files
@tesfayhailu6627This is the perfect channel for learning Adobe Illustrator, Envato Tuts+
@nazishullahMe watching this in 2025
This course is very explanatory
The tutorial is 🔥 and relevant
Thank you, thank you, thank you. this is the best illustrator course, and you are the best teacher at teaching it. thank you for a detailed and clear course and of course your good humor. Even though it is a course from a few years ago, it is still the best.
@luikaieridrick496Just want to say thank you for this course! I really don't stay longer than 10 minutes on something, but something about your voice and teaching made me stay for the whole thing! I mainly wanted to learn about fonts and text but learned so much more! Thank you for letting this be free!!
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@fddikhanPerfect tutorial, I just finished watching and practicing this video, I gained a lot by watching it, I love everything about creativity, these cool stuffs inspires me to get into creativity.
@abdulrahmansow2693Hello brother please help😢
@BINUWA21how long does it take to learn this software? THey offer it free for a week. Would I need a month?
@MoJoeShoMogg!
@imachsi4860I have done different tutorials about different things and this is the best tutorial i ever done. Even years later from its publication its totally worth it. Thank you!
@Tech_storytellerwhat a saint! big thx!
@TheApoplexyTwistSocietyyou're the besttttttt
@the_programmer6790I love illustrator so much. You are an amazing tutor❤.
@bissapbabyMan What a video!! What a Dan Scott!!
Off to the Photoshop course now!🎉
Wow! Salute to you sir, he is so patiently explaining everything, every tiny detail, with short cut, without shortcut, he's even telling every short cut for Mac as well as PC everytime. One of the best teachers I have seen.
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