Creating Icons with Illustrator

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Bart Van de Wiele

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01 Introduction

001 Fast and efficient icon creation.mp4

01:03

002 About challenges.mp4

00:33

02 Understanding Core Concepts

001 The concept of an icon.mp4

02:46

002 Screen versus printed icons.mp4

05:32

003 Icon styles and sets.mp4

05:07

004 Things to help you get started.mp4

08:30

005 Challenge.mp4

01:48

006 Solution.mp4

02:22

03 Setting Up Illustrator

001 How to correctly set up a document.mp4

04:22

002 Creating a custom toolset.mp4

05:24

003 Setting grid preferences.mp4

05:25

004 How to use the pixel grid.mp4

06:56

005 Creating artboards.mp4

05:12

006 Challenge.mp4

01:17

007 Solution.mp4

02:26

04 Going from Paper to Digital

001 Sketching icons.mp4

02:24

002 Importing a sketch as a template.mp4

03:33

003 Auto-tracing a sketch.mp4

04:24

004 Capturing and importing a sketch using Adobe Capture.mp4

04:26

005 Reducing the number of points and cleaning up.mp4

03:06

006 Challenge.mp4

00:57

007 Solution.mp4

01:48

05 Understanding Design Techniques

001 Designing with basic shapes.mp4

07:31

002 Setting stroke options.mp4

07:53

003 Using the Pathfinder panel.mp4

04:45

004 Understanding compound shapes.mp4

04:19

005 Mastering the Shape Builder tool.mp4

03:48

006 Discovering the Appearance panel.mp4

06:24

007 Useful filters and effects.mp4

08:15

008 Power tips.mp4

05:10

009 Advanced techniques Creating a winter icon.mp4

04:57

010 Advanced techniques Creating a summer icon.mp4

03:33

011 Advanced techniques Creating a fall icon.mp4

06:45

012 Advanced techniques Creating a spring icon.mp4

04:58

013 Challenge.mp4

01:06

014 Solution.mp4

07:41

06 Saving and Exporting

001 Common icon sizes.mp4

05:38

002 How to export for web.mp4

03:58

003 How to export as SVG.mp4

04:06

004 Bulk exporting via Export for Screens.mp4

05:15

005 Bulk artwork export via Asset Export panel.mp4

04:06

006 Exporting for print.mp4

01:09

007 Exporting to Adobe Photoshop.mp4

04:30

008 Challenge.mp4

01:04

009 Solution.mp4

02:27

07 Conclusion

001 Thank you.mp4

00:23

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This course provides an overview of what an icon is and its key characteristics, then teaches you how to design your own icons using Adobe Illustrator. Instructor Bart Van de Wiele explores why you need icons, how you use them, and why scalability is important. Bart steps you through how to set up your Illustrator document before you begin your design process. He describes how to organize your work using Illustrator artboards for arranging, naming, and exporting your icons. Bart walks you through ways to import your sketch into Illustrator, then goes over how to clean up your sketch digitally. He shows you how to use simple, complex, and compound shapes to build your logo digitally, then explores several more advanced techniques. In conclusion, Bart covers best practices for exporting your icons for the web, for print, and for use in other applications like Photoshop.

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