Adobe Illustrator: Graphic Design for Beginners
Course 1: Know Your Tools: Practice
By Gilian Gomes , Graphic Designer and Illustrator
About the video: Practice
Overview
“In this unit, I will explain how to create and save some files in order to practice everything that has been seen throughout this course.”
In this video lesson Gilian Gomes addresses the topic: Practice, which is part of the Domestika online course: Course 1: Know Your Tools. Explore the program's interface and create your first document.
Partial transcription of the video
“ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR / COURSE 1 LESSON 8 - Practice To make sure you learned everything up to now, let's create and save some files. Let's start this practical lesson by creating a new file. It will be a Web file. I'll determine the size of each artboard is 1,080 by 1,080. We'll have six artboards, I typed 6 here and I can come here. I'll create them. We have our file, and I'll create guides as if they were margins to anchor the work we want to include in our file. I'll activate the rulers. I'll say that this guide has a distance of 100 pixels. From the edge of the artboard, I'll drag it to nu...”
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Gilian Gomes
By Gilian Gomes
Gilian Gomes is a designer and illustrator, as well as a typography and art direction enthusiast. Born in Porto Alegre, Brazil, he holds a degree in design and a postgraduate degree in branding. He has more than 15 years' industry experience under his belt and now focuses on branding and packaging.
His creative process explores designs that express powerful and singular meanings. Through use of his illustration and typography skills, Gilian seeks unique and impressive results.
Throughout his career he's worked with large corporations, advertising agencies, and design studios like Sweety & Co. and Raison Pure. Some of his biggest clients include O Boticário, Sebrae, Grupo Zaffari, Enjoei, and Wordbank. He currently works as a freelance professional collaborating with clients all over the world.
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