Learn to draw fashion with Adobe Illustrator CC Intermediate
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Learn how to use Adobe Illustrator to draw fashion flats. Develop your skills to enable you to produce creative, accurate product designs quickly and to standards required for retail and manufacturing.
In this intermediate level 2 course, you will learn further tools and features that take your fashion flats from basic to detailed and professional.
- For students that have a basic working knowledge of drawing fashion with Adobe Illustrator or for students that have completed the Level 1 Beginners Illustrator 4 Fashion course.
- Learn how to add detailed design features to your drawings such as fabric fills, patterns ribbing, draping and shading.
- Learn to create reusable brush libraries of trims and stitching such as sequins, buttons, zippers and overlock stitching.
- Garment drawing workshops
Learn essential skills required by the fashion industry
Having spent over a decade implementing and training software technologies into fashion brands and retailers across the globe, I spent a lot of time working with the designers. Over the years there seemed to be a common theme in the design room – lots of designers were using Illustrator well but many either couldn’t use it at all or couldn’t use it very well. They also didn’t adhere to any drawing standards or best practises so had problems such as not being able to easily edit each other’s drawings, create colourways quickly or create reusable components properly, making them inefficient.
Illustrator 4 Fashion training has been specifically tailored for fashion, with the needs of the industry in mind. The training can be taken by company design employees, freelance designers, fashion design students and anyone else looking to learn or improve their fashion drawing with Adobe Illustrator.
Course Overview
Most Adobe Illustrator manuals and online training courses are industry generic with many modules not relevant to fashion drawing. It can be hard to know which features to learn and how to develop techniques to draw professional fashion designs. Illustrator 4 Fashion only teaches you the features and techniques relevant to drawing fashion flats, illustrations and garment components.
The Illustrator 4 Fashion course is split into 3 levels; beginner, intermediate and advanced. This level 2 intermediate course is aimed at students that have a basic working knowledge of fashion drawing with Adobe Illustrator. This course builds on the foundations learnt in Level 1, progressing to more advanced skills and techniques to bring fashion flats to life. Students will learn how to build powerful trim and brush libraries to improve design efficiency and accuracy. Level 2 also looks more in depth at the use of colour, patterns, fabric fills and embellishments, to add dynamism and realism to drawings. The final section of this course features a selection of garment drawing tutorials, putting the skills and techniques learnt in the first part of the course into real life practise.
Every lecture includes supporting Illustrator work files so that students can follow the lecture exactly.
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Join ToolIn this lecture we learn how to join paths using the join tool.
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Shape Builder Tool
In this lecture we learn how to manipulate paths and objects using the shape builder tool.
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Sheer Tool
In this lecture we learn how to skew objects and patterns using the sheer tool.
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Width Tool
In this lecture we learn how to widen paths using the width tool.
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Blob Brush Tool
In this lecture we learn how to paint objects using the blob brush tool.
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Brush Panel and Paintbrush Tool
Topics covered in this lecture are:
- Brush types
- Paintbrush tool
- Brush panel
- Brush libraries
- Applying brushes
- Modifying brushes
- Creating brushes
- Saving brushes
- Loading brushes
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Symbol Panel and Symbol Sprayer Tool
Topics covered in this lecture are:
- Using symbols
- Creating symbols
- Editing symbols
- Replacing symbols
- Symbol tools
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Pathfinder Panel
- Topics covered in this lecture are:
- Unite
- Minus front
- Exclude
- Divide
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Pattern Options
Topics covered in this lecture are:
- Pattern fills
- Scaling patterns
- Rotating patterns
- Moving patterns
- Creating patterns
- Pattern options
- Saving patterns
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Transparency Panel
Topics covered in this lecture are:
- Transparency
- Blending modes
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Drawing Modes
Topics covered in this lecture are:
- Draw normal
- Draw behind
- Draw inside
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Building Trim Symbol Libraries - Part 1
In this lecture we will cover how to draw the following components:
- Zip pull
- Belt buckle
- Button
- Button hole
- Bows
- Sequin
- D-ring
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Building Trim Symbol Libraries - Part 2
Continued from Building Trim Symbol Libraries - Part 1
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Building Brush Libraries - Part 1
In this lecture we will cover how to create the following brushes:
- Blanket stitch
- Topstitching
- Flatlock
- Elastic casing
- Drawstring
- Zip teeth
- Brushes from images
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Building Brush Libraries - Part 2
Continued from Building Brush Libraries - Part 1
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Building Brush Libraries - Part 3
Continued from Building Brush Libraries - Part 2
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T-Shirt - Part 1
In this lecture we revisit the t-shirt we drew in the beginners course workshop and enhance it with the following techniques:
- Pattern fills
- Pattern swatch (stripes)
- Pattern options (star print)
- Random repeats (daisy print)
- Clipping masks (plaid)
- Shapebuilder tool
- Pattern with clipping mask
- Stitches using brushes
- Live Paint
For students that did not complete the level 1 beginners course, please see the downloads area for this lecture where you will find a t-shirt drawing Illustrator file so that you can follow along.
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T-Shirt - Part 2
Continued from T-Shirt - Part 1
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Shirt
In this lecture we revisit the shirt we drew in the beginners course workshop and enhance it with the following techniques:
- Shading with the blob brush
- Creating button and button hole symbols
- Edit symbol instances
For students that did not complete the level 1 beginners course, please see the downloads area for this lecture where you will find a shirt drawing Illustrator file so that you can follow along.
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Jeans
In this lecture we revisit the jeans we drew in the beginners course workshop and enhance it with the following techniques:
- Fabric fills
-Pattern swatches from raster files
- Wash and embellishments effects
- Draw inside
- Bristle brush
- Art brush
- Scatter brush
- Blending and transparency
For students that did not complete the level 1 beginners course, please see the downloads area for this lecture where you will find a jeans drawing Illustrator file so that you can follow along.
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Jogging Bottoms - Part 1
Techniques and functions:
- Pen tool
- Modify anchor points and bezier curves
- Reflect tool
- Average and join anchor points
- Pencil tool (modify lines)
- Layers
- Profiles
- Outline stroke/dashed stroke (topstitching)
- Pattern Brush (elastic waistband and hem, drawstring)
- Clipping Mask (elastic waistband and hem)
- Blob brush (shading)
- Transparency
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Jogging Bottoms - Part 2
Continued from Jogging Bottoms - Part 1
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Sport Jacket - Part 1
Techniques and functions:
- Pen tool
- Modify anchor points and bezier curves
- Reflect tool
- Average and join anchor points
- Pencil tool (modify lines)
- Layers
- Profiles
- Outline stroke/dashed line (ribbing and topstitching)
- Clipping mask (ribbing)
- Paint brush (zip tape)
- Sheer tool (pockets)
- Gradient panel
- Align panel
- Shapebuilder tool (colour blocking fill)
- Live paint (colour blocking fill)
- Blob brush (shading)
- Transparency
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Sport Jacket - Part 2
Continued from Sport Jacket - Part 1
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Sport Jacket - Part 3
Continued from Sport Jacket - Part 2
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Drapey Top - Part 1
Techniques and functions:
- Pen tool
- Modify anchor points and bezier curves
- Reflect tool
- Average and join anchor points
- Convert anchor points
- Pencil tool
- Layers
- Draw inside mode
- Brush libraries (topstitching)
- Symbol libraries (sequins)
- Symbol sprayer tool
- Symbol shifter tool
- Symbol stainer tool
- Profiles
- Width tool
- Blob brush (shading)
- Transparency
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Drapey Top - Part 2
Continued from Drapey Top - Part 1
