Draw properly in vector, from your first rectangle to a finished isometric city. Logos, icons, illustration, patterns and print, learned by building real projects.
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Curriculum
10 modules and 133 lessons, with around 27 hours of video. Work through them in order, at your own pace.
Portfolio
A certificate proves you finished. The work you build along the way is what gets you hired.
A brief written in one line, taken through paper sketches to a finished mark, and tested small.
Ten line icons and eight colour ones, each set held together by its own shared rules.
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When not to buy this course
If you mainly edit photos, Illustrator is the wrong tool: that is Adobe Photoshop. And if you are new to design entirely, Graphic Design Using Canva teaches the fundamentals first.
Good to know
Yes, and it is a paid Adobe subscription rather than a one-off purchase. Adobe usually offers a trial period, so it is worth checking their site before you commit. You need the software to follow along: there is no way to do this course without it.
No. Most Illustrator work is built from shapes and paths, not freehand drawing. Rough pencil sketches are all you need to plan a logo.
Illustrator for logos, icons and anything that must scale. Photoshop for photos and pixel-based editing. If your goal is brand and logo work, start here.
It is unfamiliar rather than hard, and this course deliberately leaves it until module three. You spend two modules building things out of rectangles and circles first, so by the time the pen tool arrives you already know what a good path looks like, which is most of the difficulty.
Ten modules and 133 video lessons, around 27 hours of screen recording, with written notes on every one of them. Sixty-nine lessons carry a practice question, and there are ten eight-question checkpoints plus a twenty-question final assessment. In order: the interface and basic shapes, illustration built from shapes, drawing and brushes, logos and icons, spot illustration and typography, grids and gradients, charts and patterns, masks and style, 3D and isometric, and finally zines, animation preparation and blending.
No. The videos occasionally mention a resource pack of sketches, brushes and finished artwork, and no such files were supplied to us. Every lesson that does so says where it comes up and gives a route that works without them, usually a photograph of your own or a brush you build in an earlier lesson. Nothing in the course depends on a download.
Not really. The course covers exporting raster images at the right size and saving a print-ready PDF with bleed, which is what most of its projects need. It does not go into SVG optimisation, icon fonts or anything specific to the web. If that is your main interest, the vector drawing here is still the foundation and you would want something web-specific afterwards.
Every OBA certificate can be verified online by an employer. The logo and icon files you produce are the other half of the proof.
It is self-paced. Most learners work through it in short sessions over a few weeks, and you keep lifetime access either way.
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