Adobe Illustrator Beginners (Level 1)
Your logo pixelates on a banner. That is a file problem.
The logo someone sent you is a JPEG. It looked fine in the email and it is a blurry mess on the trade show banner. That is not a design problem, it is a file format problem, and it is the single most common reason organizations end up paying a designer for something they already own.
Illustrator is the answer, and it is the application people bounce off hardest. The pen tool defeats most self-teachers in the first hour. This class gets participants through that wall in a session, with an instructor watching their screen and telling them what their hand is doing wrong.
Marketing staff take this to stop outsourcing every icon and social graphic. Small business owners take it to own their brand assets outright. It counts toward the Graphic Design and Digital Media Production certificates.
Content and exercises are built around real work, and private group sessions are built around your own brand, templates, and files. Classes are delivered live online, and on-site delivery is available across the Colorado Front Range. This class sits alongside our other Adobe Creative Cloud classes.
This course includes
- Live, instructor led class delivered across four sessions
- Focused pen tool instruction with an instructor watching your screen
- Real assets built during class: logo, icon set, and marketing artwork
- Export and handoff for print, web, and social
- Digital learning materials and take home reference guides
- Certificate of completion for every participant
Description
The first sessions cover why vector exists and how to draw it. Participants learn the difference between vector and raster and why it decides everything downstream, then work through shapes, the pathfinder, and the pen tool. The pen tool gets real time, because it is the gate everyone gets stuck at and it is learnable in an afternoon with someone correcting you.
The middle is type and color. Participants learn to work with typography as a designer rather than a word processor, build and apply a color palette, and understand why the blue on screen is not the blue that prints. They build real assets: a logo, a set of icons, a piece of marketing artwork.
The final sessions are structure and output. Layers, symbols, and artboards that keep a file organized enough to hand over. Then export: which format goes where, how to give a printer what they need, and how to produce the versions of a logo an organization actually requires rather than one file that half works everywhere.
What You'll Learn at a Glance
- Understand why vector scales and raster does not
- Draw and edit paths with the pen tool without fighting it
- Build shapes and combine them with the pathfinder
- Work with type as a designer rather than a word processor
- Build and apply a color palette that survives print
- Organize a file with layers, symbols, and artboards
- Export the right format for print, web, and social
Details
Duration
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this class and no design experience is assumed. Basic computer skills are expected. You will need Adobe Illustrator installed before the first session; we send information about access, student discounts, and trials beforehand.
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DWC provides expert Adobe Creative Cloud training aligned to your organization’s needs, your funding requirements, and your participants’ skill levels. With customization at every level, from content to scheduling to delivery format, DWC builds Adobe training programs that produce measurable outcomes.
20,000+ Participants Trained | 90% Completion Rate | 1,500+ Organizations Served
Tuition
Adobe Illustrator Beginners (Level 1) runs 14 hours across four live sessions. Enroll as an individual or book private training for your team.
- Individual enrollment: $895 per participant. Book a seat on a scheduled class directly. If no date is listed, request information and we will tell you when one opens
- Private group training: request a custom quote. Built around your own brand, templates, and files, and scheduled around your team
- Certificate credit: this class counts toward the Graphic Design Certificate and the Digital Media Production Certificate
- Employer funding: we provide invoices, purchase order documentation, and certificates of completion on request
Register above for the next scheduled class, or request a quote for group pricing and scheduling.