You will learn the difference between the white arrow tool and the black arrow tool and their purposes

In here you will learn the functionality of the 2 selection tools and how you can make adjustments to your work

This lesson explains the 3 basic concepts inside illustrator: Paths, fills and strokes. Fundamental for design

This lesson explains the different ways in which a line can end, and how to stylize corners

You will learn how to stylize your lines with variable width

This lesson talks about how to change the connection between vectors, by making the anchor points sharp or round.

This lesson explains how to manipulate vectors with bezier handles and ways to change the anchor points. Specially useful knowledge for people without a drawing tablet, who design with a mouse.

This lesson shows you how to expand strokes, a requirement for advanced techniques that you will learn for tracing your drawings.

This basic layer panel inside Adobe Illustrator functions differently than in photoshop, so we decided to add a lesson covering the deep understanding of this valuable panel.

You will learn how to select a layer, and also select the objects inside it

This tool, the pencil tool, is recommended only for those with a drawing tablet. This lesson covers how to use it.

This lesson is for people with a drawing tablet. It covers some basic techniques for correcting your lines easily and quickly

This lesson is for people who design with a mouse, it covers the best tool for people with no drawing tablet, the pen tool.

This tool is similar to the pencil tool but with some slight differences. This lesson covers those differences.

The blob brush tool, although is not used very often, deserves a lesson to explain it in case you need it

The smooth tool, is what you use to reduce the number of vectors in a path

This lesson is very straight forward, it explains the text tool, and ways to write text on a path

Converting texts to a path is a must when you are sharing your designs to people who don't have the same fonts you used in your document. This lesson explains why

This basic lesson teaches your how to create a color swatch so you can color your work easily.

This expand appearance is a way to maintain the quality of your lines when you color your work

Live paint is a feature that lets you use the paint bucket tool on vectors and paths

This lesson will show you how to convert your colored work into paths, which is required for when you want to add shadow to your work

This quick lesson teaches you how to recolor your artwork, in case you decide to change the colors

This lesson explains a technique used to add shadows and highlights easily, using the knife tool

This introduction covers and overview and explanation of the overshoot technique, in which we apply all that we have learned so far.

This course is simple, you just learn how to import images, but it also covers how linking images work, and lets you decide if you want to attach images on your file, or just show a reference of it. 

This lesson shows you how to turn down the opacity of any sketch so you can easily trace over it.

Once we have the sketch in place, we will trace the image, overshooting the lines to apply the overshoot technique.

Once you have finished the tracing we will learn how to clean up the lines and leave a clean outline.

In this lesson we will continue the previous work and paint the character.

With the character in full color, we will add some shadows and highlights to have it presentable and finish off our artwork.

In here I will challenge you to keep practicing your skills, by giving you more sketches so you can continue developing your skill.

This lesson is the bonus lesson. You will learn what you can do with your new skill