KELK: Essentials Training Course
What you'll learn
- You will be able to add Kelk to your C.V.
- You will have over TEN of your own projects to add to your portfolio.
- You will create a calligraphic logo.
- You will create calligraphic names and titles.
- You will create a calligraphic tughra.
- You will create your own calligraphic avatar and profile photos for social media applications.
- You will be able to start earning money from your Kelk and calligraphic skills.
- You will create your own simple calligraphic works such as circular, para-circular, vertical, and horizontal works.
- You will create your own sophisticated calligraphic works such as mirrored, long, and very long works.
Requirements
- You will need a copy of the Kelk 2010.
- No previous Kelk skills are needed.
- A slight experience in Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator.
Description
Do you search for an online course about the calligraphic program known as the KELK? In fact, this course is among the first courses of its type in the whole Internet. You might not be able to find another place which could give you the contents of this online course even in the most top media, academic, and training websites as well as the online video-sharing platforms.
Also, are you passionate and fond about Arabic calligraphy? Do you like to achieve similar calligraphic works that professionals only do? Do you need to design a calligraphic name, title, logo, verses, or avatar for your social media accounts? No problem at all. I promise you that by the end of the first few lectures, you will realize that making calligraphic works using KELK is actually simple and amazing. I prepared several calligraphic projects for you to complete where you can practice your skills and use them for your creative portfolio.
Inside the course, you will know more about how to change the shape of calligraphic words, letters through selecting from several calligraphic predesigned combinations in the program. We will together select, will join, will elongate horizontally, and elongate vertically the letters of the calligraphic designs and texts. We will work also with Kashidah and will manipulate the ends of the words using the renowned Thuluth script. You will know about the different famous calligraphic scripts (e.g., Arabic, Persian, and Urdu scripts) included in the program such as the Thuluth script, the Divani with its two types Jali and Khafi, Naskh, Riqa’a, Nastaleeq, Lahori, and other calligraphic scripts.
Defaults of the Kelk, different types of Guidelines, and how to export and print your final calligraphic file will be also explained in the course. Using these amazing skills, you will be able to make circular and para-circular calligraphic works, vertical and horizontal, mirrored, and sophisticated artistic works and of course your own calligraphic tughra. In addition, you will learn more simple retouching skills using the Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator with no need for a deep experience in these both applications. Moreover, you would not be complete as a Kelk user without the genuine ability in making sophisticated calligraphic works that we will learn in this course.
As an essential part of the "Kelk: Essentials Training Course", you will learn the four main steps required in designing every calligraphic artistic work and practice them yourself.
Before the end of the course, you will have the ability to design a sophisticated calligraphic work such as the difficult very long calligraphic work.
In this course, I supply exercise files, so you can practice as much as you want. I will also save my Kelk files as I go through many videos so that you can compose yours and compare them to mine and modify any wrong design that you might have.
I will be also around to help if you get lost. Just drop me a post on the video 'Questions and Answers' below each video. I will be sure to get back to you soon.
I will share every design tricks that I have learned in my long period of designing using the Kelk Program. My goal is for your to finish this course with all the necessary skills in the Arabic calligraphy using the KELK. This will make you able to start making artistic calligraphic works in minutes that they took months from ancient calligraphers to make in the past. Just be creative, persistent, and unique.
Who this course is for:
- People who are completely new to Kelk program.
- Students who have or plan to have a career in calligraphy.
- Anyone who wants to start using Kelk in their career and get paid for their design skills.
- Students who have or plan to have a career in graphic design.
- People who have basic computing skills such as sending emails and surfing the Internet.
Instructor
- 4.8 Instructor Rating
- 5 Reviews
- 36 Students
- 1 Course
Eyad Al-Samman is an author, university lecturer, typographer, and freelance graphic designer. He was born in Sana'a, the capital city of Yemen, and he still lives there along with his small family. He has a bachelor of science in engineering and also a master's degree in business administration. He works as an assistant lecturer in local Yemeni universities and other community colleges and teaches managerial and other subjects in English language. Among these courses are Business Statistics, Business Mathematics, Organization Theory, Quality Management, Business Ethics, E-Commerce, Business Research Methodology, Biostatistics, and Health Service Management.
Eyad usually publishes articles in different websites such as “academia(dot)edu”, “researchgate(dot)net”, "hubpages(dot)com" and others. Several years ago, he also worked as a literary columnist in the "Yemen Times" Newspaper and published many articles in the cultural series dubbed “Faces and Traces.” One of his literary novelette entitled “A Day in the City” was published online in “booksie(dot)com” in July 2017.
In the field of graphic design, Eyad has designed artistic typefaces such as Ghibli®, Thwaites®, Loyolliams®, Matwin®, Eyadish®, Castile®, Zawiya®, Alfarooq®, Nasser®, Danah®, Nusaibah®, Awwam® and lately Yusyad®. These fonts are used in typesetting and publishing for different texts including Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Kurdish, Latin, Cyrillic, and other texts.
Eyad believes considerably that with hope, ambition, and persistence, any person―including industrious students and learners―could attain their high objectives in life whatever they are. It is really a matter of multiple issues including hardworking, belief, self-confidence and also self-actualization. Hence, Eyad hopes that you will enjoy the journey here at Udemy Platform with him and try to get the best of everything. Please, join him!