Level Up your Design Skills with Simple Shapes

Learn to visualize designs using simple shapes, sequence-based techniques, and basic tools like pathfinder and eyedropper to build and refine complex visuals.

Recreate the badge with simple shapes, using unite and minus front, color red and yellow, on a 9:16 canvas, and apply text on a path with open sans and tracking.

Learn to recreate a barbecue badge from simple shapes in Adobe Illustrator. Follow along with guides, Pathfinder, and shadows to build the design.

Design a badge by layering rounded shapes and centering elements with guides. Duplicate parts, adjust colors and fonts to keep the design simple and cohesive.

Create a Lakeshore badge from scratch in Illustrator by building a layered design with simple shapes, rounded corners, Pathfinder edits, and a zig-zag distortion for the waves and sun.

Design a mounting badge for explorer using simple shapes and vector files, visualizing light and highlights. Duplicate and scale shapes, adjust colors, and refine with anchors, pathfinder, and rulers.

Level up your design skills with simple shapes by learning to shape, align corners, edit entry points, and apply highlights and reflections in a cohesive two-dimensional composition.

Learn to view objects as simple shapes and break complex figures into basic shapes for easy design. Use Adobe Illustrator CC tools—rectangles, triangles, ellipses, polygons—to build icons.

Learn to recreate mountains and hills with simple shapes in Adobe Illustrator, applying flat design, layered elements, and pathfinder to split and arrange colors.

Level up your design skills with simple shapes by learning to build hill and cloud scenes using rectangles, triangles, circles, pathfinder operations, and copy-and-paste duplications.

Design a house in Illustrator using simple shapes and basic shapes, duplicate and align parts with smart guides, and refine colors, strokes, and drop shadows for a crisp street scene.

Design a car and a hot air balloon using simple shapes on a canvas, mastering circles, rectangles, color picking, duplicating, and alignment to build a cohesive illustration.

Create two types of trees from simple shapes by combining circles, triangles, and rectangles, aligning anchors, rotating, and duplicating to vary colors and layers.

Level up your design skills with simple shapes by crafting a rock through polygon edits, color tweaks, and point adjustments.

Use simple shapes to visualize and recreate designs, like squares, circles, and triangles. Start somewhere, don't rush, and break big illustrations into parts to focus and simplify the work.