Adobe Illustrator

To set up Adobe Illustrator for Laser Cutting, visit the Laser Cutting help webpage.

Adobe Illustrator Install and Set-up

Illustrator Install

Black Line/Pencil Images into Illustrator

Note: Best results are from images that are traced in a dark black marker (Sharpie), then scanned and brought into illustrator.

Black Line image drawing into Illustrator

Pencil Sketches into Digital Illustrator Art

Tracing a Pencil Pizza with Illustrator Tools

Tutorials from Adobe

Get to Know Adobe Illustrator

Getting to Know the Drawing Tools

Create Artwork with Paintbrush and Pencil Tools

Start Creating with the Pen Tool

More Practice with the Pen Tool

Create Artwork with Drawing Modes

Draw with Shapes, Lines, and Color

Medium to Advanced Illustrator Tutorials

30 Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

Effects -> Transform

From sketch to digital

From sketch to Digital

From JPG to Illustrator

Using Image Trace

How to Merge Shapes

Use the Unite Tool

Create an Apple Logo

Create the Colored Apple Logo

Green Lantern Logo

Adobe Shape Manipulation

Making organic forms in Illustrator

Anchoring Points to a Shape and Shape Builder

Adobe Illustrator Sketch to Digital

Creating a Digital Version of an Image Using the Pen Tool

Vector Logo from Sketch

Rough Sketches to Polished Illustrations

Sketchbook Drawing into Illustrator

Illustrator Logo Exporting as .PNG file

Sculpting in Illustrator

Sculpting a Shark

Shape Building a Fish.

Shape Building a Fish.

Hand Drawn Image to SVG

Hand Drawn Image to SVG

Clipping Mask to Remove Backgrounds

Clipping Mask to Remove Backgrounds

To set up Adobe Illustrator for Laser Cutting, visit the Laser Cutting help webpage.

Adobe Illustrator Install and Set-up

Illustrator Install

Install Adobe Creative Cloud from Self-Service.
When prompted, log into Creative Cloud with your TKS Gmail account.
Install Illustrator from the list of applications.
Run Illustrator.

Black Line/Pencil Images into Illustrator

Note: Best results are from images that are traced in a dark black marker (Sharpie), then scanned and brought into illustrator.

Black Line from Phone .mov

Black Line image drawing into Illustrator

This tutorial will show you how to setup a black line image and then get a photo with your phone and setup for import to Illustrator.

Pencil Sketches into Digital Illustrator Art

Using the Image Trace function

Tracing a Pencil Pizza with Illustrator Tools

Using pen tools to trace

Tutorials from Adobe

Learn button

Use the "Learn" link on the left side of Adobe Illustrator to learn how to use it.

Get to Know Adobe Illustrator

https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/how-to/ai-basics-fundamentals.html?playlist=/services/playlist.helpx/products:SG_ILLUSTRATOR_1_1/learn-path:get-started/set-header:ccx-designer/playlist:ccl-get-started-1/en_us.json&ref=helpx.adobe.com

Getting to Know the Drawing Tools

https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/how-to/drawing-tools-in-illustrator.html?playlist=/services/playlist.helpx/products:SG_ILLUSTRATOR_1_1/learn-path:key-techniques/playlist:topic/set-header:drawing/en_us.json&ref=helpx.adobe.com

Create Artwork with Paintbrush and Pencil Tools

https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/how-to/create-edit-artwork-with-paintbrush-pencil-tools.html?playlist=/services/playlist.helpx/products:SG_ILLUSTRATOR_1_1/learn-path:key-techniques/playlist:topic/set-header:drawing/en_us.json&ref=helpx.adobe.com

Start Creating with the Pen Tool

https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/how-to/use-pen-tool.html

More Practice with the Pen Tool

https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/how-to/pen-tool-exercises.html?playlist=/services/playlist.helpx/products:SG_ILLUSTRATOR_1_1/learn-path:key-techniques/playlist:topic/set-header:drawing/en_us.json&ref=helpx.adobe.com

Editing Paths

https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/how-to/edit-paths-you-draw.html?playlist=/services/playlist.helpx/products:SG_ILLUSTRATOR_1_1/learn-path:key-techniques/playlist:topic/set-header:drawing/en_us.json&ref=helpx.adobe.com

Create Artwork with Drawing Modes

https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/how-to/draw-content-behind-and-inside.html?playlist=/services/playlist.helpx/products:SG_ILLUSTRATOR_1_1/learn-path:key-techniques/playlist:topic/set-header:drawing-more/en_us.json&ref=helpx.adobe.com

Draw with Shapes, Lines, and Color

https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/how-to/draw-buildings.html?playlist=/services/playlist.helpx/products:SG_ILLUSTRATOR_1_1/learn-path:get-started/set-header:ccx-designer/playlist:basictraining/en_us.json&ref=helpx.adobe.com

Medium to Advanced Illustrator Tutorials

30 Day Logo Challenge-Copy

30 Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

using medium to advanced tools

effects

techniques

Effects -> Transform

Logo Design

From sketch to digital

What are the important tools?

From sketch to Digital

Pen tool, shapes, and shape builder

From JPG to Illustrator

swoosh

Using Image Trace

How to create vector images from raster/bitmap images

How to Merge Shapes

Shape Bender tool

Use the Unite Tool

to merge and manipulate shapes

Create an Apple Logo

Create the Colored Apple Logo

Beats Logo

FaceBook

Google G Logo

Chanel Logo

Green Lantern Logo

Instagram Logo

Spiderman Logo

Ghost

Turtle

Cat head!

Need to copy and paste a cat head clipart

Tissue box

The Hat

Shape Builder and Direct select tools

Adobe Shape Manipulation

Making organic forms in Illustrator

Tutorial showing how to use handles and adding anchor points

Anchoring Points to a Shape and Shape Builder

Tutorial showing how to attach anchor points to another path so that the shape builder tool works

Adobe Illustrator Sketch to Digital

Creating a Digital Version of an Image Using the Pen Tool

Tutorial showing you how to embed and lock an image and then use the pen tool to follow the image to create a new digital shape.

Vector Logo from Sketch

Create a vector drawing in Illustrator from a simple pencil sketch.

Rough Sketches to Polished Illustrations

Taking a rough drawing/sketch and then bringing it into Illustrator and giving it more real-life feel. This tutorial shows the use of a drawing tablet as well.

Sketchbook Drawing into Illustrator

Another method of taking a hand-sketch and then bringing it to life digitally in Illustrator.

Illustrator Logo Exporting as .PNG file

Export the file from Adobe Illustrator into a .png file

Sculpting in Illustrator

Sculpting a Shark

Shape Building a Fish.

Shape Building a Fish.

Hand Drawn Image to SVG

Hand Drawn Image to SVG

Clipping Mask to Remove Backgrounds

Clipping Mask to Remove Backgrounds

This tutorial show how to use the clipping mask feature in Adobe Illustrator to remove a background.

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