- Hello, this is Deke McClelland.
Welcome to Illustrator CC one-on-one mastery,
the final installment in a series of three video courses
devoted to your absolute command
of the world's most powerful vector based drawing software.
By which I mean, the one, the only, Adobe Illustrator.
As you know by now, the one-on-one promise
is to turn you into the best Illustrator user you know.
Give me your time and attention,
and I'll show you everything you need to know
in the order you need to know it.
No credit classroom, no scheduling conflicts.
It's just you and me, one-on-one,
any time that it's convenient for you to learn.
Here's how things are gonna go down.
We'll begin with a look at a few ways
you can upgrade Illustrator to better suite your needs,
starting with some time saving shortcuts.
Next, we'll explore the world of blend modes
and opacity masks, which allow you to creatively combine
big things like entire layers or little things
like individual fills and strokes.
We'll lose ourselves in the vast and flexible realms
of custom art brushes, seamlessly repeating tile patterns,
and multicolor, organic, even photorealistic gradient mesh.
I'll show you how to store commonly used elements as symbols
so that you can replicate them as many times as you like,
as well as set up specialty elements like arrowheads.
For those of you who need to graph the occasional data,
I'll show you how to do it in sweet pictographic style.
I devote an entire chapter to logos
and specialty type effects, and we'll wrap things up
with a look at libraries, actions, and 3D.
The result is a contextualized training program
in which you learn by doing.
Illustrator's features make sense
because you apply them to clearly defined tasks.
If I've done my job, you'll leave each chapter
with a sense of tangible accomplishment,
armed with techniques that you can apply
to your own marketable, eye-popping projects.
Learn how to do this and you'll be able to do so much more.
Now, as you know, Illustrator CC is a fluid application
that may update to any extent at any time.
And the same goes for this course.
What you're about to watch is all together new.
As of today, I have re-recorded
the entire one-on-one trilogy,
fundamentals, advanced, and mastery,
complete with new projects and brand new exercise files.
As time goes on, I'll sprinkle in new movies
to address new features and new ways to work.
So be sure to come back and check for new movies
the next time you see your copy of Illustrator update.
With that, I release you to experience
Illustrator's most powerful features
as I truly hope you've never experienced them before.
Welcome to Illustrator CC one-on-one mastery.