After Day 1

Ok,

So let's do a recap of what happened today.

14.

Yes, that is the number of students in my class. All ages and walks of life, and it was awesome to meet them all. So, what did I do? I stood up there, did my thing and talked the talk as well as walk the walk.

And what was today's first class purpose?

To get to know each other and to get to know a tiny bit of what Illustrator is about by just pushing a few buttons and doing a few design tricks... just to show the versatility in a few of the basic tools used to create vector art.

We briefly touched base on the difference between vector art and bitmap art... key word 'briefly'. The first day of class should always be to get a feel for everyone who is there, show a few things, but mostly get to know one another, and by what I could see and hear, everyone in my class is eager to learn how to use this program, which is gonna be awesome to teach. But today was a very relaxed atmosphere, no big words, no technical terms... just pushing buttons, repeating a few commands and voila... yay for Illustrator.

It reverts back to what I discussed on my first post... desire and inspiration.

So what is next? Well... the actual classes to be exact. Now it came to my surprise that this course does not call for a textbook, which my students quickly brought up as I asked if they had their textbooks... so hmm... what is to be done? Well, there are plenty of online resources that cane be of help. For example You can download the Adobe Illustrator CS6: The Professional Portfolio eBook and the Student Resource Files that accompany the text... or you can get the most updated Adobe Illustrator CC: The Professional Portfolio eBook. Now, none of these are free downloads, nor am I expecting anyone to purchase a hard copy of the book, BUT, this can be extremely helpful when wanting to study at home.

So what will be happening next week? We will be focusing on creating basic artworks. So here is what will be covered... the Tool Panel and another thing that will be helpful is knowing about keyboard Shortcuts.

Hope these items come in handy. Save these links because they will be used quite a bit...


See you next week.