Basic Flats Class for Designers
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THURSDAY, April 1
FRIDAY, April 2
10am - 2pm
BACK TO BACK!!!
Learn to draw flats in Adobe Illustrator in 8 hours!
The class is broken up into two four hour sessions conducted from 10am to 2pm at the Fashion Business Inc. resource center computer lab.
1st Session:
* User interface and toolset
* Image basics
* Basic keyboard commands
* Shape drawing
* Pen tool intro
* Drawing different line types
2nd Session:
* Importing scans and tracing them
* Creating and applying different stitch patterns
* Using fills
* Layer management
* Using text
This is a hands on class!
We will use exercises/tutorials as a vehicle for learning the program.
Our workstations have Illustrator CS3 on them, but we encourage you to work from your own laptop if you have the software, (Adobe Illustrator, version 8 to CS4 are acceptable).
Everyone is guaranteed to take the knowledge home with them as work-books with step by step screen captures will be provided as well as CD-ROM's containing all supporting files for you to keep!
Instructor: Chris Schiotis
