Chapter 11 Lessons 1-4

In the first few lessons we are introduced to the blob brush and how to fusing the paths we make with it together and the eraser tool which allows us to erase previously made paths. Finally the instructor shows us where to go to reassign keyboard shortcuts.

Chapter 10 Lessons 4-7

In these lesson we are shown how to draw straight and perpendicular lines and how to create a tracing template as well as combine a drawing tablet with the program and finally add color to our tracing.

chapter 10 Lessons 1-3

In lessons 1-3 we are introduced to the pencil tool as well as the smooth tool and path eraser tool and how they can be used in a variety of different ways to extend paths and connect them.

Chapter 9 Lessons 13-15

In the final lessons of chapter 9 we are introduced to the shaper tool and how to use it to create simple shapes as well as combine those shapes.

Chapter 9 Lessons 5-12

Lessons 5-12 are all about making a real world project inside illustrator using lots of different processes such as inset reflections and coloring paths with the shape builder tool.

Chapter 9 Lessons 1-4

In Lessons 1-4 we were introduced to the join command and join tool as well as the shape builder tool and all the different ways to use it.

Chapter 8

Chapter 8 is all about how to create paragraphs as if they were out of a book inside illustrator. It goes through every small detail such as working with point type, seeing up page margins, wrapping text around pictures and creating type on a path.