What You’ll Learn

Go Deeper with Adobe Illustrator – A Friendly Intermediate Graphic Design Course

Join me for a hands-on, stress-free and non-scary intermediate course in Adobe Illustrator — the perfect course for those who want to build on what we learned in the Beginner's Course in Adobe Illustrator who want to learn graphic design and start creating more complex logos, icons, infographics, posters, vector graphics, surface pattern design, character design, flat art graphics and more.

This course also includes updates to the latest features including the AI functions.

You’ll explore more tools and creative features that make Illustrator such a powerful, intuitive design app.

Whether you're building a brand, exploring a creative hobby, or preparing for freelance work, this course will give you the skills and confidence to create polished, professional graphics.

Who This Course Is For

Hi, I’m Tim – your instructor!

I’m an Adobe Certified Instructor and Adobe Certified Expert based in London, with years of experience helping new designers unlock their creativity. I love Illustrator, and I can’t wait to show you how to use it to bring your ideas to life—whether you’re designing for work, personal projects, or pure creative expression.

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This course is designed those with a good grounding in the software. You don’t need any drawing ability—just a computer or laptop with a mouse, trackpad or drawing tablet, and a copy of Adobe Illustrator CC (or CS6).

What We’ll Cover

You’ll follow clear, easy-to-understand video tutorials and complete step-by-step creative projects that help you build your skills as you go.

Tools and Techniques You’ll Learn:

Layers
Artboards
Mockups
Libraries
Live Shapes
Pen Tool
Pencil Tool
Duplication & Repetition
Brushes
Type Tools
Working with Color
Understand CMYK / RGB
Swatches
Spot & Global Colors
Recoloring Artwork
Gradients, Blends & Meshes
Put an Object on a Path
Typography
How to Generate Patterns
Masking

… and more

What You’ll Create

By the end of this course, you’ll complete finished, adaptable projects like:

Icons
Logos
Infographics
T-Shirts
Maps
Vector illustrations
Marketing Materials
Social Media content
Posters and flyers (for both print and digital use)

These projects will help you practice your skills, build confidence, and even start putting together a design portfolio.

What You’ll Need

All you need to get started is:

A computer or laptop with a mouse, trackpad or drawing tablet
A copy of Adobe Illustrator CC or CS6
A good grounding in Adobe Illustrator (from the Beginner's course)
No drawing skills required!

Each lesson includes on-screen tips, tool reminders, and shortcuts to reinforce your learning and make everything easy to follow.

What’s Next?

By the end of this course, you’ll have a good knowledge ofAdobe Illustrator and the confidence to start creating more complex designs on your own.

Ready to level up? Check out my Advanced Adobe Illustrator course.

Credits & Notes

List of marks used: Adobe Illustrator and its logo are registered trademarks of Adobe in the United States and/or other countries.
All artwork created in this course is original and designed for educational purposes only.
All the exercise files (apart from Bad Map which is my own) come from the Royalty Free website Unsplash.com with thanks to the following photographers / artists: Toa Heftiba (Blue Line) and Rachel Cook (sunset), Giannis Agathokleous (Nikon with boat).
If you wish to be able to use all the latest features and AI, you will need to be on the latest version of Creative Cloud.

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