Hello and welcome to Colour Mixology. In my previous classes I covered many of the surface design essentials, including making motifs, creating patterns and illustrations, and visualising designs on mock-ups. This new class will focus on colour style, developing beautiful palettes and applying colour effectively to designs in Adobe Illustrator®.

So what’s inside? The early lessons cover important foundational knowledge about colour modes, swatch types, and PANTONE® books.

That’s followed by lots of techniques and tools for working with colour in Illustrator, including:

Eyedropper tool for capturing colours
Saving colours in Swatch Libraries
Tints and shades
Harmonies and accents
Mixing neutrals with object blending
Alternate colourways with colour group editing
Applying and reducing colours with recolour artwork tools
Colour balance
Transparency and blending modes
Gradients

...and more!

You’ll learn to use a full suite of powerful colour tools in the software. Throughout the class I’ll provide tips – both technical and artistic – on using colour successfully, and there will be 3 fun projects to practice with along the way.

The class is geared towards designers with some knowledge of Illustrator already who want to learn additional colour techniques. Beginners to the software should also be able to follow along and gain skills using the tools.

I’m excited to share my colour tips and software techniques with you, so let’s get started!

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Legal Notices. Adobe® and Adobe Illustrator® are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe in the United States and/or other countries. PANTONE® is a registered trademark and the property of Pantone LLC.

Lucy Barclay

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