Track
Software Development
Duration
60 hours
Skill Level
Advanced
Language
English
About this Course
Master digital illustration using advanced brushwork, shading, and composition.
Learning Mode: Learn at ALC or at Home
Detailed Course Curriculum
Hands-on module breakdown aligned with MKCL production standards and industry requirements.
- Rebelle 7
- Figma
- Experimenting with different brush types and their applications
- Learning to organize and work with layers effectively
- Building personalized color libraries for efficient work
- Overview of advanced color theory concepts
- Importance of advanced color theory in design
- Understanding global colors
- How to create and use global color swatches
- Organizing colors with color groups
- Utilizing the Color Guide panel
- Discovering various color harmonies and schemes
- Applying Color Guide suggestions to your artwork
- Adjusting color schemes and harmonies
- Achieving color variations effortlessly
- Real-time color changes in complex illustrations
- Exploring advanced blend modes (Overlay, Color Dodge, Soft Light, and more)
- Creating artistic and unique color effects with blend modes
- Applying multiple colors to specific points on objects
- Precise shading and highlighting techniques
- Working with Pantone Spot Colors
- Managing color profiles for consistent color reproduction
- Color balance, hue/saturation, selective color
- Fine-tuning colors for precise and artistic effects
- Exploring gradient mapping techniques
- Combining color with transparency for intricate effects
- Hands-on exercises with advanced color techniques
- Creating complex color compositions
- Getting Creative with Types
- Using and Modifying a Type
- Using Character and Paragraph Palettes
- Area Type
- Path Type
- Symbol Options
- Symbol Library
- Manipulating Symbol Instances
- Colorization and Symbol Staining
- Symbolism Tools
- Advanced Symbol Editing
- Custom Symbol Libraries
- Syncing with Creative Cloud Libraries
- Symbol Library Export and Import
- Smart Symbols
- Symbol Instances Across Artboards
- Using Graphics
- Graphic Styles
- Applying Effects
- Using the Photoshop Effects
- Arranging the Workspace
- Various Palettes
- Selection Options
- Viewing Options
- Object Options
- Automating
- Actions
- Scripts
- Variables
- Clothing Styles and Periods
- Accessories and Props
- Eyes, Nose, and Mouth Variations
- Hairstyles and Facial Hair
- Color Theory and Psychology
- Creating a Character Color Palette
- Drawing Characters from Different Angles
- Front, Side, and Three-Quarter Views
- Digital Tools and Software for Character Design
- Digital Inking and Coloring Techniques
- Placing Characters in Narrative Context
- Character Development in Stories
- Animation and Movement
- Voice and Personality
- Careers in Character Design
- Current Trends in Character Design
- Understanding copyright laws and how they apply to illustrations
- Discussing fair use and the limitations on using copyrighted material in illustrations
- Exploring intellectual property rights in the context of illustration
- Offering guidelines for responsible illustration practices
- Discussing permissions and licensing for using third-party content in illustrations
- Emphasizing the importance of properly crediting sources and artists when using their work as a reference
- Printing
- Art board Printing
- Colors in Printing
- Exporting in Various File Formats
- Exporting in Adobe Applications
- Adapting Illustration for Print Media
- Creating illustrations for book covers and interior layouts.
- Analyzing different styles and approaches.
- Producing illustrations for editorial content
- Analyzing visual storytelling in publications
- Understand Illustrator’s role in print media
- Working smartly in Adobe Illustrator
- Using the shortcut keys for smart work
- Web and Social Media Graphics
- Designing illustrations optimized for online platforms
- Designing illustrations optimized for online platforms
- Analyzing effective social media visuals
- Analyzing effective social media visuals
- Designing for User Interfaces and Apps
- Incorporating illustration into user interface and app design
- Incorporating illustration into user interface and app design
- Analyzing user-centric design principles
- Analyzing user-centric design principles
- Save for Web
- Web Data Variables
- Working with Slices
- Preferences
- Keyboard Shortcuts
Eligibility Criteria
• Basic knowledge of computers and keen desire to build skills in this field.
• Open to students, job seekers, and working professionals.
• Open to students, job seekers, and working professionals.
Official Certification
• Official MKCL KLiC Certificate upon successful completion of the course and evaluations.
Work-Centric Learning Approach
• Step 1: Learners are given an overview of the course and its connection to life and work
• Step 2: Learners are exposed to the specific tool(s) used in the course through the various real-life applications of the tool(s).
• Step 3: Learners are acquainted with the careers and the hierarchy of roles they can perform at workplaces after attaining increasing levels of mastery over the tool(s).
• Step 4: Learners are acquainted with the architecture of the tool or tool map so as to appreciate various parts of the tool, their functions, utility and inter-relations.
• Step 5: Learners are exposed to simple application development methodology by using the tool at the beginner’s level.
• Step 6: Learners perform the differential skills related to the use of the tool to improve the given ready-made industry-standard outputs.
• Step 7: Learners are engaged in appreciation of real-life case studies developed by the experts.
• Step 8: Learners are encouraged to proceed from appreciation to imitation of the experts.
• Step 9: After the imitation experience, they are required to improve the expert’s outputs so that they proceed from mere imitation to emulation.
• Step 10: Emulation is taken a level further from working with differential skills towards the visualization and creation of a complete output according to the requirements provided. (Long Assignments)
• Step 11: Understanding the requirements, communicating one’s own thoughts and presenting are important skills required in facing an interview for securing a work order/job. For instilling these skills, learners are presented with various subject-specific technical as well as HR-oriented questions and encouraged to answer them.
• Step 12: Finally, they develop the integral skills involving optimal methods and best practices to produce useful outputs right from scratch, publish them in their ePortfolio and thereby proceed from emulation to self-expression, from self-expression to self-confidence and from self-confidence to self-reliance and self-esteem!
• Step 2: Learners are exposed to the specific tool(s) used in the course through the various real-life applications of the tool(s).
• Step 3: Learners are acquainted with the careers and the hierarchy of roles they can perform at workplaces after attaining increasing levels of mastery over the tool(s).
• Step 4: Learners are acquainted with the architecture of the tool or tool map so as to appreciate various parts of the tool, their functions, utility and inter-relations.
• Step 5: Learners are exposed to simple application development methodology by using the tool at the beginner’s level.
• Step 6: Learners perform the differential skills related to the use of the tool to improve the given ready-made industry-standard outputs.
• Step 7: Learners are engaged in appreciation of real-life case studies developed by the experts.
• Step 8: Learners are encouraged to proceed from appreciation to imitation of the experts.
• Step 9: After the imitation experience, they are required to improve the expert’s outputs so that they proceed from mere imitation to emulation.
• Step 10: Emulation is taken a level further from working with differential skills towards the visualization and creation of a complete output according to the requirements provided. (Long Assignments)
• Step 11: Understanding the requirements, communicating one’s own thoughts and presenting are important skills required in facing an interview for securing a work order/job. For instilling these skills, learners are presented with various subject-specific technical as well as HR-oriented questions and encouraged to answer them.
• Step 12: Finally, they develop the integral skills involving optimal methods and best practices to produce useful outputs right from scratch, publish them in their ePortfolio and thereby proceed from emulation to self-expression, from self-expression to self-confidence and from self-confidence to self-reliance and self-esteem!
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