Track
Digital Designing
Duration
30 hours
Skill Level
Beginner
Language
English
About this Course
Unlock Illustrator’s full potential with detailed guidance from basic sketching to professional vector artwork creation.
Learning Mode: Learn at ALC or at Home
Detailed Course Curriculum
Hands-on module breakdown aligned with MKCL production standards and industry requirements.
- Mind Mapping for Idea Development
- Visual Storytelling and Narrative Illustration
- Understanding the Principles of Visual Storytelling
- Understanding the Principles of Visual Storytelling
- Developing and Designing Characters
- Developing and Designing Characters
- Sequential Storytelling through Illustration
- Sequential Storytelling through Illustration
- Illustrating Sequential Stories in Comics
- Illustrating Sequential Stories in Comics
- Crafting Sequential Storyboards
- Crafting Sequential Storyboards
- Creating Mood and Atmosphere in Narrative Illustrations
- Creating Mood and Atmosphere in Narrative Illustrations
- Ethics and Representation in Storytelling
- Ethics and Representation in Storytelling
- Thumbnail Sketch Exploration
- Concept Refinement through Rough Sketches
- A Quick Guide to Creating a Brand Mood Board
- Layer and Layer Options
- Merging Layers
- Exploring Layer Management and Workflow:
- Advanced Layer Techniques
- Path and its Options
- Creating A Compound Path
- Clipping Mask
- Control Curves and Anchor Points
- Enhance the final output
- Clipping Mask with Compound Path
- Clipping Mask with Compound Shape
- Pen Tool Hacks
- Illustration from Sketch to Character Design
- Ink Pen Essentials
- Perfecting Cross-Hatching and Stippling
- The Shape Builder Tool- Logo Design
- Overview of stock image platforms
- Understanding Popular Image Types on Shutterstock and Similar Sites
- Understanding the demand for stock image
- Monetizing Illustrations on Stock Platforms
- Tips for increasing downloads and earnings
- Tips for increasing downloads and earnings
- Photography Techniques and Best Practices
- Artists and stock platforms
- Artists and stock platforms
- Editing photos to meet platform standards
- Editing photos to meet platform standards
- Stock Platforms and Job Opportunities
- Stock Platforms and Job Opportunities
- Color Theory Basics
- Color Properties: Hue, Value, Saturation
- Cultural and Psychological Associations with Colors
- Color Symbolism and its Impact on Storytelling
- Color Harmonies and Combinations
- Creating a Mood and Atmosphere with Color
- Complementary Colors
- Watercolor Painting:
- Watercolor Materials and Tools (watercolor paints, brushes, paper)
- Watercolor Materials and Tools (watercolor paints, brushes, paper)
- Wet-on-Wet and Wet-on-Dry Techniques
- Wet-on-Wet and Wet-on-Dry Techniques
- Layering and Glazing to build up colors
- Layering and Glazing to build up colors
- Unique Techniques: Salt, Masking Fluid, and Scraping Effects
- Unique Techniques: Salt, Masking Fluid, and Scraping Effects
- Reshaping Tools
- Working with 1-Point Perspective Grid
- Working with 2-Point Perspective Grid
- Working with 3-Point Perspective Grid
- Using the Graph Tools
- Slicing and Cutting Tools
- Symbol tools
- Symbol Sprayer
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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