Track
Digital Designing
Duration
30 hours
Skill Level
Intermediate
Language
English
About this Course
Get proficient in creating vector graphics using Illustrator with emphasis on tools, shapes, and workflows.
Learning Mode: Learn at ALC or at Home
Detailed Course Curriculum
Hands-on module breakdown aligned with MKCL production standards and industry requirements.
- What is Illustration?
- The art of Visual Communication
- Illustration in Education
- Illustration in Advertising
- Illustrations in Storytelling
- 3 Ways to Use Illustration for Branding
- Minimalist Illustration
- Big and Bold Illustrations
- 3D Illustration
- Typography Illustration
- Retro illustration
- Geometric Illustration
- Caricatures
- Comics
- Exploring Digital Illustration Tools
- Introduction to Digital Drawing Tablets
- Learning the basics
- Learning about colors
- Basic tools: Introduction
- The working place
- Getting to know the user interface
- Customizing the designs
- Organizing files
- Saving files
- Understanding Artboards
- Learning about the Selection tools
- Drawing and Painting tools: Introduction
- Efficient use of Drawing, Painting tools
- Mastering the use of artistic tools
- Using artistic tools
- Learning best way to use Artistic tools
- Learning more tools for Drawing, Painting
- Using the painting and drawing tools
- Mastering Artistic tools and more
- Using new drawing and painting tools
- Discovering the Type tool
- Using the Zoom and Moving tools
- Using Layers to improve efficiency
- Paths and options: Learning more
- Exploring the Brushes
- Exploring the Brush Library
- Painting and blending
- Using the Reshaping tools
- Using the Graph Tools
- Using the slicing and cutting tools
- Using the Symbol tool
- Using and Modifying a Type
- Using Character and Paragraph Palettes
- Understanding what Area Type is
- Understanding what Path Type is
- Learning to use the Symbol option
- Exploring the Symbol Library
- Applying graphic styles
- Applying Effects
- Using Effects for enhancement
- Creating a coupon design
- Understanding the basics of printing
- Understanding the Artboard printing techniques
- Learning about colors in printing
- Exporting documents in different file formats
- Exporting documents for Adobe Applications
- Understand vector tool’s role in print media
- Save for Web
- Web Data Variables
- Working with Slices
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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