Track
Digital Designing
Duration
30 hours
Skill Level
Intermediate
Language
English
About this Course
Explore digital brushes, layers, and blending modes while mastering color theory and shading in illustration.
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
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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