Welcome to Illustrator One-on-One: Mastery

- Hello, this is Deke McClelland. Welcome to Illustrator CC One-on-One: Mastery. The final installment in a series of three video courses devoted to your absolute command of the world's most powerful vector based drawing software. By which I mean, the one, the only Adobe Illustrator. As you know by now, the One-on-One promise is to turn you into the best Illustrator user you know. Give me your time and attention and I'll show you everything you need to know in the order you need to know it.

No crowded classroom, no scheduling conflicts. It's just you and me one-on-one anytime that is convenient for you to learn. Now here's how things are going to go down. We'll begin with a look at a few ways you can upgrade Illustrator to better suit your needs. Starting with some time saving shortcuts. Next, we'll explore the world of blend modes and opacity masks which allow you to creatively combine big things like entire layers or little things like individual fills and strokes.

We'll lose ourselves in the vast and flexible realms of custom art brushes, seamlessly repeating tile patterns, and multi-color organic even photo realistic gradient mesh. I'll show you how to store commonly used elements as symbols so that you can replicate them as many times as you like. As well as set up specialty elements like arrow heads. For those of you who need to graph the occasional data, I'll show you how to do it in sweet pictographic style.

I'd devote an entire chapter to logos and specialty type effects, and we'll wrap things up with a look at libraries, actions, and 3D. The result is a contextualized training program in which you learn by doing. Illustrator's features makes sense because you apply them to clearly defined tasks. If I've done my job, you'll leave each chapter with a sense of tangible accomplishment, armed with techniques that you can apply to your own marketable, eye-popping projects.

Learn how to do this and you'll be able to do so much more. Now as you know, Illustrator CC is a fluid application that may update to any extent at any time and the same goes for this course. What you're about to watch is all together new. As of today, I have rerecorded the entire One-on-One trilogy. Fundamentals, advanced, and mastery. Complete with new projects and brand new exercise files. As time goes on, I'll sprinkle in new movies to address new features and new ways to work.

So be sure to come back and check for new movies the next time you see your copy of Illustrator update. With that, I release you to experience Illustrator's most powerful features as I truly hope you've never experienced them before. Welcome to Illustrator CC One-on-One: Mastery.