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On its surface, Adobe Illustrator seems simple enough. But when you delve deep, you find extraordinary power and ability. We’re bringing together some of the world’s top Illustrator experts to help you create better, produce faster, and finish more accurately.
No other tool has helped creatives achieve professional-quality digital artwork longer than Adobe Illustrator. Over the last three decades, Illustrator has become not just more powerful, but also increasingly complex. While millions of people use Illustrator every day, how many people are using it well?
Join us online August 26–27 for The Adobe Illustrator Summit, a two-day deep dive into the world’s best vector art tool. You’ll learn to level up your skills and master the tools with 12 essential HOW-TO sessions, live Q&A with the experts, community networking, and in-depth speaker handouts and downloadables. Plus, you will have on-demand access to all the session and Q&A recordings for a full year!
- Illustrator Power Tips and Techniques
- Infographics
- Logos and Icons
- Making Illustrator Art Look Organic
- Live Paint and Advanced Gradients
- How to Draw Better, Faster
- Creating Social Media Assets
- Taking Illustrator Mobile with iPad
- Working with Images
- Patterns and Symbols
Our internationally renowned speakers include:
Deke McClelland
Kladi Vergine
Laura Coyle
Mark Heaps
Monika Gause
Orlando Arocena
Tony Harmer
Von Glitschka
Day 1: Thursday, August 26, 2021
All times listed in Pacific Time (Seattle) or UTC-8
Bring your coffee/tea/drink of choice and join us for an informal chat before the sessions begin.
If you work by the hour and don’t care about efficiency, then skip this one. But for everyone who wants to be more productive in Illustrator, you need these tips! Join “design ninja” Tony Harmer as he reveals the secrets of the power users.
Topics include:
- Combination techniques for added efficiency
- How to spot and avoid common problems
- Techniques that can be applied to any Illustrator workflow
- The role of devices
- Plug-ins and extensions that make life easier
How do you create vector-based artwork that has a handmade quality to it? In this session, we’ll explore several ways to imbue your designs with an organic flair, so they avoid that cheap vector clip-art feel and look more aesthetically authentic while retaining full resolution independence for ease of use.
Topics include:
- Patterns and symbols
- AI add-ons you need to know about
- Techniques for incorporating scanned images
Illustrator should be a key part of your social media marketing workflow. Learn how to produce consistent social media templates and ensure cohesive branding across all your platforms!
Topics include:
- Branding theory
- How to use color
- Using artboards the right way
- Integrating Illustrator with Photoshop and other tools
- Expert tips for exporting files
Grab a bite to eat and come chat at our “virtual table” along with our speakers and experts in the Adobe Illustrator community from around the world.
Stop being chained to your desktop workstation or laptop! Illustrator for iPad is far more powerful than you might think. Sure, you can be creative and playful with it, but most importantly, you can ideate, sketch, flesh out, and build pro-quality vector documents on the go… and then effortlessly transfer them through the Cloud to your desktop or laptop for finishing. Take a tour with veteran illustrator Laura Coyle as she steps you through what you need to know.
In this focused and inspirational talk, designer and Illustrator rockstar Von Glitschka will walk you through his creative process — from ideation, vector building, color exploration, art direction, rejection and ultimate usage of iconic brand design. Along the way he’ll share creative insights and methodology he uses daily to craft visual identities for companies large and small.
Even the savviest Illustrator users often spend far too much time drawing the same ways they have for years — for example, sticking with the Pen tool, thinking that it provides the best control. In fact, Illustrator continually adds better ways to work – ways that are faster, more elegant, and allow for smoother control. Join Deke for a closer look at techniques and tools that may have flown under your radar and discover more modern ways to draw, including:
- Smoother Pencil tool
- iPad integration
- Rounded corners
- Little known Pen tool tricks
Day 2: Friday, August 27, 2021
All times listed in Pacific Time (Seattle) or UTC-8
Bring your coffee/tea/drink of choice and join us for an informal chat before the sessions begin.
Illustrator is full of tools that appear easy… until you actually start using them. Join the amazing Laura Coyle as she unpacks some of the most important features that involve coloring (and recoloring) your artwork, building repeating patterns, and creating designs that wow!
Illustrator is known as a vector drawing tool, but often you need to work with pixel/bitmapped images. If you don’t know what you’re doing, bad things can ensue. In this focused session, internationally renowned Illustrator expert Monika Gause will explain how best to use pixel artwork.
Topics include:
- Embedding vs linking, resolution
- Converting pixels to vectors by autotracing
- Converting vector artwork to pixels (and common gotchas!)
- Using raster images for brushes, masks, and more
Considering that high quality infographics are 30 times more likely to be read than text articles, it’s no wonder that creating infographics is one of the biggest asks for designers these days. But for many designers, data can be daunting! Good drawing methodologies can be the key to successful and efficient (or just calm, and hassle-free) infographic design.
In this session, you’ll learn how to:
- Develop tighter Illustrator skills to make dynamic graphics
- Put Google Sheets (and sometimes Excel) to work for you
- Deal with irregular scales
- Create a chart where no usable chart type exists
- Go beyond the Illustrator chart types
Grab a bite to eat and come chat at our “virtual table” along with our speakers and experts in the Adobe Illustrator community from around the world.
Explore two independent features – one old, one new – that each provide a high degree of automation and really stand out from the pack. Live Paint offers path interaction opportunities that go beyond traditional stacking order. Gradients can span strokes. Freeform gradients are way more practical than Gradient Mesh and provide a similar kind of organic control. Combine them, and… well, things get awesome.
Meet Orlando Arocena, a Mexican-Cuban-American illustrator who creates vibrant vector art for clients such as Marvel Studios, Disney, Sony Pictures, Pepsi, and many more. Arocena’s graphics infuse modern techniques with pop culture references and traditional Latino folk art influences. His vector images have gained him fame, from sugar-skull inspired vector graphics for Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, to designing innovative artwork for a temperature-sensitive Jose Cuervo tequila bottle.
Joining Orlando is Mark Heaps, a long-time CreativePro presenter, Illustrator and Photoshop expert, MAX Masters Award Recipient, author, and ketchup addict.
You don’t want to miss this one!
At CreativePro, we understand that what happens “on stage” in the individual sessions is great but it’s not the whole story. Now that you’ve spent two days being inspired and soaking in the tips and tricks, be sure to take time to connect with your peeps — the Adobe Illustrator user community. Meet the speakers, find connections, and learn even more tips and tricks from your colleagues in this end-of-day session.
Your registration includes:
- Livestream access to all sessions and live speaker Q&A
- One year of on-demand access to all session recordings
- Speaker handouts and resources from the world’s top experts
- Savings on future live and online CreativePro events with the alumni discount.
Pricing:
2-day pass: $695
$100 off for nonprofit, government, education, and CreativePro Premium members. Discounts cannot be combined, or added after registration. $25 off for CreativePro Starter and Free members. Please contact us here for discount information prior to registering.
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