Illustrator Calendar

The Graphic Arts calendar is a great way to view everything you have to do for Illustrator in one place. You can view daily calendar events and scroll to review past calendar postings. The calendar also includes video instructions and project links.

Friday, November 8, 2024

Lesson 36
Lesson 36 - Show Me How Graphics. Create graphics documenting and “Showing How” to do something using Illustrator. Use a book template for your design, so it will match the artwork found in the book.

Thursday, November 7, 2024

Lesson 36
Lesson 36 - Show Me How Graphics. Create graphics documenting and “Showing How” to do something using Illustrator. Use a book template for your design, so it will match the artwork found in the book.

Wednesday, November 6, 2024

Lesson 36
Lesson 36 - Show Me How Graphics. Create graphics documenting and “Showing How” to do something using Illustrator. Use a book template for your design, so it will match the artwork found in the book.

Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Lesson 36
Lesson 36 - Show Me How Graphics. Create graphics documenting and “Showing How” to do something using Illustrator. Use a book template for your design, so it will match the artwork found in the book.

Thursday, October 31, 2024

Lesson 34
Lesson 34 - Illustrator Tutorials. Practice using various tools, panels, and menus to create vector artwork.

Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Lesson 34
Lesson 34 - Illustrator Tutorials. Practice using various tools, panels, and menus to create vector artwork.

Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Lesson 34
Lesson 34 - Illustrator Tutorials. Practice using various tools, panels, and menus to create vector artwork.

Monday, October 28, 2024

Lesson 34
Lesson 34 - Illustrator Tutorials. Practice using various tools, panels, and menus to create vector artwork.

Friday, October 25, 2024

Lesson 34
Lesson 34 - Illustrator Tutorials. Practice using various tools, panels, and menus to create vector artwork.

Thursday, October 24, 2024

Lesson 34
Lesson 34 - Illustrator Tutorials. Practice using various tools, panels, and menus to create vector artwork.

Friday, October 18, 2024

Lesson 34
Lesson 34 - Illustrator Tutorials. Practice using various tools, panels, and menus to create vector artwork.

Thursday, October 17, 2024

Lesson 34
Lesson 34 - Illustrator Tutorials. Practice using various tools, panels, and menus to create vector artwork.

Wednesday, October 16, 2024

Lesson 34
Lesson 34 - Illustrator Tutorials. Practice using various tools, panels, and menus to create vector artwork.

Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Lesson 34
Lesson 34 - Illustrator Tutorials. Practice using various tools, panels, and menus to create vector artwork.

Monday, October 14, 2024

Lesson 34
Lesson 34 - Illustrator Tutorials. Practice using various tools, panels, and menus to create vector artwork.

Friday, October 11, 2024

Lesson 34
Lesson 34 - Illustrator Tutorials. Practice using various tools, panels, and menus to create vector artwork.

Thursday, October 10, 2024

Lesson 34
Lesson 34 - Illustrator Tutorials. Practice using various tools, panels, and menus to create vector artwork.

Wednesday, October 9, 2024

Lesson 34
Lesson 34 - Illustrator Tutorials. Practice using various tools, panels, and menus to create vector artwork.

Tuesday, October 8, 2024

Lesson 29 (Finish)
Lesson 29 - Working with Patterns. A seamless pattern is an image that can be placed side-by-side with copies of itself without any visible seams or interruptions on the content, so you can repeat this image and create a pattern that can go on infinitely to create unique backgrounds, text effects or brand elements.

Monday, October 7, 2024

Lesson 29
Lesson 29 - Working with Patterns. A seamless pattern is an image that can be placed side-by-side with copies of itself without any visible seams or interruptions on the content, so you can repeat this image and create a pattern that can go on infinitely to create unique backgrounds, text effects or brand elements.

Friday, October 4, 2024

Lesson 29
Lesson 29 - Working with Patterns. A seamless pattern is an image that can be placed side-by-side with copies of itself without any visible seams or interruptions on the content, so you can repeat this image and create a pattern that can go on infinitely to create unique backgrounds, text effects or brand elements.

Thursday, October 3, 2024

Lesson 29
Lesson 29 - Working with Patterns. A seamless pattern is an image that can be placed side-by-side with copies of itself without any visible seams or interruptions on the content, so you can repeat this image and create a pattern that can go on infinitely to create unique backgrounds, text effects or brand elements.

Wednesday, October 2, 2024

Lesson 29
Lesson 29 - Working with Patterns. A seamless pattern is an image that can be placed side-by-side with copies of itself without any visible seams or interruptions on the content, so you can repeat this image and create a pattern that can go on infinitely to create unique backgrounds, text effects or brand elements.

Tuesday, October 1, 2024

Lesson 26
Lesson 26 - Working with Brushes. Brushes can be applied to paths and strokes, and they are great for creating stunning stroked designs quickly and easily.

Monday, September 30, 2024

Lesson 25
Lesson 25 - Glyphs and Special Characters. Illustrator has various methods of working with unique and special characters that is not a letter, number, symbol, or punctuation mark.

Thursday, September 26, 2024

Lesson 23
Lesson 23 - Format Type. Selecting characters lets you edit them, format them using the Character panel, apply fill and stroke attributes to them, and change their transparency.

Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Lesson 21
Lesson 21 - Create and Working with Text. Learn about creating and working with type in Adobe Illustrator.

Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Lesson 20
Lesson 20 - Working with Gradients. A gradient is a graduated blend of two or more colors or tints of the same color.

Monday, September 23, 2024

Lesson 19
Lesson 19 - Blend Objects and Envelopes. Illustrator blends lets you combine shapes and colors between two or more objects to create a new object.

Friday, September 20, 2024

Lesson 18
Lesson 18 - Combine Objects and Pathfinder. Illustrator can join vector objects to create shapes in a variety of ways depending on the method you use to combine the objects.

Thursday, September 19, 2024

Lesson 16
Lesson 16 - Shaper and Shape Builder Tools. Illustrator has tools and methods to select numerous shapes and combined objects into one shape or multiple shapes.

Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Lesson 15
Lesson 15 - Erase, Cut, and Mask Artwork. Illustrator has numerous tools and methods for dividing objects into separate pieces.

Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Lesson 14
Lesson 14 - Offset, Rotate and Reflect. Illustrator has useful and effective tools that can be used to rotate, mirror, and modify objects.

Monday, September 16, 2024

Lesson 13
Lesson 13 - Working with Layers. AWhen building visual compositions in Illustrator, layers allow you to manage multiple elements that make up an image.

Friday, September 13, 2024

Lesson 11
Lesson 11 - About Color. Applying colors to artwork is a common Adobe Illustrator task, and one that requires some knowledge of color models and color modes.

Thursday, September 12, 2024

Lesson 10
Lesson 10 - Simple Lines and Shapes. Illustrator has simple tools to quickly create shapes and other forms that require only the use of lines.

Wednesday, September 11, 2024

Lesson 09
Lesson 09 - Pen and Curvature Tools. Turn-in and complete lesson 09.

Tuesday, September 10, 2024

Lesson 09
Lesson 09 - Pen and Curvature Tools. Illustrator allows you to define your own anchor points, as well as adjust the curve associated with those anchors, simply by manipulating two control points associated with each anchor.

Monday, September 9, 2024

Lesson 09
Lesson 09 - Pen and Curvature Tools. Illustrator allows you to define your own anchor points, as well as adjust the curve associated with those anchors, simply by manipulating two control points associated with each anchor.

Friday, September 6, 2024

Lesson 09
Lesson 09 - Pen and Curvature Tools. Illustrator allows you to define your own anchor points, as well as adjust the curve associated with those anchors, simply by manipulating two control points associated with each anchor.

Thursday, September 5, 2024

Lesson 09
Lesson 09 - Pen and Curvature Tools. Illustrator allows you to define your own anchor points, as well as adjust the curve associated with those anchors, simply by manipulating two control points associated with each anchor.

Wednesday, September 4, 2024

Lesson 09
Lesson 09 - Pen and Curvature Tools. Illustrator allows you to define your own anchor points, as well as adjust the curve associated with those anchors, simply by manipulating two control points associated with each anchor.

Tuesday, September 3, 2024

Lesson 08
Lesson 08 - Fill, Stroke, and Color. Learn how to apply color and patterns to basic shapes and create a variety of attributes to every object drawn in Illustrator.

Thursday, August 29, 2024

Lesson 07
Lesson 07 - Creating Basic Shapes. Creating basic shapes, and modify the corners of the shapes.

Tuesday, August 27, 2024

Lesson 04
Lesson 04 - Working with Documents. Learn how to create a new document, work with the artboards in the document, and save that document.

Monday, August 26, 2024

Lesson 02 and 03
Lessons 02 and 03 - Illustrator Toolbar and Panels. Illustrator’s toolbar let you perform various tasks, such as create, select, and manipulate objects and select, type, paint, draw, sample, edit, and move images.

Wednesday, August 21, 2024

Lesson 01
Lesson 01 - Introduction to Adobe Illustrator. Show short film of the history of Adobe Illustrator.

Tuesday, August 20, 2024

Computer - Adobe
Computer and Adobe Account for Graphic Arts.

Monday, August 19, 2024

First Day
First Day of School.