Introduction
Illustrator is the perfect tool for rendering 3D interior concepts. This training pack is designed to walk you step-by-step through designing an interior concept from start to finish. Available 1-2-1, small groups and corporate. All content can be tailored for this class.
Main Topics
- Document set-up for interior renders
- Working with the pen tool
- Managing layers and groups
- Building shapes
- Saving, exporting and printing
Learning Outcomes
- Understand industry standard illustration techniques
- How to accurately draw interior renders
- Creating interior concepts from imported elevations
- Output your documents correctly for print and web
What you Get
- Face-to-face group training
- Work on own files or choose from our extensive library
- Qualified trainers with many years industry experience
- 30 page Adobe reference guide
- Optional subscription to video tutorial
- Optional on-site training
Lesson Options
Because everyone’s needs are different, we have Interior Design lessons available in:
- One day sessions
- Two day sessions
- Three day sessions
The Interior Design Illustrator Training Pack is best suited to:
- Design professional that will be using Adobe Illustrator weekly or more.
- Professionals who are self taught and need to learn industry standards.
- Professionals who need to create and edit interior concepts for presentations.
- Designers at a beginner level as well as intermediate and advanced.
- Anyone working on Illustrator to create mood-boards and concepts.
COURSE CONTENT
Interior Design
Illustrator Workspace
Illustrator Control panel
Navigating within a document
Utilising the bounding box
Guides and grids
Preview and Outline modes
Saving Illustrator workspaces
Using Illustrator’s basic selection tools
Document Set-up for Interior Concepts
Placing plans and elevations
Drawing elevations
Drawing 2 and 3 point perspectives
Managing layers
Creating Shapes
Creating vector shapes in Illustrator
Illustrator Pen Tool for Technical Drawings
Creating compound paths
Creating compound shapes
Using the Shape Builder tool
Using Pathfinder functions
Editing Illustrator paths
Editing anchor points
Creating compound shapes
Illustrator pathfinder functions
Illustrator Groups and Layers
The importance of using layers in Illustrator
Creating and editing groups
Group attributes
Understanding Illustrator’s Layers panel
Color
Applying colors
Creating solid color swatches
Creating global process swatches
Working with linear gradient fills
Transforming Objects
Moving and copying objects
Scaling objects
Rotating objects
Aligning objects
Creating Symbols for Interior Renders
Using and editing symbols
Defining your own symbols
Live Effects
Working with Photoshop files in Illustrator
Importing Photoshop Images
Placing Photoshop images
Using the Links panel
Resolution settings in Illustrator
Clipping Masks in Illustrator
Working with Masks
Cropping photographs
Clipping artwork with masks
Clipping the contents of a layer
Defining masks with soft edges
Saving and Printing
Saving your Illustrator document
Illustrator file formats
Printing your document
Preparing your files for the Web