Illustrator for Fashion Design Sketching: Level 1

Discover the power of Adobe Illustrator for fashion design. Perfect for beginners, learn essential tools and techniques to create fashion flat sketches, CADs and patterns. Unlock your creative potential and bring your designs to life. Enroll now!

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What You'll Learn

This course will teach you all the tools you will need to start using Illustrator for fashion design: sketching your fashion designs, creating fashion technical drawings or flat sketches, coloring your fashion sketch and more!

The Basics

The basics of the program and how to use Illustrator for fashion design
Drawing

How to use the Pen Tool in Illustrator to draw and color a fashion design flat sketch
Design Worksheet

How to create a design worksheet, the first page of a fashion tech pack

Here's what YOU gain:

Wondering why you should sign up for class today? Here's why!

Quickly learn how to use Adobe Illustrator for fashion sketching
Understand the tools and techniques needed to draw accurate and proportional flat sketches that you can use in tech packs and fashion CADs
Gain confidence in your design skills with no fear of technical overwhelm
Get rid of your designer fraud and feel empowered to effectively communicate your ideas through fashion sketches

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Course curriculum

1. Welcome to the Course
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1. Student Manual
1. Navigating the Workspace
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2. Setting Preferences
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3. Introduction to Color
4. Introduction to Tools (Shapes)
5. Introduction to Tools (Selection Tools)
6. Introduction to Illustrator on iPad
1. Memory Game
2. Intro to Illustrator Crossword Puzzle
3. Intro to Illustrator Crossword Puzzle Answers
1. Introduction to the Pen Tool
2. Drawing a Tee Shirt (Setup)
3. Introduction to the Pen Tool on iPad
4. Methods of Drawing a Flat Sketch in Illustrator
5. Introduction to Flat Sketches
1. Pen Tool Practice Exercises
2. Pacman tracing exercise
3. Supplemental Videos
1. Drawing solid lines
2. Drawing Stitchlines
3. Reflecting the Sketch
4. Joining the Sketch
5. Creating Closed Shapes with the Shape builder tool
6. Drawing the back view
7. Grouping the Sketch
8. Drawing a Flat Sketch on the iPad
1. Connect the dots exercise
2. Supplemental videos
1. Color in Illustrator
2. Coloring a Flat Sketch (Lesson from 1st edition)
3. Creating Custom Colors on the iPad
4. Creating a Color CAD
1. The Color Guide in Illustrator
1. What's Next?
2. How to get Support
1. Flat Sketch Exercise 1
2. Missy Croquis
3. Graphic resources downloads

About this course

$299.00
39 lessons
1.5 hours of video content

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Best for Beginners!

December Smith

This course is a great foundation for beginners to learn how Illustrator works and how to apply the tools to your designs. Everything is easy to follow and t...

This course is a great foundation for beginners to learn how Illustrator works and how to apply the tools to your designs. Everything is easy to follow and the exercises help the most. I followed along with each lesson and by the end was able to successfully sketch my own design, knowing exactly what to do. I can't wait for level 2!

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What a life saver!

Ryan Roberts

Mikelle is a born teacher with Illustrator. I'm so glad I took this course as I came away with a much better understanding of Illustrator and with a really s...

Mikelle is a born teacher with Illustrator. I'm so glad I took this course as I came away with a much better understanding of Illustrator and with a really solid foundation as well. I love that I can find additional info from her youtube channel which feels is such a plus.

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This course is going to help me 100%

Glenda Belle

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Meet the instructor

Digital Fashion Designer and Educator Mikelle Drew-Pellum

Hi! I'm Mikelle. I've spent over 20 years working in the fashion industry. I am Adobe certified and an expert at finding ways to use the software efficiently, make it applicable to fashion and finding the fun! I currently work as an Adjunct Professor at New York's Fashion Institute of Technology. I LOVE to teach and nerd out on the all things fashion tech and fashion business related.

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Fashion sketching is the language of the designer, and flat sketching is a skill that every fashion designer needs in order to communicate their ideas. Creating an accurate flat sketch is a critical part of design development. You can’t sell your design without a fashion technical drawing. And Illustrator is the best program to help you do that. Start today, and you'll be drawing fashion design flat sketches in no time!

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Karina Bajana, Footwear Designer

Mikelle has such a comprehensive understanding of these programs and is extremely good at explaining, coaching through the hands-on experience, and understanding/responding to questions. I highly recommend her if you’re looking into learning basic or advanced Adobe skills.

Doris Hofmann, Designer

I highly recommend Mikellle: Great teaching skills, super experienced and up to date with the latest software novelties.

Soo M., Men's Designer

I love Mikelle's class. She is sooo good at teaching. Learning can be so tired , but I have never felt tired in her class. She has vital power that makes students keep putting attention to work with smile. She is something.

Sean Coco, Designer

Best Instructor Ever !!!! 🏆🏆🏆

Brenda Van Name, Design Director

An Engaging Passionate Talented Creative, a pleasure to learn from and work with. Mikelle is a gifted instructor having the rare ability to deliver detailed training for complex programs with fun, approachable style. The experience arms a student with confidence to begin experimenting and the desire to learn more. I highly recommend her classes to anyone beginner or advanced.

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with our 3 day money back guarantee!

I'm confident this is one of the BEST (if not the best) courses on using Illustrator for the fashion industry. But if you decide differently, you've got 3 days from the date of purchase to get a FULL refund. All you have to do is email me at [email protected], and we'll hit undo on your investment. (NOTE: Refund is VOID if you download any of the graphic resources and templates.)