Welcome to a sneak peak to some of the video episodes included in: Adobe Illustrator CS4 Bootcamp Video Training for Fashion Designers. Click the italic links below to watch the videos.

Ludmila Adams demonstrates the easy use of Adobe Illustrator CS4 to create professional Computer Aided Flat Sketches. Getting straight to the point while ensuring the students success, Ludmila's training methods will let you create your own stylish flat sketch library for your portfolio/ work in no time. Ludmila also covers time saving techniques, such as short cuts that works well during crunch time at work, as well as giving detailed examples of the most commonly encountered error messages of novices and how to fix those problems.

Total Running Time:

3 hours 43 minutes

Exercise files accompany the course.

Exercise files are copies of the identical files (documents, photos, etc.) the author uses throughout this training. These files will help you make the most of your learning experience by providing you the opportunity to repeat the step by step instructions in your software.

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Table of contents

Welcome 1:11

01 Introduction to Workspace

01_intro Set up of Workspace 12:37

01_01 Pixel Images vs. Vector Images 4:37

01_02 Understanding Layers 7:12

02 Before you Begin

02_01 What to "uncheck" before you start 3:00

03 First Fashion Sketch

03_01 Half of Basic Tee Shirt and Saving it 12:08

03_02 Sleeve with Stitching 4:34

03_03 Reflect, join, add anchor points and convert to curves 9:25

03_04 Binding and stitching 3:11

03_05 Create the back and how to group 2:59

04 Let's Color our First Fashion Sketch

04_01 Adding Fill color to your Sketch 7:20

04_02 Add color swatches, multiply Tee Shirt and adding text 7:52

04_03 Ensure that color fills are the same w. the Eyedropper Tool or color codes 8:49

05 What NOT to do in the beginning

05_01 Exploring problems of open objects 2:42

05_02 Why can I not join? Is it grouped? 9:26

05_03 Selection vs. Direct Selection Tool 12:06

05_04 Practicing the Pen Tool, adding anchor/ removing points and convert Tool 7:30

06 Pants and Dress excercise

06_01Drawing a long sleeve dress 15:38

06_02 Drawing a Pant 13:34

06_03 Manipulating Long Sleeve Dress into 2 new garments 4:03

06_04 Manipulating Pants into 2 new garments 3:48

06_05 Manipulating Basic Tee into
multiple garments (using the Pathfinder) 5:38

07 Creating Basic Fashion Brushes

07_01 Basic Zig Zag Brush 3:31

07_02 Basic Button Brush w. Spacing 3:52

07_03 Basic Zipper Brush 0:57

07_04 Scaling Brushes 2:02

07_05 Creative Brushes 8:32

07_06 Re- Coloring Brushes & Live Color 6:39

07_07 Saving/using Brush Libraries 4:28

08 Creating Fabric Swatches

08_01 Creating Stripe Swatches 3:39

08_02 Fill Garments w. Stripe following Grainlines 4:03

08_03 Creating polka dot and other dotted swatches 1:50

08_04 Scaling Fabric swatches in garments 1:29

08_05 Re - Coloring Swatches & Live Color1:31

08_06 Saving/ Using Swatch Libraries 2:55

08_07 Using scanned fabric as swatches 4:07

09 Bringing it all together

09_01 Creating Line Sheets, set up Templates 2:00

09_02 Copying and scaling Garment to fit the Line Sheets set up/ Setting preferences 2:33

09_03 Create Color Swatches, align them and change the denim.jpg colors 5:17

09_04 Organize all Fashion relation info on Layers (in house/buyers/factories) 1:39

09_05 Exporting Line Sheets to JPG. / cleaning up stray anchor points 2:23

Thank you, see you again for advanced techniques and goodbye

Thank you 0:58

Extras: Reference Links

Industry Flat Sketches, your competitors Flat sketche and garments for inspiration

Online Portfolio Websites

Career and Job Websites

Total Running Time:

3 hours 43 minutes

Available for a limited time only $65.00