Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course the student will be able to:

• Create and adjust multiple artboards using the artboard tool.
• Draw and control accurate paths with the pen tool and pen curvature tool.
• Create layers and sub-layers to manipulate and organize your artwork.
• Move, adjust, and size graphics using a selection and direct selection tool.
• Create and edit rectangles with live corners, ellipses, polygons, lines, and stars.
• Transform objects using scale, rotate, reflection, and shear from a central reference point.
• Adjust colour highlights, midtones, and shadows by creating a gradient mesh.
• Demonstrate the use of different transparency and opacity settings for shading.
• Create linear and radial gradients, and colour blends.
• Average points mathematically on both a horizontal and vertical axis point.
• Make an exact copy of any shape by creating an offset path.
• Create graphics using 3D revolve, symbols, and mapping tools.

Effective as of Fall 2016