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Illustrator 1 Continuing Studies

Welcome to Langara College’s Illustrator 1 class. You can see the course outline here. You can watch the Introduction to Illustrator tutorial videos here. Our first exercise is here.
IDEA 277: Gig Posters

Here are the gig posters created by the IDEA 277 Digital Illustration class. You can read the original brief here.
IDEA 237: Assignment 3 – Presentation

Convert an existing project created in IDEA 237 into a presentation using either Power Point or Keynote. The presentation slide size is 1280 x 720 pixels. Presentations are meant to accompany a speaker or presenter. They do not need to carry the message, simply clarify
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Diagrammatic Illustration Assignment
IDEA 277 Conceptual Portrait Assignment

Here are the conceptual portraits created by the IDEA 277 class. View the brief here.
Illustrator’s Amazing Appearance Panel

Do you want to be an Illustrator power user? Of course you do. That’s why it’s so important to become familiar with Illustrator’s Appearance panel. Control every aspect of a vector objects appearance, from multiple fills, transparency and blend modes and even effects, all from
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