I love the excitement of new creative ideas and playing with lots of different tools to make those ideas come to life! In this class I can’t wait to share all the things I know about shortcuts with Illustrator filters and functions, plus a bunch of little tidbits for designing a cohesive and beautifully co-ordinated collection! This class will arm you with all the knowledge necessary to design quick and simple coordinates to create your own complete fabric collection from scratch.

In this course, I’m sharing everything I’ve learned about making quick co-ordinates using filters and functions in Illustrator, hidden away in the menus. I’ll show you my step-by-step process, from my tricks to working with the filters, to creating full and complex patterns using functions like Pathfinder to do most of the work for us. We will design at least ten though the course of this class and I will give you plenty of ideas for creating alternates.

As far as prerequisite skills, I would recommend some knowledge of Illustrator with the goal of wanting to learn additional techniques. In class, we’ll talk about both design and technical aspects of creating simple and quick patterns. I will demonstrate them at a reasonable pace so that it will be easy to follow along. This course is for all levels; I recommend being acquainted with Illustrator to a certain degree. I suggest pausing and repeating sections and possibly even slowing the speed in your browser when trying to work through any difficult parts. Adobe Illustrator is recommended for this class, as that is what is being featured here, but any other draw (vector) software is suitable, as long as it has the same functionality.