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Which Illustrator Course is Right for You?

Adobe Illustrator is the industry standard for creating vector graphics. Learn to create logos, icons, patterns, packaging and more.

  • Adobe Illustrator Bootcamp

    Get a solid understanding of Illustrator so you can draw/edit vector graphics to create logos, icons, patterns, packaging, typography, and much more. In this class you’ll start with the basics and then move on to intermediate and advanced features. We’ll help you to master the Pen tool as well as compound paths, effects, layers, masks, patterns, blends, colors, how to save files for print/web, and more.

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    • $975
    • 18 hours
    • Weekdays, weeknights, or weekends
    • Open to beginners
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  • Graphic Design Certificate

    Learn about design, typography, photo retouching, vector graphics, and much more as you study Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator. You’ll explore design concepts in our project-based Graphic Design Bootcamp, where you’ll work on designs for your portfolio to show prospective employers or clients.

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    • $2,995
    • 72 hours
    • Weekdays, weeknights, or weekends
    • Open to beginners
    • Financing available
    Course information See upcoming dates
  • Illustrator in a Day

    Get up and running quickly with the fundamentals of Illustrator: the Pen tool, shapes, and basic drawing. Learn to create and draw vector graphics.  If you want to learn Illustrator in greater depth, check out our 18-hour Adobe Illustrator Bootcamp.

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    • $325
    • 6 hours
    • Weekdays, weeknights, or weekends
    • Open to beginners
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    Get a solid understanding of Photoshop so you can retouch and color correct photos, combine images, and create graphics. In this class, you’ll start with the basics and then move on to more intermediate features. Learn about color/contrast, photo retouching, layers, masks, paths, filters, type, and saving files for print/web.

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  • Adobe InDesign Bootcamp

    Get a solid understanding of InDesign so you can create page layouts with type and graphics. In this class you’ll start with the basics and then move on to intermediate and advanced features. You’ll work on a variety of projects such as books, magazines, and advertisements... learning about paragraph/character styles, colors, master pages, baseline grid, hyphenation, tables, and more.

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  • Premiere Pro Bootcamp

    Learn how to use Premiere Pro in this comprehensive 18-hour class. You’ll start with the basics and learn file structure and organization, importing footage, exporting, using the Timeline, creating titles, working with PSDs, and audio tracks by working on real film projects. Then quickly dive into more advanced features including multicam editing, color correction, speeding up footage, and stop-motion loops.

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Why Learn Illustrator at Noble

Noble Desktop’s Illustrator classes use a teaching method that’s been used and developed by Noble Desktop for over 29 years. Our Adobe certified instructors are all industry experts who will teach you how to create and edit vector graphics.

  • Graphic design students learning vector graphics in Adobe Illustrator

    Learn then Practice

    In our Illustrator classes you’ll learn through projects. First by watching a short demo, then by actually practicing by drawing graphics, creating logos, patterns, and packaging. Our instructors are all industry professionals who draw on their experience to teach you practical, professional skills.

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    All of our Illustrator classes come with a custom step-by-step training manual sold to universities and schools around the world. Recreate the class projects and refresh the Illustrator materials anytime after the class. 

  • Hands-on Illustrator training by a top instructor in New York City

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    “Noble Desktop has created some of the best hands-on learning materials available. I continue to be impressed with the "real life" exercises that they create for each course as a means of learning the intricacies of the programs they teach. I highly recommend Noble Desktop courses to anyone, from beginner to advanced, who wants to learn graphic design and animation programs.”
    Joe Busse

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From our hands-on training style to world-class instructors and proprietary curriculum, we deliver a learning experience our alumni can be proud of.

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17 Students Rated Our Adobe Illustrator Classes 5 Stars

Amazing instructor!!! Extremely knowledgeable, knows so much about what he is teaching and super passionate about the course. I've taken Noble Desktop classes before and I will keep coming back because you guys have the BEST instructors.

Lana Tanich

A plentiful dive into Adobe Illustrator as a powerful tool for any professional!

Anderson

I have taken Noble Desktop classes in person as well as online and both types were excellent! Great teachers, and I love that ND allows one to retake a class within 6 months. I took the Graphic Design certificate class with Eugenio during fall of 2019, and ND allowed me to retake the 3 Adobe bootcamps online via Zoom with Dan Rodney in June 2020. Retaking it online allowed me to gain additional insight and acquire a much more solid foundation in Illustrator, PS, and InDesign. Thank you ND! Highly recommended.

Amy Baker

If Illustrator leaves you in the dark, let Noble Desktop be your torch. The classes are very well taught, easy to follow along, and the instructor very helpful, and friendly. You can count on me coming back for more classes. THANK YOU

Luis Pimentel

I was always intimidated by Adobe Illustrator and never properly learned the program. After taking the Noble Desktop class I started using it immediately in my concepts and designs. It is a valuable program to know and Michele taught the class in a simplified and easy to use manner. I highly recommend it.

Victoria Greiss

This class was very comprehensive for three days—I learned so much about Illustrator! The instructor was perfect: knowledgeable, attentive, and dynamic, delivering rather dry material with a sense of humor and fun. I’d recommend Noble Desktop courses to anyone.

Jennifer Clark, bark Frameworks

The Illustrator class was great. We covered a ton of material over the course of three quick days, and the material really filled in my knowledge gaps. I'm more confident now in my Illustrator skills...and what I can bring to my business and clients! Thanks Noble Desktop. :)

Danielle Mehta

After using Illustrator for over 15 years I now understand how to use the pen tool more efficiently and will be able to do my job faster! Fabulous class.

Dorinda Balanecki, Horsman, Ltd.

I absolutely loved this class! I had no Illustrator experience going in and now I feel like an Illustrator ninja. Ethan, the instructor, moved quickly enough for those of us already experienced with other Adobe products, but explained everything so clearly that I think even a straight-up beginner would be able to follow along with no problems.

Michelle Failing, Columbia University, Office of Communications & Public Affairs

The class was great! I needed an Illustrator refresher course since I hadn't used it since college and needed it for my current job! I learned so much in 3 days. Michele was patient, thorough and fun. Great job! Looking forward to taking the Photoshop course!

Dalia Ghanem, Hanes Brands, Inc.

Whether you are a complete beginner or a professional just wanting to beef up your skills, Noble Desktop is the premier choice for computer training in NYC. I’ll definitely be coming back for more courses.

Steven Gant

Eugenio is very thorough in explaining the step-by-step process on everything. Whether it’s creating your own brush or gradient, he explains a few times and is eager for feedback and if anyone needs help.

Ashley Lateef

Adobe Illustrator is overwhelming with a lot of information and tools to master, but the instructor made sure everyone can follow and understand the concept before he moves on to the next topic. This is a great introduction to Illustrator and is open to all levels, from someone who has never used the software before to even professional designers.

Abigail Butalid, Group X

Great course! Step-by-step instruction and great practice materials finally made illustrator easy for me.

Sonja Wilder

Whether you are a total beginner or need a refresh and are short on time, I highly recommend Illustrator in a day. It's given me the confidence boost to move towards more challenging classes and to tackle some projects.

Abbie Buhr

Noble Desktop has taught me the technical skills I needed to harness my creativity. Before starting the Graphic Design Program with Adobe InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator boot camps I opened the programs maybe a few times before ever in my life. After 3 weeks of class with instructor Dan Rodney, I felt inspired, motivated and have begun creating my first graphic design portfolio!

Maggie Weidner

A rapid, thorough program with good instruction, good instructors, and good online facilities for anyone (currently everyone) unable to attend the classes in Manhattan..

Anita Peltonen, Putnam County News/Buffalo Group

About Illustrator

Illustrator is the industry-standard vector graphics and illustration app. Designers and illustrators use it to create logos, web graphics, fashion designs, product packaging, and so much more.

What can you do with Illustrator?

Even if you can't draw things by hand, there’s still a lot of things you can do with Adobe Illustrator. Before we talk about some of the common ways people use Illustrator, let’s quickly cover the difference between vectors and pixels.

Vectors versus Pixels

Adobe Illustrator is vector-based, and Adobe Photoshop is primarily pixel-based.

  • Pixel-based graphics: When you capture an image on a digital camera or scanner, it is converted into pixels (small square blocks that are a single color). The more pixels you capture, the more information (detail) is in the image file. The number of pixels limits how far you can zoom in before seeing the pixels, or how large you can print the image at good quality.
  • Vector-based graphics: Vector graphics are not made of pixels. They are comprised of paths (Bézier curves) that behind the scenes are mathematically described as perfectly clean lines, points, and curves. Vector graphics can be enlarged to any size with no loss of quality, so they are ideal for graphics such as logos and icons.

Drawings & Illustrations

One way to create a vector drawing/illustration is to draw it by hand and then trace it in Adobe Illustrator. You can also draw directly in Illustrator. Having artistic talent helps, but even if you can’t draw well in real life, you can still use Illustrator’s drawing tools to create things you might never have been able to create by hand.

Logos & Icons

It’s important to create logos as vectors, so they can be used at any size. Creating a logo in Photoshop as pixels would be a mistake because you’d limit the quality and size at which you can use the logo. Icons are used in websites, apps, print, and all types of design. These two are best drawn as vectors so they can be scaled without loss of quality.

Web Graphics & Social Media

Vector graphics can be used in websites as SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics). Social media graphics often require converting your designs into pixel-based PNG or JPEG files, but it can still be easier to work with vectors during the design process.

Fashion Design

Fashion designers often use Illustrator to create patterns (controlling how art repeats within a pattern), explore color, and to show how patterns look in a dress, shirt, pants, etc.

Product Packaging

Designers that create packaging appreciate Illustrator’s precision and many graphic features. Amazing typography, graphic effects, ability to import photos and many more features let packaging designers create the beautiful packaging material that will be printed and used to sell/protect the products we purchase.

Conclusion

Adobe Illustrator is an essential design app for many creatives to know because you often need to create or edit vector graphics for use in InDesign, Photoshop, After Effects, and many non-Adobe programs.

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Illustrator Resources

  • Video Tutorial: Introduction to Adobe Illustrator

    In this seminar we'll cover the basics of Illustrator so you can get started using it to create graphics for web, print, signage, or anything! LEARN MORE: Illust...

  • Video Tutorial: Creative Effects with Adobe Illustrator

    Learn how to composite artwork drawn in Illustrator with various effects and photos into a unified color scheme. Continue learning more in our numerous Illustrator Classes (attend in New Y...

  • What’s New in Illustrator CC 2019?

    Each year Adobe comes out with new features, so what changed in Illustrator CC 2019? We’ll cover the most important changes we think you should know about. Freeform Gradients In addition to Linear an...

Learn vector drawing, patterns & masking in Illustrator

Adobe Illustrator
  • Illustrator is an Adobe application used for creating logos, patterns, packaging, and other types of vector graphics.
Vector Drawing & the Pen Tool
  • Vectors are images made out of a set of coordinates, instead of pixel
  • Vectors can be scaled to any size, and have a flat, graphic look
  • The pen tool is used to draw a vector image by placing a series of coordinates
Patterns
  • Combine vector shapes into a repeating pattern
  • Creating different versions of a pattern
  • Applying the pattern to a vector drawing, like a shirt
Masking
  • Cropping shapes inside of other shapes
  • Placing an image inside text

Upcoming Illustrator Classes in NYC or Live Online

All times are listed in Eastern Time unless otherwise specified.

January 2021
Graphic Design Certificate
January 25–March 5
Weekdays 10–5pm
$2,995
72 Hours
NYC or Live Online

Learn about design, typography, photo retouching, vector graphics, and much more as you study Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator. You’ll explore design concepts in our project-based Graphic Design Bootcamp, where you’ll work on designs for your portfolio to show prospective employers or clients.

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Illustrator in a Day
January 28
Thursday 10–5pm
Registration closing soon
$325
6 Hours
NYC or Live Online

Get up and running quickly with the fundamentals of Illustrator: the Pen tool, shapes, and basic drawing. Learn to create and draw vector graphics.  If you want to learn Illustrator in greater depth, check out our 18-hour Adobe Illustrator Bootcamp.

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February 2021
Graphic Design Certificate
February 7–May 23
Sundays 10–5pm
$2,995
72 Hours
NYC or Live Online

Learn about design, typography, photo retouching, vector graphics, and much more as you study Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator. You’ll explore design concepts in our project-based Graphic Design Bootcamp, where you’ll work on designs for your portfolio to show prospective employers or clients.

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Adobe Illustrator Bootcamp
February 8–10
Monday to Wednesday 10–5pm
$975
18 Hours
NYC or Live Online

Get a solid understanding of Illustrator so you can draw/edit vector graphics to create logos, icons, patterns, packaging, typography, and much more. In this class you’ll start with the basics and then move on to intermediate and advanced features. We’ll help you to master the Pen tool as well as compound paths, effects, layers, masks, patterns, blends, colors, how to save files for print/web, and more.

Add to cart
Illustrator in a Day
February 8
Monday 10–5pm
$325
6 Hours
NYC or Live Online

Get up and running quickly with the fundamentals of Illustrator: the Pen tool, shapes, and basic drawing. Learn to create and draw vector graphics.  If you want to learn Illustrator in greater depth, check out our 18-hour Adobe Illustrator Bootcamp.

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Adobe Illustrator Bootcamp
February 23–March 11
Tuesdays & Thursdays 6–9pm
Online Only
$975
18 Hours
NYC or Live Online

Get a solid understanding of Illustrator so you can draw/edit vector graphics to create logos, icons, patterns, packaging, typography, and much more. In this class you’ll start with the basics and then move on to intermediate and advanced features. We’ll help you to master the Pen tool as well as compound paths, effects, layers, masks, patterns, blends, colors, how to save files for print/web, and more.

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Illustrator in a Day
February 23–25
Tuesday & Thursday 6–9pm
$325
6 Hours
NYC or Live Online

Get up and running quickly with the fundamentals of Illustrator: the Pen tool, shapes, and basic drawing. Learn to create and draw vector graphics.  If you want to learn Illustrator in greater depth, check out our 18-hour Adobe Illustrator Bootcamp.

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March 2021
Graphic Design Certificate
March 15–April 23
Weekdays 10–5pm
$2,995
72 Hours
NYC or Live Online

Learn about design, typography, photo retouching, vector graphics, and much more as you study Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator. You’ll explore design concepts in our project-based Graphic Design Bootcamp, where you’ll work on designs for your portfolio to show prospective employers or clients.

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Adobe Illustrator Bootcamp
March 29–31
Monday to Wednesday 10–5pm
$975
18 Hours
NYC or Live Online

Get a solid understanding of Illustrator so you can draw/edit vector graphics to create logos, icons, patterns, packaging, typography, and much more. In this class you’ll start with the basics and then move on to intermediate and advanced features. We’ll help you to master the Pen tool as well as compound paths, effects, layers, masks, patterns, blends, colors, how to save files for print/web, and more.

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Illustrator in a Day
March 29
Monday 10–5pm
$325
6 Hours
NYC or Live Online

Get up and running quickly with the fundamentals of Illustrator: the Pen tool, shapes, and basic drawing. Learn to create and draw vector graphics.  If you want to learn Illustrator in greater depth, check out our 18-hour Adobe Illustrator Bootcamp.

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