Illustrator for fashion designers (Introduction)

Suitable for beginners, this course is run at the FTM in a brand-new purpose built learning centre equipped with the latest software and facilities.

Developed to meet the specific needs of designers working in the fashion, textiles and jewellery sectors, tuition is in small groups with a focus on your particular learning requirements.

The course fee is £100 for 15 hours tuition over 4 weeks 10am-2.15pm (inc 30 minutes break) on Saturdays.

This introductory course is for designers who wish to learn how to use Illustrator from the beginning, and will give you skills and confidence in using this software to create presentational material and develop fashion and textile designs and illustrations.

The course is run at the Fashion Textile Museum SE1 in a purpose-built learning centre fully equipped with the latest facilities and software, and tuition is in small groups with a focus is on your particular learning requirements. The Illustrator Introduction course includes the following topics:
• Using the pen tool to trace your hand drawn garment and textile designs
• Using scanned fabrics to enhance your designs
• Using layers to arrange design elements
• Manipulating designs such as re-sizing, rotating and mirroring
• Applying and adjusting colour
• Applying text to your designs