I've followed the course from the first episode - and it's been a great journey. I speak for everyone who's watched your tutorials: ======WE ARE GRATEFUL!=======
Your tutorials are great, as many people have said. I now believe a Welsh accent should be the universal tutorial approach! This one particularly deserves a comment because although it could be editing, I've never seen anyone talk for 50 minutes straight and still be just as enthusiastic as when they started! Great work, the skip to section in the video description is an especially good idea.
I've been taking these lessons one by one over the past couple weeks and I woke up this morning feeling grateful, and excited. I took an Illustrator course 10 years ago in Uni, and had a rather unhelpful teacher. I learned a few bad habits, and never really had a complete understanding of many important basic features of the program. Picking up this course many years later and with a really thorough and explanatory course has really helped fill in the gaps and gives me a new lease on this program, and I'm really looking forward to everything I can do with it. Many many thanks, this is amazing content, and I will use all these skills with joy and pleasure.
finding your channel is the best thing that has happened to me in 2020 and i believe better things are on the way. You are so good. For the 57 folks that dislike the video, all i have to say is that they need help because explaining adobe illustrator cant be simpler than this. Thank you for the effort. God bless you.
Sir there is nothing i can say that hasn’t already been said about you .... thank you soooo much for what you have given us, you have empowered us to become better designers at the comfort of our own homes and pace. Anyways you are great, kind, an amazing person.... great voice as well haha ....THANK YOU SO MUCH !!!! God bless
50min turned into 2 hrs for me, but I can say, LESSON COMPLETED! ..thank you so much Gareth I think i'm learning so much. I think I'm in love with you *-* !!
Yeah, this is probably one of the most important in the course. You really need to see how intricate the process is here, and how to use the pen tool to do something like this. After it though I hope it helps! Just imagine how long it was to produce! I remember this one being a right mission! Worth it in the end though! 😀
@@GarethDavidStudio You must have the patience of a saint! It does help a lot, though I wish I were a bit better at using the pen and anchor point tools! My linework looks nowhere near as neat as yours :')
I'm finally in this tutorial section after some days. I can now do minor things that took me a lot of time to do. Before now, I only use Adobe illustrator to edit certain files so that they can be imported in Photoshop. Thank you David for this wonderful course. God bless you richly and greatly. I'm not done with it but I learnt so much so far.
Thank you David for providing a detailed tutorial on Adobe Illustrator. It is indeed a complete beginners guide. I now feel much confident trying out new stuff. I have also completed the After Effects tutorial and almost done with Photoshop. Thank you for putting out such quality content and making it possible for a novice like me to understand the basics. Best tutorial I have come across on design/digital content. My time during lockdown has been definitely well spent!
dude as many people said, you are f***ing great. I admire your desire and way to communicate and share your pro skills with the beginners. You made it perfectly, nice job!
40 minutes in this ep, illustrator decided to stop working and lost my progress fml. Not even mad tho because I've learned a lot during this course, i'll just try again later ❤ you're a great teacher, hope you keep doing these. PS: SAVE.YOUR.PROGRESS.CONSTANTLY!
Same. I was 20 mins in and Illustrator decided to stop responding. I even read your comment before it happened and thought to myself it'll never happen to me. Should've save often..
wow, after finished ep.14 i came in this long episode. and it remember me of your hard work. first, i have to prepare my self, cause this 50 minute episode will become 2 hours or more for me. thanks sir
Where have you been all my life?!?! Watching whole video before attempting, but I have learned more in the first 10 minutes than I have in full courses! Fantastic and thank you so very much!!!
Been following this tutorial since episode 1st and it really helped me a lot. Can imagine all the hard work you have gone through for all the tutorials. This is something that any coaching centre would charge in 100s of dollars. Thank you so much for all these tutorials.
I'm brushing up on Illustrator for a big project and these videos have been incredibly helpful. They're thoughtful and well organized. THANK YOU SO MUCH!
awesome tut. was learning illustrator a few years ago but I gave up and now started again. this is really helpful to get back into the pen tool. used to love it. ty
Thank you so much David. Sometimes I hear you in my sleep taking your lectures lol. I am a developing graphic designer and I have listened to a lot of your lectures. More Power to you.
I learned more in 20min of this video than any other video I've ever seen. A++ Not only lots information but the repetition to help it stick, THANKS SO MUCH
I've found a way to replicate the inside content an position it in a perfect way. Just set two guides on the center, choose the inside elements that you want to reflect and copy and paste them in the exact place (you can do this by clicking ctrl+c and ctrl+shift+v, as Gareth teach us). Then chose the reflect element (O). With the new elements pasted selected an the reflect element active set the reference point in the middle (by clicking on the middle of the document; or better, in the middle of the skull) and then click with the mouse on the document and press shift in order to do a reflection of -90°. That's it. Sorry for the explanation I was just following the tutorial and have the idea to find a reference point in order to make the reflection more easy, just find it so wanted to share it with you ;) Thanks for the tutorials, this is a great lesson.
Found this one of the best channel on youtube after many years... perfect teaching and step by step each section detailed knowledge. Please keep up the good work.
You have helped me out so much. Thank you for making this free as it is a huge help to us people trying to get a start with Illustrator. Appreciate you!
This tutorial by itself is an amazing artwork... I am wondering that still such a great people exist, who give such an astonishing tutorials for free... Your way of teaching is just perfect... Thank you so much Sir!
There's a lot of things you do that I react upon when I've followed your tutorials so far. Making the eye socket is easier using the ellipse tool and then manipulating the curve handles than making 4 points with the pen tools and then curving them using the anchor tool. When you make the heart shape, it is logical to only do one half and then mirror it. But the overlapping anchor points at the bottom are simply not removed by using the direct selection tool. It's better to join the two shapes together and then use the Delete Anchor Point tool. Thank you for your hard work.
The whole tutorial is great! Small remark. In the video we use reflect to draw the other half of the outline (7:30 min in video). I had problem combining the two halves, since they didn´t fit nicely together. However later in the video (25:47 min) you use pen tool to connect the anchor points and that is very useful. My idea is that you could mention this trick with pen tool already at the beginning, when we combine both halves. That would be even more helpful.
Before you look at the length of this video and think, I know how to do this now, I don't need to follow the video....... think again. That's what I did and I thought I did a pretty good job of tracing the skull, I'll admit, mostly with the pen tool. I was proud. Then, I watched this video. Now I'm going to start again and do it properly!
I can't thank you enough Teacher, the way you explain and the exemples are splendid, you manage this course beautifully, I even got a head of you so many times because all the techniques in this are previously introduced. PS : I think you should add your paypal account in description for donations, I think not just me but a lot of people want to pay you back and subscribe and like is not enough. Thank you for the thousandth time.
🙏Thanks so much, for me this is the most organized approach to teach something. You are professional, & you deliver first rate learning material that can be used to learn, review, have as a reference. You must have a tremendous time invested in this; the outcome is powerful teaching experience. I'm lucky to find such course with able teacher as yourself. This is so rare, given the fact this is in a public domain. 😊
I've been following your tutorials from the beginning and I've learnt a lot with them, they are really helpful. Thank you so much!!!. I appreciate your dedication and enthusiasm.
Thank you for these great videos! You are a wonderful instructor and a great presenter. So tired of videos full of "so you are gonna wanna do this.... um, yeah."" Yours are music to my ears. I can't wait to watch the rest of them.
I just want to say this video, along with this whole series were extremely helpful to me. I really have a feel for how to create curves now and have been practicing tracing other photos. Thank you so much!
Thank you so much for explaining every little step!! I managed to finish my first "real" vector illustration and i'm looking forward to achieve more with the help of your videos!
I have been fighting with Illustrator for years and is has been beating me like a drum. Your training video on this is incredible. Best I have seen. I have been a member of lynda.com at a great expense but now I only go on a month at a time and cancel. You need to be commended on this series. Just wanting these videos for the first time I am actually speeding through a few projects that I have been putting off. Thank you very much
Thank you sooo much! for the first time i manage to use the pen tool.. I still need practice but I did traced it the whole skull. it's not good as yours.. but its good for a first try! I messed up the theeth...couldn't get it right!
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I found joy in these quarantine days, thanks to you
Excellent!
I've followed the course from the first episode - and it's been a great journey.
I speak for everyone who's watched your tutorials:
======WE ARE GRATEFUL!=======
Your tutorials are great, as many people have said. I now believe a Welsh accent should be the universal tutorial approach! This one particularly deserves a comment because although it could be editing, I've never seen anyone talk for 50 minutes straight and still be just as enthusiastic as when they started!
Great work, the skip to section in the video description is an especially good idea.
Indeed the author is a genius. I am starting to love the videos he makes.
You must be exausted after recording this tutorial. Thank you so much for your passion for all of these!!!
Indeed!
Thumbs up!
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realy its a shame for me too. but i will
instaBlaster.
I've been taking these lessons one by one over the past couple weeks and I woke up this morning feeling grateful, and excited. I took an Illustrator course 10 years ago in Uni, and had a rather unhelpful teacher. I learned a few bad habits, and never really had a complete understanding of many important basic features of the program. Picking up this course many years later and with a really thorough and explanatory course has really helped fill in the gaps and gives me a new lease on this program, and I'm really looking forward to everything I can do with it. Many many thanks, this is amazing content, and I will use all these skills with joy and pleasure.
finding your channel is the best thing that has happened to me in 2020 and i believe better things are on the way. You are so good. For the 57 folks that dislike the video, all i have to say is that they need help because explaining adobe illustrator cant be simpler than this. Thank you for the effort. God bless you.
Wow I cant believe that you did these works and videos around 10 years ago, you are great.. love all your useful video
Sir there is nothing i can say that hasn’t already been said about you .... thank you soooo much for what you have given us, you have empowered us to become better designers at the comfort of our own homes and pace. Anyways you are great, kind, an amazing person.... great voice as well haha ....THANK YOU SO MUCH !!!! God bless
You are more professional than most of the teachers in my highschool. Thank you for the FREE tutorials! :)
You are by far the BEST illustrator tutor I've ever experienced. You answered questions just as they came to mind. THANK YOU!!!
This guy is sooo awesome for posting this content for free! Give a "thank you" that really counts. Make a donation on the website!
50min turned into 2 hrs for me, but I can say, LESSON COMPLETED! ..thank you so much Gareth I think i'm learning so much. I think I'm in love with you *-* !!
The longer videos are brutal, but I appreciate the time you took to show us newbies the ropes. Thank you sensei
Yeah, this is probably one of the most important in the course. You really need to see how intricate the process is here, and how to use the pen tool to do something like this.
After it though I hope it helps!
Just imagine how long it was to produce! I remember this one being a right mission!
Worth it in the end though! 😀
@@GarethDavidStudio You must have the patience of a saint! It does help a lot, though I wish I were a bit better at using the pen and anchor point tools! My linework looks nowhere near as neat as yours :')
I'm finally in this tutorial section after some days. I can now do minor things that took me a lot of time to do.
Before now, I only use Adobe illustrator to edit certain files so that they can be imported in Photoshop.
Thank you David for this wonderful course. God bless you richly and greatly.
I'm not done with it but I learnt so much so far.
you are the best teacher ever! love you no homo
the fact that you added "no homo" makes me admire you because it reminds me of pitiful people on the internet.
Thank you David for providing a detailed tutorial on Adobe Illustrator. It is indeed a complete beginners guide. I now feel much confident trying out new stuff. I have also completed the After Effects tutorial and almost done with Photoshop. Thank you for putting out such quality content and making it possible for a novice like me to understand the basics. Best tutorial I have come across on design/digital content. My time during lockdown has been definitely well spent!
dude as many people said, you are f***ing great. I admire your desire and way to communicate and share your pro skills with the beginners. You made it perfectly, nice job!
I cannot believe how much valuable info you're able to squeeze into one video! Very well done!
Glad you like them!
Thank you so much for all your well-organized, detailed, patient and enthusiastic presentation. The best illustrator tutorial I ever have had.
40 minutes in this ep, illustrator decided to stop working and lost my progress fml. Not even mad tho because I've learned a lot during this course, i'll just try again later ❤ you're a great teacher, hope you keep doing these.
PS: SAVE.YOUR.PROGRESS.CONSTANTLY!
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Same. I was 20 mins in and Illustrator decided to stop responding. I even read your comment before it happened and thought to myself it'll never happen to me. Should've save often..
you can't possibly be that much detailed and well prepared.. you solved so many questions i had on how illustrator works.. i Can't thank you enough.
wow, after finished ep.14 i came in this long episode. and it remember me of your hard work.
first, i have to prepare my self, cause this 50 minute episode will become 2 hours or more for me.
thanks sir
Where have you been all my life?!?! Watching whole video before attempting, but I have learned more in the first 10 minutes than I have in full courses! Fantastic and thank you so very much!!!
fucccccccccccccccccccccccccccccckkkkk!! Whole 50 mins? lol i came so far from Episode 1.. Well let`s do this :D i`m so excited
haha saaaaaaame i'm actually checking now how long the rest of the episodes are but I'm so close to the finish line!
I plan to watch this whole series. I want this to kickstart my designer career! Thank you TastyTuts!!!
You are more of a masterful teacher than anything else mr. David, good jobs on this tasty tut stuff
I’ve watched numerous hand trace vids, none as detailed and easy to follow as this one! Props to you, keep em coming!
all the previous 14 episodes are better than the entire semester learning about illustrator
Been following this tutorial since episode 1st and it really helped me a lot. Can imagine all the hard work you have gone through for all the tutorials. This is something that any coaching centre would charge in 100s of dollars. Thank you so much for all these tutorials.
I'm brushing up on Illustrator for a big project and these videos have been incredibly helpful. They're thoughtful and well organized. THANK YOU SO MUCH!
awesome tut. was learning illustrator a few years ago but I gave up and now started again. this is really helpful to get back into the pen tool. used to love it. ty
Thank you so much David. Sometimes I hear you in my sleep taking your lectures lol. I am a developing graphic designer and I have listened to a lot of your lectures. More Power to you.
I learned more in 20min of this video than any other video I've ever seen. A++ Not only lots information but the repetition to help it stick, THANKS SO MUCH
Thank you for these tutorials. You are a great teacher. I went from thinking Illustrator was beyond me to thinking, "This is do-able."
I've found a way to replicate the inside content an position it in a perfect way. Just set two guides on the center, choose the inside elements that you want to reflect and copy and paste them in the exact place (you can do this by clicking ctrl+c and ctrl+shift+v, as Gareth teach us).
Then chose the reflect element (O). With the new elements pasted selected an the reflect element active set the reference point in the middle (by clicking on the middle of the document; or better, in the middle of the skull) and then click with the mouse on the document and press shift in order to do a reflection of -90°.
That's it. Sorry for the explanation I was just following the tutorial and have the idea to find a reference point in order to make the reflection more easy, just find it so wanted to share it with you ;)
Thanks for the tutorials, this is a great lesson.
Thanks, great tip!
Found this one of the best channel on youtube after many years... perfect teaching and step by step each section detailed knowledge.
Please keep up the good work.
Been watching all tuts and I'm up to this one so far. These are by far the most informative tuts i've personally seen. Thanks!
Best graphic tutor in the world . Thank you so much !!
You have helped me out so much. Thank you for making this free as it is a huge help to us people trying to get a start with Illustrator. Appreciate you!
I am working with Illustrator just 2nd day and your videos taught me a lot!! Thank you so much 🙏🙏🙏
This tutorial by itself is an amazing artwork... I am wondering that still such a great people exist, who give such an astonishing tutorials for free... Your way of teaching is just perfect... Thank you so much Sir!
There's a lot of things you do that I react upon when I've followed your tutorials so far. Making the eye socket is easier using the ellipse tool and then manipulating the curve handles than making 4 points with the pen tools and then curving them using the anchor tool.
When you make the heart shape, it is logical to only do one half and then mirror it. But the overlapping anchor points at the bottom are simply not removed by using the direct selection tool. It's better to join the two shapes together and then use the Delete Anchor Point tool.
Thank you for your hard work.
The whole tutorial is great! Small remark. In the video we use reflect to draw the other half of the outline (7:30 min in video). I had problem combining the two halves, since they didn´t fit nicely together. However later in the video (25:47 min) you use pen tool to connect the anchor points and that is very useful. My idea is that you could mention this trick with pen tool already at the beginning, when we combine both halves. That would be even more helpful.
Amazing work Gareth David. You taught me a lot. Thanks for providing this course for free. Your way of teaching has simplified things!
Before you look at the length of this video and think, I know how to do this now, I don't need to follow the video....... think again. That's what I did and I thought I did a pretty good job of tracing the skull, I'll admit, mostly with the pen tool. I was proud. Then, I watched this video. Now I'm going to start again and do it properly!
👊
I can't thank you enough Teacher, the way you explain and the exemples are splendid, you manage this course beautifully, I even got a head of you so many times because all the techniques in this are previously introduced.
PS : I think you should add your paypal account in description for donations, I think not just me but a lot of people want to pay you back and subscribe and like is not enough.
Thank you for the thousandth time.
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and creativity! We appreciate it so much.
Thank you for your repetition - that is so essential for beginners. I absolutely appreciate this tutorial so much!!! Thanks again.
I would gladly pay for this tutorial. Thanks a lot for these lessons! :)
Awesome, thank you!
🙏Thanks so much, for me this is the most organized approach to teach something. You are professional, & you deliver first rate learning material that can be used to learn, review, have as a reference.
You must have a tremendous time invested in this; the outcome is powerful teaching experience. I'm lucky to find such course with able teacher as yourself. This is so rare, given the fact this is in a public domain. 😊
bless this man and his great tutorials
among the best tutorials about tracing, always have to learn something new, thanks for effort !
I've been following your tutorials from the beginning and I've learnt a lot with them, they are really helpful. Thank you so much!!!. I appreciate your dedication and enthusiasm.
Thank you for these great videos! You are a wonderful instructor and a great presenter. So tired of videos full of "so you are gonna wanna do this.... um, yeah."" Yours are music to my ears. I can't wait to watch the rest of them.
I feel bad not paying for these lessons
You can always donate to him on his website. I feel the same as well and do plan on donating when I get a little more money to spare
Ikr!
TH-cam is paying him
not true. 283k private students can make you a millionaire but you can only afford a few half pints with a 283k youtube viewers.
same here. such a gigantic piece of work and a gentle heart. i will donate him as well.
Awesome video. One of the best for sure. Thanks for sharing.
you make it so easy , I'm so thankful I found your channal.
I just want to say this video, along with this whole series were extremely helpful to me. I really have a feel for how to create curves now and have been practicing tracing other photos. Thank you so much!
Thank you for this! Very good practice for beginners!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Recently I have started to watch your videos and of course have learned little. Thx for your passion
Thank you so much for this tutorial. I really love how detailed you teach about the basics. Thumbs up!!
Thank you so much for explaining every little step!! I managed to finish my first "real" vector illustration and i'm looking forward to achieve more with the help of your videos!
Your an amazing teacher! I am so appreciative of these videos!
thank you so much fpr your tutorials.
theyre even better then the paid ones.
just perfect explained and such a nice voice #nohomo xD
It's not fair to not press like for this video
your videos are all very helpful and high quality. I learned a lot and enjoyed watching the tutorial. Thank a lot!!!
thanks man by the end of this tutorials i will have mastered illustrator
Wow this is so useful. The whole series looks awesome! Thank you so much for making this :)
I'm really grateful! It was fun and easy to follow, I'm so lucky I found your channel, helps me a lot. :) Thank you!
This is a valuable tutorial. It was very helpful .Thanks a lot!
Your tutorials are top of the top!respecto
you're great,man... thank you so much, i learn a lot from you photoshop and now illustrator, thank you
Best teacher I know
Amazing tutorial! I cant thank you enough for the Files to follow along with, the great quality of your videos!!
this was so complete. It was exactly what I needed to know. Great instruction
Guy, you are awesome!!!!!!!!
This video is so so so great. You are awsome !!!! I've learned more and more from you ! Many thanks !
That was a very big one. Thank you soo much for these great tutorials.
I have been fighting with Illustrator for years and is has been beating me like a drum. Your training video on this is incredible. Best I have seen. I have been a member of lynda.com at a great expense but now I only go on a month at a time and cancel. You need to be commended on this series. Just wanting these videos for the first time I am actually speeding through a few projects that I have been putting off. Thank you very much
Very Effective and excellent Work sir
Thank you for all this! Amazing job
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you so much sir...you are a excellent teacher
This is great. You are great. Keep up the nice work.
btw: Your voice and flow is just perfect for the tutorials.
Thank you so much for this tutorials, they are amazing for starters like me! Btw, nice voice and clear englisch! Thank u!
You are the best master.
You are awesome buddy thx a lot i m learning a lot from your tutorials and it took me 3 days to cover this video lol
Fantastic, simply great.
Great informational video that is equally efficient and effective. Thank You!!
Thank you sooo much! for the first time i manage to use the pen tool.. I still need practice but I did traced it the whole skull. it's not good as yours.. but its good for a first try! I messed up the theeth...couldn't get it right!
Wonderful tutorial. Clear descriptions and examples. Thank you. :-)
Super awesome tutorial. Huge thanks!
You are great, and very professional!
Thanks for the excellent tutorial, I'm trying to learn illustrator to refine my tattoo design sketches and this was a big help.
Your videos are AMAZING man!
thank you for all of these infos indepth thanks alot
Great tutorial! Thank You so much!!!
MAN I REALLY HAVE TO SAY IT THANK YOU
Dude... This is amazing. THANK YOU!
Thanks so much your tutorials are amazing !
Speechless dear.....you just......
looks likeeeeee TTTHIIIISSSS :))))
thanks your tutorials are absolutely awesome!