Familiarize yourself with the Illustrator interface, including the main tools, panels, and menus. Learn how to customize the workspace to suit your needs.

Learn how to use the shape tools to create basic geometric shapes like rectangles, circles, polygons, and lines. Practice modifying their size, position, stroke, and fill properties.

Understand how to use the Pen tool to create and edit paths. Practice drawing straight and curved lines, manipulating anchor points, and adjusting curves to create custom shapes.

Dive deeper into color theory, understand color modes, create and manage custom color swatches, work with gradients, and apply advanced blending modes and transparency effects.

Illustrator provides a range of brush and pencil tools with customizable settings. You can create and use different brush styles, including calligraphy brushes, scatter brushes, and pattern brushes.

Explore advanced typographic controls, such as kerning, tracking, and leading. Learn to create eye-catching text effects using the Type on a Path tool, warping text, and applying custom text styles.