Interns! Employers! What do you consider be essential knowledge to learn Illustrator?

Hi all

I'll be an Assistant for a class of vector introduction graphics in a University. I am currently in the kinds of create the curriculum for my tutorial sessions, which will be mainly technical demonstrations of the different functions in Adobe Illustrator CS5. But before diving into this, I thought I would ask the students, the self-employed and employers here what to expect / expect to know in the real world with Adobe Illustrator.

Just a reminder that this course is supposed to be an introduction to the program. Any contribution received will be a considerable help to both the achievement of curriculum and, above all, students.

Thank you!

What do you consider be essential knowledge to learn Illustrator

The essential knowledge for learn? Ability to communicate clearly and a real desire to learn vector graphics.

which will be mainly technical demonstrations of the different functions in Adobe Illustrator CS5.

I hope that you don't think teaching Illustrator (or any other program) just as a series of demonstrations of functionality and exercises step by step. The underlying principles, is essential. (for example, the differences between the work of raster and vector; why vector graphics exist in the first place; what are Bezier curves and what can we do with them, why the automated follow-up is not vector drawing, the differences between simple and compound paths, etc. etc.)

If I needed someone to work in Illustrator, I would sooner hire someone with this kind of understanding (and a portfolio of cleanly and efficiently-construction vector created in any software of traditional 2D vector drawing) than someone who just knows the buttons to push for every little "cheap trick" in Illustrator.

For example: I was recently interviewed someone who considered himself an expert in IsoDraw and therefore also thought himself expert in isometric drawing. I asked the most rudimentary questions, I could think about isometric illustration, and he could not answer any of them. He knew how to use a particular software, but did not understand the fundamentals of what and why he does what he does. I'm not interested in hiring someone who knows the buttons to push in a particular software. Changing programs. Programs come and go. I am interested in hiring somone who understands why the software is used and the principles of what he does.

Those who only know how to use a particular program are those who fear other programs built for the same purpose, or even the changes made to the program itself. Those who understand why a program is doing what it does are those who truly can easily "fetch any program," (as all candidates have always claim).

you want to know if an applicant should really make a good Illustrator user? Subject to a simple test exercise using any other vector public 2D drawing program and see how much he can find for himself. The successful candidate will be poke and choose looking for a particular function. but he will be able to explain what kind of function he's looking for and why.

JET

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