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Digital Illustration Using a Graphics Tablet

ART-40651

9 Weeks | Online

Learn to maximize the drawing and painting tools inside professional art and design programs while using a graphics tablet. Graphics tablets offer intuitive controls over brushes that emulate natural media while increasing precision and speed. This class will cover the desktop/laptop versions of drawing and painting applications including Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Autodesk Sketchbook and Krita. This class will not cover drawing and painting apps for mobile devices such as Procreate for iPad or Clip Studio for Android.

What You Will Learn:

  • How to use a graphics tablet to create drawings, paintings and illustrations

  • The ability to navigate using tablet and pen shortcuts

  • How to make custom brushes optimized for graphics tablets

What You Will Need:

Quarters Offered: Fall, Spring | Online
Course Fee: $325
Course Length: 9 weeks
Prerequisite: None
Note: Elective course for Art and the Creative Process professional certificate and Children's Book Illustration professional certificate. 

Materials: Basic knowledge of Adobe Photoshop is strongly recommended. Students will work from home and must possess their own computer, graphics tablet, and software.

Course Information

3.00 units
TBD

Course sessions

Please contact the Arts, Humanities, Languages & Digital Arts department at 858-534-5760 or ahl@ucsd.edu for information about this course and upcoming sections.