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Hello! Welcome to my very first masterpost, which consists of a ton of resources I’ve found in my years of designing starting sophomore year of high school!

These are all resources I regularly use or have found useful in the past, and I hope they’re useful to you!

01)  ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR

Illustrator and especially the pen tool were the bane of my existence when I started using them. Illustrator is now one of my most loved programs, and I can work in it effortlessly, so to help you get to that comfort level, here are some resources!

GENERAL
I wrote a tutorial on Adobe Illustrator CC back in senior year of high school that features screencaps and diagrams, which I find much more useful than the official Adobe guides, which are all text based. Check it out at the link below!

• Ingrid’s Illustrator CC/CS6 Basics Tutorial

FOR PEN TOOL
These games are tailored to help you get used to the pen tool and its nuances.

• Adobe’s Space Explorer Pen Tool Game (Beginner/Intermediate)
  
• The Bezier Game by Method of Action  (Novice/Advanced)

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02) TYPOGRAPHY

Words are extremely important in communicating through graphic design! Here are resources I’ve found pertaining to fonts and typefaces.

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