Illustrator for Lunch™ - Advanced Videos

Illustrator for Lunch™ - Seamless Repeating Texture Patterns

Learn to make seamless repeating textures in Illustrator. You will see how to turn a simple image into a seamless repeating pattern - skills that will help you when making and using textures in Illustrator.

Illustrator for Lunch™ - Watercolor stripe seamless repeating pattern

The wait is over! At last learn how to make a watercolor seamless stripe pattern in Illustrator. If you are using Illustrator CC you'll also learn how to use the new Puppet Warp tool as an added bonus.

Illustrator for Lunch™ - Pattern in Pattern & Irregular Repeating Patterns

Learn to make a large pattern in pattern effect and also large irregular repeating patterns. Mastering these very large patterns is a worthwhile addition to your Illustrator toolkit.

Illustrator for Lunch™ - Complex Block and Half Drop Repeat patterns

This bumper class shows how to create large block patterns and also half drop patterns in Illustrator. You will learn techniques to use in Illustrator CC and CS6 - using the Pattern Make tool and also how to make these patterns by hand if you are using Illustrator CS5 or CS4.

Illustrator for Lunch™ - Create with bends and blends - techniques for icons, logos and more

Learn to make interesting shapes and rotations using bends and blended elements. You can use the resulting images for all sorts of uses including logos and even patterns and icons.

Illustrator for Lunch™ - Create Complex Art in the Appearance Panel

See how to make cactus pots in the Appearance panel - this entire graphic is created from one single object in the Appearance panel! This class is mind-bending and will give you some ideas as to how powerful the Appearance panel can be.

Illustrator for Lunch™ - Create a Retro Landscape Illustration

This class teaches a large range of handy techniques for creating art and managing a large illustration. Techniques include use of rotate and transform effects, brushes, symbols, graphic styles and much more.

Illustrator for Lunch™ - Sharing and archiving files - troubleshooting the pitfalls

When you are saving files in Illustrator to share with others there are some pitfalls that you might encounter. This class is goes over the process in detail to give you tools to ensure that you always achieve success.

Illustrator for Lunch™ - Create a Range of Triangle Patterns

This is a fun class - in it you will learn to make a range of patterns all based on triangles, including a free-form one like the one in the image to the left. You will end up with saleable patterns and a wealth of new Illustrator skills.

Illustrator for Lunch™ - Create a Nighttime Cityscape Image

This class teaches how to make a cityscape image in a smart and effective way. You will learn techniques and tips for optimizing your workflow to save time and effort when creating a visually complex piece of art.

And check out the student projects from this class - they are just spectacular!

Illustrator for Lunch™ - Pattern of Lines and Dots

This class teaches you how to make this one pattern of lines and dots so it is a seamless repeating pattern. You will learn valuable techniques for making organic style patterns in Illustrator.

Illustrator for Lunch™ - Roaming Square Pattern

This roaming square pattern looks complicated but it is easy to make when you break it down into steps. This class will show you the basics of creating of the rounded square shapes, joining them and then making your shapes into a seamless repeating pattern.

Illustrator for Lunch™ - Braids, Rick Rack and More

Learn to make braids, rick rack and more in Illustrator. You'll also learn techniques for creating brushes that you can use to create shapes and text which look like rope.

Illustrator for Lunch™ - Create Guilloche Effects

Learn to make sophisticated Guilloche effects very quickly and easily. These complex spirals and loops can be customized, stacked and colored to make complex designs for incorporating into your art.

Illustrator for Lunch - Get Creative with Blends and Brushes

Learn to create brushes with shapes that aren't distorted along the brush path. You will learn to do this with one color and multi color brushes and with shapes that get smaller along the brush path. This is a class best suited to intermediate level Illustrator users.

Illustrator for Lunch™ - Real Time Mandala Design

Make a mandala template which updates in real time so you can draw in one area and the entire reflection and rotation takes place as you draw. It's the simplest and most practical way to create awesome mandalas very quickly.

Illustrator for Lunch - Pattern in a Pattern - Achieving the Impossible in Illustrator

See how to use a pattern inside another pattern in Illustrator - it's impossible but I'll show you a workable workaround.

Illustrator for Lunch™ - Real Time Mirror Drawing - Symmetrical drawing

This is a companion class to my real time mandala class. Here you will setup a document which mirrors your drawing in real time and which also crops elements which extend over the center line so you don't have to draw neatly!

Illustrator for Lunch™ - Create a Wave Pattern

Not the easiest pattern to create this wave pattern is hand drawn and we'll use some simple techniques to make sure the waves are seamlessly curved with no bumps or obvious joins.

Illustrator for Lunch™ - Create Perfectly Overlapped Rotated Shapes

When you rotate overlapped shapes in Illustrator the last overlap looks, well, basically horrible. In this class you will learn how to clean up the last rotations to get perfect overlapped shapes.

Illustrator for Lunch™ - Create an Ikat Inspired Pattern

See how easy it is to create an Ikat style pattern in Illustrator using the Wrinkle tool (and see how to set it for best results too!)

Illustrator for Lunch™ - Make a 2017 Calendar from Scratch - Grids, Layouts, Text, Patterns & More

Learn to make a calendar for any year (maybe get a run on 2018?) in Illustrator - you'll learn to use some of the handy text features in Illustrator for creating tables of text.

Illustrator for Lunch™ - One Design Concept - Many Variations

See a process for taking a single design and altering it by altering shapes and fills to make multiple variations of that one design. You will walk away from this class with new knowledge for creating a variety of patterns from one single idea.

Illustrator for Lunch™ - Pop Art Style Star Pattern

This class investigates a process for assembling a complex pattern without having to get the elements positioned exactly. You will see how to create this pattern so it's perfectly aligned without having to do any of the alignment work yourself.

Illustrator for Lunch™ - String Art Inspired Designs

This class is based on the retro craft of string art where you wrapped string around nails in a board. Here you'll make similar parabolic forms in Illustrator and turn them into a range of wonderful designs that you can use in your art.

Illustrator for Lunch™ - Make a 3D Y Shape Pattern - from paper illustration to digital design

Come with me on a journey from looking at a design on paper and determining how to render it in Illustrator

Illustrator for Lunch™ - Meandering Hexagon Pattern

Learn to make this simple looking but quite complex to make pattern - it might be complex but it is lots of fun and you'll love the results

Illustrator for Lunch™ - Make an Organic Spiral Pattern

Learn to make this wonderful spiral repeating pattern swatch in Illustrator

Illustrator for Lunch™ - 10 Pattern tips in 10 Minutes

An awesome grabbag of Pattern making and recoloring tips for Illustrator. Seriously, if you are into pattern making then you need this class.

Illustrator for Lunch™ - 3D Extrusion Effects - Text, Shapes, 3D

Make extruded shapes with ease in Illustrator

Illustrator for Lunch™ - 4 Exotic Patterns - Quatrefoils, Moroccan Trellis, and Layered Diamond

Beautiful patterns is what this class is all about - making exotic and very beautiful repeating pattern swatches

Illustrator for Lunch™ - Abstract Ombre Background - Color Scheme, Blend, Transform

These amazing ombre backgrounds are so fun and easy to make and you'll learn some cool tricks along the way

Illustrator for Lunch™ - Complex Rotated Repeating Patterns Made Easy - Using MadPattern templates

The MadPattern templates are a set of free and downloadable pattern creation tools - they are indescribably wonderful and I'll show you how to find and use them

Illustrator for Lunch™ - Create a Textured Dot Pattern - Transform, Vector Texture, Patterns

This pattern is a fun one where an overlay is used to trim the texture so you can paint it on at random without having to clean it up after

Illustrator for Lunch™ - Create an Isometric Cube Pattern - Shape Builder, Align, Pattern Make

This is the first of my 3D video classes - in this one you'll learn to make a 3D cube and then you'll turn it into a wonderful pattern

Illustrator for Lunch™ - Custom Corner Tiles for Pattern Brushes

Learn to make your own custom (dare I say it "cute") corner tiles for pattern brushes

Illustrator for Lunch™ - Draw a Vintage Birdcage - Shapes, Transform, Texture

This fun project teaches you to make a vintage birdcage using a heap of handy Illustrator tools

Illustrator for Lunch™ - Faux Tissue Paper Collage - Blending, Texture, Transparency

Probably my most popular Illustrator for Lunch™ class - you will learn to create a faux tissue paper effect using a photo for color and shape reference

Illustrator for Lunch™ - Fun with Scripts - Download, Install, Run

There are some great free scripts you can download and use in Illustrator. This first class of a two part series explores some of these scripts and how you can use them

Illustrator for Lunch™ - Houndstooth & Rose - Vector Halftone Tracing & Houndstooth Pattern

Take a photo of a rose and learn to trace it in Illustrator and then apply a halftone effect to it. Also create a custom houndstooth pattern

Illustrator for Lunch™ - Make a Lace Pattern Brush - Stroke, Blends, Pattern Tiles, Rotation

Make a lacy pattern brush complete with custom start and end tiles

Illustrator for Lunch™ - Make Custom Organic Patterns - Transform, Scissors, Align, Pattern Swatch

See how to make organic style patterns in Illustrator so that the pattern will tile seamlessly

Illustrator for Lunch™ - More fun with Scripts - Text to code, more scripts, more fun (trees too!)

This second of the two scripting classes explores using more free scripts for Illustrator

Illustrator for Lunch™ - Semi Transparent Flowers - Scatter Brushes, Opacity, Blend Modes

Learn to make semi transparent scatter brush flowers in Illustrator and learn some interesting things about blend modes and Illustrator objects

Illustrator for Lunch™ - Something's Fishy - Appearance Panel Tips & Tricks

A class jam packed with things to know about the Illustrator Appearance panel. This is a class which is guaranteed to amaze you with what this panel can do

Illustrator for Lunch™ - Zentangle® Inspired Pattern Brushes - Shapes, Effects, Brushes

Make Illustrator pattern brushes that use Zentangle® Inspired designs

Illustrator for Lunch™ - Clipping Masks, Opacity Masks & Layer Masks

Create fun effects using the power of Clipping masks, Opacity masks and Layer Masks in Illustrator

Illustrator for Lunch™ - Cutout Text Effects - Photos, Pathfinder & Text

This is a fun class which shows how to create editable cutout text effects in Illustrator

Draw a Hot Air Balloon in Illustrator - Fun with 3D!

This class teaches you the basics of working with 3D objects in Illustrator and you will learn to make a fun hot air balloon illustration