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  • Sessions 1 day
  • Duration 7.5 hrs
  • Level Beginner
  • Assessment NA

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Prerequisite

This course is for beginners. No prerequisite is required.

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  • Certificate of Completion from Tertiary Courses - Upon meeting at least 75% attendance and passing the assessment(s), participants will receive a Certificate of Completion from Tertiary Courses.

Adobe Illustrator Fundamentals for Beginners

Course Code: C037

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What's This Course About

Adobe Illustrator Fundamentals for Beginners introduces you to Adobe Illustrator, the industry-standard tool for creating vector graphics such as logos, icons, illustrations, infographics and marketing materials. Because vector artwork scales to any size without losing quality, Illustrator is essential for professional branding and print work. This course is designed for complete beginners, marketing staff, small business owners and aspiring designers who want to create clean, professional graphics with confidence.

You will begin with basic digital graphics design in Illustrator, exploring the workspace, artboards, layers and the essential selection, shape and drawing tools. You will learn how to draw with the Pen, Pencil and Shape Builder tools, work with fills, strokes, colour swatches and gradients, and add and format text. Next you will improve your digital graphics designs by combining and aligning shapes, using pathfinder operations, applying effects and patterns, and creating simple logos and icons step by step.

The final topic covers evaluating graphics designs in Illustrator: reviewing your artwork against design principles such as balance, contrast, hierarchy and consistency, refining typography, and preparing files correctly for print and digital use. You will practise exporting in the right formats, including PDF, PNG and SVG. Every topic is hands-on, so you build a small portfolio of your own work. By the end, you will be able to design, refine and export professional vector graphics in Adobe Illustrator.

Why Take This Course?

  • Hands-On Learning Learn by doing. Every topic is practised hands-on, so you leave with skills you can use at work straight away.
  • Live Coaching Experienced instructors coach you live, answer your questions and guide you step by step.
  • Free Post-Course Consultation Stuck after class? Message your trainer any time for guidance as you apply what you have learned.
  • Always-Updated Materials Materials are refreshed to stay relevant. Log in to our LMS any time to get the latest version.

Course Fee

₵1,500.00

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Additional Note

Please bring your own laptop for hands-on training. If you don't have laptop, we can provide spare laptop for training use.

Post-Course Support

  • We provide free consultation related to the subject matter after the course.
  • Please email your queries to info@tertiarycourses.com.gh and we will forward your queries to the subject matter experts and get back to you as soon as possible.

Cancellation & Reschedule Policy

  • We reserve the right to cancel or re-schedule the course due to unforeseen circumstances. If the course is cancelled, we will refund 100% to participants.
  • Note: the venue of the training is subject to changes due to class size and availability of the classroom. The minimum class size to start a class is 3 Pax.

Course Details

Course Details

What You'll Learn

Topic 1: Basic Digital Graphics Design with Illustrator

Topic 2: Improve Digital Graphics Design with Illustrator

Topic 3: Evaluate Graphics Design with Illustrator

Course Info

Minimum Entry Requirement

Knowledge and Skills

  • Able to operate using computer functions
  • Minimum 3 GCE 'O' Levels Passes including English or WPL Level 5 (Average of Reading, Listening, Speaking & Writing Scores)

Attitude

  • Positive Learning Attitude
  • Enthusiastic Learner

Experience

  • Minimum of 1 year of working experience.

Target Age Group: 18-65 years old

Minimum Software/Hardware Requirement

Software:

You will need the following for this course:

Hardware: Windows PC or Mac laptop

Job Roles

Job Roles

  • Graphic Designer
  • Illustration Artist
  • Logo Designer
  • Branding Designer
  • Visual Identity Designer
  • UI/UX Designer
  • Vector Artist
  • Print Designer
  • Motion Graphics Designer
  • Apparel and Merchandise Designer
  • Packaging Designer
  • Web Designer
  • Icon Designer
  • Digital Media Artist
  • Signage and Banner Designer

Trainers

Trainers

Dr. Muhammed Siraj is a cybersecurity specialist and academic with 15 years of experience, serving as Senior Lecturer in the Department of Informatics and Director of Graduate and Continuous Education at Academic City University in Accra. He holds a PhD in Security in Computing from Universiti Putra Malaysia, where his research focused on blockchain security, an MSc in Information and Communication Technology from Aalborg University in Denmark, and a degree from the University of Ghana. He is a licensed independent assessor with Ghana's Cyber Security Authority, holds leadership roles in national cybersecurity and privacy professional bodies, and is certified as a Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator (CHFI) and Certified Data Protection Supervisor (CDPS). Before joining Academic City, he served as Acting Director of ICT and Data Protection Supervisor at Wisconsin International University College. His expertise spans penetration testing, digital forensics, incident response, malware analysis, cryptography, cloud and IoT security, zero trust architecture, cyber threat intelligence, data protection, and governance, risk and compliance.

Dr. Siraj's research interests cover blockchain, cybersecurity, distributed computing, consensus protocols and machine learning, with published work on blockchain consensus security, smart-contract privacy preservation for sensitive records in the cloud, and new consensus mechanisms. This background gives him a distinctive perspective on artificial intelligence: as organisations adopt AI tools, agents and data-driven automation, he helps learners understand how to protect the data these systems depend on, recognise new attack surfaces, and put sound governance, privacy and access controls in place so that AI can be used safely and responsibly. In the classroom he connects technical practice with regulation, privacy and human factors, drawing on real-world security and data-protection cases to show how concepts apply in professional settings, and his experiential, hands-on teaching style has made him a trusted trainer for students and working professionals alike.

Concept artists now sketch alongside image models as often as they sketch with pencils, and Dr. Alfred Ang approaches this course from the builder's side of that shift. As CTO of Tertiary Infotech Academy Pte Ltd in Singapore, the training organisation behind Tertiary Courses, Dr. Ang is a full-stack AI developer, Agentic AI solution architect and corporate trainer who designs and ships complete products: front end, back end, databases, cloud deployment and native mobile apps. Several of those products sit right where art meets AI. One is a logo maker that turns a written description into three design options generated with Gemini or OpenAI image models, which means constant practice in writing prompts that steer style, colour and composition. Another is a native iPhone and iPad sketching studio, with an Android twin, offering a Procreate-style brush library, layers, symmetry, filters, multi-page sketchbooks and a sketch-to-AR feature that lifts drawings into augmented reality. Dr. Ang has also built a browser-based WebXR playground that generates AR and VR scenes from plain-language prompts, a GPU-accelerated fractal art generator that grows Mandelbrot and Julia imagery from a seed and recolours it with curated palettes, and video and digital-human pipelines that combine AI-written scripts, cloned voices, avatars and animated scenes. Across more than 300 public repositories, the common thread is moving a creative idea from rough description to polished, usable output, and knowing exactly where a generative model helps and where human judgement has to take over.

That experience shapes a course built around making rather than watching. Learners begin with an introduction to generative AI for art and a tour of the popular image tools, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion and Adobe Firefly, comparing how each one responds to the same creative brief. Dr. Ang then concentrates on writing effective prompts for concept art: describing subject, mood, lighting, camera angle and art style precisely enough to generate characters, environments and props that clearly belong to the same world. The second half moves from first drafts to finished pieces. Learners develop consistent styles and compositions, iterate on promising images instead of starting over, and use AI editing and enhancement to extend backgrounds, adjust colour, fix awkward details and sharpen the final result. Because Dr. Ang has wrestled with the same problems while building image-generation tools, the sessions are candid about what the models still get wrong and how an artist's eye corrects it. Expect short demonstrations followed by hands-on exercises, side-by-side prompt comparisons and regular critique of the work on screen. By the end of the course, each learner assembles a small concept art portfolio of characters, environments and props, together with a reusable prompt library that can be carried into games, film, illustration or marketing projects, and a clear sense of AI as a partner in ideation rather than a replacement for drawing skill. Questions about style consistency, image rights and responsible use of generated artwork are discussed openly as they arise. To see the creative and AI tooling behind these sessions, explore Dr. Ang's public portfolio at https://github.com/alfredang

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Good hands-on training with plenty of examples. I feel much more confident applying these skills now. (Posted on 4/21/2025)
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